This is the timeline of games inspired by the early Civilization. The dates, are represented as YYYY MM/DD.
By the way, Carl-Magnus Dumell did a small project paper on The History of Civilization.
The timeline[]
1969 ??/?? – The Sumer Game – Written by Richard Merrill in FOCAL-69
1973 ??/?? – Hamurabi BASIC rewrite of The Sumer Game first appeared as HMRABI in digital's "101 BASIC Computer Games" edited by David Ahl.
1980 ??/?? – Civilization, a board game designed by Francis Tresham
1981 ??/?? – Utopia Intellevision
1982 ??/?? – Utopia Aquarius
1982 ??/?? – Hamurabi HP-75C, 4K and a Basic interpreter
1984 ??/?? – Incunabula DOS
1988 ??/?? – Advanced Civilization – Expansion set to the original board game
1991 08/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization Amiga 500
1991 11/12 – Sid Meier's Civilization DOS
1992 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization Macintosh
1993 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization Amiga 1200
1993 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization Atari ST
1994 10/02 – Sid Meier's Civilization Windows
1994 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization SNES
1994 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization Sega Genesis
1994 ??/?? – Colonization
1995 11/09 – CivNet (Civ I multiplayer remake)
1995 11/14 – Freeciv started.
1996 03/23 – Advanced Civilization – Computer adaption of the board game
1996 01/05 – Freeciv 1.0
1996 01/08 – Freeciv 1.0a
1996 01/11 – Freeciv 1.0b
1996 01/12 – Freeciv 1.0c
1996 01/19 – Freeciv 1.0d
1996 01/26 – Freeciv 1.0e
1996 01/26 – Freeciv 1.0f
1996 02/16 – Freeciv 1.0h
1996 03/05 – Sid Meier's Civilization II
1996 05/01 – Freeciv 1.0i
1996 04/08 – Freeciv 1.0j
1996 08/10 – Freeciv 1.0k
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.2.0
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.3.0
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.3.1
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.4.0
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.4.1
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.4.2
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.4.3
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.4.4
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.4.5
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.4.6
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.5.0
1997 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.5.1
1998 02/22 – Freeciv 1.5.2
1998 03/09 13:25:47 PST – Freeciv codebase brought into CVS
1998 03/08 – Freeciv 1.5.3
1998 04/30 – Freeciv 1.5.4
1998 ??/?? – Freeciv 1.6.0
1998 06/03 – Freeciv 1.6.1
1998 06/05 – Freeciv 1.6.2
1998 06/08 – Freeciv 1.6.3
1998 07/28 – Freeciv 1.6.4
1998 08/20 Sid Meier's Civilization II Multiplayer Gold Edition
1998 08/06 – Freeciv 1.7.0
1998 09/02 – Freeciv 1.7.1
1998 12/23 – Freeciv 1.7.2
1999 02/09 – Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
1999 04/02 – Freeciv 1.8.0
1999 04/05 – Civilization: Call to Power
1999 05/15 – Civilization: Call to Power Linux
1999 05/21 – Sid Meier's Civilization II: Test of Time
1999 07/08 – Freeciv 1.8.1
1999 09/?? – Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire
1999 10/19 – Freeciv 1.9.0
2000 02/21 – Freeciv 1.10.0
2000 04/30 – Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Mac
2000 06/29 – Freeciv 1.11.0
2000 07/20 – Freeciv 1.11.4
2000 11/?? – Call to Power II
2001 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Linux
2001 08/10 – Freeciv 1.12.0
2001 10/30 – Sid Meier's Civilization III
2002 07/14 – Freeciv 1.13.0
2002 09/22 – Civilization: The Board Game
2002 10/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization III: Play the World
2003 01/20 – Freeciv 1.14.0
2003 12/12 – Freeciv 1.14.1
2004 09/10 – Freeciv 1.14.2
2005 04/16 – Freeciv 2.0.0
2005 10/24 – Sid Meier's Civilization IV
2005 10/05 – Freeciv 2.0.7
2006 03/06 – Freeciv 2.0.8
2007 02/17 – Freeciv 2.0.9
2007 10/27 – Freeciv 2.1.0
2008 06/13 – Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution PS3/Xbox 360/Nintendo DS/iOS
2008 07/07 – Freeciv 2.0.10
2009 04/05 – Freeciv 2.1.9
2009 11/26 – Freeciv 2.1.10
2010 02/02 – Freeciv 2.2.0
2010 11/23 – Sid Meier's Civilization V
2011 07/06 – CivWorld
2011 08/08 – Freeciv 2.3.0
2013 09/14 – Freeciv 2.4.0
2015 08/15 – Freeciv 2.5.1
2016 10/21 – Sid Meier's Civilization VI
2018 07/22 – Freeciv 2.6.0
The quest for the Freeciv source[]
Historic logo (2001–2007)
Freeciv is a successful example of open source development, so it is interesting to see how its code base developed over time. However, most of the Freeciv code before it was put into CVS seems to have vanished – we have dug up source for versions 1.0 and 1i, but nothing else.
If you can find source code for other early versions of Freeciv (1.5.2 or before), please let us know so we can add it to the list at
Thank you!