Civilization IV®: Warlords
Turn-based historical strategy about conquest, vassals, and military expansion
Firaxis Games · Published by 2K · Released Apr 6, 2007
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 90% of 553
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 116
- peak 24h 160
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- Unknown
- no patch notes found
Metacritic: 84/100 (critic reviews)
What is Civilization IV®: Warlords?
A turn-based 4X strategy expansion focused on military growth and historical leaders. You lead a civilization, conquer rivals into vassal states, and use new civilizations, units, leaders, buildings, and wonders across eight scenarios.
For you if...
- +you enjoy deliberate turn-based conquest and long campaigns
- +you like stacking multiple military units on one tile
- +you want scenarios, vassal states, and added civilizations
Not for you if...
- −you prefer fast, real-time battles over turn-based planning
- −you want strategy with little emphasis on military conquest
What players say
90% of 553 reviews are positive
Players praise the deliberate strategy, replayability, and military unit stacking. Players on recent Windows versions report a memory leak that causes frequent crashes later in a campaign.
Screenshots and trailer
Civilization IV®: Warlords system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
1.2GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent, 256MB RAM, 64 MB Video Card w/Hardware T&L (GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better), DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card, 1.7 GB of free hard drive space, Direct X 9.0c (included) Recommended: 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent/better, 512 MB RAM, 128 MB Video Card w/ DirectX 8 support (pixel and vertex shaders), DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card, 1.7GB of free hard drive space, DirectX 9.0c (included) SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 2000 (plus Service Pack 1 or higher), Windows XP (Home or Professional) (plus Service Pack 1 or higher) *Requires Sid Meier's Civilization IV to play
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- The native resolution is not the default one
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain.
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