Civ 5's mod scene is more settled now, with fewer new ideas coming through, but there's still plenty of decent mods to check out if you want to keep your games fresh. Like our Civ 6 mod guide, we ...

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.

As both games progress past a score of turns I'm selecting my first social policy in Civ 5 and meanwhile over in 6, I have a functioning government with two bonuses selected from a pool of four.

Sadly for them, the Hubble Space Telescope did not make its way into Civ 6. But with Civ 7 just over the horizon, there's hope yet for NASA's iconic bit of kit to reclaim its place among the game ...

Civilization 5's World Congress is very different from Civ 6, and some may argue it actually works better. The World Congress appears once a civilization meets every other civilization in the game ...

In this case, that number is nine, which is no more or no less than the same number of civs released in the previous Civ 5 expansion, Gods & Kings. "Production tells us how many," says Ed Beach.