Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

Civ 6's mechanics are about as deep as a piss pudle. The AI is braindead and won't be a challenge on any game type other than domination. The grievance system seems nice, until you realise that it's pretty much useless to the player and once you start "grieving" one ai, every single one hates you forever and ever.
War is the only way you're going to get any kind of challenge in this game, and it's like playing one of those auto-farming mobile games. You wait until you have more production and bum rush the AI, or wait until you have units that are more advanced technologicaly then you bum rush the AI, or wait until you have an alliance then you bum rush your neighbouring AI. Fighting a war on multiple fronts seems fun, until you realise what a slog it is. The rock/paper/scissors system is busted, not giving nearly enough of an advantage to incentivise you to actualy use it, or build proper armies, or even strategise. Bum rush your enemy, take cities in 2-5 turns or either the AI will cheat and turn the tables on you or the game will grind to a slow, extremely simple point and click game.
There are no long term strategies, building tall is objectively worse in nearly all scenaries ESPECIALY if you choose to include the loyalty system, there is virtualy no ressource management, there is no point in strategizing. The AI cheats and has the IQ of a 12 year old call of duty player : if you're strong, denounce you but do jack shit. If you're weak, declare a surprise war (which omehow doesn't reflect poorly on them), bum rush you then spam peace offers every other turn when you don't lie down and die.
The game is a full step down from CIV 5. On top of that, the 2k launcher was shit, the game asking you to accept the new terms and conditions every time you launch it is shit, the ludicrous amount of paid DLC is shit, the civs in and of themselves are meh at best and overall complete shit. I mean, one of the biggest american cities has a french name for god's sake. Yes, it's important to their culture. And yes, as a french man I'm happy to see my culture's influence. But it's been blown out waaay out of proportion.
The workshop is okay though.

One more turn... and suddenly it’s 3 AM 😅
Civ VI is super addictive – tons of depth, different ways to win, and every game feels unique. The leader animations and art style give it a nice touch too!

However, the AI can sometimes make weird decisions, and some DLCs feel a bit overpriced. Still, if you enjoy strategy games and building your own empire through the ages, this one’s hard to beat 😊

Highly recommend – but be ready to lose track of time 😉

8.5/10

At launch: The best Civ game in terms of upfront features. Its a complete launch game.
Today (2025): In the argument for best in series, however it is a tad casualified compared Civ 4 and 3 where one mistake results in the PC steamrolling you.

Honorable mention: The music is in the argument with Gerudo Valley and Gulies Theme as some of the best compositions I ever heard. The way the themes evolved between era leading to a epic full blown epic ballet late game is beautiful.

9.9/10

In total I have bought Civ 6 4 times: Once myself on steam, once on switch, and two copies for friends. 100% worth it

better than 7, more compatible with modern display sizes than 5. add in a few (hundred) mods and you have the perfect civ game.

very addicting game and highly replayable.

Amazing and fun game. Much better than the 7th one. The game has amazing strategy as well!

used to love this game. loved the details and attention. loved the gameplay and the mods

This is a review of software present in a game and therefore a valid review of a game: Root-level Access to my PC is a criminal level violation of data collection and privacy rights (laws) here in my country. This is spyware, plain and simple. fullstop.

Predatory EULA changes to gather all sorts of information and store, sell and do whatever they want with them. No choice but to accept or lose the game that you bought. I didn't accept that when I spent my money, I will not accept now.

Important Info in ToS:
• Mods are a bannable offense
• Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable
• Forced arbitration so long as it is permitted in your region
• You can be banned for the using a VPN while connecting to online servers
• Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC
• Best last they reserve the right to modify this Agreement, in whole or in part, at any time

Collected Data Types:
• Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address
• Protected Characteristics: Age and gender
• Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information
• Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address
• Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications
• Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls)
• Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest
• Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting)
• Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.

READ THE NEW EULA !! Take2/2K have changed it to allow access to ALL data on your computer, accounts, ssn, phone #, passwords ALL OF IT. take back your data, do not support these sleezebags. They have sent agents to peoples HOMES to harass them, it's not just online now, iit's real life harassment.

I might just be very stupid, and I fully admit that I have never been good at RTS games and civ builders, but this game is extremely finnicky and complex in my view. Even more so with DLC, which I did not purchase but have experienced through the community events.

