2005 · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based · 4X
How long isSid Meier's Civilization IV?
by Firaxis Games
16 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 4.5 hours and 59 hours
Sid Meier's Civilization IV among the 56 4X games here
The whole tier list#40
of 56
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 17%
- got past 2 hours
- −20 on the kind's 37%
- 5%
- past 20 hours
- −8 on the kind's 13%
- 32%
- launched it
- −17 on the kind's 48%
- 173
- libraries own it
- 1 in 14 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Well loved: 94% recommend it past the refund window, better reviewed than 57 of 64 4X games here.
80% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
88% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
95% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
94% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
96% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
96% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
96% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
95% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Sid Meier's Civilization IV hold up?
Holds steady
Do the first two hours of Sid Meier's Civilization IV tell you?
In the first two hours80%recommend it
After that94%recommend it
8 in 100 said no: 5 after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 16 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4.5 hours and 59 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 3,660 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 88% and 96% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
15% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 80% of those recommend it. After the window, 94% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 62% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 3.5 hours in.
When would you get there?
16days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 16 hours on Monday, November 30.
Half of its reviewers had played between 4.5 and 59 hours: Nov 19 to Jan 12, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Sid Meier's Civilization IV worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Sid Meier's Civilization IV
- Steam list price, US
- $19.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 16 h
- 4X game rate
- $1.24/h
- 16 h at that rate
- $20
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Sid Meier's Civilization IV worth it? Mostly.
Fair price
About what a typical 4X game charges: $1.25 an hour
Loved
94% recommend it after the refund windowmost 4X games: 85%
Usually played
32% of owners here have played itmost 4X games: 42%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 16 hours come to $1.25 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 94% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of Sid Meier's Civilization IV costs about what the typical one of 64 4X games here charges $1.24.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (4X games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Sid Meier's Civilization IV today?
In a collection
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Complete Edition, out on PC in 2009.
- todayPC2009in the collection
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Sid Meier's Civilization IV came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Sid Meier's Civilization IV?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Sid Meier's Civilization IV, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Sid Meier's Civilization IV would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@the-sullster holds this page
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Sid Meier's Civilization IV?
1 in 60
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Sid Meier's Civilization IV: a kind of game it is that Sid Meier's Civilization IV is not, a feature its tags carry that Sid Meier's Civilization IV's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.