That musical shift was largely independent of Civilization 5, but the series has continued to dominate the realm of turn-based strategy. "Everybody's in competition with Civ," Curran says.

Games like Civilization 5, Hearts of Iron 4, and Company of Heroes 2 provide immersive historical contexts. Strategy games have a long and storied relationship with history, probably because ...

At this moment, in fact, Civ 7's concurrent player count is even lagging behind Civilization 5, which came out 15 years ago. To be fair, Civ 5 and Civ 6 were spectacularly good games, each pulling ...