Is Civ 5 still worth playing?

[Smule]

I'm about to buy C6 on sale, but wanted to know if 5 was still recommended enough to jump back into?

[kensw]

I am over 11K hours and still going strong. New mods almost every week.

[SJWs R TRAITORS]

CIV5 ,stable, mature, many DLCs, many excellent mods = excellent.

[michael]

You say "back into", so you know the game. What is it you want to know?

[knighttemplar1960]

Civ V is a better and higher rated game than VI. I have both and am back to playing only V with the occasional nostalgia trip into IV.

[Silverlight]

It's a tough one. 5 and 6 are very different games. The two most unique and different entries in the franchise really. The other 4, for better or worse, are a line of evolving mechanics.
5 and 6 go in very different directions with these mechanics.
As a result both of them are still constantly in steam top 100.
6 is ahead in players now, but that took years and many sales .

I'd say 6 is close to a zen city builder or a board game, while 5 is more of a war tactics and strategy game , but theres more to it than that.


I'd say 5 is better because of the artstyle and many of the minor mechanics. Being able to choose where roads go and some of the leader art really makes this game stand out.
Something very satisfying about connecting a city state to your empire.
This is the version of civ I prefer myself and I've played a good amount of both.

[Matthew]

This game is timeless. I always come back to it from time to time, and I don't expect that to end in the near future. Even in a world where Civ 7 is amazing, though unlikely, I'd probably still return to 5 now and then.

[Boredflak]

That a game the age of Civ 5 still has an active community should answer your question, I have 5125 hours in Civ 5. less than 10 in Civ 6. So my take is yes it is very much worth playing.

[Colyseo]

Civ V, vanilla mode, is still a GREAT game to play.

Just finished my first OCC with cultural victory, in emperor mode, with India

Ready for my next challenge : OCC scientific victory with Aztec in Emperor mode

[Grendalcat]

Yes, very much so.

[vthemighty]

civ 5 doesn't have enough climate change mechanics. that alone should scare you.

[Anvos]

Originally posted by vthemighty:

civ 5 doesn't have enough climate change mechanics. that alone should scare you.

Eh not much worse than Civ 6 going complete hysteric doomsday. Both the Civ 5/6 system are meh of ignored or overkill. Not to mention climate change should also have some positives such as upgrading artic to tundra and tundra to plains.

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As for the thread yes Civ 5 is still worth playing and more worth playing than Civ 6.

[[MOSS]-BurningUp]

Yep definitely I just reinstalled it for the first time in ages and having a great time with it.

I only play vanilla and started a new game w/ the Babylonians. Like all of the other Civ games the AI cheats on the harder difficulties so I just put it on Medium.

[HIVEmind]

Yes. Civ 5 is worth playing. It's a classic with great graphics

[Coq_Pwner]

Originally posted by CookieMagic:

civ5 Vox Populi mod has the best 4X AI. I can't believe no current 4X games have the tactical AI that VP has.

This

Civ V Vox Populli is the ultimate Civ experience
Then Civ V with expacs, Civ IV being a close second (also has a bunch of cool mods)

And THEN Civ vi, which was quite the disappointment, IMO.