Sid Meier's Civilization VI

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  1. rmkratos
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    best turn base strategic game at the moment. the AI for diplomatic decisions should be better.
  2. Crimson9
    Jul 28, 2023
    4
    Really fun to play with friends.

    Don't bother playing it alone, the AI is absolutely worthless.

    Also the graphics are somehow much worse than 5.

    Districts are a cool idea, but overall its inferior to 5 + Vox Populi.
  3. Botanistaken
    Apr 16, 2023
    0
    release turkish langue its been 9 years. other then that game is **** and even with that 1.5 hour tutorial you dont understand how to play the game.
  4. JMD223
    Jan 7, 2023
    0
    Terrible optimisation, Terrible optimisation, Terrible optimisation, Terrible optimisation
  5. kimchiwarrior
    Aug 19, 2022
    4
    Contrary to the reputation I heard, it was a really boring game for me. The game has been running for a while, so it's dizzying to see a lot of information on the screen when you don't use it.
  6. Robobob
    Aug 8, 2022
    4
    Long time Civ fan since the days of Civ 1. Each version I've played 100s of hours. This and Civ 3 are the only versions I'd give a thumbs down.
    The good: The graphics are great. There are some new decent tweaks to aspects of the game like culture, civics and golden ages.
    The bad: movement. The change to movement where trying to move into difficult terrain ends your movement, though    Long time Civ fan since the days of Civ 1. Each version I've played 100s of hours. This and Civ 3 are the only versions I'd give a thumbs down.
    The good: The graphics are great. There are some new decent tweaks to aspects of the game like culture, civics and golden ages.
    The bad: movement. The change to movement where trying to move into difficult terrain ends your movement, though it makes sense, sloooows the game down to a snails pace. Even a scout exploring the map is reduced to a tile a turn in diffcult terrain. And roads are practically useless until modern times and/or the railroad. You know roads are useless when your units ignore them when auto-moving across your empire. So moving across your empire in classic times, with roads, can take you 100s of years, I kid you not.
    1 unit per tile. They did away with unit stacks in Civ 5 to avoid the doom stacks, and I didn't complain as much there. But here, topped with the slow movement rates, makes the movement worse. Units can't stack with friendly units so city state units are constantly in the way while aimlessly wandering the map, taking it even longer to move across your empire. You can't auto assign a military unit to protect a trade unit. You can't stack non-military units for some reason. I love how you need to remove a unit from a city just to buy or start construction of a new unit.
    AIs use of religion is just annoying and makes me want to quit everytime they ramp up sending countless missionary units to my empire. You can' t just close your borders to them like you do military units.
    The UI is disorganized and messy. It's harder to find simple city lists and yields from earlier games like Civ 5. Districts are a coll add but I had to download a mod to delete them if I change my mind and want to build somewhere else. User mods change a lot of simple issues that Firaxis has opted to ignore in favor of more expensive expansions.
    WE got a new civ every 5 years since Civ1 except we were due for a new one in 2021 but Firaxis added a yearly game-pass like expansion for Civ 6 instead of a new game. God help us if this is the last new Civ game because the core mechanics need a lot of work.    … Expand
  7. PapaJustifyTV
    Jun 11, 2022
    0
    Russian nazi language is there, but no Ukrainian. 0 from me. I'm so tired of this...
    Game is great tho.
  8. Jackie_Jackson
    May 26, 2022
    3
    Что-то там намудрили перемудрили и жиденько так обкакались ну и ну воняет жутко
  9. marc5477
    May 24, 2022
    1
    Shadow of former glory. This beloved franchise continues to take steps backward from its origins. What used to be a tactical strategy franchise for teens and adults has been dumbed down s that even a grade schooler can figure it out. This is clearly a desperate move by executives to score a few extra bonuses while they trash the franchise without a care in the world. Though I am all forShadow of former glory. This beloved franchise continues to take steps backward from its origins. What used to be a tactical strategy franchise for teens and adults has been dumbed down s that even a grade schooler can figure it out. This is clearly a desperate move by executives to score a few extra bonuses while they trash the franchise without a care in the world. Though I am all for making games for everyone, this is not a Civilization game any more and they should have called it something else but they knew that if they had, it would have likely flopped.

    So whats the problem with civ6? Same thing as civ5 and same problem as the old horrible game on the xbox360 calling itself civilizations. They once again chose to go with the single unit per tile approach and very few tactical options as you advance through eras. Combat is straight boring because its too easy and the AI is predictable to the point that the only way they could manage to make the game harder was to give the AI insane types of cheats. This is how you know a game is poorly designed. How bad are the cheats? Well aside from the just pure multipliers to unit strength and economic stuff, they also give the AI double to triple your starting resources. How bad does it cheat? Well even on normal difficulty (Prince) they get a boost to science, culture and faith as well as a big boost to production and economy and a free tech. THATS ON NORMAL and yet, despite the advantage... they are a total joke because they cannot make good choices and that doesnt change with higher difficulty. So how do you overcome horrible design? Give more bonuses which is literally the least fun way to design a tactical game. How bad does it get? You start with 1 settler and 1 warrior but the AI will start with up to 3 settlers, 5 warriors, and 2 builders! LoL. Thats how bad the design is and you know what makes this even sadder? Even on that difficulty it only took 2 tries for me to figure out how to beat them silly. Thats how bad the AI is.

    Further the 1 unit per tile approach shrinks the map immensely taking away from any sort of feeling of scale. This feels more like a horrible tactical RPG made for 8 year olds more than it does civilizations. Remember Final Fantasy Tactics? That was great right? Well this i FFT with less than half the units and 95% of the spells and abilities removed. Does that sound fun to you? Maybe when I was 2nd grade.

    I can go into all the other stuff that has been cut from the old games to make this more accessible to the masses but it would just depress me. Civilization the franchise seems to be dead if you are an adult looking for good tactical gameplay. It might be ok if you are super casual or very young. Otherwise skip this and dont bother with civ5 either. The last decent civ game was 4.    … Expand
  10. roten
    Apr 30, 2022
    0
    this product is not available in your region
    "games out of politics" right?
  11. Ulise
    Feb 21, 2022
    0
    Best GAME EVER, Much better than the last game/Cel mai bun joc, mult mai bun decat jocul precedent
  12. Rezylectx
    Nov 28, 2021
    0
    Poor english
    Degenerate of a game. Ai is dumb as hell. Therefore game is easily boring. Only fun aspect is the sim city. Thats it. Thats retarded for a game. Ai spawns are atrocious, always spawn directly next to player. If an ai spawns by itself on its own continent, the game is lost. Difficulty is the most degenerate retarded design of this game. Ai gets cheat bonuses without getting    Poor english
    Degenerate of a game. Ai is dumb as hell. Therefore game is easily boring. Only fun aspect is the sim city. Thats it. Thats retarded for a game. Ai spawns are atrocious, always spawn directly next to player. If an ai spawns by itself on its own continent, the game is lost. Difficulty is the most degenerate retarded design of this game. Ai gets cheat bonuses without getting smarter or difficult. Most higher difficulty games are ONLY challenging due to every AI attacking you upon contact. The moral of this game is haha you waste your time loser. A loss feels like a middle finger. A win feels jack shi due to the journey being insanely easy or absurdely stupid. The music is annoying as hell. constant loop for 4-5+ hours sessions which makes u mute it. Garbage game design. This game was released in 2016 and still buggy as hell. such as infinite loading when pressing end turn. constant crashes with updated graphics cards. Civ 6 does its best at telling you to shut the fk up and kill yourself. The leaders themselves are so poorly designed, unbalanced, garbage. Every game ends up either being science or domination victory due to poor ai combat skills and science being way too easy with no way to stop the final stage of science victory. The press conference is by far the most diabolical garbage in this game, dogsht. haven't met half the leaders in the game and expects you to vote for an ideological option.. except its designed to ruin your day as the ai will ALWAYS vote against you such as voting against bonuses against you or diplomatic wins. Its not 1 or 2 leaders. its EVERY leader who votes against you which makes this conference POINTLESS AF. I play on emperor difficulty as deity is full of **** but king is WAY TOO EASY. Half the game is getting rolled by AI and having to spend atleast 4 to 5 hours resetting. If an Ai gets science route and is on the final stage of the victory, YOU LOSE. DOGSHT GAME MECHANICS, Waste OF money and TIME.
    rant over, fuk this gay game    … Expand
  13. Sepher
    Nov 25, 2021
    3
    Don't bother. The game's AI is so incredibly stupid it makes playing pointless. I was mindlessly building on Deity, from the get-go knowing that the AI will not be able to challenge in anything. I even installed mods that are supposed to fix this problem, to no avail. For some reason the barbarian AI actually tends to do better and I had games where it wiped out a bunch of civs.

    I've    Don't bother. The game's AI is so incredibly stupid it makes playing pointless. I was mindlessly building on Deity, from the get-go knowing that the AI will not be able to challenge in anything. I even installed mods that are supposed to fix this problem, to no avail. For some reason the barbarian AI actually tends to do better and I had games where it wiped out a bunch of civs.

