
Steam reviews
Very Positive
86% of 373,398 reviews
Critic scores
88
Metacritic
Generally favorable
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Strategy LiveVery active
SID MEIER’S CIVILIZATION® VI
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI has 35,086 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 42,253 and its all-time peak is 50,733. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.
DEV · Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)PUB · 2K, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)2016
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
- Strong daily player base. Matchmaking and servers will be lively.
- Currently at 69% of the all-time peak of 50,733 players.
- Last updated 6 months ago: Civ Streams: Civ VII's Test of Time Update.
Playing now
35,086
24h peak
42,253
24h change
▲ 23.0%
Quick verdict
Is Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI still alive in 2026?
PREVIOUS 24 HOURS
GALLERY & TRAILERS
1 / 10
ACROSS PLATFORMS
STEAMLIVE
Current
35.1K
24h peak
42.3K
All-time
50.7K
TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS
Watching now
No live streams
Nobody is streaming this game on Twitch right now.
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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