I enjoy games with a heavy learning curve, even if I have to scour a wiki or spend 50-60 hours getting the basics. But after 100 hours into civ 6, I am still getting smoked by the AI in almost every scenario and even free play games on a low-medium difficulty (prince).

I truly do not understand this game. Enemy units of the same type will decimate mine, even when defending in my own territory. The computer players will amass enormous armies and have seven cities before I have a chance to build walls and a few encampments. I have even watched tutorials and really tried to get it but I just don't. So if you are dense at all like me, you might have trouble as well.

Furthermore, the political ideology of the devs of this game is clear and it is very annoying in the DLCs. Globalist world councils, arbitrary environmental rules, and panic over rising sea levels makes the game seem propogandistic and agenda driven. I'm just done with stuff like that in video games.

Many long-time Civ players find this entry to be one of the worst in series, so I will probably try 5 or another earlier installment, but after spending so much time and frustration trying to figure this one out I am glad to finally be done with it.

Gameplay: 5/10
Story: 2/10
Environment/World: 6/10
Music: 7/10
Acting: 6/10 (a bit cheesy)
Controls: 8/10
Stability: 10/10 (no crashing or freezing)
Overall: 6/10

new EULA update for all 2K and Take-Two games that asks for root level access to your machine in the name of "anti-cheat" don't get just "acquire" the game

Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, this extends beyond the Borderlands franchise.

Important Info in Terms of Service:
• Mods are a bannable offense
• Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable
• Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area
• You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers
• Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC
• Best for last, they reserve the right to modify this Agreement, in whole or in part, at any time

i will be uninstalling this game till take-two changes this BS!

I like the turn based game play. It starts a little slow, but that's kind of a good thing because there is a lot to think about at the beginning of a game. My son and and I can play against each other which is fun.

Civ 5 with expansions is exponentially better than this game in nearly every way. Yea this game looks slick and has some interesting new features, but overall Civ 5 was peak Civ and this never measured up at all. Part of it is the egregiously greedy business model of Firaxis/2k where they just gut the game and add the actual good meaningful stuff later for more money. This is just standard in this wretched corpo infested industry at this point. Even Civ 4 is 1000x better than this game. Play any Civ, just not 6 or 7!

LOVED CIV 3, 4 AND 5. they where my top tier games next to fallout and XCOM. For some reason I just could not get into CIV 6. I tried for over 150 hours and somehow it is not working for me.

Maybe I am getting to old for this shit ;-)

Civ 6 is the last good instalment in the series.
Having played since Civ 4. I can say that Civ 5 is by far the best one, however Civ 6 does a wonderful job of being fun and interesting with it's many mechanics.

Honestly, Civ VI is one of the coolest games I’ve ever played. There’s just something incredible about starting with one little settler and turning it into a whole empire. You make all the decisions – what to build, who to trade with, when to go to war or make peace. It’s all on you, and that’s what makes it so fun and addictive.
I love that every game feels different. Sometimes I focus on science and try to win by going to space, other times I go full domination and conquer everyone. But no matter how you play, it always feels rewarding. You learn to think ahead, manage resources, balance relationships – honestly, it even helped me with real-life stuff like planning and being more strategic in general. And it’s just so satisfying to look back after a few hours and think, “Wow, I built all of that.” Highly recommend it to anyone who likes strategy, history, or just the feeling of being completely in control of your own world. It’s not just a game – it’s an experience.

Atrocious, first of all it wanted all my personal information and probably my IP address so it could sell it for a tiny bit more cash in their fucking pockets. Then I finally got into the game, "Are you new to this game specifically or the entire series?"
I clicked the entire series thinking I would get some help, but no, her ass buggered off to go have lunch leaving me clueless as to what to do. And then to top it off, I alt tabbed for one second only to find out the game crashed and it left me unable to open anything, not even task manager to force stop it. I had to restart to get rid of it. Overall it's just a worthless blatant piece of shitty spyware, don't even bother it's not worth your time.

>agreeable TOS
>purchase game and DLC
>game forces a new TOS onto gamers
>demands access to all your data so they can sell it
>ffs I just want to play a game

Be Rome. Build nukes first. Then conquer EVERYTHING! Don't miss the opportunity like America did. Fulfill Rome's destiny.

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!