
The abstract Piety social policy tree of vanilla Civ V was a fairly weak representation of religion in the game. If there's any features, mechanics, or design decisions that you really love in Civilization V, its DLC, or its two expansions, please feel free to leave a comment! You may not agree with my opinions, and that's OK. Of course, any list of "good ideas" or "bad ideas" is going to be subjective. In a future post, I will also look at the things that Civ V got wrong. So I won't shy away from constructive criticism where applicable, and I'll make recommendations to improve these great features in the future. Some of these mechanics are great ideas, but still suffered from problems in execution. Most of these features are things that I would probably like to see return in future sequels.īut even though my intent here is to shine glowing praise on Civ V, I'm not going to ignore the faults of even my favorite features. These are the elements of the game that stood out the most to me as contributing to the fun and addictiveness of the game, and which push the series in positive directions. Here I will present a Top 10 list of my favorite new features, mechanics, and design philosophies in Sid Meier's Civilization V (and its two expansion).

I'm going to spend a few posts to discuss what Civ V did right, and what it did wrong, so that future games can learn lessons from this iteration's successes and failures.

With Starships released, an expansion for Beyond Earth announced, and support for Civ V apparently done, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the game.
