

This leaves 61 factions, all controlled only by the AI, duking it out amongst themselves to be the last one standing. One of these is still controlled by a human, but is sequestered in an unreachable corner of the map, so that its only impact on the game is in clicking the “Next Turn” button. The concept is simple: the game is modded to allow for 62 unique civilizations to compete on one huge map of the Earth, up from the base game’s limit of twelve.

That form is the Civ Battle Royale Mark II, a huge, ongoing game of Civ 5 played entirely by the computer against itself.

It is one of the most popular and played strategy games of its time, yet right now it might be most popular in a form nobody can play. It can eat up hundreds of hours of your life, and yet there exist speedruns of it that last less than half a second.
