Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

Don't be fooled by my number of hours played. During that time, I had fun for maybe 2-3 hours of it. All these new features compared to Civ V feel shallow and inconsequential. IDK why I keep playing, but it must be related to people who doom scroll on facebook or tiktok. Send help.

i have over 100 hours on other platforms and now that ive gotten the game again i jizz in my pants every time i play it and i get a rock hard stiffy every time i think about playing it its astonishingly good

A very fun game with a lot going on in it. Love playing different scenarios and making my own challenges in the game.

I converted the world to Japanese Shinto, including my friends city "Piss Pond" 10/10 gaming experience

A number of balance issues: research too fast relative to production, cities too strong, early land and naval ranged units do too much ranged damage to make other classes viable, and so on. AI is very bad: has little ability to plan to use adjacency and other bonuses, and is absolutely useless in warfare; that combined with cities being too strong makes the game far too easy for the player, more akin to Factorio than a competition against meaningful opposition. It's too easy to make the AI opponents love you. AI valuation of goods in exchanges is very dumb and easy to exploit. Significant bugs, including that naval units attacking escorted embarked land units will hit the land units instead of their escorts, which defeats the purpose of escorting units and often is even contrary to the attacker's purposes. World Congress can massively disrupt what you're doing with no way to avoid this. It's too painless to change between government types, and AI does it too frequently for realism or for players to have meaningful investment in their chosen ideology. Generally, two major categories of resource can be neither removed nor developed over, and do not become visible until certain technologies are researched; this causes significant unpredictable disruption to exploitation of adjacency bonuses. One unit of each type per hex causes annoying and unpredictable delays in moving units, and causes obviously unrealistic and stupid combat progression. Modding tools frequently do not work.

TWO. THUMBS. DOWN. I HATE THIS GAME BECAUSE THE BARBARIANS BULLY ME HARD, HOW DO I HAVE FOUR OF THEM ON HORSEBACK ATTACK ME IN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES OF THE GAME, THIS HAS HAPPENED BETWEEN TWO CONSECUTIVE GAMES AND IT MAKES ME MOTHER FREAKING ON A PIKE ANGRY. KILL THE BARBARIANS, I HOPE A EIGHTNG ONE NEVER COMES OUT AND WHATEVER STUDIO MADE THIS GAME GOES BANKRUPT AND LOSES ALL THEIR STORAGE IN A FIRE, DIEDIEIDEIDEIDEIEDEIE

perfect gave for autistic history nerds that believe they would have done a better job than most historical world leaders. you will dissociate for hours playing this game

A good turn based game, you can never go wrong with any Civilization games.

I love the Sid Meier's Civilization series! Sid 5 was the one I orignally started playing and I was hooked from the start. These games are a most have if you are into simulation games as well as historical games. It's awesome! You can choose how you wanna grow your empire. I highly recommend anyone giving the game a try!!!!

I strongly recommend Sid Meier's Civilisation VI since it provides truly immersive gameplay partly due to the amazing soundtrack made by Geoff Knorr, Roland Rizzo, Griffin Cohen and Phill Boucher (Christopher Tin for the main theme), and partly due to its wide variety of options you can choose from to both customise your civilisation and the way the game works. This game reminds you about the importance of the social aspect of a civilisation through the necessity of building recreational centres and circuses instead of mainly focusing on war and conquest. I find this feature brings more depth to the game since it adds the whole new worlds of technological advance, religion and the urban life - all of which you control. Overall, I find this game excellently immersive, realistic and inspirational and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys strategy games and great music!

PS: I know it says that I've only played 3 hours but I had played it already before this account for at least 50 hours

A lot to learn when you are new to the game, but really fun after you understand all the basic.

Its only good with the DLCs, and its not clear what those DLCs are unless you spend 30 minutes trying to figure it out.
The first real DLC is the Rise and Fall, which adds a loyalty mechanic which actually makes the game fun.
The second DLC, Gathering storm, is decent too.

Not worth the money without these DLCs, base game is meh. Which is kind of ridiculous that a game would need DLCs to be enjoyable.

With over 750hrs of play on this title on my PC alone I now can not play without agreeing to the updated TOS. The updated TOS remove our legal protections and allow them to collect and share data with their "business partners" I have uninstalled and will no longer recommend to others.

