Civ4 is A-tier.
Civ4: Fall from Heaven 2, Rise of Erebus, Fall Further, Mod Mods transcends S-Tier.

Alpha Centauri is a distant 2nd. But still good.

One vote per IP.

Only took two exit node refreshes to be able to answer XD

SMAC is the best Civ game followed by Civ IV. Civ III is the worst.

Civ VII having 0 votes over 12 hours into the poll is hilarious to me.

I may be in the minority, but Civilization Revolution on my iPad circa 2009 was my favorite thing ever. I liked that it wasn’t as complex as other installments and the mechanics were perfect for mobile device.

Then CivRev2 came around they stopped support for the first one. I hate CivRev2 because it shoehorned a 3d globe map and the mechanics got clunky. Just give me my first edition with bird’s eye view again!

4 & 5 are pretty close, in my book, but 4 has a GOG release and 5 is still a cracked Steam copy rather than owned, so I pick the one they let me buy.

I haven’t played all of them but I would say Civilization III is my favorite. It has the classic elements in their most polished form. My dark horse, though, is Civilization Revolution for the Nintendo DS. While Revolution on the other platforms was basically a simplified version of Civilization IV, the DS couldn’t handle that and got an even more simplified 2D version. In simplifying it they really made the 4X gameplay crisper and more focused. They should release a version of that for mobile phones.

I've played a few of them, but I loved playing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC) the most. My favorite was playing as Gaia's Stepdaughters since you could quickly get control of the planet's "mind worms" which were units that would never go obsolete.

I know four is a commonly referenced favourite, but I just couldn't get into it. Beyond Earth on the other hand, was quite fun despite the hate, although didn't have as much replayability or longevity.

I haven't played many civ games, I think I started with 4, but I'm apparently a weirdo because I got really into Beyond Earth. I like the scifi theme much more than the alternate history thing, and I enjoyed messing around with the affinities and the tech tree a lot.

Apparently this game got a lot of hate from people who loved alpha centauri. I never played it so... I dunno, I guess I should do that at some point. My problem now is Civ games take way more time than I can spare.

They all just kinda felt the same to me.

Civilisation: Call To Power! Still the goat even if I found out 20 years later that it wasn’t a mainline Civ game and was made by someone else. The main games still haven’t reached the amount of content it had within future epochs.

Edit: changed from Call to Power 2 to the first one. Apparently the some of the future techs were removed in the second so it must have been the first one that I played.

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Civilization Revolution was my introduction to the series. I havnt played it since 2010, but I loved it.

Now I play civ 6, have hundreds of hours, all the essential mods, and I think Ill play this version til I am dead.

My favorites have been Civ 2 Test of Time, Alpha Centauri, and 5. I also played a lot of 4 Colonies, but I would rank it a tier lower.

V is the best that I've played. 2 is a solid choice since it's the foundation more so than the original. 6 is a garbled mess of systems that don't work well together, and attempts to steal mechanics from other games but poorly done.

In retrospect civ games were just primers for factorio. The factory must grow.

Alpha Centauri

By a light year

4 and 5. They were simple enough, but had deep strategy, 6 added too much, also the art style is worse.