Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I have played the sequel. I have re-played the prequel. This is the best Civilization.

An improvement on the previous game. A good diverse mix of leaders and abilities. An improvement to graphics and different game play elements. Civilization has really mastered the art of creating a new installment to a franchise that improves upon the previous but still holds that same charm as the originals. If you've like any previous civ game, you will enjoy this one too.

My very first CIV game. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The music absolutely slaps. Especially the Zulu "among us" song

Civilization VI – A game to learn about commitment, because one match can last for hours. XD

As a passionate fan of Civilization V, I will compare the game with the previous part. I think, generally, the new game did become a breath of fresh air for me. I like the idea of building separate districts instead of building everything in city center in Civ V. The visual and graphic became far more beautiful and modern. Number of mechanics in the game increased. Most of neutral changes (one for another) like happiness calculation principle are okay.

But I really didn't like how relationships with other leaders changed. In my humble opinion, developers just broke relationships and diplomacy and everything related to this. I hate the world congress mechanic in Civ VI where decisions reset themselves automatically instead of manual cancellation by a new decision of empires; also the available options became worse themselves. Reasons for friendship, wars, increasing and decreasing relationships became absolutely stupid. You can have an alliance and may not help your ally in their war, and it's okay for the ally, they don't get affended. That's why I always turn off diplomatic victory in my every game. I was especially shocked by the opportunity of the world congress to get some nuclear weapon to all empires (even if they are in the stone age) as well as remove everyone's weapon without any problems. Also, scenes with leaders became more static, it's also not so good.

To sum it up, I rather recommend the game. It has much more good than bad in my opinion to move from Civ V to Civ VI.

Its a good game, the research is quite good, the civilizations are so cool, and i really like playing Russia, France or England (:

User interface to small. Refuses to respond in options menu no matter what. Dont purchase this unless you can modify game files because I could not find the file that customer support said to delete. Wasted a whole day trying to fix this. My favourite console game and so far most hated PC game

Still the best version of the series... CIV VII needs quite a radical overhaul to top this.

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.

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'

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.

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.

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

It has some great innovations over Civ 5...planetary management to address Climate Change, dividing cities into various types of zones, museums full of artifacts. I don't like how builders can make only three improvements and that the 20th-century infantry wear German helmets. The maps are great, and named rivers even better. I play it at peaceful levels...I like empire-building, not competition. I have yet to check out mods.

**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.

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!

I think it's fun and I have a few hundred hours of "just one more turn" in the future. Def recommend, you will probably get addicted to it.