![]() If you need to refresh your memory, you can read Alec's Civ 5 review here. That's good news for players and good news for Valve's SteamOS, which aims to provide a lightweight, Debian-derived OS solely for the purpose of running games on your television. That they're now turning their attention to porting Linux games is a promising indication that the open-source operating system might be home to more games in the near future. Aspyr have long been solely focused on bringing games to Mac, and in the past twenty years they've been responsible for porting dozens of major games: BioShock Infinite, Borderlands 2, all the Call of Dutys, and a ton more. While it's also good news that Civilization V has come to Linux, I'm more interested in the news as a potential sign of things to come. ![]() Taking traditionally mouse-based games and making them playable on my couch is exactly what I'm hoping for from SteamOS and its power owl. Improved ai is really important, particularly for the late game. More interesting victory conditions for example and perhaps change up the leaders for each civ. I really hope that civ 7 will make new bold design choices. ![]() That controller might be delayed till next year, but games like Civilization seem like exactly the kind of thing it was designed for. Civ 5 was a bold new direction in the civ series, more so than civ 6. The port includes all expansion packs and DLC, multiplayer will work cross-platform between the different operating systems, and most interestingly, it features "support for Valve's upcoming Steam controller." The post on Aspyr's own site has more information. Did Sid Meier swing on a trapeze across the E3 concourse to announce that Civilization 5 was now available on SteamOS and Linux? Did Aspyr gather the world's press in an art deco theatre to reveal that this was their first Linux port, after years of porting popular games to Mac? Or is it the case that there was a simple post on Civ V's Steam forum to declare that users of Ubuntu could now begin conquering 4X strategy worlds? Sid Meier's Civilization V is the fifth offering in the multi-award winning Civilization strategy game series featuring the famous just one more turn addictive gameplay that has made it one of the greatest game series of all time. Is this E3 news? On day three, I can't tell anymore.
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