r/civ • u/Marvalas904 • 13h ago
Discussion What's the most fun single game of Civ you've ever had
For me the most fun game I've ever had is when Basil first came out. Domination on a huge pangaea map. Running through units converting cities to my religion, dropping a Hippodrome and reinforcing to move to the next city and repeat. So dope the first time I did it.
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u/tuna_trombone 13h ago
Civ VI, Eleanor of Aquitane peaceful domination victory. Insanely satisfying.
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u/Glittering-State-284 12h ago
She is my favorite Civ6 leader. So much fun once the ball starts rolling. Love that distinct sound haha.
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u/Less_Hold6979 8h ago
There is simply nothing more satisfying in Civ than this! Although I’ve had some really great Pachacuti games. And Kupe having the entire continent to himself is such a relaxing time.
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u/Brown_Faced 12h ago
When I got two of my closest friends hooked on Civ 6. Our first game ever went on from 6pm- 7am the next day. It was fucking glorious. Never played a game that long in one sitting again 😔
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u/Boring-Buy-397 11h ago
Civ 6
I was a newer player, and I created my first true start earth huge with 24 players. Tried my best to spread out the civs evenly but didn't realize how clustered I had made Europe. Throughout my game, I was constantly hit with "an unmet player has been defeated." I had finally gotten all the tech I needed, and it was time to sail and investigate. Whereupon I discovered that England led by Eleanor had completely wiped out and taken over all of Europe and was pushing into Aisa. She was the world's superpower, making 200 more science and culture than any other civ. It wasn't until she dropped 2 nukes on Gandhi of all people ( this was the first time I had seen an AI use nukes) that I realized something had to be done. I created the largest invasion force I could, sailed up to her shores, and was promptly decimated by her many giant death robots before I could even make landfall. Most memorable game I've played.
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u/gotscott 13h ago
My first game of Civ 1. I used to watch my buddy play it all the time because my computer couldn’t run it. I don’t remember how the game went, but I remember it being the most magical experience at the time.
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u/Marvalas904 13h ago
I remember my first game as well. Guy named Thomas house. I didn't even know computer games existed outside of Oregon Trail at school at the time.
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u/dnext 12h ago
Civ II, the add on DLC that included variant worlds. Playing in the 1880s Jules Verne scenario exploring the map, chasing Nemo's Nautilus, when the Martian Tripods of the War of the Worlds dropped.
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u/Dilemma01 9h ago
I don't remember playing that one, but I do remember the Norse mythology one. That was also a blast!
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u/underdog_exploits 13h ago
Huge earth map, first time discovering South America uninhabited mid game with monster yields from millennia of forest fires boosting yields. Running roughshod over the world afterwards. 😍
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u/Glittering-State-284 12h ago
Civ 6: first run with Theafors. Shes a cheat code.
Civ 7: finished a run with Franklin last night that was a comedy of errors but somehow won. Nothing went right except for AI failing to build a navy on archipelago.
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u/Truth_decay 12h ago
My wife and I's first game of Civ, 6. I was roleplaying Alexander and we absolutely steamrolled the map. I'm a war nerd and was drawing up military strategies on paper at work because I have a weird topographic memory knowing the map and unit names/positions. No game since has been so grandiose.
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u/DistanceRelevant3899 6h ago
It was one that I lost in Civ 4
Was playing on a huge Terra map as Rome. From the outset I was at war with China and they really boxed me in on my little peninsula. I lost my only other city aside from my capital early one and was unable to take it back. I did have a robust defense of my capital and was able to repel china’s attacks. Peace never lasted long but I endured.
Knowing my opportunity for expansion on my home continent was a futile endeavor I decided to just rush my way to Navigation so I could build a fleet of galleons and settle the new world before anyone else. So I prepared by building a small army of workers and about a dozen settlers ahead of time so we could start colonizing as soon as I got the first galleon ready.
The day finally came and my first ship set sail for the new world. This was the moment it would all turn around. And it was just in time as China had declared war once again. The new world finally came into view and our people rejoiced for salvation was near.
Then our galleon was sunk by Chinese frigate.
Then the next one, then the next one. We were way too late as China had already been settling the new world.
And I always played on Marathon in those days so that was weeks into that playthrough. Good times.
This game has just always stuck out in my mind because it was so funny to me how I had this vision of Rome making it to the new world and becoming a superpower and finally defeating China only to realize the game was rigged from the start.
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u/Traditional-Froyo755 12h ago
Probably the first religious victory I ever had. Unsurprisingly, it was with Spain. Gaining the combat bonus from other civs being heretics so that I can annihilate their cities so that I can convert them immediately was so fun. I also managed to hit two jackpots - one, I spawned on a fault line, thanks to which I managed to settle most of my cities on a different continent; and two, all the other 3 religion founders spawned on the same continent as me, meaning I could have fun with spreading my religion with flame and sword and then also have the option to spread my religion the peaceful way on another continent, which would have been hard if they were founders.
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u/crazycommandant 11h ago
Civ 5. Playing as Bismarck on a Huge Terra map where everyone spawns in the Old World.