Ignore the reviews. Grab a buddy and play the game. It is like chess but way more interactive.

The game worked for 2 hours, then it would get stuck at the loading screen. I was in contact with 2K support and after multiple attempts it still doesn't work. Yes I have tried Reddit work a rounds as well. Until a 9 year old game works on a newly built rig, I can't recommend it. Been playing since Civilization 2

1. AI will love you hate you depending on nothing, once you to modern era it doesn't matter just nuke it.
2. Nuclear power is OP, Take a city by: nuking then take it with a heli. Its so funny and simple.
3. SCREAM IN TECHNICAL PAIN.
4. Game connecting with multiplayer kinda funky, sometimes doesn't work the first time
5. Settings will malfunction at times and sometimes wont take your pick.
6. AI takes FUCKING FOREVER at times depending on mod load out.
7. Mods CAN and WILL decide to try to kill you and your PC from time to time to time.
8. AI says, "meh", denounces you, then sits on their asses all game *Cough cough* Egypt and Spain *Cough cough*
9. Spain AI hates everyone because they think they are so PeRfEcT.
10. Egypt tried to assassinate me in the beginning of a game, So beware.

Gameplay:
10/10

Graphics:
10/10 (its civ i dunno what you expect)

Strategy
beef/10 (Not the best ever but funni

Funni moments:
9999999999999999/10

very slay game. i <3 conquering ai countries and showing them who's boss (me.. obviously).

I played 2 games. One on Standard 500 turn, and the other on Online 250 turns.

I'm sure this game is great to most since its Very Positive, but it's not for me. I've played other 4X games like Endless Legend, but this game kind of sucks. Even the first playthrough wasn't enjoyable and these kinds of games usually lose their spark in the later rather than the beginning. The late game is tediously miserable on the management side (not foreign with this genre for me but this was the worst one yet). The Civilization(nations) differences don't seem diverse enough to switch up play styles other than the early game start. Even then, the "play styles" aren't fun, but a boring/tedious management system. Science's Research variety becomes scarce in mid game, making it feel like everyone is following the same play style at that point.

The system pulls your camera around trying to help you manage things that haven't had an action yet, but I click and move faster than it reacts. So it loads for a sec, preselects some other unit i didn't want, and i end up accidentally moving it wasting its turn. Also this feature actually makes managing worse for me because instead of managing left to right or where I'm currently looking, it drags me all over the place and I can't remember what i have and haven't done. This issue became truly annoying around turn 125. For some reason around turn 160 and on, I was unable to delete units from the map (even at full health). I think this was a bug because after looking online i saw other people had this issue as well, while others had never run into it.

I did like that the combat was quicker paced compared to Endless Legend, but Endless Legend has way more depth in that department. Civ6 has very little unique unit diversity and what they are diverse in feels very situational. The Linking units together system felt poorly implemented. Sometimes after linking units I would move said unit, but one of the linked units still has movement, so it still has an action even though the unit it is linked to is out of movement... stopping me from ending my turn until I put it to sleep or skipped its turn. This felt inconsistent and almost like a bug. I found putting the unit to sleep would stop this issue, but it would randomly start throwing that units back into the "UNITS NEED ORDERS" queue a couple turns later. By the end of my last game i was managing 34 Places and 22 sets of units. I usually avoid managing this many cities, but I didn't want to raze what i took because the AI would attempt run a settler to the spot and pop up another city. The system automatically dragging my camera around to manage everything that I hadn't touch yet made me truly see how hand holdy and brain rot this was. I literally had no thought or strat other than "do this as quickly as possible to get to the next thing and be done."

The notification system is terrible. Going to war means having 8-20 notifications popup of whose at war with who. You have to right click each notification for it to go away. There isn't an audio alert of new notifications, so if you are rolling through your turns, you may over look a notification even though its right there above the End Turn button. TBH I ignored 90% of the notifications on the side of the screen because it told me things i was already in the process of managing like needing more houses or amenities.

Overall, annoying experience and a poor time sink.

Slow, monotonous and waste of time. I am not even having fun. Please chose to play something that engages your neurons a bit more. This is a brainrot but in videogame format

They want us to buy Civ VII when they never made the Map Customization in THIS game work properly, especially into Multiplayer.

