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Civilization

Civilization is a series of turn-based strategy video games, first released in 1991. Sid Meier developed the first game in the series and has had creative input for most of the rest, and his name is usually included in the formal title of these games, such as Sid Meier's Civilization. There are six main games in the series, a number of expansion packs and spin-off games, as well as board games inspired by the video game series. The series is considered a formulative example of the 4X genre, in which players achieve victory through four routes: "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate".

The series includes:

Sid Meier's Civilization (1991) for MS-DOS, Windows, Amiga, Macintosh, Atari ST, Sega Saturn, Super NES, PlayStation and N-Gage
Sid Meier's Civilization II (1996) for Windows, Mac OS and PlayStation
Sid Meier's Civilization III (2001) for Windows and Mac OS
Sid Meier's Civilization IV (2005) for Windows and Mac OS X
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (2008) for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, iOS and Windows Phone
Sid Meier's Civilization V (2010) for Windows, Linux and OS X
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution 2 (2014) for iOS, Android and PlayStation Vita
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth (2014) for Windows, Linux and OS X
Sid Meier's Civilization VI (2016) for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Nintendo Switch