    I've been playing Civ since Civ 2, and I can say thing the 6th installment is a mindless waste of time.    … Expand
  14. Rmiles801
    Oct 28, 2021
    4
    I could go on and on about how horrible the AI is, but I'd pretty much just be going over what's already been mentioned here plenty, the AI is SO awful that it absolutely ruins this game in every way possible, not going to even go into detail on all the AI related issues there are, but if you combine the bad AI with the lack of a well-done online multiplayer because there's no rankingI could go on and on about how horrible the AI is, but I'd pretty much just be going over what's already been mentioned here plenty, the AI is SO awful that it absolutely ruins this game in every way possible, not going to even go into detail on all the AI related issues there are, but if you combine the bad AI with the lack of a well-done online multiplayer because there's no ranking system, no punishment for leaving, no stat tracking, no nothing, it's crazy you can't even explore ANY details of your gameplay history, how can you see if you improve? There's just so much lacking from the core of this game that it's slightly mind boggling how they allocate their development efforts to putting more civs and more features in the game. That's all cool and all, don't get me wrong, I like all the stuff that came out clear into early 2021. but the reality of it is the game is STILL a buggy mess. I've played it with several $2000+ dollar gaming pc's that I've built and my primary playing friend also has a top of the line PC, we've spent MANY HOURS trying all sorts of different things to get this thing to run smoothly, never once did we EVER reach turn 100 with just 2players without one of our games crashing, stalling, freezing, or some sort of issue that caused us to have to reboot the entire client, reload the game lobby, and start from an autosave. Very frustrating, there's so much potential here, just need someone to lead the efforts that can think bigger picture, they needed to tackle all the games ancillary stuff years ago instead of adding new little quirky things to the game. It makes me mad because I do enjoy the game, but it really needs someone running the show that knows what they're doing.… Expand
  15. Viserege
    Oct 9, 2021
    3
    As a very experienced Civilization V player I really liked the new mechanics that 2K brought to the game. I think with the new culture tree system is much better than the previous game and compared to the Civilization V this game is much more detailed no doubt.
    The reason why I didn't like this game is completely because of the IA I am playing against. It is not challenging at all. There    As a very experienced Civilization V player I really liked the new mechanics that 2K brought to the game. I think with the new culture tree system is much better than the previous game and compared to the Civilization V this game is much more detailed no doubt.
    The reason why I didn't like this game is completely because of the IA I am playing against. It is not challenging at all. There are difficulty options for sure but those options are not about the intellegence of the IA. They only give IA bonus adventages against you. For example at the hardest difficulty of the game I can survive to the end of the game by just not attacking anybody. With a little bit of a land advantage you can beat a division of modern technology tanks using some archers of ancient era.
    In summary, I really liked the game generally but the non-challenging IA made me bored after some time of playing. If there where a good IA in the game this game might have been one of the best games I have ever played.    … Expand
  16. GRUShalashaska
    Sep 2, 2021
    4
    Liebloses, abgespecktes und unprofessionelles "Casual-Civilization" in Kiddy-Optik ala` Free to Play-Games.
    Gerade zum Jubiläum hätte man hier etwas großes erschaffen können. Entstanden ist aber eine Baustelle mit einer Menge verschenktem Potenzial.
  17. Pashu1289
    Aug 30, 2021
    1
    Good game but no Ukrainian language. If dont speak English well - dont buy it, there is a LOT text in the game.
  18. TsukasaHiiragi
    Jun 6, 2021
    0
    After several years and two major expansions, the game has actually gone in the opposite direction, the expansions cause more problems and create unnecessary issues and even take away gameplay and tactical options, because of new elements like loyalty, and gathering storm tries to fix the horrendous diplomatic system and only succeeds in making it more convoluted and the natural disastersAfter several years and two major expansions, the game has actually gone in the opposite direction, the expansions cause more problems and create unnecessary issues and even take away gameplay and tactical options, because of new elements like loyalty, and gathering storm tries to fix the horrendous diplomatic system and only succeeds in making it more convoluted and the natural disasters look cool, but ultimately cause the player more harm than the AI speaking of which, the AI seems to cheat even more now - more one turn wonder stealing and worse!! Also, reduced map size as well!!

    Next up, the game has become much more unstable over the years with crashing a very serious issue, the new April update completely broke the game for many people and 2K are silent on this issue, which can be somewhat bypassed if you completely avoid using the new launcher, the game still criminally unstable though and it will crash, just a matter of what and usually the first crash is a forebear of more frequent crashes usually making it nearly impossible to finish a larger game, this issue is even worse on consoles.

    I can honestly say now, after the poor expansions and the typical milking of paid DLC..cough...new civilizations and the very poor stability of the game in general, this is easily my pick of the worst in the entire series, avoid this version and play Civilization V instead...lets hope they learn from their mistakes when Civ VII is released, these mistakes should never be repeated.

    Civilization games are properly reviewed after putting hundreds of hours in, not a merely a few dozen that obviously some of the reviewers, and even critic reviews are obviously not played enough to see the glaring issues that Civ 6 has, don't get me wrong here in the fact I do like Civilization 6 its just >right now< its not nearly as good as Civilization 5, but with time and alot of balancing and fixes it could be just as good, I doubt it'll be better, but it can be just as good imho, and that comes from a hardcore Civer since Civ 1.

    The problems with Civilization 6 are numerous, from limited options - to bland and highly predictable A.I and unfortunately, the god awful cheating scripts are back on higher difficulties to fake increased difficulty. So, lets start - Barbarians need better options, currently its off or 'rampage mode' since they all have a high spawn rate, they need a more options. Next up is the slow paced gameplay, standard modes pacing is very odd, at times it feels like a Marathon game then quickly speeds up then slows down..the pacing feels all over the place, and because of that - the A.I which tends to follow the date is terms of advancement can suffer too, a classic example of this would be;

    Player increases research and lets say enters industrial period, the date per turn will usually increase/decrease depending on the date, lets say its 1500AD, the DpT will increase for a while until its more in-line with the era, for some reason that seems to give the A.I huge buffs and they'll rapidly increase in research and power sometimes, heck - I've seen them jump from renaissance period to modern period extremely fast defying all logic, but since I've seen England get Ironclads as early as the 1200AD...honestly it doesn't surprise me since the pacing is definitely way off the mark.

    A.I is stupid, obvious and stupidly good, the latter is the problem because it will attack with better strategies than the previous games, however the major problems is that alot of the times its rather obvious what its trying to do - such as Sumeria spawning 20 war wagons and then slowly moving them to your civilization to launch a surprise attack...well *I'm* surprised the A.I did that - wow! Another problem is the fact the AI hates human players, to a point there isn't any reason to be nice to them, they'll break every single promise you make with them, they'll attack you relentlessly and the diplomacy is plain weird to a point it just feels broken, don't get me started on how broken the warmonger system is - essentially by late game the world threatre is pretty much everyone hates everyone and denouncing is just rife.

    Another major problem is the fact that the game feels so slow paced compared to previous games, districts take way to long to build, especially late in game where its not uncommon for it to take 30+ turns for one district, because of the pacing issues, making spawling and large civilizations is nearly impossible to do now. I could go on and on here about all the issues, from nitpicking about special ability balance such as Electronics Factory, or how the game suffers from strange bugs that cause input lag, especially late game so I'll just close with this statement again;

    Civilization 6 right now, is no way near as good as Civilization 5 at this present time. With patches and some expansion packs it could be great - but Firaxis needs to fix alot of the mechanics and do some balancing.    … Expand
  19. Nthy
    Jun 2, 2021
    2
    When you launch the game, it doesn't even launch the game, it launches a launcher. If you've not played the game for a while the game launching experience is a joke. You get the pleasure of sitting their for upwards of 2 minutes waiting for the 2K launcher to download the update and install itself before you can finally actually launch the game for the second time! And all the 2K launcherWhen you launch the game, it doesn't even launch the game, it launches a launcher. If you've not played the game for a while the game launching experience is a joke. You get the pleasure of sitting their for upwards of 2 minutes waiting for the 2K launcher to download the update and install itself before you can finally actually launch the game for the second time! And all the 2K launcher is there for is basically to waste your time. Let us not forget there is already often one other layer of launcher below this 2K launcher such as steam. The AAA industry will soon have launchers three layers deep if they keep going on this trajectory. And it is unforgivable given how slowly their game loads (even off of an SSD) to layer more crap in-between. The time it takes from clicking the icon and getting into a match is so nuts they need the magnificent voice of Sean Bean to distract from the wait. And let me tell you, the wait is barely worth it. Civilization VI is underwhelming title at best; it needed years of DLC to be fleshed out into something resembling an actual game. The addition of the launcher is just the icing on the s**t cake that is Civilization VI. Whenever I see the logo of a AAA publisher such as 2K it makes me run for the hills because who knows what messed up garbage will get shoehorned into their titles after launch. From this point forward, I will not buy a 2K game until its been out for at least 5 years so I know what nonsense they've put into it once the initial reviews are all in, and if I see a launcher will refund the thing immediately. The only saving grace for this incarnation of Civilization is that unstacked cities are a decent idea, and they added a couple of decently interesting modes such as monopolies and secret societies. Without these it would easily be a zero out of ten, with little reason to deal with the hassle of the launcher.… Expand
  20. Kraft
    May 8, 2021
    0
    Clearly inferior to Civ2 and Civ4.

    1. All the multiplicative buildings are gone. Districts are way too expensive and barely do anything. 2. Researching technologies makes things MORE expensive, which is exactly the opposite of realistic. 3. Way too map-dependent. Almost all the yields you can get in the early game are purely a function of the map, and builder improvements barely    Clearly inferior to Civ2 and Civ4.

