Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

Yeah, no. After a few years I gave this game another chance, and still no. Civ V is better. Here's why. First, some pros. Civ VI is prettier, and has better music. It also has more advanced mechanics of every sort, which makes the game more engaging. But gameplay wise, it's a mess. Every playthrough is the same. Theoretically there are different bonuses for every leader, and different victory types, but it doesn't matter. There is only one recipe for victory, expand. Build as many cities as possible, and conquer as many as possible. Playing tall or diplomatic isn't an option, there is no downside to having more and more and more of everything. You want domination victory, obviously do the above, duh. You want science victory? You want to have as many cities as possible to make as many science districts as possible and generate as much science as you can to get to the tech as quickly as possible. You also want to build as much industry as possible, to build settlers, workers, soldiers, wonders everything. And you want to produce as much culture as possible, to get civics. You want culture victory? You want to have as many cities as possible to make as many theater districts as possible and generate as much tourism as you can and get as many slots for great works as possible. You also want to build as much industry as possible, to build settlers, workers, soldiers, wonders everything. And you want to produce as much science as possible, to get tech. You want religious victory? Guess what, they can't convert your cities if you conquered them. And you want to have more cities, industry, everything to produce more faith for missionaries, apostoles, inquisitors....also depending on your faith, you can buy all kinda buildings with faith too. The faith costs for anything you can buy with faith only increase with the amount of missionaries/whatever you bought for it, not with the number of your cities. It goes for other types of mana too. The building costs never increase, 400 faith costs for a building may seem a lot if you have 2-3 cities, it's nothing when you have 20. You want diplomatic victory? Guess what. But noo, you say, diplomatic victory is about being liked by everyone...bullshit. Diplomatic victory is about getting diplomatic victory points, at least half of which you get by researching techs and building wonders (so you want science, culture, industry...) and the other half you get by winning UN resolutions. By winning I mean, you propose something, and if it wins, you get one diplomatic victory point. If you propose several things, and they all win, you win several points. So if you are hated by everyone, just propose resolutions that harm you and they will all vote for them. You are the first civ with coal, just propose to ban coal power plants, BAM victory point. You produce the most great admiral points, just propose to ban great admirals, BAM a point. Rinse and repeat. You need 20 to win the game. I won diplomatic victory while being at war with everyone, it was ridiculous, the ending slideshow talked something about peace it sounded ironic af. Great people costs don't increase with number of your cities, either. The costs are the same for every civ, there is one great people pool that civs are dumping points into, competing with each other who will get the great person first. So, the more cities you have, the more great person points you will generate, the more great people you will get and your competitors get none. Since great people often give permanent empire wide bonuses until the end of the game, this mean you will snowball hard once you start snowballing.

Endless variations mean hundreds or even thousands of hours of game play. One of the best values I've ever had for my entertainment dollar

This game is incredibly addictive before you know it, 10 hours will have flown by. If you're a fan of 4X games, I highly recommend giving it a try!

Civilization VI is a fun game, with enjoyable game play, an art style that has a lot of charm, and a good level of challenge. I've played every Civ game, right from the first one that came out. However, I can not recommend purchasing or installing games from this company. Their EULA is entirely unacceptable. Like a lot of game companies these days, they have instituted draconian policies putting the people who purchase and play their games in an untenable position of having no real rights or recourse while having to accept the root kitting and data harvesting of their computers. It's not about better service, it's about greed and control. I'm disappointed that Firaxis went this way. Up until now, I always felt I got fair value for my money with a Civ game. I won't be purchasing Civ VII or any other game from them or 2K until these policies are changed permanently.

The new mechanics are interesting, the art style and graphic are fine but what prevents me from recommending this game is that the AI is basically non existent. Other CIVs don't do nothing, they don't attack, don't defend, don't explore, don't settle in fertile lands, don't build most of wonders, absolutely nothing. It actually baffles me how many people like this game and recommend it. Basically you're playing alone and other CIVs are a punching bag.

