Sid Meier's Civilization® IV

nice

It teaches you world history, and its fun

good game

last best civ

Frequently crashes every 6-8 turns

Great game. Classic.

This Game is the perfect turn based game to get your pickle puffed to. Thanks Firaxis!

pretty fun

fun and simple game, each game is entertaining every time

good

game is lit

an oldie but a goody

this was my first civilisation game and got into it very easily and i would recommend

A colonisation sim in which slavery is an overpowered economic policy and Gandhi is a terrifying warlord.
10 out of 10

i liked the game

good game

good game

Love playing Civ IV!!

Second best Civ game.

Great depth with culture and religion. Lots of options for which directions to take your civilization. What a game!

Civilization IV was my 'go to' game long before the current days of Steam. I used to own the disks. I played this game for hours upon hours. I'd certainly recommend it to anyone who wants to take a peak into nostalgia.

not gonna lie this is the most boring game in the civ series i didn't grow up with the older games or 5 but after putting loads of hours in civ6 this game is just boring

Unfortunately for me I can't play this game. After spending a few hours on a custom game it randomly crashed, fair enough, my own fault in a way for not regularly saving. I started a new game and made sure to save fairly often but it crashed again and now when I try to load that save game it just gives me an error stating "failed to uncompress...." so several hours of play down the toilet. Since I'm unable to play without crashing and unable to load prior save games I'm pretty annoyed at this as I'm past the refund window.

For further clarity - I haven't altered any files or have any mods, it's just the base game plus dlcs and that's it.

one more turn...
2 hours passed

fun

Maybe the best Civilization Game of the series...

Pretty good 👍

Great game, I have played hundreds of hours on Windows before steam was a thing.

Cool game, but Civilization 5 is simply superior.

First of all, if you get this game, make sure you get the complete edition and install beyond the sword. CIV 4 is the first game to have expansions come out after the main release and said main release is pretty barebones. With beyond the sword, it's the most balanced game in the entire franchise. See my review on beyond the sword if you're curious

Civ 7 launch has me thinking about reinstalling this...

crashes and dosent save to often

Good, if you were born in 1995.

Religion and city states - good. Overdependence on 3d graphics - bad. The last of the "good" Civ games. Not as readily modable as Civ3, which is disappointing, but offering just enough interesting features to be worth playing. I go back to this in a way I have never EVER gone back to the later versions. 2nd best of the Civ games (after 3).

Where's my name on this game? Where is JOSEF STALIN?! The game includes the name of despots and this game dare not to include ME?!

GULAAAGGG!

Probably the best Civ we're ever going to get. The new ones are prettier but this one is the peak.

Not the best Civilization, but still superior to Civ7.

Remember watching a relative play this game when i was younger, decided to try it out and enjoyed it ever since. Whenever i wanna relax and not play a FPS, i decide to play this instead

Variety of ways to advance to your goal is challenging,
Watch your money tab, often you can build a new technology at a lower cost and build up money

Crashes constantly. Alt-tab locks up my computer and forces me to manually restart it. This game is wonderful but the steam version simply does not run on current hardware.

Great strategy game intro

I've played every version of Civ and this is the one that I think was best. The expansions and the mods (eg. Fall From Heaven II) added so much as well, but being the last version before hex and 1UPT means it'll always be unique.

This version is a lot more straightforward, without some of the unnecessary complications in the later versions.

Civilization 3 is better
i hate the grafics on this one.
i also want a refund because i played 10h to test it because the game is really long and now i can't get a refund.

Great city builder and strategy game.

iT NEVER PLAYS THE SAME . EVERY GAME IS UNIQUE.

great building aspect

It's years old, but it is still the best Civ game of all time!

I have been playing Civilization since 1991, and the CIV4 is the best of the series.

By far the best of all Civilization games.

It solves basically all the problems of the series. It makes maintenance work exactly as it should for balancing expansion vs growth and early vs late game, preventing the Infinite City Sprawl from being optimal play, it makes diplomacy work well, it makes culture work well, it contains an AI that can actually play the game - including waging war (within limits, but still). And it does so many other things right in little ways; it is, for instance, my go-to example of an informative UI with effective use of screenspace in a video game.

The switch to 1UPT in the games that followed resulted in a cascade of problems, and dealt a blow to the formula that IMO these games never recovered from.