Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World

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Sid Meier's Civilization® V: Brave New World is the second expansion pack for Civilization V - the critically acclaimed 2010 PC Game of the Year. This new expansion provides enhanced depth and replayability through the introduction of international trade and a focus on culture and diplomacy.

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Developer:
Firaxis Games
Publisher:
2K Games
Engine:
Firaxis LORE
Release date:
08 July 2013
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Sid Meier's Civilization® V: Brave New World is the second expansion pack for Civilization V - the critically acclaimed 2010 PC Game of the Year. This new expansion provides enhanced depth and replayability through the introduction of international trade and a focus on culture and diplomacy. Your influence around the world will be impacted by creating Great Works, choosing an ideology for your people and proposing global resolutions in the World Congress. As you move through the ages of history you will make critical decisions that will impact your relationship with other civilizations.

Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Brave New World also introduces nine new civilizations, eight new wonders, two new scenarios, four new gameplay systems and dozens of new units, buildings and improvements offering an expanded variety of ways to build the most powerful empire in the world.

FEATURES

New Culture Victory: Spread your culture across the globe, dominating all other cultures. Create masterpieces with Great Artists, Writers and Musicians that are placed in key buildings across your empire like Museums, Opera Houses, and even the Great Library. Use Archaeologists to investigate sites of ancient battles and city ruins for priceless cultural artifacts. Become the first civilization with a majority influence in all other civilizations to achieve a Culture Victory, becoming the envy of the world.

New Policies and Ideologies: Enter the Industrial Age and choose the ideology of your people: Freedom, Order, or Autocracy. Each ideology grants access to increasingly powerful abilities, and serves the different victory conditions in unique ways. The choices you make will impact your relationships with other civilizations for the rest of the game.

World Congress: The importance of diplomacy is intensified and city-state alliances are more important than ever. Change the diplomatic landscape through a new World Congress that votes on critical issues like implementing trade sanctions against rogue nations, limiting resource usage, designating host cities for the World Games, and the use of nuclear weapons. Game-changing resolutions, vote trading, intrigue and a new lead-in to the Diplomatic Victory ensures that the end of the game will be more dynamic than ever before.

International Trade Routes: Build your cities into hubs of international trade by land and sea, creating great wealth and prosperity for your people, while also spreading religion, cultural influence, and science. The number of trade routes increases through the advancement of economics and technologies, the creation of wonders, and the unique abilities of your civilization. Will you connect to a closer city for a lower payoff and a safer route, choose a longer route with more risk for the bigger payoff, or perhaps point your trade route inward, sending vitally important food and production to the far corners of your own empire?

New Civilizations, Units and Buildings: Nine new leaders and civilizations are introduced, including Poland, Brazil, Portugal, Zulu and more each with their own unique traits, units and buildings.

New Wonders:This expansion set introduces eight new Wonders including the Parthenon, Broadway, the Globe Theater, and the Uffizi.

Two New Scenarios:

American Civil War: Fight the “War Between the States” from either the Union or Confederate side as you focus on the critical Eastern theatre of operations between the capital cities of Richmond and Washington.
 
Scramble for Africa: The great colonial powers of the world are scrambling to explore the Dark Continent and extend their reach into its interior. Search for the great natural wonders of the heart of Africa as you explore a dynamically-generated continent each time you play.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows® XP SP3/ Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7
Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
Memory:
2GB RAM
Graphics:
256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics
DirectX®:
DirectX® version 9.0c
Hard Drive:
8 GB Free
Sound:
DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
Note:
Optimized for the touch-screen Ultrabook™ device

recommended*

OS *:
Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7
Processor:
1.8 GHz Quad Core CPU
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
512 MB ATI 4800 series or better, 512 MB nVidia 9800 series or better
DirectX®:
DirectX® version 11
Hard Drive:
8 GB Free
Sound:
DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
Note:
Optimized for the touch-screen Ultrabook™ device

User reviews

Big Conn
Not recommended | 05 Jun 2025

Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware. Important Info in Terms of Service: • Mods are a bannable offense •

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Recommended | 23 Apr 2025

Brave New World isn’t just an expansion—it’s a revelation. For a game already steeped in rich, turn-based strategy, this DLC reshapes the landscape of how Civilization V feels in its later stages. Based on the most

Helpful: 4
Lömsk Kråka
Recommended | 09 Oct 2023

An essential addition to the Civ V experience together with its companion Gods and Kings. But since there is a complete edition out there now, just get that instead of picking up solitary DLCs. The game is amazing and

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gevo29
Not recommended | 30 Apr 2026

This 30$ DLC to a 15 year old, 30$ game, alongside the other 30$ DLC, supposedly fixes the base games myriad issues, and turns it into a 10/10 best 4X of all time tier experience. I'm here to tell you that this

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Pi Eater 3.1
Recommended | 07 Feb 2025

Brave New World – The Essential Expansion for Civ V If you’re playing Civilization V, Brave New World is an absolute must-have. This expansion fundamentally improves the endgame, making it far more engaging and

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eldy
Not recommended | 28 Dec 2024

All the new options to make a culture win is now very time consuming, reducing also the gameplay. A game last now 1 or 2 more hour. No more possible to make a party on one day so i disabled this addon.

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