Sid Meier's Civilization 1991

Is it still worth playing?

MicroProse's 1991 turn based strategy game for MS-DOS, designed by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley and later ported to systems including the Amiga, Macintosh, Super NES and PlayStation. Meier described the original idea as Risk brought to life on the computer. You lead a civilization from 4000 BC against two to seven computer civilizations, starting with one or two settlers who found cities, and you build improvements such as mines and irrigation. Research is where the order matters. Only one technology is researched at a time and the tech tree is nonlinear, so the order of research shapes the game, and each wonder can be built only once in the world. In the end you win by conquering all rivals or by the space race to Alpha Centauri. Every turn is still a small decision about research, building or war today, and the order you choose shapes the whole run.