    1. All the multiplicative buildings are gone. Districts are way too expensive and barely do anything.
    2. Researching technologies makes things MORE expensive, which is exactly the opposite of realistic.
    3. Way too map-dependent. Almost all the yields you can get in the early game are purely a function of the map, and builder improvements barely do anything (except for overpowered Amanitore leader)
    4. Ranged units in general are extremely overpowered because they can deal damage without taking it.
    5. Buildings are too weak and civics are too strong. Civics dictate everything. I have to have all my cities build settlers when i have the +50% settler civic, and then have all my cities build builders when i have the +30% builders civic.
    6. Eurekas/Inspirations are way too strong and force everything you do into a narrow channel to get the right Eurekas/Inspirations at the right times.
    7. Great people are ridiculously underpowered and overpriced compared to civ4. One of the great generals can "retire", consuming the unit, to grant another unit one promotion. wow, what a joke. Great generals' static +5 strength/ +X movement to nearby military units is the only one worth getting.
    8. Cities are WAY too strong. The instant a settler founds a city it becomes way stronger than any melee unit. Cities are bullet sponges. It takes 5 turns of 3 archers spamming arrows into it to bring down any city's defenses. Go back to the old system where the only thing defending a city is the military unit in it.
    9. Rewards from pillaging are way too high, to the point that it's worth it to pillage a city you're about to conquer and then rebuild the stuff. If I could pillage my own stuff I would.
    10. The UI is horrible. All the stuff that used to be on the city summary screen is split up between a million tedious tabs.
    11. In general it feels like it was designed by a committee of 100 people not one of which knew what the f was going on, just like most modern games.    … Expand
  21. shvedchenko
    Feb 17, 2021
    0
    I was very glad to see the civ V ideas were improved with districts and early days of civ VI was very promising. But what I see now, what the game become in 2021 is terrible. Developers only add new leaders and features that make no sense, meanwhile a game is full of bugs and poor mechanics. They dont want the game to be more balanced and stable, they also dont worry about poor UI, butI was very glad to see the civ V ideas were improved with districts and early days of civ VI was very promising. But what I see now, what the game become in 2021 is terrible. Developers only add new leaders and features that make no sense, meanwhile a game is full of bugs and poor mechanics. They dont want the game to be more balanced and stable, they also dont worry about poor UI, but only want to create more and more new confusing content to make more money. This is the whole civ series betrayal as I see it. So I'm very disappointed for civ series which I was fan of since the first game.… Expand
  22. Tyrant719
    Jan 10, 2021
    1
    What reviewers did Sid Meier blow to get 8.8? This game is pure nerd trash. Just the epitome of a bad inside joke amongst guys who are flabbergasted that big name companies continue to make niche games for fat guys who still play board games. What a waste of money.
  23. TBall
    Dec 31, 2020
    2
    Loved CIV V and can't stand this game. Too many things going on that don't improve the game play. Don't like builders vis a vis workers. Don't like the way religions work and will only play if I can turn that aspect off. I really don't like the way the board looks, reverting almost to undiscovered territory after you move through an area. It is very difficult to win at even the easiestLoved CIV V and can't stand this game. Too many things going on that don't improve the game play. Don't like builders vis a vis workers. Don't like the way religions work and will only play if I can turn that aspect off. I really don't like the way the board looks, reverting almost to undiscovered territory after you move through an area. It is very difficult to win at even the easiest level. Is that a feature of a ten level game? I don't think so. I will continue to play CIV V and probably never play this one,… Expand
  24. Hakisak
    Nov 30, 2020
    0
    Hot garbage. Constantly crashing when alt tabbing and since I'm new to civ I need to alt-tab a lot (to look at wiki and short guides).
    So disappointing that games can't even run anymore, it was much more simple in the day.
  25. Kolst15
    Sep 7, 2020
    4
    While the never-ending climb to be the game that's played on multiple platforms is seldom a very good goal to shoot for, it seems like that was the main priority with Sid Meier's Civilization VI. While I rarely will consign a game of such magnitude with a mixed to negative review, this specific title has me hovering over the 4 score. The AI is frequently nonsensical with commonlyWhile the never-ending climb to be the game that's played on multiple platforms is seldom a very good goal to shoot for, it seems like that was the main priority with Sid Meier's Civilization VI. While I rarely will consign a game of such magnitude with a mixed to negative review, this specific title has me hovering over the 4 score. The AI is frequently nonsensical with commonly ridiculous decisions that throw your game for loops often, which can similarly be enjoyable when juxtaposed with an option to not have a random attack placed on you. The animations are disappointingly ugly. The predecessor went for a look far more realistic to real world images, while these seem like random jpg shots assembled to vaguely recreate a Disney animated character's emotions. While I am nevertheless aware that this is far more of a personal grievance, its still something that should be addressed. I realize I haven't given this game much credit, but I will give it this, its entirely easy to sink 3 hours into this game, it has a classic Civ feel for the most part, and withholds re-playablilty for future games. I'm really of the mindset at the moment that in order to not stray away from the mobile and console releases of the game, they just dumbed down features for the PC edition, which, as such, does not present me with a very enjoyable game. It leaves features, interactions, and situations often half-baked and uninteresting. Which, in my opinion, is half of the game.… Expand
  26. Ita_JM
    Jul 20, 2020
    0
    I was really into total war Warhammer 2. Because of that, I decided to try others strategy games like civilization. But this game is not for me. The IA doesn't make sense and the progression is boring.
  27. Aziz2427b
    Jul 4, 2020
    3
    ai makes no sense they go from liking you to declaring war against you for no reason and most wars are boring and mean nothing but you can't trade with them It takes a very long time to finish the game which is not good because the game is boring
  28. Nerevarinho
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    I loved Civ 5, so i have to compare. Civ 6 has bad music, no full touchscreen support, bad remote play optimization, repetitive gamestart dialogs, thin dialogs on reached technologies, and much more such bad stuff. Play Civ 5.
  29. HarrySatschel
    Jun 4, 2020
    0
    Garbage game. Plays horribly. Don't waste your time or money. It's a real shame because this series used to be really great, but it's just slid too far downhill.
  30. deadpet
    Jun 3, 2020
    1
    When you played a game for nearly 30 years, you expect some improvement in many things where Civilizations games always had flaws. I mean AI of course, but diplomacy, trading and this things they call barbarians for example. But this is just worst than ever. Diplomacy is just nations trading luxury goods like kids exchange collectibles they have twice, trade is just some caravan tradingWhen you played a game for nearly 30 years, you expect some improvement in many things where Civilizations games always had flaws. I mean AI of course, but diplomacy, trading and this things they call barbarians for example. But this is just worst than ever. Diplomacy is just nations trading luxury goods like kids exchange collectibles they have twice, trade is just some caravan trading things which dont exist in the game.
    Worst and last, barbarians. Someone can tell to me what are they in the real world ? Are they human ? i really dont understand the meaning of barbarians in a game called Civilization... I want to know who are these humans who have for only goal, for more than 6000 years, to ransack cities ? i can accept that simply concept in a game in 1991 (hey! i was only 13 at that time) but after all this time playing civ games, i was hopping for another gameplay loop, much more consistent than that. The fact that the option to disable them exist from the beginning of the series must prove that developers themselves notice that this feature is a bad one.
    In fact, Cilization is a lazy franchise since Civilization IV.    … Expand
  31. Krylock
    May 29, 2020
    1
    Online is good, realy good, never got any problem with this ****
    Yeah this is fun
  32. Generalgameman
    May 21, 2020
    3
    Nice game, and fun to play BUT.... Civ 5 was better (imo ofc), Civ 6 still has awful AI, no map editor, and worst of all, it has became a SeasonPass/DLC nightmare!!! They are copying Paradox and milking the fans for every penny!
    I gave it a 3 because it can be fun. It would have had more if they fixed the dumb AI and stopped exploiting the fans in the name of greed. If they need cash,    Nice game, and fun to play BUT.... Civ 5 was better (imo ofc), Civ 6 still has awful AI, no map editor, and worst of all, it has became a SeasonPass/DLC nightmare!!! They are copying Paradox and milking the fans for every penny!
    I gave it a 3 because it can be fun. It would have had more if they fixed the dumb AI and stopped exploiting the fans in the name of greed. If they need cash, release a Civ 7 or add features, NOT silly nations no one will play (unless your from the Hellhole!).    … Expand
  33. cubs7338
    May 9, 2020
    1
    Been playing Civ since 2 & 3. Where they took the game with 5 & 6 has made the game oversimplified like the xbox version created when Civ 4 came out. AI is completely unbalanced and all the tech and social trees are horribly convoluted. Basically, everything that made Civ games enjoyable in the past they decided to remove for whatever reason to make it look more like command and conquerBeen playing Civ since 2 & 3. Where they took the game with 5 & 6 has made the game oversimplified like the xbox version created when Civ 4 came out. AI is completely unbalanced and all the tech and social trees are horribly convoluted. Basically, everything that made Civ games enjoyable in the past they decided to remove for whatever reason to make it look more like command and conquer with regard to cities and unit movements. I want the strategy to have variance amongst players of different cultures. Every game turns out same against AI which suggests they over-balanced the game to where all outcomes are very closely related.… Expand
  34. Qgal5kap
    Apr 27, 2020
    3
    I was very hopeful for this game. What I could see from pre-release gameplay, it looked promising. I've now played 4 full games. I won 3 lost 1. The AI is pretty terrible to be honest. Lots of information is left out. There are issues with diplomacy as well. So far I have no way to tell my opponents to stop sending missionaries through my lands, but they can demand that of me. I also haveI was very hopeful for this game. What I could see from pre-release gameplay, it looked promising. I've now played 4 full games. I won 3 lost 1. The AI is pretty terrible to be honest. Lots of information is left out. There are issues with diplomacy as well. So far I have no way to tell my opponents to stop sending missionaries through my lands, but they can demand that of me. I also have a sound bug I cannot fix yet. I will update my score if this gets fixed with coming patches.