I never got my money's worth with this otherwise awesome game that could be so much better, don't even think I'll consider buying the next one or more DLC til I do.

leaders ugly as fuck, other than that good game amsalem the air conditioning technician approves

Always loved this game, since it's first version. Careful, it can be addicitive

The game is from one of the best four X games game series and this title is one of the more starter (noob) friendly takes. It has up to date graphics and gamplay is smooth.

Believe me, I tried to like Civ 6. But when you take a great idea and add a hundred more great ideas to it, turns out, it spoils the whole thing rotten. Suddenly, you are faced with a game with too many options and too many rules, too many gadgets and too many small tech trees, it's just not fun anymore.

4 hours into the game, feels like you need to really like this kind of game to fully enjoy it. as for me, it is good and i like it to some extent. gonna play trough it once and drop it.

it's like i'm just watching the hours melting from my life and yet i'm completely content with that

great game

I love playing this game so much! I wish there was a better, and less buggy tutorial, but reddit and google helps a lot in getting a better explanation of how things work when the game doesn't tell you. But all in all, still a great game!

I have never seen a game flat out cheat like this one. Barbs more advanced than civs. Rivals technologies 30-40 clicks more advanced than yours. I can't tell how many times I've had one turn to go to produce a wonder and there it is finished somewhere else. Barbs producing 5 units in a row. Barbs having a technology no one else has. Barbs avoiding rival civs when you're at war with them. Exactly the right type of unit suddenly appearing in just the right place to make your military victory more difficult. If a rival computer player wants to out vote you it somehow knows how much you voted and votes more. And on and on. I don't mind being beat by a better strategy, but a programmed cheat is annoying.

I have thousands of hours in the Civilization series. I could not get into this game's art style. The graphics for the map and terrain felt blah. I found the UI to be a step back in organization from the previous installment. I have tried to start several games and I find it a chore to go from one turn to another. I thought it was my not enjoying the civ leader but after several starts, I know it's the game and art style I'm not clicking with.

I feel this game is a step back in a lot of ways from previous Civ installments that leave the game feeling clunky and more of a Civ knock-off rather than a real Civilization game.

Amazing games, love the idea, love the design (although I recommend using few mods for UI, as it is not perfect). The game allows you to win in multiple ways, the highest difficulty is tough, a lot of races, so you won't get bored quickly!

This version allows for personal game cheat programs to add gold etc... The newest one does not and will not allow a cheat to be used on a personal, single game. Don't buy the new one VII, the ability to level the poorly skewed gameplay makes it playable.

Really fun game - easy to pick up but so many details to get into.

Spent an entire day on two playthroughs with my dad and was completely hooked. I appreciate local coop games so I would definitely recommend. The game itself is pretty addicting and lots of fun for sure. Would absolutely recommend, However I think its about time they lowered the AAA price since it did come out almost a decade ago. . .


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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I recommend the game as the game is a good game to play but I do not recommend playing it with zombie mode active because they are over powered in my play through with them all my cities get over run and destroyed with the exception of my capital not worth playing for hours and building a civilization if zombies take it out in minutes and reset you back to the beginning with one city left. I think the Developers of the game need to Nerf the zombies so they do not spawn to much to totally over run you when your armies are limited and zombies are not.

I liked the older games better. Not a fan of the gameplay. The game also froze my computer a lot. Could have definitely been an error on my part, but it didn't help my initial dislike of the game. To each their own tho! I would only buy it on sale.

Every leader is mad at you for breathing. 0/10 diplomacy simulator.

Paid money to BUY this game some time ago and now I have some random entity demanding I agree to T's and C's I don't agree with. Apparently it give's them the right to provide my personal details to third parties.
No way. Can I have a refund?

I don't recommend games that are a copy/paste of previous games then tweeked with massive amounts of DLCs that cost an insane amount of money and a few are almost as expensive as the base game. Yeah of course you're going to get this on sale for cheap like I did, but thats b/c they restrict you to basically nothing then demand 100+ dollars worth of DLC's to play a game that should've been released completed. Map feels small, even on the biggest map setting i could find, probably hidden behind some DLC, along with bug fixes and a complete game.

Great Civ game with expansions and mods adding new layers of improvement on top of the already great game.