**DO NOT BUY** The latest update completely broke this game on MAC OS. Can't complete more than a few turns without a total crash and there has been no solution offered by anyone at Aspyr. I have sent them multiple crash reports and there's no fix coming. I have read reports about this being related to Hyper-Threading but that's about all the info I can find. Until they get it patched, I can't recommend this game less. It doesn't run.

It's the best Civ. One of the biggest things they improved on relative to Civ V was that you no longer have to restart the game if your first city wasn't built on the coast and on a hill. I have zero complaints about this game, and only wish they kept adding leaders. But make sure to get all of the expansions and the critical mods like quick deals, extended policy cards, and map tacks.

I don't really know what it is, but this game bores me right from the start. It's less engaging than Civ V. I just don't really enjoy the aesthetic and the districts. It just feels super watered-down after coming from Civ V. Even with all the expansions and DLC this game fails to live up to it's predecessors.

Not my favourite of the Civilization series, but enjoyable all the same. Sean Bean's voice acting is fun, the graphics are gorgeous, and I find the strategy view tiles very convenient in warfare.

Really enjoyable, like a more in-depth Age of Empires game. My girlfriend introduced me to it and I gave it a go as a "but what if YOU DO enjoy it?" Yeah anyway right so I enjoyed it and it's one of my favourite games

Sadly, it won't open. The game was working, and now. Apparently this won't let me post that error. but it won't launch now, so I've deleted the whole game, including the file that was leftover after you deleted it. Reset the computer, and I'm trying again. I have civilization 6 at all. the updates and I had a good civilization going. I enjoyed. this game. but somehow it's not allowing me to launch the game without errors. I run Windows 11 and it ran good. Like I said, but I have no idea I'm not a computer whiz And the one I have doesn't want to be bothered with helping me fix this Maybe y'all can give me some. kind of heads up. Thank you for your time.

one night I was thinking to do one game before sleep on standard speed with emperor difficulty, after some times of playing then I check the clock was showing at 4. When I decided to stop and go to sleep, the next thing I know is its not 4 am in the morning.

I got tired of earlier versions of CIV. Maybe once I play this for thousands of hours it will also be less interesting, but for now it is more complex and variable.

i find this game very relaxing. I usually plays only 30 min to an hour. so one gate often take a week or more. I like that i can set the dificulty level from relaxing (I win) to difficult enough that i lose. i save the start and some times play the same game over but i have to 'win' using one of the other ways than i won last time. like chess, you have to plan your plans and 'attack' ahead, some time 100 years. I started with the first civ game. the graphics is very good, but i usually turn the music down. I don't think i will be moving to civ 7 as i understand they have the game divided into 3 different plays. i like the 'long game' where you have to plan for the future if you want to be successful

The purest of all strategy games. It's easy to play for younger people, as the surface of it's strategy is pretty simple, but it's also fun for older players who think deeper into it, though in my opinion, the whole game is better with the DLC 'Gathering Storm' and 'Leader Pass'

After being forced to play this game for a good bit I have to say it's pretty bad. The basic strategy for it is to spam cities to a level that every one of your settlements are stealing tiles from another. Then you just build whatever district relates to your chosen win condition. The game even enforces this playstyle with the loyalty mechanics. If you aren't close to your other cities your cities will rebel, and if you don't have the means of stopping it that city is just gone, nothing you can do about it. Conquer it after the rebellion? It's rebelling again in six turns and will spawn two units to defend. Sorry, you should've settled two tiles from your capital. The other thing enforcing this playstyle is that war is more of a slog compared to Civ 5, which is an absolute travesty. Civ 5 wasn't a perfect game, but it was fun. War was a matter of keeping up in tech/production and your city placement. Once A bombs come around things can get a little hairy, but as I said Civ 5 is not a perfect game. This game wants you to learn adjacency bonuses for the extremely important districts and also the ins and outs of the superfluous amount of new units. Civ 6 is like if mario party tried to add more mechanics to increase its complexity. That's just not what civilization is about. You could get your friend who only plays Call of Duty on Civ 5 and they'd intuit enough to be relevant. Civ 6 expects you to take the time to learn its tedious mechanics to succeed. It's not as if I don't like more intense strategy games, I'm a big fan of grand strategy games in fact. Civilization will never be and should never be that though.

