Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

It's a good thing I only spent $3 on this POS. Constant crashes, unplayable shitty fucking experience.

As I'm getting hyped for Civ 7 I finally tried this game. It is not better than Civ 5. Too much RNG on the game start. Either you start on a very OP spot (which feels like cheating) or you're simply blocked by low housing (lack of fresh water) and absence of any resources. The game then clearly wants you to expand wide and discover better spots, which is then made impossible by tightened spawn of city states and civs around you. In the few hours I've played, this game did not let me enjoy any form of exploration and expansion that I'm looking for in a Civ game. I'll keep playing Civ 5 and hope for Civ 7 to be the new best in the series.

As in the introduction video, conflicts and wars are inevitable and throughout human history, it is through them we progress. You declared your war, paid your price but benefited others, you acted like a true idealist and fighter for inequality despite your own wealthy origin, you made your voice heard and may have fostered good changes. Thank you for fixing those UI bugs, bro, wait for you to contribute more to the community as soon as possible.

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT get this game if you have responsibilities and/or have other hobbies you want to engage in. Civilization games are drugs that can VERY easily get ahold of you and wouldn't let go.
Not a joke review btw, I am being dead fucking serious.
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Good game though.

Sid Meier's Civilization VI is masterclass in turn-based strategy, offering an unparalleled blend of deep strategic gameplay, vibrant art style, and historical immersion. With its innovative district system, diverse victory conditions, and engaging leader personalities, Civ VI provides endless replayability and a fresh challenge with every playthrough.

I love playing with my friends, and try to beat them in every run. From min-maxing to achieve the best results, or just having dumb, blatant fun in world conquest. I recommend this game for any history buff or turn based game fanatcis.

I decided to actually learn how to play this game before Civ 7 came out. As with any of this type of game it took a good few hours of watching videos and trial and error, but once I got the hang of it, I had a lot of fun. Any game I play for more than 20 or 30 hours is a win in my book so 200+ is more than worth the price.

Eight years in the making and there are still a huge amount of bugs, inconsistencies, and fundamental features that the devs have never bothered to implement which would make the game so much cleaner. That being said, it is definetly worth a try if your getting it 95% off

Good thing Luigi was around to resolve 25% of the UI bugs, the user experience of civilization 6 could have ended up being measurably worse without him

Assassination is useless X
Forms of revolution in which assassination is the primary means are useless O

As a separate and limited individual, he did not intend to take on and solve the whole problem once and for all. He had read history and knew the similarities of tragedy and the repetitiveness of history. He knew that his power was limited, that it was a drop in the bucket, and even that it was not worth the effort. But he chose to act, and the purpose of his action was not to expect to overturn the status quo, which he found unbearable, with his own efforts. Rather, it is to place a voice at the table of those who are protected and isolated by the system at a volume that is hard to ignore.
Just as victims are not voiceless figures that exist only in profit statements, perpetrators are not fearless and only mechanically execute the full range of oppressive possibilities. They are human beings too, and they deserve to be in fear, it's just that hiding behind this system that serves them has allowed them to gradually forget this simple fact, to forget that they too can simply be victimized and fishwrapped. Like the famous saying, all men are born free, but Colt makes them equal. The assassination smoothed out this vacuum, allowing those on both sides of the agreement to see each other clearly for the first time. Allowing the victim's fear to spill over to the victimizer for the first time in the most visceral way possible.
For that matter assassination can't be useless, you can question its efficiency, resent the chaos it creates, deny its ability to unite and change the whole picture, but you can't refuse to recognize that it's the only possibility for the greatest release of individual emotions, it's the loudest defiance that can be voiced as a human being.
You could argue that this was a no-win fiasco, that his tragedy was written long before he realized that even the best efforts of hugging wouldn't help to alleviate his mother's illness.
But even pulling the trigger didn't do anything to press pause on his pain, and he still chose to go to the darkness and open fire on that no more than once.

Great bug free UI, whoever fixed the UI bugs is a great guy!

Good friend of mine fixed a lot of bugs in the UI.

this game is broken on Mac, it keeps crashing and there is zero support. You have to play like it's 1998, saving manually every minute and hoping the next crash does not wipe out your save file. It's also impossible to go through the tutorial, so good luck if you haven't played it before.

you either play CIv V and understand it or you play this and understand it but even tho i have no clue how to play its fun

CIV 6 is actually really fun. Its my first 4x grand strategy game, and I thoroughly enjoyed playing it.

