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9 out of 10 Civilization veterans recommend choosing Civilization V instead of Civilization VI.

Source: biased anecdotal evidence.

Game literally just does not launch. What the hell?

Can't launch the game, Can't play the game, Can't be bothered to support the game

Now Changing my review after Years of Owning it. DO NOT BUY IT WILL NOT WORK. Ive tried every Fix the community has offered and the Civ Support Just flat out tells you to Buy the new games. This Game should be Removed from Steam if it no Longer Functions.

This game is currently UNPLAYABLE. You CANNOT LAUNCH THIS GAME. Steam must remove Civ V from the store until Firaxis/2K fix the issue!!!

Releasing an update that stops the game from even running is anti-consumer and all potential buyers should avoid games by Firaxis games studio and it's related partners in the future. This likely includes all future civilization games, but i'm not a wizard so I cannot say for certain if another studio might take up new entries in this particular series.

Furthermore steam should be making more of an effort to punish games studios who do this. I am very disappointed in Steam for even allowing this to occur.

Users should not be forced on to the forums to find some fix posted by a third party from another website and dig into the game files just to make it function.

This is clear and obvious trick to force people to play newer titles and should be punished accordingly.

Game doesnt launch anymore after they removed the launcher and have left it to rot with no fix.

Game doesn't launch anymore. No fix from devs.

Wow, how convenient. Civ 7 is in presale now and my Civ 5 won't open anymore. I have over 900 hours in Civ 5. It was one of my favorite games. Really stinks they ruin old versions to try and force people to buy new ones. Theres no way i'm buying 7 now. Thats some dirty garbage. 6 was awful anyways, so i don't expect 7 to be better.