Well balanced and the most replay enjoyment of any game I have ever played

The fact that they're selling this for five dollars now makes me feel kind of bad... Like it's a consolation prize for how bad 7 was. But everyone who bought 7 for 100 bucks already bought THIS game for 80 bucks 8 years ago.... It's just insulting.

Good game, many hours of fun. Wouldn't say its better than 5, and haven't played 7. Don't know what else to say about it, if you like civ games try it. If you have never played civ before its probably the most beginner friendly.

I I start a game, do massive things, get far enough to not be satisfied or bored. Restart. Start a new game. Rinse and repeat. 10/10 game, would play at my in-laws funeral

Great game teaches alot about strategy as do the others in the series. Its a great game Highly recommend

First time player and it took some learning but this is a brilliant game and I never play strategy games.

Fun but.... I don't want to look up TOO MANY tips online, but I think this game is tough on the easiest setting. I still play, but I'm just goobin' around, herpin' and derpin'. Fun game.

I realized i never gave it a review but i have over 1,200 hours in this amazing game. im sure civ 7 is gonna grow into somthing great but this game is still amazing and 100% worth the play.

Впервые играю в циву и немного прихуел, что я могу восстановить отношения с цивилизацией посредством нападения на неё и подписания мирного договора по её инициативе

great game with friends. every single NPC is somehow 100x better than me.

Reasons to get this game: Gameplay never gets old So many different ways to play Very fun, easy to learn mechanics Gilgamesh

Waste days of your life smothering a virtual world with your perfect civilization. Then do it over and over again.

Better late than never! Civ 6 (as countless others have already proclaimed) is an excellent 4X game - it's engaging, deep/strategic, and a joy to play! Becoming "good" is a long road, but the journey is fun and rewarding...highly recommend :-)

Hadn't played CIV since #2, long, long ago. My daughter told me to give this a shot and it's a good game. Tougher than #2 but better as well. Better graphics, better animations, and a lot of thought required. It's not easy. I like it. Same basic play style but with some different units and capabilities.

Very good game. Sunk hundreds of hours into it and I can still find something new. The game goes from good to great with the right mods.

A game design proven over and over. CIV REV is always relaxing and fun. A well designed turn based tactical, civilization builder.

came back to 6 after being so excited for 7... having bought and played 7, kick back and enjoy 6 for a while until they make 7 more interesting/replayable.

This game is Awesome. if you don't have enough money, wait a month or so and it will go on sale for 90% off. and you can play with friends, don't need a good PC to run, and it has really good mechanics and easy to learn.

Great game, endless scenarios, endless fun

Was pelting a barbarian stronghold with slingers for 5 minutes until i realized i needed meelee to pillage. 10/10 experience wouldn't wish this on the finest shyte

The game is an absolute delight! I’ve spent countless hours on this game, thoroughly enjoying every moment. Whether embarking on a solo conquest or collaborating with friends in multiplayer, each session offers a unique experience. I particularly appreciate the distinct characteristics of each civilization and relish the sense of global control. The challenges and the thrill of navigating through tough situations make it all the more captivating!

Played this game quite a bit, and enjoyed it quite a bit. I would suggest getting all of the DLC, but obviously not at its full price.

One of the strategy essentials, I feel the expansions are almost integral though to get the complete experience.

i suck at this type of game, but even so i still enjoy learning its ins and outs. if you like games like this it cant get much better then this entry.

Got this game on sale because I have heard recent buzz about civ 7. I absolutely fell in love with it and am pouring hours into it. Convinced a couple of friends to get it as well and we are having a blast playing games together. My only issue is these games are soooo long. I spent a whole day on just my first game. I had so much fun while playing but now I know I need to set times to play or I will be on it forever,