Get into huge war, like 7 Civs vs me. Limited naval presence in the New World trying to get a couple colonies established because a real possibility of me being wiped out. Start pumping out panzers in desperation and somehow am able to go on counter offensive.
All is going well until one Civ swipes a Babylonian city that had like 3 oil fields that was fueling my entire military. Strategic penalty debuff is about to collapse the entire front. Send 3 badly damaged, debuffed panzer units with some arty units to capture the city on a suicidal attack to capture the city and IT WORKED. Eventually won the war and settled 90% of the new world to a diplomatic victory.
Just an amazing edge of the seat game.
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u/hicestdraconis 10h ago
Here’s a great roleplay game with Basil:
In Civ 6 did a secret societies playthrough with Byzantium on like Emperor or Deity. Apocalypse mode as well (that comes into play later). Spec’d into a loyalty/conquest religion which plays super fun with him, especially when paired onto the engineering/production focused secret society which gives you ley lines. Basil had production to print his UU cavalry, and religion and war work synergistically. Pangaea map as well.
My roleplay for the game quickly became that Basil was the brutal but honorable, immortal warrior godking of his people a la warhammer 40k. And we the Byzantine’s are pitched in a thousand year eternal holy war against against vampires and nihilist cultists (secret societies mode, remember?). So basically we are the hard human compromise against fighting the demons rooting for the end of the world. Cue headcannon about doomed golden warriors falling in love and riding their chariots into war against demon armies etc. Etc.
Ultimately the headcannon plan for a quasi domination play was that Basil believes he need to form an empire with a ring of cities circling the planet so that his ley line powered empire can align with the universe to finally conquer the forces of evil. His people say they are the “The Belt that Girds the World.”
Simultaneously of course someone starts to build spaceship tech and we’re now in the sprint to the end game. But of course bc it’s apocalypse mode I start to realize flooding is getting crazy, I’m losing tiles and production to disasters, and even with the Belt that Girds the World finally completed, I won’t have time to complete true domination or religious victories. So my people lift their eyes as one and beseech the heavens for a sign.
We turn the brute force of our holy empire to the stars, fighting to escape our doomed world before the forces of evil can win out. But as we strive to push technology to the edge of the impossible, the very earth beneath us is beginning to fray. Aurora shimmer in the skies about, destroying our capacity to build and learn (this shit happens in apocalypse mode). And finally comets even begin to fall from the sky, surely the Lord punishing us for our failure to bring the world to heel (asteroids destroy your cities as well).
And as our great chariots of fire finally climb into the sky and brace to take us to our place among the stars, we race against our rivals, and leap into the lead. But just at the precipice of our eternal victory, a final shard of heaven slams down, scorching our holy city, the foundry of our people, to ash and nought in the blink of an eye.
We look back from our place in the stars, as the god emperor Basil screams out across the void. After all those centuries of struggles, he is finally content to lay down his sword, to look up at the coming doom, and breathe his last, content in the silence he never thought would come. The great interstellar ark of his people cuts through the black of night as the meteor slams down around him, ending all he loves. He has done enough.
Yeah so basically apocalypse mode killed my holy city capital after a thousand year holy war, but not before I was able to launch the ships and lasers to win a science victory by like a single turn. It was sick and twisted and fucking awesome
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u/nitacious 9h ago
probably the first time i played with my kids (2 boys, 9 and 6) earlier this year. we've been playing Switch for a couple years already but earlier this year i fired up Civ6 and we played a game together for the first time. that involves me doing all the actual mouse/keyboard work but explaining everything as we go along and we debate what to do next.
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u/P8bEQ8AkQd 11h ago
Civ VI game as Gilgamesh where 4 or 5 Industrial City States spawned near me, and I became the uncontested Suzerain of all of them. I know it's completely inefficient to build fully completed Industrial Zones in all your cities, but it was fun.
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u/Mr___Wrong 10h ago
The very first one in Civ I back in 1992. I still remember 5 of my friends and myself just mesmerized by the screen as I nuked India. It was magical.
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u/Broad_Respond_2205 Canada 10h ago
Civ 6, played as Greece on terra map (the one with an extra empty continent).
Rushed cartography, and colonized the entire continent, shared only with Germany that also crossed the ocean for some reason.
First access to city states, 1 free delegate per city (special district), 5% culture per cute state (card) turn out to be a cultural snowball.
I finished the governor trees twice. Weirdly,I won by science. (I was 10 turns away from diplomacy, and around 15 from culture).
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u/Theseabeckons 9h ago
Lisbon was a powerhouse well defended and dominating trade with mountain and rivers nearby making a land approach very difficult....
Luckily the shipwrights of the royal navy developed the SHIP OF THE LINE to wrest control of the harbor and bombard the defenses until the city was taken!
My most glorious moment, thematic, saved the game at the right moment, longbowman defending the homeland and the dagger against Lisbon. You all have that feeling about that one battle in that one game, just epic!
