Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award-winning Civilization series. Set in the future, global events have destabilized the world leading to a collapse of…
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is a simulator developed by Firaxis Games, released 24 October 2014 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is a simulator game developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2014. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Firaxis LORE.
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. There are 90 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Sid Meier series
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is the 35th of 41 entries we hold in the Sid Meier series. The next entry was Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution 2 Plus in 2015. Its critic score of 82 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Sid Meier's Civilization IV at 95.
How it was received
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Players rate it 76, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
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 24 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
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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