If the enthralling landscapes, animated plotlines and empirical wars of Civilization 5 don’t impress you, we don’t know what will. A strategic gamer’s best friend, the game is a favorite of those looking to prove their mettle in terms of wit, diplomacy and planning. You’ll easily lose track of your time while playing this one, progressing levels one by one.
That said, progress within great general Civ 5 doesn’t come easy. The more you go in, the trickier the explorations and expansions get. Strategizing, of course, is one way to excel in the game; another is the Cheat Codes. They are one of those sneaky ways, helping you jumpstart your gaming journey and catapult you forward. They give you the much-needed headstart to conquer and rule more.
To use civ 5 cheats, you need to edit a game file, which is why we advise you to create a backup copy of each of the files you’re editing within the game. Here’s how you can do it.
- Go to Documents/My Games/(game file). Make a backup.
- Edit config.ini file. Change ‘DebugPanel = 0 to “DebugPanel = 1”. Save the edited file.
- Now, press tilde (~) key (the key next to letter 1 on the keyboard) and click ‘Reveal All’ to reveal the map.
Moving on, here’s an enumerative list of Civilization 5 cheats aka Steam achievements, followed by the method of unlocking them. Take a look on Civ 5 achivements.
Steam Achievements |
Procedure |
| First In The Hearts Of Your Countrymen | Be Washington and beat the game of any difficulty |
| The Man Who Would Be King | Don Alexander’s armour to beat the game difficulty |
| First Of The Mohicans | Be Haiwatha and vanquish the game |
| Charming. Really. | Prince can beat the game of any difficulty |
| Engineer | Build a Wonder |
| Give Peace A Chance | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Gandhi |
| Video Et Taceo | Trust Elizabeth mode to beat the game difficulty |
| Vivre La Revolution | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Napoleon |
| Blood And Iron | Bismarck can overcome any hurdle |
| Star Of The North | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Catherine |
| Veni, Vidi, Vici | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Caesar |
| Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-ka | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Ramesses II |
| The African King | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Askia |
| Arabian Knights | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Harun al-Rashid |
| Age Of Empire | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Darius |
| Empire Of The East | Be Ramkhamhaeng and beat any difficulty level game |
| A Woman’s Work | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Wu Zetian |
| I Need More Elbow Room | Beat the game on a Tiny Map |
| Living In Smallville | Beat the game on a Small Map |
| It’s Standard Issue | Beat the game on a Standard Map |
| Do You Want To Supersize That? | Beat the game on a Large Map |
| Ruler Of The Twelve Colonies | Beat the game on a Huge Map |
| Plate Tectonics | Beat the game on a Continents-type Map |
| Rising Sun | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Oda |
| Montezuma’s Revenge.. | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Montezuma |
| A Magnificent Victory | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Suleiman |
| Master Of The Universe | Beat the game on any difficulty setting with each leader |
| Baby Steps | Beat the game on the Settler difficulty level |
| Taking Off The Training Wheels | Beat the game on the Chieftain difficulty level |
| The Alexman | Beat the game on the Warlord difficulty level |
| Say Hello To My Little Friend | Reach Ally Status with a City State |
| Neighborhood Bully | Annex a previously puppetted City State |
| Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger | Upgrade a Unit |
| The Once And Future King | Beat the game on the King difficulty level |
| The Golden Path | Beat the game on the Emperor difficulty level |
| The World Is A Mess, And I Just Need To Rule It | Beat the game on the Immortal difficulty level |
| Flawless Strategy | Beat the game on the Deity difficulty level |
| It’s Just You And Me, Kid | Beat the game on a Duel Map |
| Going It Old School | Beat the game on a Pangaea-type Map |
| Island Hopping | Beat the game on an Archipelago-type Map |
| Battlefield Earth | Beat the game on an Earth-type Map |
| Gotta Catch ’em All | Beat the game on all standard map types and sizes |
| Last Man Standing | Win any Multiplayer Match |
| Moving On Up | Earn a Unit Promotion |
| Two Men Enter, One Man Leave | Completely defeat another Civ and remove them from the game |
