
Steam reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
96% of 209,425 reviews
Critic scores
90
Metacritic
Generally favorable
Aggregated from professional reviewers. OpenCritic and others are on the roadmap.
Strategy LiveVery active
SID MEIER'S CIVILIZATION® V
Sid Meier's Civilization® V has 13,382 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 16,169 and its all-time peak is 19,607. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.
DEV · Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)PUB · 2K, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)2010
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
- Strong daily player base. Matchmaking and servers will be lively.
- Currently at 68% of the all-time peak of 19,607 players.
- Last updated 6 months ago: Civ Streams: Civ VII's Test of Time Update.
Playing now
13,382
24h peak
16,169
24h change
▲ 13.5%
Quick verdict
Is Sid Meier's Civilization® V still alive in 2026?
PREVIOUS 24 HOURS
GALLERY & TRAILERS
1 / 10
ACROSS PLATFORMS
STEAMLIVE
Current
13.4K
24h peak
16.2K
All-time
19.6K
TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS
Watching now
63
Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo
No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.
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