Very well put together game that has everything you could want!
-Worried about getting in to it? There is a tutorial and scenarios to help you grow you knowledge!
-Worried it will be too hard or too easy? There are many different difficulty's to change how hard the game is! And there are advanced settings so you can set who you are up against
-Worried that it will be too slow or fast? There are so many different speed options! From a quick half speed game to a brutal 3x slower game there are many different speeds to change your game to!
-Worried that you will not be able to find a Civ you enjoy? There are LOADS of options! From brilliant Military Civs to Economic giants there are so many different strategies that you can use!
-Worried that the maps will get repetitive? There are so many different map options. You could choose to play on a massive replica of the earth if you wish! There are so many other map options that really change the face of the game
-Worried that there is not enough content? There are so many different things in game that you could do! And if thats not enough there are so many DLC's you can install to keep you busy!
-Worried that you will get lonely while playing it? There is public and private multiplayer! Get your friends to join you and you will no longer be lonely!
-Worried about the game not being re-playable? With the many different kinds of victory there are many chances to replay this game without getting bored
I have played so much of this game on my Xbox with my dad and we always loved declaring war on our neighboring Civs and taking them out! Sometimes we would loose and it would still be fun! Now I have it on my PC and it really is fun and a good way to take my mind off of other things. I love this game and I would Highly recomend!!


TLDR: Great game with many good features! I would highly recommend

Satisfying strategy game.
I enjoyed it about the same as Civ V, but eventually lost interest after 145 hours of play.

What can I say? Does it have its issues and still crashes years after? YES. Do I still loath to play it all the time? YES!!!

Its just.. worse, slow, unenging. The AI is dumber, and the building/research less fun. Some things are better, but the drag on time and map size makes everything a slog. Hope 7 will be better.

scam shite it keeps forgetting i've downloaded the DLC meaning i have to keep reinstalling to fix, and the want me to buy civ 7.
go to old world, or humankind tbf
fun game when it's working but i don't have time for this shit.

Civ 6 is like drinking: It's sociable when you do it with friends but sad if you do it too much alone.

Bought this game in December 2024.
Tried to start a new game and got two BLUESCREENs before i gave up.
My System is 13900 k, Kingston ram, rtx 4090 etc, so super generic, every other game runs fine on my PC.

Even tho the game was super cheap, i refunded it on purpose.
How can a developer release 20 DLCs! But doesn't even care about the game starting with Bluescreens?!
What kinda priorities are that?

fun turn based game I thoroughly enjoy playing. Singleplayer is fun with the many ways to choose how you play! Haven't played multiplayer though.

Great game. Wide variety of civilizations, and difficulty levels for all types of player. 100s if not 1000s of hours of replayability.

Great City building/strategy game. Loved Civ 5 and love this one as well.
Can't wait for 7

Great game to play with friends. Does not require overpriced DLCs to have fun!

I have played various installments of the official Civ franchise, and clones such as unciv, freeciv, etc on and off for decades. I very much enjoy the turn based 4X genre (about the only genre when I'm still happy with the game even after I do not achieve victory). When this went on deep discount, I went ahead and picked it up and am 50 something hours into this particular base game + expansion packs, all single player so far. Playing on Arch Linux through Proton compatibilty or through GeForce Now.

There is a reason why this genre and franchise has a cult following, and Civ VI is certainly very much a worthy sequel and an easy "Recommend". Most of this game is incredibly solidly done, from aesthetics to mechanics to historical and cultural intrigue. Some of the scenarios are interesting in their vignetting and highlighting certain aspects of the game, but horribly inadequately explained so you have to spend at least one whole session re-learning what is and is not included in that scenario before you have any hope of winning.

A couple of major misses:
1. Complete game crashes and/or unrecoverable 3D rendering glitches. These do not happen often enough to make me rage quit, but I've had something like a half dozen in 50 hours of play, and that's not counting the ones that I knew were caused by a bad update to linux graphics drivers. The same graphics fails happen on my linux laptop and in the GeForce Now environment.
2. Nasty UI wrinkles in the rug: difficulty selecting a hex behind a floating label (as the label captures mouse clicks for far larger than its displayed size), re-ordering your production queue is a chore, cannot see if any movement will be leftover to attack if you would move to a certain hex, and many many many more.
3. Cannot boost/finish partially produced units with less than full purchase cost in gold?!?
4. The entire faith system and religious victory mechanic is utter trash, and the game would be better if that were removed entirely. That victory type will be permanently off for me from now on. It would be better if you could fend off missionaries with closed borders, "refute" them via science, kill them with troops, etc. As is, you are forced to also divert resources into the otherwise useless faith tree at the detriment of other aspects of your empire, or militarily crush an evangelist neighbor (generating grievances from NPCs that shouldn't care) that you would otherwise have left alone.
5. NPC algorithms are hilariously idiotic and barely better than random number generators, even on higher difficulties. Retreat when they could easily win a battle, stand and fight when hopelessly outnumbered, don't protect builders, etc.
6. Glitches in what is displayed vs what is calculated, especially in "linked units".

good strategy game, maybe the best! they went from good graphics in civ 5 to cartoon-ey graphics in civ 6. if you can get past that, its a great game.

