I'm not so sure everybody played it. A lot of people didn't. Many more casual games sold a lot more.
But in the market for complex strategy games, Civ was absolutely king. But that's because the market was far less saturated at the time; nobody else had made a game like that before. Now there's thousands of games trying to do things like that, so it's much harder to stand out.
But in the market for complex strategy games, Civ was absolutely king. But that's because the market was far less saturated at the time; nobody else had made a game like that before. Now there's thousands of games trying to do things like that, so it's much harder to stand out.