>Turn 150
>Breathe wrong (apparently)
>Saladin has declared war on you
>Gorgo has declared war on you
>There goes my culture victory, spam produce troops desperately to return from the brink
>Take 1 city to deter further aggression
>WARMONGER PENALTY
>Montezuma starts vomiting at me for being a warmonger
>Win the war with Saladin, ok great now i can-
>Montezuma has declared war on you
>No one will trade with me
>No one will accept peace deals
>If I look in the wrong direction I will have more and more wars
>I have no viable option to get resources except continuing this forever war
>Take cities to get resource deposits
>Everyone wants to stomp me for this
>Issues with amenities, everyone's crying at me for not razing their city to the ground after I conquer it
>OK
>Reach peace with Montezuma
>Saladin has declared war on you
>Conquer his cities instead of being economical and just razing them, still considered a warmonger
>Still at war with Gorgo
>Spam science
>Nuclear bombs
>Other civilizations think I have the time to deal with them
>"I am Victoria, Q-" SHUT UP SHUT UP
>I've been at war with this tomboy for 300 years, I'm done
>Every city will be turned into a sea of irradiated cobalt. I no longer care about these penalties.
>Look upon my arsenal. Make this war so I can return a spite unknown to the world of the living, a spite feared among the damned.
>Thermonuclear/Nuclear strike on every Greek city I can get my hands on
>No Warmonger penalty

9.5/10, -0.5 points listing "England" as a civilization.

Very good game, like it a lot. You can follow your imagination and create your own religion. There are lots of leaders to chose from.

If you like history and want to be a great leader that tried to conquer the world in fantastic fashion, look no further. This game is a great game that one can easily sink hours and hours into and barely scratch the surface. With the higher difficulties it really tests the knowledge you have learned over many different plays.

i love this game! def something can be enjoyed w friends or played solo. i really enjoy the learning curve too, easy to learn - hard to master :)

I've only played this game for 95 hours at the time of writing this, which pales in comparison to others, but I think this slice of experience is valid for a review given that I am knew to the omniscient genre of civilization building.

A lot of Civ 6 is really well crafted, and I would highly recommend modding it to improve your experience further (per the recommendation of others, and playing one game with them where they provided mods). I have very specific design issues with Civ 6, such as the variability of time in order to achieve different victories, as well as some general UX issues that feel a little clunky (not to mention a poorly made tutorial), but barring all of these this game is an amazing experience, with others or by yourself. The spirit of growing an entire civilization from scratch and handling the delicate balance of production, resources, and relationships in a highly customizable and procedural world is something that I can't really apply to many other projects. This newfound exploratory spirit is what drives me to write this review to encourage others to try it out as well, even if it's not their cup of tea. Yes, there is a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, the game is deep and rewarding, and the 8/9 different difficulties and different maps offer so much replayability and give you the chance to play the way you want to play.

TL;DR Barring some weird UX issues and a poor tutorial, I would recommend this game to anyone looking to branch out into new genres that reward resource management.

Great graphics and engaging gameplay. You can play for hours without even realizing it.

Don't buy Civilization VII but this one!

Why?
Is it a civilization game? Yes and quite traditional.
How is the game's performance? Splendid.
Can it be run on weaker systems? Yes, if you don't ask your system to calculate reasonable plantes/number of civs.
Overall good game, great soundtrack!

Review at 300 Hours: I entered the game with a territorial io mentality, I've never played a civ game before. I basically wanted to beat every other civilization on the map. I'm already using mods cause the biggest map in the game isn't as big as i want it to be. i don't have any DLCs. I have been playing as Cleopatra for personal reasons. I still havent managed to move past settler difficulty mainly because i want a domination victory only, thats how im playing the game. oh and ive nuked once ....

Like many civilization games, this one moves in the right direction while at the same time making some game design decisions that make you want to play the predecessor. In this one, they went with a more cartoony look (which I don't like) and introduced the district system. I both love and hate the district system, its cool and makes things more strategic, but its annoying to want to build a building and you have to build a district first, and you're all out of room or don't want to demolish your improvements on the map.

Better than civ 7 by far, but not as good as earlier civs when it came out. OK now, but such a lost opportunity.

just buy this instead of 7, more stuff, better gameplay, and much cheaper