Having spent over 200 hours immersed in Civilization VI, I can confidently say it stands out as one of the best 4X strategy games available. The depth and complexity of gameplay, combined with the rich historical context, make each session uniquely engaging. One of the game's strongest points is its extensive DLC and mod support. The expansions, such as Rise and Fall and Gathering Storm, introduce new mechanics and civilizations that significantly enhance the gameplay experience. These additions keep the game fresh and challenging, even for seasoned players. Mods further extend the game's lifespan by offering a variety of customizations and improvements. From graphical enhancements to entirely new civilizations and scenarios, the modding community has created a wealth of content that caters to every player's preferences. The strategic elements of Civilization VI are meticulously crafted, allowing for diverse playstyles and strategies. Whether you prefer military conquest, scientific advancement, cultural dominance, or diplomatic finesse, the game provides ample opportunities to pursue your chosen path to victory. Overall, Civilization VI is a masterpiece in the 4X genre. Its combination of deep strategy, historical richness, and continuous updates through DLC and mods make it a must-play for any strategy enthusiast.

With the expansions, I feel this is the best of the Civ series. I have recently returned to it after taking a couple of years off and it's still very addictive (just one more turn!).

got it on sale like 6 months ago. never installed it cus I figured I'd get too into it and wouldn't have time. finally went for it today (i played for like 7 hours without noticing. "didn't realize the game loop could be this addictive" pretty much sums it all up)

I would just like to say that it brings me such joy to see this game still doing better than Civ 7. This game is superior in every way to the trash they make you over pay for.......... WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY! To see a company fall after bring ruin to a franchise. CIV 6 MAY YOU LIVE FOREVER AS AN INSULT TO THE CREATORS OF CIV 7!!!!

While many would disagree, I do think this game is as good as civ 5. Its very different, of course, which allows you the enjoy both games depending on what type of game play you are felling atm. Like civ 5, this game will require some DLCs, mainly Rise and Fall, and Gathering Storm, to be good. Of course they are expensive as hell, so I recommend waiting until they are on sale, which I see happens often nowadays

I will always have this sudden urge to play CIV 6 like for 5 hours straight but then lose all the motivation just because of 1 foolish move. This game is great, I'd recommend you to buy this on sale.

Bought it only to fill out my collection, as I have every game since the 1st. Bar none, until 7 came out, this is the worst one ever. They clearly gave no f**ks about balance, they created the game structure to be stunted, and broken. -Multiplayer has never worked right, and crashes after about 100 turns, every time. Support staff do nothing. -Single Player is a joke. You will always be at a disadvantage, even when you carefully choose your settings for a custom game. Your choices mean nothing. You will pick everything, down to the last detail, and as soon as you hit start, all your settings are changed by the shyster code they updated into the game when they began pre-release of 7. In the last 10 years, 2k Games has become a cesspool of of garbage. Every title they have their logo is a perfect example. Sid Meier games from 1 to 3 were some of the best turn based games available, easily beating SimCity. Not anymore. Same with Borderlands. Borderlands 1 was a pioneer in new game style, with fun elements, random loot and good story. 2 Flopped a little, but had its fun, after Borderlands 2, it became a obvious money grab. If you own Borderlands 3, you will know what I am talking about, with their Day 1 game breaking bug that they NEVER FIXED. Bottom line, Unless this game is at least 95% off sale price, or more, do not buy it. Do not buy any of their games. 3/28 Edit: They forced an update on me last night. i checked the logs, this update was not needed. Now the game is completely garbage. No matter what settings i choose, it defaults to one specific map, Small Pangea, 6 AI, max Difficulty. 3/31: So much worse than I realized. Just tried to play the Apocalypse Mode, nothing works the way it was supposed to. Soothsayers do absolutely nothing. they recognize no tile as valid, even when it shows highlighted. does not recognize any unit as valid, even when you have it surrounded by every type available. Ever since Civ 3, this series has continued to get worse. I now know, I will NEVER buy Civ 7, I have seen the game play for it, and like the shifts from Civ 3 to 4, then 4 to 5, and 5 to 6, they are removing some of the best features, dumbing the game down so much, while also breaking it. 2K games is worse than any company I have seen so far, and that includes ALL OF THE SCAM CHINESE App Game companies

A daunting game for beginners but after a few games on easier difficulties i picked it up quick! lots of fun and cool to imagine yourself as past leaders.

one of my Favorite games. I always go back to it when i need to Relax and use my brain at the same time. Music is a vibe, graphics are beautiful. Im scared to go to Civ 7 after loving this game so much.