If Civilization 5 isn't launching after the recent update where they removed the 2k launcher do the following.
1. Go to your steam library
2. Right click on the game
3. Click on properties
4. Click on installed files
5. At the top right of the window you will see the location of installed files, click on the browse
6. In the directory right click on either executable you wish to run. CivilizationV.exe or CivilizationV_DX11.exe
7. Click on properties
8. Click on compatibility
9. Enable compatibility mode with windows 8 or 7 mode
10. Click apply
11. Run the game through the selected executable in the folder not the play button through steam.
12. Enjoy

It has been reported that this additional function might help with making the game run with some individuals.

In the compatibility screen with step 8, enable run as administrator. This should also help with getting the game to run.

Rouge Trader by Owlcat Games is one of the better games of 2023 which in a board since it’s not a difficult thing to achieve. However, it feels unfinish or straight up not play tested at stages. This is the first game I have played by Owlcat and it makes me wary of their future products simply because the nature of the launch of Rouge Trader and finding out how their other games have launched. I shouldn’t have to do that, when you pay for a product, it should be finished none of this waiting for patches to play the game.

It is probably one of the best story games of 2023, the game centers around a space captain in the grim dark future of Warhammer 40,000. You’re basically task to chart an expanse of stars for Humanity as charged with being a Rouge Trader. You have a lot of freedom and can do a surprising number of things when it comes to the story level. Things I haven’t seen in other story RPG games. And to my utter surprise you even be a good guy in Warhammer 40k, and it feels very interesting as it feels like you’re a noble light in a galaxy that fallen into darkness and despair as if everyone has lost common sense. (Reasonable Marines meme) It really makes me want to see more.

If you have played XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012) or its sequel or any other game similar to that, then that is the base fundamental gameplay of the game. It has this one more turn type of feeling that keeps me wanting to play. I honestly feel like the action cam from those games would make the combat feel more alive in Rouge Trader. The other gameplay mostly reveals a rather convoluted leveling process where you can practically do any type of build you can think of however there are major drawbacks.

• Buggy game — There are segments of the game that are beyond buggy or the only way to procced is to bug out the game. The later acts are rather bug ridden and it ruins the experience. The game feels like it was not play tested.
  
  
• Warp Navigation — This system becomes rather tiresome real quick when you like to explore and the points to make exploration safer for travel is rather finite but how it is explained to the player doesn’t feel great to play. Like it feels like that one uncle at family gathers that you know but don’t know how its related and feel good to be around them. Also, if you have spent all your points and you want to go to another system that doesn’t have path towards, well you’re out of luck. This system needs to be reworked since the game is going to be patched worked into a better game.
  
  
• Text & Voice — The game constantly switches from voice acting parts to text base, this is really annoying to the ninth degree. Pick one or the other, do not flip flop between the two. Worst still is that this happens randomly and gives the underlying feeling this game is not finished if not outright cheap. Smaller gamers were able to do it, why can’t this game have it. The voice acting is really good for when the game has it. Personally, I like hearing Pasqal when he talks, that blend of robotic tunes in his voice makes him sound better. It is rather annoying when you have to read some text when the game is playing its rather loud but good music. It’s distracting and it devalues the work as a whole.
  
  
• missing artwork — When talking to a large number of characters, even minor characters do not have art for their talking portions. Again, it adds to the feeling that this game is unfinished.

I would love to give this game a recommendation, it can easily earn it for me when I barely give them out but for the price paid for the game, I expected a more finished experience. I may update this review later once the game is patched but in this age of everything launching unfinish or playtest is becoming tiresome.