    ** UPDATE **
    This was the game that killed Civilization for me. I haven't played it in years, nor have I ever felt that I wanted to play it again.    … Expand
  35. Wiebe
    Feb 27, 2020
    3
    Too much like the old games, but then without the previous DLCs, bad AI, easy to game, showing its age
  36. RackNRoll
    Feb 5, 2020
    4
    в 6 циве много нового, но это ее не спасает. во первых она очень дорогая и за последнее обновление фираксис просят аж полтора куска. то бишь я купил делюкс едишн за 2600.. отдал косарь за райз анд фалл.. и с меня требуют еще полтора за конечный продукт... итого игра обходится в 5100 деревянных.. вы скупердяи! это раз.. два - ваша игра плохо генерирует местность/ресурсы/расстановку игроковв 6 циве много нового, но это ее не спасает. во первых она очень дорогая и за последнее обновление фираксис просят аж полтора куска. то бишь я купил делюкс едишн за 2600.. отдал косарь за райз анд фалл.. и с меня требуют еще полтора за конечный продукт... итого игра обходится в 5100 деревянных.. вы скупердяи! это раз.. два - ваша игра плохо генерирует местность/ресурсы/расстановку игроков (часто бывают случаи когда у тебя либо нет места, либо место есть, но оно плохое, а отсюда нехватка довольствия/промки/еды и т.д.). хотите поиграть за Россию? буюшки - ибо ее кидает напостой в тундру, а игра генерирует голую тундру, без лесов, без ресурсов и в итоге у тебя половина клеток дают 1 еды, 1 промку и 1 веры. с этим игру не выиграть даже против бота, не то что сетевой режим. если уводить поселка в другое место, то пропадает перк на старте игры, смысл тогда от этой нации в вашей игре? вот если бы перк давай еще +1 еду в тундре, то уже было бы честнее и нация стала бы играбельнее. и такое отношение далеко не к одной нации. очень часто игра генерирует то голандию в пустыне, то египет в тундре и все перки той или иной нации пропадают на старте игры. в добавок в игре есть очень читерные нации, типа скифии, шумеров, римлян и т.п., которые на старте тремя юнитами сносят два города, притом что у тебя в запасе есть 3-4 лука. в третьих - полно долбанутых механик аля великому художнику нужен художественный музей для того чтобы он написал картину.. вы прикалываетесь? то есть если я захочу нарисовать картину, то мне нужен музей? мне нужна кисть и холст! более ничего! при всем притом великого художника получаешь раньше, чеи открываешь художественный музей и он у тебя ходит в зад в перед ходов 10 по твоей территории.. такая же песни и с писателями - они у тебя порой вылупляются как на дрожжах, а у тебя нет ячеек для них.. тупая механика.. такая же песня и с великим музыкантом - нет ячейки куда его загнать.. пара бара бам.. короче говоря даже фанатам цивы не советую брать эту сырую игру. в ней опять же куча багов (пример пропадает промка), нет никакого баланса и есть эти долбанные районы, которые занимают всю площадь. все что они сделали за пять косарей так это красивую обвертку.… Expand
  37. yukasi123
    Jan 5, 2020
    0
    Worst strat game ever because dudeeee dudeeee dude dude dudedude dude dudedude. Worst strat game ever because dudeeee dudeeee dude dude dudedude dude dudedude
  38. WondemanLocke
    Dec 22, 2019
    4
    Game is unplayable because in main menu, you cannot access advanced settings in menu because screen cuts wrong way. It is stupid to play an other game for hours if it is not your dream game you have done.
  39. Tigershark
    Nov 25, 2019
    0
    This game is awful. I've tried 5 times to get through the tutorial which glitches out every time. The game has game breaking graphic screen tearing every time an enemy becomes visible. And closing the application and clearing cache and restarting does nothing to fix it. It is unplayable.
  40. FrankTate
    Sep 15, 2019
    0
    I have seen all of the gushing reviews for Civilization VI, and assume that they are for players who compete against other human players. My experience is different as I play exclusively against the A.I. I feel that the developers of Civilization haven't always kept the best features of past editions and that a number of additions are suspect. I have played Civilization starting withI have seen all of the gushing reviews for Civilization VI, and assume that they are for players who compete against other human players. My experience is different as I play exclusively against the A.I. I feel that the developers of Civilization haven't always kept the best features of past editions and that a number of additions are suspect. I have played Civilization starting with Civilization i. My biggest complaint is that the developers haven't improved the A.I. and merely allow it to cheat unmercilessly. I have progressed to the Emperor level of difficulty and with the A.I. controlling by the Civilizations and the barbarians, most games fail very early on. I would question the addition of any other features (like natural disasters) that the A. I. can control, because it it just one more tool for it to use to disadvantage the human player. Regardless of the "whistles and bells" that the developers add to the game, their failure to address the issue of improving the A.I. (so it doesn't have to cheat) is the biggest disappointment for me (besides the elimination of certain civilizations). My other complaint is that the developers will not sell you a complete game, but force you to purchase "expansion packages." I would rahther pay a bit more for the game than be forced to pay for numerous expansions.… Expand
  41. sanchess
    Aug 14, 2019
    0
    of course it was always going to be a mobile game... duh I remember dev team confirming its not going to be. Guess how wrong were they. I give 0 for horrible practices
  42. MarcioCavalcant
    Jun 23, 2019
    3
    A huge step back from the previous titles as this title is more children-oriented instead of focusing on good Art Style, Political, Religious and Crisis management and expansion of the civilizations.
    Seems like Firaxis completely lost touch with their player base (mostly adults as it always seemed to me) and shot themselves in the foot with this game.
    The gameplay mechanics are just as    A huge step back from the previous titles as this title is more children-oriented instead of focusing on good Art Style, Political, Religious and Crisis management and expansion of the civilizations.
    Seems like Firaxis completely lost touch with their player base (mostly adults as it always seemed to me) and shot themselves in the foot with this game.
    The gameplay mechanics are just as bad as the style of the game and they completely ignored the now old demand from the players for a better Artificial Intelligence!
    Besides all that their DLC policy is noew even more shameful! This game was half ready when they released and then later they came with a DLC that didn't even fulfill in fixing this.
    They also added several civilizations that SHOULD HAVE COME WITH THE BASE GAME into several DLCs just from pure greediness (as if the base game wasn't expensive enough)!!!!    … Expand
  43. Sayoose
    May 25, 2019
    0
    This game is total unplayable garbage on Windows 7. It won't launch no matter what you do. It's absolutely broken and there's nothing you can do except remember that pc gaming is absolutely terrible.
  44. Psiraphim
    Mar 21, 2019
    0
    Я не хочу казаться ретроградом, или человеком которому лишь бы ругать все новое. Я просто не могу понять, как игра, которая является глобальной пошаговой стратегией, серьезным симулятором цивилизации могла стать этой игрой:
    В пятой цивилизации все было. Она была идеальным развитием серии, ее самым пиком могущества.
    Шестая цивилизация встретила меня следующими словами: "Когда я узнала,    Я не хочу казаться ретроградом, или человеком которому лишь бы ругать все новое. Я просто не могу понять, как игра, которая является глобальной пошаговой стратегией, серьезным симулятором цивилизации могла стать этой игрой:
    В пятой цивилизации все было. Она была идеальным развитием серии, ее самым пиком могущества.
    Шестая цивилизация встретила меня следующими словами: "Когда я узнала, что на Килиманджаро нет Wi-Fi, следующие две неделеи прошли очень скучно". Если что - это фраза при обнаружении горы Килиманджаро. Открытие самой высокой горы Африки сопровождает цитата из статуса вконтакте типичной его посетительницы.
    Римские легионеры делают сальто через врага? Легко!

    Я признаю - отличная задумка с агендами правителей, это действительно давно пора было сделать в Цивилизациях. Интересная задумка с районами - я бы сделал их необязательными но полезными.
    Но общая стилистика каких-то Инстаграммовых Однокласником, с тупыми фразами: "Римскую империю погубили излишества. Кондиционеры - из-за шума кондиционеров римляне не услышали как пришли варвары" все разрушает. Юмор был и раньше - его не делали центральной составляющей.
    Я хочу играть в серьезную стратегию, а не в цирк какой-то дурацкий.
    Очень плохо.    … Expand
  45. JakeHyle
    Feb 25, 2019
    4
    This game has an awful user interface. I had to look up a youtube video to find things that should be obvious like, the Civilopedea button, and the unit promotion button. Never in any other Civ games have these things been difficult to find. Figuring out how to manage a city is a mess of side bars. The game is terrible at conveying information to the player, like when setting a city IThis game has an awful user interface. I had to look up a youtube video to find things that should be obvious like, the Civilopedea button, and the unit promotion button. Never in any other Civ games have these things been difficult to find. Figuring out how to manage a city is a mess of side bars. The game is terrible at conveying information to the player, like when setting a city I was expecting to see the resource icons around the settler indicating how much research and money a tile would be worth if I settled there.

    This game, even now years later, still lacks the sort of obvious things that should have been there to start with like a production queue in cities as the most prominent example.

    This may be a good game, but it's not a good CIV game. Shame of Firaxis for forgetting what a Civ game is.    … Expand
  46. JERupp
    Jan 2, 2019
    2
    I've played this game for 20 hours now. 3 entire games I've started, trying to figure out what makes the AI tick.

    My conclusion? It's literally randomized. AI behavior makes no **** sense at all. A great example is the following: https://i.imgur.com/hP26R4N.png I had great relations with the Japanese halfway across the **** globe, yet for some reason they decided to declare was on    I've played this game for 20 hours now. 3 entire games I've started, trying to figure out what makes the AI tick.

    My conclusion? It's literally randomized. AI behavior makes no **** sense at all. A great example is the following:

    https://i.imgur.com/hP26R4N.png

    I had great relations with the Japanese halfway across the **** globe, yet for some reason they decided to declare was on me with absolutely no reason given whatsoever.

