Civilization Series Reaches 33 Million Units Sold on its 25th Anniversary - News

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During a DICE Summit panel, Bruce Shelley, Sid Meier, Brian Reynolds, and Soren Johnson got together to celebrate and discuss 25 years of the Civilization series. One of the more interesting facts to come out of the panel is that the series has now sold 33 million copies since Civilization debuted in 1991.

Civilization V - the most recent mainline entry in the series - and its expansions have sold 8 million units to date. Meier’s teams at MicroProse and Firaxis have created 66 versions of the game across all platforms and, based on Steam sales, the Civilization series has been played for more than an estimated one billion hours.

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cfin2987@gmail.com (on 22 February 2016)

Probably bought a civ game ten to fifteen times

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busbfran (on 22 February 2016)

Excellent series

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sethnintendo (on 21 February 2016)

One billion hours

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Wonktonodi (on 21 February 2016)

I'm impressed, then again at least 10 of those sales were to me.

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Chazore (on 21 February 2016)

That's a lotta money for the franchise for sure. That play time alone is practically insane.

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mountaindewslave (on 22 February 2016)

there have been a ton of Civilization games though, on average the Civ games sale performances go up and down

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Lawlight (on 21 February 2016)

Includes the mobile versions?

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Slarvax Lawlight (on 21 February 2016)

If they're not free to play, I suppose.

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