| Second City | Found the second city |
| Treasure Hunter | Discover an ancient ruin |
| We Have The Technology | Fully explore the Tech Tree |
| The Wonder Years | Build all the Wonders, across any number of playthroughs |
| Enlightened Ruler | Unlock all Social Policies, across any number of playthroughs |
| Model Of A Modern Major-general | Train all Units, across any number of playthroughs |
| Peace And Prosperity | Incept the Golden Age |
| The City Of Lights | Develop a city to produce more than 100 culture per turn |
| The City Of Science | Develop a city to produce more than 100 science per turn |
| The City Of Gold | Develop a city to produce more than 100 gold per turn |
| Land Baron | Purchase 1000 tiles, across any number of playthroughs |
| I’m On A Boat! | Embark a Unit |
| Here Ends The Noble Savage | Raze 100 Barbarian camps, across any number of playthroughs |
| Seriously?!? | Have another Civ beat you to completing a Wonder 10 times |
| One To Rule Them All | Beat the game on any difficulty setting with only one city |
| Go Boldly Where No Man Has Gone Before | Win a Space Victory |
| The Best State Of A Republic | Win a Cultural Victory |
| The Pen Is Mightier | Win a Diplomatic Victory |
| Exterminate! Exterminate! | Win a Domination Victory |
| To Stand The Test Of Time | Beat the game with all victory conditions |
| I Can Has Nukes? | Drop a Nuke on another |
| Civ. Experimenter | Play a game with a Mod |
| Expansionist | Download a Mod |
| Connoisseur | Rate a Mod |
| With Liberty And Justice For All | Fully Explore the Liberty Policy Track |
| Lux Perpetua Luceat Eis | Fully Explore the Piety Policy Track |
| Diplomacy By Other Means | Explore the Autocracy Policy Track |
| With An Iron Fist | Fully Explore the Order Policy Track |
| Master Of The House | Fully Explore the Tradition Policy Track |
| Death Before Shame | Fully Explore the Honor Policy Track |
| Team Player | Fully Explore the Patronage Policy Track |
| Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees | Fully Explore the Commerce Policy Track |
| Eighty-eight Miles Per Hour | Fully Explore the Rationalism Policy Track |
| Freedom Isn’t Free | Fully Explore the Freedom Policy Track |
| The Explorer | Discover 100 Natural Wonders |
| The Appian Way | Build 1000 roads, across any number of playthroughs |
| Forty-niner | Build 1000 mines, across any number of playthroughs |
| Merchant King | Trade 100 resources, across any number of playthroughs |
| Magellan | Prove that the world is round by uncovering a connected loop of tiles around the circumference of the world |
| Paul Bunyan | Chop down 1000 forest tiles, across any number of playthroughs |
| God Is Great | Construct 1000 Temples, across any number of playthroughs |
| Flying Fortress | Bomb an enemy city with a B-17 |
| Arab Trader | Trade a luxury resource to another Civ that you earned through a city with a Bazaar |
| Gardens Of Lake Texcoco | Build a Floating Garden in a city with a lake tile in its radius |
| Riddle Of The Sphinx | Rush a wonder as Egypt with a Great Engineer |
| Three Musketeers | Kill a unit with a French Musketeer when two other Musketeers are providing flanking bonuses |
| People Of The Longhouse | Build a longhouse in a city with at least 4 unchopped forests in its radius |
| Bollywood | As Gandhi, win a cultural victory with 3 or fewer cities in your empire |
| Kamikaze Attack | Kill an enemy unit attacking with a Japanese unit with just 1 HP remaining |
| All Roads Lead To Rome | Build a road with a Roman Legion |
| Sun Tzu’s Art Of War | As Wu Zetian, earn a Great General through battle |
| Barbarian Warlord | As Bismarck, convert the Barbarians from 10 camps to your side |
| Barbary Pirate | As Suleiman, accumulate a navy with 10 Barbarian naval units |
| Tomb Raider | Pillage gold from an Egyptian city with a burial tomb in it |
| My Little Pony | As Catherine, research Horseback Riding before any other Civ |
| Ruler Of The Seas | As Elizabeth, sink and destroy 357 enemy naval units, across any number of playthroughs |
| Conquest Of The World | As Alexander, defeat every known player by 350 BC |
| He Threw A Car At My Head! | Have any city ransomed by Barbarians |
| All-Achieving Zeus | Win the wonders scenario on deity (Requires Wonders DLC) |
| British Invasion | Perform a concert tour with an English great musician in American Territory (Brave New World DLC) |
We know, the list of Civ 5 Cheats Code is pretty huge and doesn’t end here. We’ll be keep adding more to this with time. Still, if you’ve something to add that can’t wait, drop a line below in the comments section, and we’ll take that up.