Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Many, as a game which truly approximated all the headaches of running an Empire would only be interesting to professors, extremely hardcore gamers, and megalomaniacs.

Later games added more win conditions: get elected leader of the world by the United Nations, controlling a dominant chunk of the planet (which kind of renders obsolete the 'conquer everyone' goal, which is probably why it was removed again later), convert everyone to your religion, or create a culture so influential that it engulfs everyone else's. The first installments gave you two ways to win: conquering everyone, or sending a colony to Alpha Centauri. The general concept is that the player controls a civilization from the stone age through the present day into the space age. Many polls and lists of the best computer games ever developed have, at various times, listed several of the games in the series, often at #1. The game was originally inspired by a Board Game, and has since spawned two others.

The original game was developed in 1991 by Sid Meier, and there have been five direct sequels as of October 21, 2016, numerous expansion packs, and many spin-offs ( Sid MeierВ’s Alpha Centauri, Colonization, Civilization: Call to Power, Civilization: Beyond Earth), as well as the much simplified Civilization Revolution for home consoles, the Nintendo DS and iPhone, Civ World for Facebook, and the MMO Civilization Online.

Civilization is a popular '4X' Long Runner game series.

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