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How long isSid Meier's Civilization VII?

by Firaxis Games

18 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 6 hours and 50 hours

Sid Meier's Civilization VII among the 56 4X games here

The whole tier list
SPlayed tier

#4

of 56

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

81%
got past 2 hours
+44 on the kind's 37%
47%
past 20 hours
+34 on the kind's 13%
88%
launched it
+39 on the kind's 48%
57
libraries own it
1 in 44 of the 2,483 read here
Sid Meier's Civilization VII ↓
#1 Sid Meier's Civilization V#56
12% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

Poorly received: only 51% recommend it past the refund window, reviewed worse than 62 of 64 4X games here.

Does Sid Meier's Civilization VII hold up?

Grows on people

Do the first two hours of Sid Meier's Civilization VII tell you?

In the first two hours13%recommend it

After that51%recommend it

53 in 100 said no: 44 after the window had closed, 9 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 18 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6 hours and 50 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 62,800 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 43% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 68% past 500 hours.

11% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 13% of those recommend it. After the window, 51% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 82% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 13 hours in.

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When would you get there?

18days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 18 hours on Wednesday, December 2.

Half of its reviewers had played between 6 and 50 hours: Nov 20 to Jan 3, 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 VII worth it?

Is Sid Meier's Civilization VII worth it? It depends.

  • Pricey per hour

    A typical 4X game gives 3.1× the hours for the money

  • Divisive

    51% recommend it after the refund windowmost 4X games: 85%

  • Gets played

    88% of owners here have played itmost 4X games: 41%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $69.99, the typical player's 18 hours come to $3.89 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 51% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $3.89 an hour, Sid Meier's Civilization VII costs more per hour than 62 of 64 4X games here: 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 VII today?

Almost anywhere

PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2 and 4 more.

  1. todayXbox Series2025
  2. todayPS42025
  3. todaySwitch 22025
  4. todayPS52025
  5. todayXbox One2025
  6. todaySwitch2025
  7. todayMeta Quest 32025ported
  8. todayPC2026ported
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Sid Meier's Civilization VII 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 VII?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Sid Meier's Civilization VII, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Sid Meier's Civilization VII 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.

@elreymagnifico holds this page

  1. 1st@elreymagnifico37 h
  2. 2nd@chlo34 h
  3. 3rd@mossyotter21 h
  4. 4th@slowspeaker21 h
  5. 5th@andrevictor13 h

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 VII?

  • 1 in 79

    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 VII: a kind of game it is that Sid Meier's Civilization VII is not, a feature its tags carry that Sid Meier's Civilization VII's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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