Category Archives: Civilization V

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Play the new Civ5 “Hall Of Fame” challenges!

By | January 5, 2024

We start the new year with some new challenges for you, giving you the option to get a spot in our Civ5’s eternal “Hall Of Fame”. To get a spot, we provide you right now with 2 challenges: G-Major CXL This challenge requires you to play as Shaka on a standard size arborea map on Emperor level, and… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #236 (Christmas special)

By | December 29, 2023

The Civ5 GOTM team is making you a small Christmas present, in form of a Civ meme! For this GOTM you play as Gandhi on a small oval map on Deity level, and you must win via a Domination victory (Nukes optional). You also start with some guided missiles, just for fun. If you want to tackle this… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #235

By | December 17, 2023

And from the Civ5 GOTM you also get a Christmas present! This time you play as Pedro II of Brazil on a standard size pangaea map on Immortal level. You need to win via culture victory, and prevent any other civ from achieving another victory. You have time until January 15 for this GOTM! Fore more info please… Read More »

New Civ5 HOF gauntlets

By | December 8, 2023

While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. For december we got again two new ones, one major, one minor: For the G-Major CXXXIX, you need to play as Harald of Denmark on a small shuffle map on Immortal level, and you need to… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Gmae Of The Month” #234

By | December 5, 2023

And obviously we also have a new Civ5 GOTM! This time you play as Ahmad Al-Mansur of Morocco on a standard size fractal map on Emperor level. You need to win via a science victory, but you also most prevent all other civs from achieving another type of victory. See if you can get to the Islaminc Golden… Read More »

On Being Stuck in Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Promise of Freedom in Historical Games

By | December 5, 2023

The Value Foundation, an academic research foundation focusing on research on gaming, has posted on Twitter that 2 researchers from Leiden University have published a new research manuscript about Civilization! The research is featured in the journal of digital games and associated phenomena (DIGRA), and titled “On Being Stuck in Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Promise of Freedom in… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #233

By | November 15, 2023

And the new round for the mid-month GOTM for Civ5 is starting now! You play as Ramkhamhaeng of Siam on a large continents map on King level, and you must win via a domination victory. You have until December 15 to get through this challenging start! For all the details please check this thread.

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #232

By | November 1, 2023

For Halloween we go back to its roots: You play as Boudicca of the Celts on a standard size arborea map on Prince level. You also need to win via a science victory to fend of the evil ghosts, and you have until December 1 to do so. For all information please check this thread.