Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is a strategy, released 23 October 2014 on Linux.
What Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth was released in 2014. It is available on Linux only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sid Meier's Civilization is a 1991 turn-based strategy 4X video game developed and published by MicroProse. The game was originally developed for MS-DOS running on a PC, and it has undergone numerous revisions for various platforms. The player is tasked with leading an entire human civilization over the course of several millennia by controlling various areas such as urban development, exploration, government, trade, research, and military. The player can control individual units and advance the exploration, conquest and settlement of the game's world. The player can also make such decisions as setting forms of government, tax rates and research priorities. The player's civilization is in…
How it plays
There are 90 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 75% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM and 256 MB ATI HD3650 or better, 256 MB nVidia 8800 GT or better, or Intel HD 3000 or better integrated graphics. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth launched on 23 October 2014, within three weeks of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Assassin's Creed Unity. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Assassin's Creed Unity.
Cheats and codes
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