The multiplayer society-building game
Free multiplayer · Space Station 13 · BYOND
Start with a knife. Build a society. Make history.
Civilization 13 brings society-building, roleplay, and historical combat into a shared multiplayer world. Grow from the Stone Age to the modern era in Nomads, fight on a historical battlefield, compete with rival corporations, or learn magic at Wizard Boy's academy.
Find your kind of adventure
Build, battle, negotiate or cast spells. Explore Civ13's voted modes, event scenarios and the extraction-survival mode in development. Browse all modes and event guidance.
Society & roleplay
Begin without a predetermined faction, with a knife and basic clothing. Stay a nomad, create a faction, or join one. Explore, build, research, and form alliances as your society develops.
For players who enjoy building and interacting with others.
Read the Nomads guide →
Team combat
Pick a side and fight across maps from different eras of history. Learn the scenario, work with your team, and play toward the map's objectives.
For players who enjoy historical scenarios and teamwork.
Browse maps and scenarios →
Modern competition
Join one of four rival corporations. Plan with your team, negotiate deals and fight for valuable disks while protecting your company's money. Diplomacy, trade and a well-timed betrayal can change the balance.
For players who enjoy modern urban conflict and negotiation.
Read the AOTD guide →
Magic & adventure
Enter the Llanboarwart Academy of Magical Education. Assemble your own wand, learn spells, brew potions and duel other students as you rise through the academy's ranks.
For players who enjoy magical mischief and character progression.
Read the Wizard Boy quickstart →Extraction & survival · In development
Prepare your gear, enter a dangerous district, scavenge and make it to an extraction point. This mode is being built around private safe houses and gear that carries between raids, with a separate Modern Nomads city-survival variant.
Development is ongoing. This is a preview of the mode, rather than an available server or a finished gameplay guide.
Follow extraction-survival development →Survival competition
Survive an individual competition and stay ahead of announced area closures. Read the scenario's starting restrictions before making your move.
Read the survival competition guide →Arena combat
Prepare for organised arena bouts, follow your assigned role and wait for the announced fight.
Read the Gladiators guide →Scenario roleplay
Build a settlement through shared work, or take a prisoner or guard role in a prison scenario. Each map sets its own relationships and responsibilities.
Explore roleplay scenarios →Survival & exploration
Secure food, water and shelter in a hostile environment. Read the briefing: a survival setting does not automatically make other factions your enemies.
Read the survival scenarios guide →Crew adventure
Crew a pirate ship or a submarine. Coordinate navigation, supplies, weapons and repairs with the other people aboard.
Find your crew guide →Team sport
Find your position, pass to teammates and defend your goal. Learn ball controls before kickoff.
Read the Football guide →No modes match. Try “magic”, “survival” or “combat”, or choose all styles.
Inside the game
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Your first round
Civ13 is free to play through the BYOND client. Download BYOND and set up your account.
Read the new player guide for controls and joining instructions, then check the server rules.
With BYOND installed, use a join link below. If your browser does not open BYOND, use the address in the client. Ask on Discord if you need help finding a round.
These are the published game addresses, not live availability indicators. Check community announcements for current rounds.
Keep the new player guide nearby while you learn. Start with movement and interacting with objects, and ask other players or the Discord community when you get stuck.
The Civ13 wiki is the place to look up game systems and map information. Rules and expectations matter in both roleplay and combat modes.
Join an organised round
We sometimes run events around Civ13 modes and scenarios. Follow Discord announcements for the server, map, time, roles and rules.
Better with other people
Ask questions, follow announcements, and meet the people behind your next round.
Join the Civ13 DiscordThe game and its documentation are open to contributions. Report a problem or help the next new player.