2008 · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based · 4X
How long isSid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization?
by Firaxis Games
31 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 8 hours and 135 hours
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization among the 56 4X games here
The whole tier list#52
of 56
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 5%
- got past 2 hours
- −32 on the kind's 37%
- 1%
- past 20 hours
- −12 on the kind's 13%
- 18%
- launched it
- −30 on the kind's 48%
- 157
- libraries own it
- 1 in 16 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
On the long side for a 4X game: 31 hours for the typical player, longer than 52 of 64 4X games here.
91% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
92% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
Do the first two hours of Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization tell you?
In the first two hours58%recommend it
After that90%recommend it
13 in 100 said no: 9 after the window had closed, 4 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 31 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 8 hours and 135 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,580 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
10% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 58% of those recommend it. After the window, 90% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 67% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 6.5 hours in.
When would you get there?
4weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 31 hours on Tuesday, December 15.
Half of its reviewers had played between 8 and 135 hours: Nov 22 to Mar 29, 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: Colonization worth it?
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
- Steam list price, US
- $19.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 31 h
- 4X game rate
- $1.25/h
- 31 h at that rate
- $39
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization worth it? Mostly.
Good value
1.9× the hours of a typical 4X game, for the same money
Loved
90% recommend it after the refund windowmost 4X games: 85%
Often left unplayed
18% 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 31 hours come to 64¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 90% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 64¢ an hour, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is cheaper per hour than 50 of 64 4X games here: the typical one of 64 4X games here charges $1.25, so the same $19.99 buys 1.9× the hours.
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: Colonization 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: Colonization 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: Colonization?
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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: Colonization?
1 in 726
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: Colonization: a kind of game it is that Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is not, a feature its tags carry that Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.