I'm not even that good at the game, but it allows me to escape the horrors for hours on end, so as far as I'm concerned, this is peak gameplay.

its amazing you can play with amazing graphics its so fun i have found 0 bugs

Typical game looks something like this:

1. Turn off everything except Domination victory
2. Pick the most advantageous word map for your country
3. Restart 30 times until you find the perfect start

As of Nov 26 2024, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IF YOU PLAY ON MAC. This game is currently UNPLAYABLE as it crashes after 10 - 15 mins after booting up every single time for no apparent reason. The devs have let this sit for about 3 months now (Issue appears to have started occurring since an August update) with no updates, acknowledgements or announcements. For a $90AUD game + user experience, this is a downright robbery. Very disappointed and opinion won't be changed for a long time until a fix comes out.

Crashes a lot. Randomly closes the game every 10-30 turns, auto save lags so you have to replay moves. Super annoying. Had the same issue on my Switch so I guess for devs its a feature not a bug.

Civilization VI is a great game, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that it's been stripped down to its bare bones. The base game lacks the depth and variety of its predecessors, and it relies heavily on DLC to provide a truly engaging experience. Without the expansions, the game feels shallow and repetitive.

Civ 6 is a bit like golf. You might be playing against different opponents with different skillsets, but you are always playing against the course. In Civ 6, you are always playing against a new "course," at least if you are playing the popular Continents map. The different terrain and resource placement means you have to adapt your playstyle every game.

All of which encourages replayability. Civ 6 is the game I always come back to.

I play different kinds of games: Guild Wars 2, Fallout 4, Stranded Alien Dawn, Skyrim, Railway Empire 2, Witcher, Medieval Dynasty. If I like a game, I think nothing of sinking hundreds, sometimes thousands of hours into it. But once I've wrung everything I can from a game, gotten all the achievements, played all the scenarios, I tend to walk away and never look back.

But Civ 6 is different.

After I have exhausted a given game and as I search for the next big time suck, I boot up Civ 6 yet again, pick a civilization I haven't played yet and lose myself, yet again, in tech trees, city design, and yes, world conquest. A campaign can take from four to ten days, depending on how much the rest of my life interferes. It is a glorious time, immersed in nuance, strategy and the occasional gnashing of teeth.

A reluctant shoutout is due here to the Mayhem mode that was introduced in the Brave New World expansion to Civ 5 and operates in the background of all Civ 6. I am proceeding nicely in the early game with Tokugawa, a civilization that fully blossoms in the late game, when Menelik decides to attack me. I had thought we were getting along, trading, respecting each other's borders. Silly me. Time for new strategy. Thank you Mayhem. The game does not let you get too comfortable.

A feature of the game that is often overlooked but deserves a high five all its own is the history accompanying each civilization, district, and Great Person. You can, of course, choose to skip each mini-lesson, but take it from somebody who reads EULAs and the sides of cereal boxes, there's a lot of fascinating stuff that somebody went to a lot of effort to include.

• Finally, some cautions. I have already alluded to the immersiveness and I am hardly the first to note that grocery shopping or lawn mowing can take a back seat while playing Civ 6. On balance, that's a good thing. It is what I celebrate in a great game. But it is easy to forget to take a walk or reserve time for family and friends. And, of course, the primary reason for such interludes is to encourage a mental reset, perhaps inspiring a shift in strategy or even just a question as to how something you might have ignored up to that point might help. You can think of such interludes as playing the game, if you will, just at a lower intensity.
  
  
• Also, if you are an achievement completionist, give up all hope ye who enter here. There are an astonishing 320 possible achievements. I have 41 of them after 500 hours on the PC. I probably played about that much time on the PlayStation, before I switched to the PC and the comfy chair and big screen in the living room, but those PS achievements are gone forever. Still, completing all the achievements in this game is for the truly obsessed. Consider therapy.
  
  
• Inexplicably, Civ 6 does not take advantage of Steam cloud saves. Don't be like me and open up your laptop in a hotel one night only to discover that all your saved games are playable solely from my home computer.
  