    Uninstalled and filed away as "massive waste of my **** time." Later, Firaxis.    … Expand
  47. SneakyBasterd
    Nov 21, 2018
    0
    Just dont buy this overpriced and uplayable game, please. They destroyed Civ game series with this awful game.
  48. doritoite
    Oct 31, 2018
    3
    I loved Civ 5, one of my favorite PC games. And for the most part, I really liked the new features in this newer iteration. However there is one glaring issue that completely ruins the whole game. The A.I. is one of the most terrible I've ever seen in a strategy game. Randomly declaring war, randomly denouncing you, some of the most terrible trade offers possible. If you're not sureI loved Civ 5, one of my favorite PC games. And for the most part, I really liked the new features in this newer iteration. However there is one glaring issue that completely ruins the whole game. The A.I. is one of the most terrible I've ever seen in a strategy game. Randomly declaring war, randomly denouncing you, some of the most terrible trade offers possible. If you're not sure whether to purchase Civ 5 or 6, don't even think twice. Get Civ 5. The A.I. completely ruins this otherwise great game.… Expand
  49. canceRnya
    Oct 30, 2018
    2
    И зачем нада было делать все мультяшное вместе отвратительным туманом, с абсолютно новыми и отвратительными механиками культуры, религий и рабочих, которые способны построить лишь 3 клеточки, и многое другое? Понравилось лишь идея с кварталами, да и дипломатия получше, чем в 5 будет.И зачем нада было делать все мультяшное вместе отвратительным туманом, с абсолютно новыми и отвратительными механиками культуры, религий и рабочих, которые способны построить лишь 3 клеточки, и многое другое? Понравилось лишь идея с кварталами, да и дипломатия получше, чем в 5 будет.
  50. huggoman
    Jul 22, 2018
    4
    - Cartoon animation, big guns dont look like a kid toy
    - Diplomati need more posibillitiess and a new look on algorithm's
    - AI is often the same or lame
    - religions is a fail, need to be rewritten.
  51. chicoruso
    Jul 19, 2018
    1
    Playing Civilization since the 1st Civ, I should say this one is the worst. Graphics compared to Civ5 is like a cartoon after Star Wars. The introduction of the Civics Tree makes gameplay really stupid, so one can have Computers without even knowing Elecrticity lol. Wonders are so costly and the placement of them is so ridiculous, basically there is no need to bother building more than 1Playing Civilization since the 1st Civ, I should say this one is the worst. Graphics compared to Civ5 is like a cartoon after Star Wars. The introduction of the Civics Tree makes gameplay really stupid, so one can have Computers without even knowing Elecrticity lol. Wonders are so costly and the placement of them is so ridiculous, basically there is no need to bother building more than 1 or 2 (and there are more than 20 in the game), so more than 90% of them are absolute waste of... whatever.
    The idea of specialized districts is interesting, but actually it is so underdeveloped it's adds more pain in the ass rather than logic. The game is less countable - counting the religious influence from other cities you have to look for those arrows, which are by far less clear. Same things refers to the external tourism output - you can see it, but how it grows you basically have to calculate yourself (and this is a Culture vistory main prerequisite). Religion victory is impossible in multiplayer, cause any military unit can kill your missionaries (in a single player game the AI is sooooo stupid that it won't do that), which makes religious victory a step back vs diplomatic vistory in Civ5 (that at least had sense). I could continue, but overall it's clear - this is a project that just want to get more money from the famous franchise. Not worth it.    … Expand
  52. Falrinth
    Feb 13, 2018
    2
    While they slowly patch the horrendous game breaking bugs, you still cant really enjoy the game the way you would expect from such an expensive title. Game have horrible memory leaks. Degrading performance over time while the application runs. Then after re-load quick save it will run butter smooth for a while, just to degrade over time. Especially noticeable and joy-breaking late-game atWhile they slowly patch the horrendous game breaking bugs, you still cant really enjoy the game the way you would expect from such an expensive title. Game have horrible memory leaks. Degrading performance over time while the application runs. Then after re-load quick save it will run butter smooth for a while, just to degrade over time. Especially noticeable and joy-breaking late-game at big maps, where you have to save and reload every several turns to fix the missing sounds, effects and make it run smoother again. Besides the bugs and memory leaks it could be enjoyable. AI is ultimately dumb in combat tho.… Expand
  53. Truovy
    Jan 14, 2018
    0
    Its the same like with CivBE. Just a product. No love for the game. You see this in countless bugs, often totally messed up starting positions, dlc policy, loading times, no real new ideas, bad AI...
  54. Towoo
    Dec 10, 2017
    3
    As a long time fan of Civ I really wanted to like this game.
    And while it may have better graphics compared to CIV5, I REALLY cant stand the new art style any longer(very similar to a Browser game).
    Everything is in Comic Style now. Wrong body proportions and such. Gilgamesch has more muscles than a Fallout Super Mutant. Victory looks like a modern day joke caricature. Scythia some    As a long time fan of Civ I really wanted to like this game.
    And while it may have better graphics compared to CIV5, I REALLY cant stand the new art style any longer(very similar to a Browser game).

    Everything is in Comic Style now. Wrong body proportions and such. Gilgamesch has more muscles than a Fallout Super Mutant. Victory looks like a modern day joke caricature. Scythia some women that noboy knows relaces Gengis Khan?!..and dont even get me starten on "Amanitore" from the new Nubians. The game are factions also completly unbalanced atm.

    ..
    The new AI sucks. The new district system i like. The new Goverment System again is completely ridiculous, makes no sense and makes the game feel even more like a browser game. The fact that you can now swap your complete Social Politics at almost every moment in the game is a huge step back from CIV5. The final nail in the coffin you could say. Dont get me wrong the game has potential to be a good game but it has just too many flaws to be fun. It gets boring very fast and fails to live up to the legacy that is Civilization(CIV4 or CIV5 by far).

    All in all Looks like a goofed up game to me. Also the upcoming addon is going even more in the wrong direction.

    Firaxis what have you done? Bring back the old crew..! (..and fire the current one!)

    After spending money on this and the half baked beyond earth I am not spending more money on this until the quality greatly improves ..Because frankly the pricing politics begin to feel more and more like shameless money grabs for bad, unfinished games right now.

    (Played 130 hrs)    … Expand
  55. BeatrizLeonay
    Oct 30, 2017
    1
    Sid Meier's transformed my favorite game in a game for Facebook. Graphics for kids, easy battles. Now it looks like a flash web game for PC or a 30Mb google store online games for dual chips cell phones.
  56. sandroide
    Aug 15, 2017
    2
    I've always purchased all releases of Sid Meier's Civ, but if there will be a super great Civ 7 or 8 or 20 honestly I won't spend a penny on their game. I think they found out a way to create a money machine in order to steal gold from all civ enthusiasts who believe to find a beloved Civ2 with new graphic styles.
    Imagine 60 bucks every year from hundred thousands of gamers for a    I've always purchased all releases of Sid Meier's Civ, but if there will be a super great Civ 7 or 8 or 20 honestly I won't spend a penny on their game. I think they found out a way to create a money machine in order to steal gold from all civ enthusiasts who believe to find a beloved Civ2 with new graphic styles.
    Imagine 60 bucks every year from hundred thousands of gamers for a must-have game!
    It is a must-forget game! The mechanic doesn't work and you need almost thousand year to build up a granary in a new city...hundred years for a simple iron mine.... totally crap!
    I'm still wondering why critics are always so indulgent for all "famous" games. I'd like to check how many hours they spend on them.    … Expand
  57. Silverzapper
    Jul 14, 2017
    4
    This review is coming from someone who has enjoyed Civilization in the past. I would rate Civ5 an 8 or 9. So it isn't that I don't like Civilization. I just have a problem with this one. I want to like this game, I really do. Every so often I try to play, hoping for a fun and enjoyable experience, and every time I come out disappointed. There are many things that the game does really well,This review is coming from someone who has enjoyed Civilization in the past. I would rate Civ5 an 8 or 9. So it isn't that I don't like Civilization. I just have a problem with this one. I want to like this game, I really do. Every so often I try to play, hoping for a fun and enjoyable experience, and every time I come out disappointed. There are many things that the game does really well, but the AI utterly ruins it. If you are familiar with the Civilization series, you should be familiar with the AI and how it is well, lacking to say the least. Well it's still horrid here. What makes this AI ruin the entire game for me is that it knows everything you do. Try to build a wonder? The AI knows you started building that and will not only begin building it as well, but it will specifically wait until the last possible turn to start. Just so it can beat you to it by one turn, losing you both the wonder and the 20+ turns of production you used to build it. You can't see what the AI does so you have no idea if they just started building Stonehenge. They can. Based on this, I bet the AI probably sees inside your territory without even so much as meeting you first. Maybe even the entire map. Even if they don't, should I even have to be asking these questions? Like I said in the beginning, there are good things about it and if you can get past an AI that blatantly cheats you might like this game. I can't rate it anything above red because I simply get little enjoyment out of playing it.… Expand
  58. Poochyboy
    Jul 10, 2017
    0
    its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny its 2 shiny
  59. Anzu
    Jun 6, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. ㄴ씕ㅇ발 반년이 지나도 화가 안풀린다 깨ㅇ씕발 쬬ㄹ옷같은 게임 내 10만원 가랑의 돈을 이런데 날리고 미친것들이 DLC는 죨라 잘 내고 있네 자살해라 개발사들 아오ㅗ옹오ㅗㅇ오오오ㅗㅇ 씨벌 개 같네 진짜… Expand
  60. Kamamura
    May 29, 2017
    4
    Seeing all the rave reviews the game got on release, I wonder how long is it before an average gamer starts questioning journalistic integrity of this "independent" reviewers. The game is fatally flawed, featuring brain-dead AI that does not function even when propped by the crutches in the form of heavy cheating bonuses. The diplomacy system is atrocious, the interface badly designed, andSeeing all the rave reviews the game got on release, I wonder how long is it before an average gamer starts questioning journalistic integrity of this "independent" reviewers. The game is fatally flawed, featuring brain-dead AI that does not function even when propped by the crutches in the form of heavy cheating bonuses. The diplomacy system is atrocious, the interface badly designed, and the graphics are pain to look at. Civ 5 had also a rough start, but was polished to a reasonable state in time. However, I think this mess of a release is beyond redemption, and after the mediocre Civ:Beyond Earth, it's a sad evidence of a decline of what used to be a stellar game developer company.… Expand
  61. Odin-
    May 26, 2017
    3
    Short version: DON'T BUY IT. CIV 5 is much much better.

    Longer version: They’ve made all the wrong decisions in Civ 6. Rather than making Civ less admin focused which historically plagues the series particularly in late games (endless requests of ‘what do you want to build in this or that city?’) – They’ve made it more admin focused with: • The introduction of separate research trees    Short version: DON'T BUY IT. CIV 5 is much much better.