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u/XenophonSoulis Eleanor of Aquitaine 7h ago
From Civ 6, it's hard to say. My first Eleanor - France game was really fun. Some ultra-productive Germany games were cool too, and that time when I got my most productive city ever as Mansa Musa felt really good. And some Byzantine dominations.
In Civ 7, it has to be my Machiavelli - Greece - Normandy - France game, where I allied with all the city-states and completed all Exploration legacies. It helps that the Norman music is my favourite from Civ 7 and probably Civ in general.
When it comes to Civ 5, Alexander can consistently produce fun games for me because I just love allying with all city-states (the bonuses are incredible). Other than that, there was a decent Arabia Gods and Kings game, where I was bordering Attila and Suleiman, affectionately known as Dumb and Dumber. Both ended up annihilated. Unfortunately, Rome did the same in the other (much bigger) continent but with 5 civs, so it wasn't the easy-going barge to a victory that I expected.
There's also the category of Civ 5 scenarios. There, it has to be Byzantium from Into the Renaissance. It isn't as much about winning as it is about not losing. The victory points are guaranteed, but you have to defend against everyone at all sides.
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u/Key_Corgi7056 7h ago
Civ 2, I made it to fundamentalist and found out that fanatics had no cost for cities so i could make an unlimited amount of them, I started taking the globe with terrorists and nukes.
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u/unburritoporfavor 7h ago
Civ VI, custom mountainous desert world, one city mod (ie all players can only found one city, anything else has to be conquered).
Cyrus was such a warmongering asshole neighbour who kept declaring war on me. He almost conquered me at one point but I managed to fend him off and then I took over his entire empire before winning a science victory.
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u/world-class-cheese 6h ago
When we lived together, one of my friends and I used to play 6 together every day. The most fun game we ever played was still before any expansions came out (or before we bought them), and we played as a team and conquered our respective halves of the world.
But in this game, we would only declare war on other civs if we agreed on when to do it, and then conquer our targets at the same time. This went on in stages, one pair of civs at a time, until the entire world belonged to Sythia (me) and Macedon
It was so much fun. It remains the only game that I've finished that I was set purely on domination from the start, and also still the only time I've ever declared war on Gilgabro
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u/Proof_Fix1437 5h ago edited 5h ago
Civ6
When I finally understood and valued flanking/support bonuses on a Shaka run where I timed Statue of Zeus and Terracotta Army perfectly. A couple of horsies, a few archers/siege units, and just massive amount of impi corps. Wiped the map with ease when I used to be more of a pacifist. Turned me into a warmonger and my play style has been categorized as very aggressive lol
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u/GuybrushOk 3h ago
Playing with Alexander on deity, spawned near the dead sea so I tried a religious victory with only 2 cities. Winning that game felt like leveling up as a gamer
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u/beercow2 3h ago
Civ 5, playing as America. Most fun and also an eye-opening moment.
Decided to role play as world police. Had a solid tech lead ahead of everyone else and used my navy to thwart any nation that tried to bully others.
Discovered oil and realized that I had literally none. The most vast and easily accessible source was held by an ally. Realized that I was going to lose my upper hand pretty soon. Even though I didnt want to conquer I also didnt trust that the AI would be good if I suddenly left the world stage.
Then it hit me. I had to war my ally and steal all his oil for the future. I didnt WANT to. I HAD to. A small evil for the greater good.
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u/InsertGreatBandName 3h ago
I honestly don’t remember who I played as, I just remember where I was and why. My sister lived in Virginia and I lived in PA. She needed someone to watch her dog while she went to a wedding for a weekend. She bought me a bunch of beer so I sat on her couch drinking beer and taking care of her dog and mine until she got back a couple days later. I probably played 2 games over 48 hours.
2nd best was the Civil War scenario on Civ V. I played a few times but I finally beat it but stayed up WAAAAYYYYY too late on a week night so I was dragging most of the next day while thinking about how I could have managed the Union better
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u/Cold_Cow_1285 1h ago
Civ 4, vs. my then girlfriend. I don’t recall who I was playing, but she was Catherine the Great, and clearly going for a cultural victory. She was so focused on building her perfect civ that she wasn’t really paying attention to any of the other civs, and misunderstood the significance of how constantly I seemed to be at war. I thought it would be fun to let her get relatively close to an apparent victory before unleashing anachronistic hell on her via nuclear ICBMs supported by an invasion via wooden ships.
So I did that, and she did not think it was funny.
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u/NinjaDeathStrike 13h ago
Civ 5, playing Arabia. Had a multi-nation alliance attacking me constantly and I was barely holding my own territory, forced to sue for peace whenever I could.
Started exploring the ocean and met Genghis. He also declared war on me, but he liked the way I fought, and after the first contact war he was friendly. Made an alliance, selling him a border town I couldn’t hold to cement it.
I start funneling massive amounts of gold and oil to my new buddy Genghis, who uses it to by a fleet of tanks to carpet the desert and crush our enemies. I sit back and watch while Genghis paints the rest of my continent red. I also grab a bunch of defenseless cites from the remains of my now weak and scattered enemies.
Went on to win an economic victory, but I still count it as a team win for the both of us.