Game Over writes: "Here’s the part where I firmly establish myself as the Game-Over resident old guy. Nineteen years ago, when I was in graduate school, I lost more hours, saw more sunrises, and in general spent a couple of hundred if not a thousand hours that could well have been spent, say, curing cancer, beating up on the French, the Russians, the Americans – whoever stood in the way of my grand emperorship greatness and my rush to Alpha Centauri. Such was the addictiveness of Civilization I, the great-granddaddy of the vast number of Civ-like games that spanned the past nineteen years."
Civilization V continues to be one of the most popular grand-strategy games you can play on Steam, for about three years.
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Philip Boyes:
When I was a kid, I played a lot of Civilization 2. I played a lot of strategy games in general, but having a deep love of both history and sci-fi, the epic sweep of Civ 2 from prehistory to the stars held a particular appeal. I loved taking my little people from their huts and ziggurats to the world of science and advanced space-flight.