    Longer version: They’ve made all the wrong decisions in Civ 6. Rather than making Civ less admin focused which historically plagues the series particularly in late games (endless requests of ‘what do you want to build in this or that city?’) – They’ve made it more admin focused with:
    • The introduction of separate research trees (nice in theory but becomes a pain the arse in practice)
    • Removing workers and replacing them with builders who are limited to 3 or 4 actions before disappearing, requiring you to build more – No automated improvements to tiles – Seriously!? I’m surprised I have to mention this
    • Expanding cities to tiles requiring the user to individually place minor buildings on tiles (again, nice in theory, but just a pain in the arse when you have halve a dozen cities and want to focus on wars, economic growth, geopolitics and espionage)
    • Government policies are too convoluted – far too many to choose from
    Other problems with it include:
    • A repetitive soundtrack where you want to gauge your ears out. Don’t get me wrong, the quality of the music is fantastic, it’s just that your limited to your nation’s them and those who you have met. This means it’s on continuous repeat. Over and over again. They really needed to stick with the Civ 4 model of music, changing as you switch between eras.
    • Some of the models for units are just terrible. For instance the cruise missile ship looks like a **** fishing boat. Particularly after you’re used to the size of the battleship that it replaces – it’s about the size of a fishing boat. Also destroyers look ****
    • Sound effects for bombing is ****
    • AI is retarded.
    The series is crying out for AI governors to manage cities. Its back to CIV 5 for me.    … Expand
  62. Notapotato
    May 11, 2017
    4
    I was looking forward to this, I always liked the Civ games. This one just seems like a cache grab though. i find it frustrating to play, the UI lags, the AI sucks. It looks pretty but it's such a bad playing experience. I tried it when it first came out and gave up because of the bad AI. I tried it again and the game lags after about 20 turns.

    Awful.
  63. drazah
    Apr 18, 2017
    3
    Unfortunately the AI ruins what should have been a big improvement over Civ V. No matter what, the entire world will hate and denounce you within a few years. There is no way to play diplomatically in this game. The diplomacy system, my favourite part of Civ V, is utterly broken in Civ VI.

    The graphical style is worse, the narration is worse, and the included civs are worse. Coastal    Unfortunately the AI ruins what should have been a big improvement over Civ V. No matter what, the entire world will hate and denounce you within a few years. There is no way to play diplomatically in this game. The diplomacy system, my favourite part of Civ V, is utterly broken in Civ VI.

    The graphical style is worse, the narration is worse, and the included civs are worse. Coastal cities are inexplicably useless as well.

    The only thing I really like about it is the bonus food mechanism for adjacent farms, that was a great idea.    … Expand
  64. Rrichard
    Apr 16, 2017
    2
    The worst Civ 6 in the series, mainly due to the amount of time-wasting stuff added. Attacking? That's 5 seconds of animation. Want to turn on fast attack? That means you won't even see or know which of your units attacked. The AI players will interrupt you with weird statements that make no sense, and have overly long introductions.

    The AI in general still fails to grasp 1UPT - and I    The worst Civ 6 in the series, mainly due to the amount of time-wasting stuff added. Attacking? That's 5 seconds of animation. Want to turn on fast attack? That means you won't even see or know which of your units attacked. The AI players will interrupt you with weird statements that make no sense, and have overly long introductions.

    The AI in general still fails to grasp 1UPT - and I think it needs to be removed to bring this game back to life. Trying to negotiate with the AI is still a PITA (I captured 70% of your settlements - but you refuse to make peace Montezuma? Now I have to micromanage all of my units through mountains to get your last little **** cities. (No I don't actually - I'll just quit the game and do something better with my time)). Warmonger penalties are still retarded in that they last hundreds and hundreds of years with only minor decay.

    Civic system is nice, though about 20-30% of your time will be spent watching stupid animations of units or leaders, or waiting for turns to compute. How can the AI turn optimisation still be so poor on top-end hardware in 2017?

    Really disappointing. Its a shame there is no competition, Civ needs it badly. Game has gone downhill since Civ 4.    … Expand
  65. totem
    Apr 8, 2017
    2
    I only played for a couple of days, but already feel it's another disappointing addition to the series. The game design is not well thought out. It's difficult to manage your cities for strategic purposes – tile improvements often offer very little real improvement in food or production, making cities too uniform for production purposes. Losing builders after three improvements meansI only played for a couple of days, but already feel it's another disappointing addition to the series. The game design is not well thought out. It's difficult to manage your cities for strategic purposes – tile improvements often offer very little real improvement in food or production, making cities too uniform for production purposes. Losing builders after three improvements means you have to constantly interrupt your production in order to make more builders throughout the game. Even basic move commands don't make much sense: a unit will show one move left, yet is unable to move to a tile with forest or mountains (compare with Civ 4 where a remaining move just means a remaining move, regardless). The research quotes are insipid. You're even forced to listen to the same opening spiel about your "greatest quest" every time your game loads.

    There are also a lot of bugs, as if the game was rushed for publication. For example, if you have the scroll function turned on when your mouse cursor nears the edge of the screen, you can't click on other civilizations' leaders without the screen also scrolling. Sometimes the game ignores move commands altogether.

    With the exception of the opening theme, much of the music is terrible. There was little attempt to match music with historical periods or civilizations.

    The game runs very slowly even on a new MacBook Pro with dedicated graphics card, despite the fact that the graphics are nothing special. My activity monitor shows the program using over 200% of the CPU, which probably points to inefficient programming.

    Another failure, and the last time I'll play a new Civ game.    … Expand
  66. Sekhyt
    Apr 1, 2017
    3
    I'm a huge fan of civilization series since CIV 2 and I spent countless hours playing all the civ games, basically this is still not a bad game and I really enjoy many of the changes (hence the 6/10), however I will focus on the CIV VI shortcomings as they're something everyone wants to know about:

    - AI in battle ! Since Civ 5 this has become a huge issue as battle AI is just horrible    I'm a huge fan of civilization series since CIV 2 and I spent countless hours playing all the civ games, basically this is still not a bad game and I really enjoy many of the changes (hence the 6/10), however I will focus on the CIV VI shortcomings as they're something everyone wants to know about:

    - AI in battle ! Since Civ 5 this has become a huge issue as battle AI is just horrible and usually every war ends in something like me losing 1 unit vs AI losing whole army. AI's decision are plain stupid, sending army near my shooting cities and units, spreading in my territory or sending armies to die when it would be more aproppiate to fortify it near its own cities in order to defend.

    - AI in general ! Making decisions to attack a civilization on the other side of the continent while leaving its territory completely unprotected knowing its neighbours have armies ready to invade doesn't sound like a good idea. Same about not even building 1 or 2 defensive units when seeing that another aggressive civilization is attacking other civs one by one and coming for you. I could give thousands of examples like this

    - Straightforward: I don't like the new graphics, it's very cartoonish in style, I'd prefer it to be more "serious" and realistic, especially the cartoony characters look like some jokes to me

    - the civic tree might be a good addition but it needs a lot of tweaks, currently most of the civics are totally useless and it's just something you have to choose even you don't want to

    - finally the options while creating the game. Why so many are missing ? Why create boundaries for the player ? I always liked to play on really small maps with many AI opponents so every piece of land is important, now I can't select more than several AIs which really sucks. Same about raging barbarians / no espionage / one-city-challenge / number of city-states and many others. Why were they removed ?    … Expand
  67. rdearp
    Mar 29, 2017
    0
    I have to wonder how anybody could score this game high when the enemy won't attack your cities. This as broken as anything I've ever heard of, and it brings into doubt sites like this. How did they think this was a good game?
  68. MMCD
    Feb 24, 2017
    1
    Unfun, this is one of the 'bad Civs' - 3, 5, and 6 are bad
    the good civs are : "1,2,4"
    4 is the best. This is boring, tedious, and simplified. its not a good game or addition to the franchise.
  69. apostaganha
    Feb 17, 2017
    4
    What a disappointment, the graphics seems to be for a 10 year old kid. Its frustrating starting a game and always come back to V... It seems unreal but CIV 5 are 100 times better.
  70. zbironson
    Jan 8, 2017
    4
    The game has lack of feedback to player. I felt the quantaty has replaced the quality. Hundreds of small choices which seems to effect nothing. I gave up after 4 hours of playing, because it felt as endless clicking "Next turn".
    Maybe because it's my first game in the series...
  71. pierrem
    Jan 8, 2017
    3
    Very few novelties, AI dumber than ever, religion handled the worst possible way... A CIV V , only slightly different, but not for the better. Interface has been made really unfriendly compared to CIV V.
    The achievements needed to increase research speed are basically a "double punishment" when you don't have the right ressources from the strart. Really unbalanced.
    The musics are... like    Very few novelties, AI dumber than ever, religion handled the worst possible way... A CIV V , only slightly different, but not for the better. Interface has been made really unfriendly compared to CIV V.
    The achievements needed to increase research speed are basically a "double punishment" when you don't have the right ressources from the strart. Really unbalanced.
    The musics are... like the game. Well chosen, but in a version that feels like the musicians were about to commit suicide.    … Expand
  72. Dictat0R
    Jan 6, 2017
    4
    It wasn't very fun for me. I couldn't make much sense in many things, I tried for 4 hours. I don't play it any more it's boring. And the AI didn't make any sense after one encounter I had....
  73. maxchaos1
    Jan 1, 2017
    2
    The new city planning is terrible, deals and deals information are incomplete, obnoxious and pure hell. Enemy AI plays for a few key wonders and leaves the rest of them to you, no matter how behind you are. If you go to war with an AI civ, expect a flood of chariots or horsemen in the early stages and flood of chariots or horseman in the information era as well. They not only do notThe new city planning is terrible, deals and deals information are incomplete, obnoxious and pure hell. Enemy AI plays for a few key wonders and leaves the rest of them to you, no matter how behind you are. If you go to war with an AI civ, expect a flood of chariots or horsemen in the early stages and flood of chariots or horseman in the information era as well. They not only do not upgrade their units, they do not build the new ones as well. The AI fails even harder when sieging cities and ocean battles.
    The best ideas and features of Civilization series were replaced by half assed 4x-strategy-action-rpg blur, that is trying to appeal to the younger or dummier auditory.    … Expand
  74. Nerm_Ski
    Dec 29, 2016
    4
    This is one BAFFLING CIV EXPERIENCE!!!! Its good and bad and ugly all at once!
    This game feels a lot like copy and paste! And it feels like it has been heavily influenced by the games available on mobile (cell) phones. I mean look at the graphics.
    The game is running in the back ground but I had to stop to write this as I cant be the only one experiencing this. Two new concepts. (first    This is one BAFFLING CIV EXPERIENCE!!!! Its good and bad and ugly all at once!
    This game feels a lot like copy and paste! And it feels like it has been heavily influenced by the games available on mobile (cell) phones. I mean look at the graphics.
    The game is running in the back ground but I had to stop to write this as I cant be the only one experiencing this.
    Two new concepts. (first is mainly for experienced players, second is universal. Also the second is quite long, so you might want to make a cup of tea now before you get there!)

    One: Districts, which are pretty good I have to say. Good way of spreading specialities and forcing us to really think about the development of our cities, and limits Wonder Production so I can no longer have a really "Wonderful" city (eh eh, see what I did there!) while the rest of the empire actually does everything else! Now a lot of wonders require adjacency to a specific district. More to it but you get the idea. Well thought out new concept, it seems.

    Two: Shocking User Interface. I mean this is bad! Let me elaborate.
    *I like edge scrolling, just a preference on these type of games. Now the buttons at the top to access Religion, Great People and all the rest of it are above the threshold for the scroll. Which means that when I am looking at an area or City and want to access the menus, the map scrolls away from my desired location, before the mouse pointer gets to the buttons. I mean seriously guys, was that tested?
    *Overlays on Overlays. No more right click to see what resources and terrain a tile has. Just hover the mouse over the tile and it displays info. Great. However problems arise when you get the notifications on the side, which you can also hover over to see what the say. What happens. The info of the tile in the background pops up over the info of the notification. This is so poor.
    *The info does not show as updated when changes are to a cities resource gathering. Ie. I select a city, currently has 16 turns to finish building. Select more production based resources. Production reduced to 8 turns, however city on world map still shows 16! I have a screenshot. Why must I wait till the next turn for updated info on world map?
    *Rigidity! No longer is information easy to access and generally all in one place. City options can only be accessed (by mouse this is, not hotkeys) by clicking the specific icon. IE, Click a city, you now see its production in a pretty picture telling you how many turns remain. However you can't access production by clicking it. Nope, you must select the SMALLER production icon to change it. Another example is (and this again is poor) you can't double click a city and be taken to its citizen screen, instead you must click the city and then again click the smaller citizen icon.
    *The most confusing fog of war I have ever encountered. Now Fog can be very disorientating at the best of times, but it shouldn't be an issue when I'm sat looking at a screen. Instead of just fading, shading or blurring; the areas you have explored but can longer see. You are treated to a nice parchment, hand drawn, tea stained colour looking map. Very pretty, it is. Why the beige? seriously why cant the colour of the terrain under the fog be visible. I mean, a unit went there, saw it is green grassland, so why the beige? I find it actually makes settler planning a little trickier.

    Sneaky third point(s)
    *No Personality. You can't change the name of your leader or empire.
    *The graphics are really poor. I want the completion of a wonder to be, well wondrous but the graphics make it look so cheap.
    *This game is far too dumbed down compared to other civ games. Bring back everything from Alpha Centuri, I mean everything. Let the players really work it out. Its a strategy game after all so cater to the market instead of trying to be more accessible in order to increase sales. (i expect alot of people to disagree with me on this one).

    I must conclude as I am out of space.
    As stated in the opening this is a very confusing experience. It is Civ! it has all the necessary elements for you to be able to enjoy the strategy game. It also comes with a lot of nonsense, as mentioned above.

    Score Breakdown
    1 For Turning Up
    1 For Effort
    1 For Sean Bean (got to love Beanie)
    1 For new districts feature and because I love Sid Meier's games (no , that should not therefore be two points. Can't be trading on old glories!!!
    Total 4 out of 10

    No points for: graphics, immersion/customisation, user friendliness (I could raise another point about it's poor explanations), user interface, the price, for trying to reinvent the wheel when all you needed was new rims!    … Expand
  75. Thazari
    Dec 27, 2016
    0
    Huge disappointment. When you start the game, you have almost no building options for structures and units, and everything just takes a zillion turns to get unlocked or constructed. Diplomacy and AI are a mess and graphics look unclear and unappealing. After 4 hours of playing I still didn't feel I had accomplished anything, so I stopped as I have way better games to spend my time on.Huge disappointment. When you start the game, you have almost no building options for structures and units, and everything just takes a zillion turns to get unlocked or constructed. Diplomacy and AI are a mess and graphics look unclear and unappealing. After 4 hours of playing I still didn't feel I had accomplished anything, so I stopped as I have way better games to spend my time on.

    The only good thing is the city management with the tiles surrounding the city having different benefits, which makes city planning a bit more interactive, although this is not always very balanced.    … Expand
  76. MCG2017
    Dec 14, 2016
    4
    DOWNER.
    Dunno where to start this.
    This game is terrible. Most dissapppointless game 2016. Devs where supposed to merge all the features from civ 5 and brave new world ( like tourism and religion ) and improve them with new style and new ideas ( sadly the ONLY NEW feature is districts ). The result is really awfull from a to z. Graphics are a shame. Cartoonish style is totally awkward    DOWNER.
    Dunno where to start this.
    This game is terrible. Most dissapppointless game 2016.
    Devs where supposed to merge all the features from civ 5 and brave new world ( like tourism and religion ) and improve them with new style and new ideas ( sadly the ONLY NEW feature is districts ).
    The result is really awfull from a to z.
    Graphics are a shame. Cartoonish style is totally awkward and destroys the xperience of playing a game based in a real world. Theres no sense of realism whatsoever. U feel like staring at a treasure map from some comic not to a rich realistic world ( civ 5 did very well on world graphics and they simply downgrade them ). Graphs from cities are dull. Textures are clunky and boring, also for unities.
    THE AI… they created a new concept.. AS ( Artificial Stupidity ). No further comments. Is a shame.
    Im only talking bout fatal errors otherwise this will be bigger than the bible:
    1) Resources: WHERES gold?.... They ripped the most important resource of human history for social and economy development… and ITS GONE. Whaaaat the hell were they thinking ?
    2) Railway. Same. Whaaaaat?.. I mean WHAAAT
    3) Workers can only make 3 actions. Forces us to lose tons of turns spamming them. Whaat?. Doesn’t make any sense.
    4) Tourism.. whaaat. Tourism have a huge impact on world economy and civ vi totally ignores that. For DEV´s visionary minds tourism is a number that increases with some bonuses from buildings and archeology… dull.
    5) Religion. The most WTFing and shamefull feature. Seriously? Religion is a nonsensicall set of random bonuses chosen by god knows what criteria. Cities and civilizations changes religion once for turn with the RIDICULOUS AND MASSIVE SPAMMING of religion units… whaaat? Catolics turning to muslims and to budism and then to nomatterwhat custom religion with no consecuences . Religion is historically the first cause for war. Is disrespectfull with real history. Doenst make any sense!!. Where is religion pressure and expansion??? They already did well in civ 5 why the **** they screwd this up?

    6) Culture. Same as religion. Culture expansion and culture pressure was pretty ok in civ 5 and they did waaaaaay worse in this game. Wtf

    7) Policies…. Cards?? Random bonuses with ridiculous impact on game. No penalties AT ALL from changing to OPOSITE governments? Terrible.

    8) Tech tree. A joke. Ripped most of the historically relevant techs. LINEAR? Whaaat? Arcade tech tree most suitable for a childish mobile game. This an insult to all civ community.

    9) Combat. Random and nonsensical. Units in a tile prevent any other unit from moving through that tile… even friendly units. So when u are at war u got to lose tons of turns walking around, and u cant deploy your own units properly. Is ridiculous. Archers and swordsman still destroying tanks? facepalm

