There is a deal to be had here. I’ve played buggier versions of Civilization games on different platforms, and Aspyr support helped sort out whatever problems i had with this one. However, in terms of the cost, i’d say you’re better off going to find the game on the Steam marketplace. The complete Civ V experience involves the two 30$ expansion packs, Brave New World and Gods & Kings, neither of which are included here. So, essentially, to get the full experience, you would have to pay the initial 30$ for the Campaign edition, then another 60$ for the two major expansions. Steam bundles them occasionally for substantially less. If you do feel like paying 90$ here, then i’d say go ahead and enjoy yourself. After two years i still find myself enthralled by this game. It’s a deep and meaningful experience that you don’t get in a lot of strategy games, or games in general, nowadays. Make sure your mac can run this game on the highest setting though. This is not a deal breaking condition, but it does look much nicer on the highest resolution. All in all, there is a deal to be had here, especially if you’re only interested in the basic CIv V experience. But it’s up to you whether paying an extra 60$ for the full version is worth it.

First, I have all DLC’s purchased / downloaded; my review is based on the entire package. Let’s get into it. First impression, I was overwhelmed, this is a good thing (reminded me of KotoR2). It took me almost 2 weeks to simply understand the basics. Every “thing” you can think of, can be done .. on a tile, to an enemy, for a rss. There are many different ways to play / approach your civilization, all possible .. be it via religion, culture, etc. It is exponentially customizable each time you start a new civilization. As one reviewer mentioned, Civ V is a great way to lose time, so be prepared to be committed, the rabbit hole is deep. I have nothing negative to say; I feel any shortcomings are because I didnt fully read instructions / make intelligent choices. Regarding the “lag” comments .. there is 0 lag. This is a turn based game, so the more NPC’s you have on the board, the more vehicles/ships on the board, the more “trades” you have, etc .. they all have to execute, which is what can be misinterpreted as lag. Running lean armies and minimal trades will keep any time to a minimum. Bottom line, for detailed oriented gamers, looking for maximum control over their game, with an infinite number of possibilities / choices .. THIS is the game for you. 9.5 / 10

THE “BUG FIXES” UPDATE DID NOTHING, SEEMS TO EVEN MADE ALL THESE LISTED PROBLEMS WORSE !!!!!!! made more problems. now wuto end turn doesnt work. i give up on this game. most every single bug in this game relates to workers. after a certain point in the game. they just stop making upgrades completely and sit around the map at random points. STUCK until you return them to manual mode. they also travel the most danerous locations around the map over and over. constantly getting caught by barbarians. once returned to manual mode they need orders to do the same jobs over and over each turn until the one job is complete. they also seem to build an excessive ammount of trading posts leaving me people hungry in allot of cases or city growth stagnated. managing workers in a large empire quickly becomes overwelming and normally call it quits before finishing a game in frustration. without these bugs it would be a super fun and great day killer when its raining outside. hard to put down forget to eat kind of game. until the workers stop. well. working. one final complaint is the game has an auto attention that can really be very very annoying. if you are doing something with a unit it will just start switching you around the map on its own to what it thinks you should be doing. instead of allowing the tasks bubble to be clicked and get to each one in your own time. I HATE THIS AND WISH I COULD TURN IN OFF !!

The only computer game I really thought wasbetter than Civ V was Civilization II. I'm a longtime fan of the Civ series, and still prefer V to VI. For a game like this, it is surprisingly replayable. It is difficult, but not impossible to play on the harder levels. It is hands down my favorite computer game.The game runs extremely well on a low end M1 Macbook Air, though this may be the source of my problem.Having said that, I have run into a glitch. When I am playing, the game suddenly quits. Oddly, MacOS does not log an 'unexpectedly quit'. I can go back to my last saved game, but it will quit again at exactly the same turn. Not sure what to do. Nothing about it in the FAQ on the developer's website.