Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition is a simulator game developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2007. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), educational, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition is the 21st of 41 entries we hold in the Sid Meier series. The next entry was Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution in 2008. Its critic score of 86 is 4 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Sid Meier's Civilization IV at 95.

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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 89% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 22 points above the year average.

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition launched on 31 December 2007, within three weeks of Unreal Tournament 3 Black, Patapon, Final Fantasy IV and Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Unreal Tournament 3 Black, Patapon, Final Fantasy IV, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin.