After several years of 'will they, won't they?' Civilization V and Civilization VI finally switched places on Steam's 'most played games' list in 2019. After a slightly underwhelming launch and a small controversy over the price of expansions, the newest release in Sid Meier's leading 4X game series has finally surpassed the previous entry by a decisive margin.
Newer strategy games dethroning predecessors is in most cases inevitable, but in Civilization's case the timeline took slightly longer than predicted. Even after the release of both major DLCs, the fifth Civilization game was still holding strong for two years into Civ VI's life cycle. Even today it brings in an average of 15,000 players, peaking at 23,000.
While Civ VI is now comfortably beating Civ V's player numbers, it took a while to achieve. So what gave Civilization V such long-lasting appeal in the first place? First, a little bit of history. Sid Meier's Civilization V -- the fifth entry in the legendary strategy series created by Sid Meier -- came out in September 2010 to universal critical acclaim.
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