  
[*]Finally, the negative reviews tend to fall into two camps. Either the game is unplayable because of glitches or Civ 5 was better. I can't remember any crashes on the PC, but in any event set your Autosaves to ten and you will be covered. As for the Civ 5 devotees, I'm happy for you that you found a game you love. But it's also true that change can be hard, for some people more than others. Civ 6 is a wonderful game regardless of how wonderful Civ 5 was.

CIV is complicated. Unlike typical RTS games I played this one is easier to just kind of fumble around in and play your own way with friends or AI. It's cute and quirky but can be optimized to be minimal and in the background. Fun, easy to play, simple to learn, and nice on the eyes too.

However the barbarians being BS and the general "you are doing this wrong" without allowing a "re-do" even in private games is infuriating. A game that forces you to inch along and HOPE you don't accidentally step into 4 enemies that were all perfectly hidden. Or have spawned units years ahead of anyone else just to keep things difficult is absolutely infuriating. Often it feels as if "oh you didn't perfectly inspect this one tile and perks so now you will be punished.

If you like this stuff it's for you. If you aren't a die-hard RTS/Strategy game fan, have friends to play this with, or aren't willing to continually start over again and again: this is just going to infuriate you, so don't bother.

an error appears when starting, which people have been having for several years. it is simply impossible to play, constant crashes. maybe it is time to fix it? or will you only set cosmic prices for the new civilization?

I actually DON'T like Civ VI, and find that Civ V continues to be the better game.

Now, obviously, there is a massively subjective component to all of this, and everyone will have their own opinion - but, at a certain point in game design and mechanical structure, there is such a thing as quality of life, and objectively, factually, this game does not particularly respect the player's life particularly well when you are trying to make the game work as intended. Difficulty in getting the trade deals to tell you what the AI will and won't accept. The Great Works menu that doesn't scroll. Diplomacy screens that don't tell you that you can just hit escape. Did you know that if you end a turn with Shift + enter, you don't actually have to spend your tech points this turn? Did you know that it's possible to win a Diplomatic Victory without once ever actually earning a Diplomacy Point? - work that one out, you don't have to perform well at a skill to win that game using that skill as a win condition. The list goes on.

Civ V had features that the designers of Civ VI just plain forgot that they had, and it's frustrating to see a franchise take a step backwards and then hypnotise everyone into thinking that times are better than ever.

But you can make up your own mind about it and probably have already. If there were any chance that people would see things my way, games like this would never be made this terribly to begin with, but they were because they don't.

Bought it after thoroughly enjoying Civ V, and I've yet to have an enjoyable experience in this so far. What a disappointment of a game, you'd have a better time staring at the windows start menu, IMO.

great to chill and play. Grab a beer and your friends and talk about the collapse of modern society.

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is a joy to play, and the best the series has produced. Which pretty much makes it the best 4X strategy game yet made. This iteration has a lot of good ideas. Civilization remains the preeminent turn-based strategy game.

Probably my favorite game of all time. As a history fan, I love the historical focus of the game and I've actually learned quite a bit from both the in game Civilopedia and from researching more about the leaders, wonders, or civilizations on my own time.

The vast variety of ways to play the game keeps me coming back for more. It can scratch the itch for both casual play and more intensive games where winning needs to be much more of a focus. Vastly different Civs and leaders always leave me with something new I want to try.

I actually bought this game twice, originally on xbox and then on PC (and was actually the final push I needed to finally get around to buying a PC, which I had been putting off for months). Honestly, I've definitely still gotten my money's worth and will likely continue to.

Civilization 6 is the keystone to 4X games. eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate in a turn based psuedo-historical masterpiece. All expansion suggested for best gameplay. You'll want to go to bed, but you'll want to make just... one... more... action...

your crap game is broken I can't even click confirm on anything which means I can't start a match I can't confirm any settings nothing and as far as I can tell theres no fix I can find great job on a broken crappy game devs

Absolutely trash game. Shouldn't have bought even though I bought it on $3. On Linux, it creates a massive disgusting folder in your user directory, fucks up with Shared Libraries (must manually fix) and has been abandoned for CIV 7. 0/10

lovely game, tho the late game might be highly frustrating for many (i suffer), give it a try!

This game is difficult and challenging. It is also satisfying, especially if you win.

It is a great game - but you have to get a reasonable start. Otherwise, its very slow and boring

probably my favorite game. Can play many times over, casually or aggressively

The game i play the most ever. (Btw Elon Musk and Zuckerberg play Civ too ;))

Game played well until it stopped working due to some weird technical glitch. Tried all the recommended approaches (uninstall, delete all related files, reinstall, change 'multithread' options etc... still crashes.

Was fun until it wasn't. Wish I could get a refund.