Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide
After the first wave of great colony ships departed Earth, the jubilation of humanity was short-lived. Those left behind fell into a violent struggle over the quickly-diminishing resources on their barren home…
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide is a strategy developed by Firaxis Games, released 8 October 2015 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $5.88 at DreamGame.
What Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide is
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide is a strategy game developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2015. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is a turn-based strategy, 4X video game in the Civilization series developed by Firaxis Games, published by 2K Games and released for Microsoft Windows on October 24, 2014, the Mac App Store on November 27, 2014 and for Linux on December 18, 2014. The game's premise is that Earth became uninhabitable due to an undescribed disaster known as "the Great Mistake", forcing humanity to colonize space in the 23rd century. As a spiritual successor to the 1999 game Alpha Centauri, Beyond Earth shares much of its development team and some concepts, most notably its setting on an exoplanet in the future.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 17 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, 2 GB RAM and 256 MB ATI Radeon HD 3650 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 13GB. 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 costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $5.88 at DreamGame, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide launched on 8 October 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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