    I stop xDD that crap. I played about 15-20 hours. im sick even talking about it.
    The only thing with some potential are districts but…. U can really get lost between thounds of requirements. U need lots of games and frustration to start to comprehend how to improve the district placement… in the end the overall production is lesser than previus games so… this needs to be workd on.
    Sorry for the novel. Don’t waste your money. U better wait for further dlcs… or some miracle.    … Expand
  77. barth_desade
    Dec 5, 2016
    3
    Civ I was a very good game (I'm still playing it on dosbox on my tablet while on my way to work). Civ II was even better though. Civ III again, was a solid game, nice graphic, not as great playability, but it was used as a platform for something really great: Civ IV, which I'm still playing on PC an consider along with CoH as a best game ever. Civ V, with some new features wasn't bad. ItCiv I was a very good game (I'm still playing it on dosbox on my tablet while on my way to work). Civ II was even better though. Civ III again, was a solid game, nice graphic, not as great playability, but it was used as a platform for something really great: Civ IV, which I'm still playing on PC an consider along with CoH as a best game ever. Civ V, with some new features wasn't bad. It wasn't great too, but I thought - oh this again will be a platform to something exceptional. I'll wait for it. I was partially right. Civ V gave birth something exceptional - first ever bad Civilization game for PC. Waste of time, waste of money and disregard for most mature player base in the casual gaming world. If I want something childish, overly simple and unfinished, I can always download the Clash Royale - the playability and sense of achievement is far higher in that one than in new Civ VI.… Expand
  78. eldumloido
    Nov 27, 2016
    1
    Too little customization options. Loads long even on ssd. Graphics suck. AI has long and useless animations in diplomacy screen. Some nations music make them unplayable. The game is made to sell dlc. Religion is too complicated. There's not enough tutorials in game. Barbarians are either too hard or nonexistent.
  79. Realist_gamer
    Nov 20, 2016
    4
    Please don't get amazed and distracted by the many fresh-off-the-boat sick new features presented to you by this game.I'm 100% sure that if you just play the game for at least two or three days in a row,you can easily notice it's weaknesses and understand that in many aspects not only this game doesn't excel previous versions but also completely remove or change some strategic elementsPlease don't get amazed and distracted by the many fresh-off-the-boat sick new features presented to you by this game.I'm 100% sure that if you just play the game for at least two or three days in a row,you can easily notice it's weaknesses and understand that in many aspects not only this game doesn't excel previous versions but also completely remove or change some strategic elements from the game that we had fun with.for instance,they deleted the world congress,cargo ships,satellite war(what was seen in "beyond earth"),various on-water-tiles improvements(beyond earth) and so on...those were just some of the most painful removals sadly happened in this version;not changes or some newly-added features that are fun at some points but got it's serious problems and you get noticed of them after many hours of gaming."districts" is one of the good and main added features to the series and is fun but for a limited time.The number of buildings that can be constructed in the city center and other districts is decreased incredibly(also Developers seem to have forgotten an important lesson from "fallout" series:in atomic era get the bomb shelters up&running asap!c'mon team!what if I get nuked?!there no bomb shelter anymore!).builder's gameplay elements,however in my idea,got worse,not much variety and creativity and fun in civics(culture affairs).and about settlers,I think developers just copy-pasted from the previous version into new.diplomacy AI got worse and not many great features introduced.battle AI is not perfect.info graphics(from the civ v)is not returned yet.espionage system is a nuisance;and many more bad and horribly disappointing things just waiting to discover.what is pleasing about the game is having the clear look of the buildings;unstacking them and spread them throughout the map;some battle animations,and having the graphics updated(however that is not counted as a bonus point for this game).soundtracks aren't bad but developers seem to have worked less on that(it's obvious);as we don't see the unique soundtracks,like folklore musics be various and limited to a nation.put away main famous fun-to-play-as leaders and brought up new characters that are fun-to-look-at.in addition,characters' appearances doesn't get changed during the ages.all in all,I think experiences gained from 4 previous versions(from civ v to stellar)weren't put into good use and not only we don't see a limit-pushing game but a weak not-even-equal-to-previous-limits is seen.
    Firaxis team,I respect all of you and your work,but this is not what was expected.please be up to release some super meaty dlcs and fixes to make the series perfect once again.thanks...    … Expand
  80. FreddyRama
    Nov 20, 2016
    4
    I am a huge Civ fan, but this iteration really missed the mark in my opinion. Graphically, it was a nice upgrade, but the whole game-play experience changed and not for the better. More city management and expansion at the cost of the feeling of scope that was in previous Civs. I will stick with Civ V until Civ 7 hits.
  81. Augustus82
    Nov 19, 2016
    0
    For the love of god, add the ability to regenerate the map on the 1st turn like in past civ games. When you're committing to a Marathon/Huge/Deity game, you can end up spending hours just restarting the game so you don't get placed in the middle of a desert or tundra with no resources...all that is made worse by for some completely insane reason, Civ never saves your settings for gameFor the love of god, add the ability to regenerate the map on the 1st turn like in past civ games. When you're committing to a Marathon/Huge/Deity game, you can end up spending hours just restarting the game so you don't get placed in the middle of a desert or tundra with no resources...all that is made worse by for some completely insane reason, Civ never saves your settings for game creation so you have to reset all of them every time.… Expand
  82. redmike
    Nov 18, 2016
    2
    Better than Civ5, but still not a very good game. The AI is moronic, the religion system is dumb and unenjoyable, and the 1 unit per tile makes the board feel small and cramped. The tech tree isn't really a tree, since you pretty much are choosing between 1 or 2 options at a time, and then come back and get the other one the next time... Bleh. I love the older Civ games, but thisBetter than Civ5, but still not a very good game. The AI is moronic, the religion system is dumb and unenjoyable, and the 1 unit per tile makes the board feel small and cramped. The tech tree isn't really a tree, since you pretty much are choosing between 1 or 2 options at a time, and then come back and get the other one the next time... Bleh. I love the older Civ games, but this one is boring.

    Civ 4 is still the best of the series.    … Expand
  83. SRKNZ
    Nov 18, 2016
    2
    For me the biggest let down in this game is its lack of usability and odd ball game play. The interface for the game is counter intuitive and simply annoying. Its quite clear why you get an advisor constantly parroting in your ear as its about as clear as mud as to how you are supposed use the the thing. Worse still its unclear why you are doing certain things or what they mean. ByFor me the biggest let down in this game is its lack of usability and odd ball game play. The interface for the game is counter intuitive and simply annoying. Its quite clear why you get an advisor constantly parroting in your ear as its about as clear as mud as to how you are supposed use the the thing. Worse still its unclear why you are doing certain things or what they mean. By contrast Civilization V was a pleasure. It was easy to make selections production, etc and see where they take you.

    The game play is peculiar too with other sims declaring war for no obvious reason. Even when you have established a good relationship. Warfare itself is also odd with cities often left untouched. Which is we look at most warfare down through history makes no sense at all.

    Its graphically pretty so I'm giving it a couple of points for that but this on its own is not enough to redeem its other fundamental flaws.

    In summary for me this game is reminiscent of Windows 8. It made no sense after the Windows 7 and this monstrosity makes no sense after Civ V.    … Expand
  84. snowskisunsea
    Nov 14, 2016
    4
    Civ 5 is almost impossible to beat IMO. Unfortunately, that is proven here. Disappointed after a long wait...

    Cons - Maps are huge. Graphics cartoonish, and I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate the map. Play either too slow or too fast.

    Pros - builders, districts.

    Thanks,
  85. Critical_Fun
    Nov 14, 2016
    4
    They get a 4 rating now, and they're lucky to get that. Releasing games before they're finished should never happen, and when it does, it should never come from a huge gaming company. There is too much info missing to fully understand all of the new rules/benefits of your chosen path, etc. I am often declared war on by my OWN country and then suffer consequences since peace withThey get a 4 rating now, and they're lucky to get that. Releasing games before they're finished should never happen, and when it does, it should never come from a huge gaming company. There is too much info missing to fully understand all of the new rules/benefits of your chosen path, etc. I am often declared war on by my OWN country and then suffer consequences since peace with yourself is impossible. Late game is just boring. Much more so than Civ V. Many other problems that should be patched. This review comes over 3 weeks after release an no updates to speak of, despite so many obvious problems. Nice way to reward their day one fans with this unfinished pile of crap. Big fan since the early 90s. That might change going forward.… Expand
  86. mogoroth
    Nov 12, 2016
    0
    The really bad thing about Civ 6 is not that the graphics are ugly and the interface is strange and the AI does not exist and generally the game is unplayable. The bad thing is that I dont believe that even future patches can even save it from mediocrity . I mean we civ players are used to high standards and high expectations from Firaxis and unforunately this time the company didntThe really bad thing about Civ 6 is not that the graphics are ugly and the interface is strange and the AI does not exist and generally the game is unplayable. The bad thing is that I dont believe that even future patches can even save it from mediocrity . I mean we civ players are used to high standards and high expectations from Firaxis and unforunately this time the company didnt deliver. Anyway ....thank God that CIv 5 is still there. I agree that civ games are not all about graphics but .....its 2016 and although I started playing from the first civ back in the nineties when I was 18 years old, I grew up and I also loved all the previous civ games and I really loved the civ 5 with the lovely graphics that except being pretty like a picture , they also help the immersion of the game . So as I understand it , there will be some patches, some dlcs and even an expansion for the new game . Many of the game fans will not follow .
    I just hope and I am almost certain that in just 2 years after the original release the project will be concluded and the next time the respected company will take different approach !!    … Expand
  87. Civfan
    Nov 12, 2016
    0
    Strange that that the professional (payed) reviews are hysterical and the player reviews from experienced civplayers are low. Perhaps the critis didn't really play the game, or any other Civ game before? This version is flawed, faulty, bugged and unplayable due to coredeep enginemistakes. It also sufferes from bad graphics which makes it impossible to play for a long time. That is not aStrange that that the professional (payed) reviews are hysterical and the player reviews from experienced civplayers are low. Perhaps the critis didn't really play the game, or any other Civ game before? This version is flawed, faulty, bugged and unplayable due to coredeep enginemistakes. It also sufferes from bad graphics which makes it impossible to play for a long time. That is not a problem since you don;t want to play this version. It's boring, annoying and frustrating.… Expand
  88. Honestly000
    Nov 11, 2016
    0
    I don't understand how this could get so high ratings from critics. In my opinion it's far from beeing ready to be published. Steam user reviews are far more honest.
  89. slick514
    Nov 10, 2016
    3
    There are so many neat new features to this game... but it's unplayable, from any realistic perspective.

    The AI is absolutely horrible. I cannot stress enough just how bad the AI is. When you win, you feel like you just beat up a child. The system requirements are... well, I could barely play it, and I wasn't even close to pushing the limits with regards to map-size. Even on    There are so many neat new features to this game... but it's unplayable, from any realistic perspective.

    The AI is absolutely horrible. I cannot stress enough just how bad the AI is. When you win, you feel like you just beat up a child.

    The system requirements are... well, I could barely play it, and I wasn't even close to pushing the limits with regards to map-size. Even on "Standard", turns took an inordinately long time to complete.

    Wait for patches. Do not buy this game in its present incarnation.    … Expand
  90. Delosdos
    Nov 10, 2016
    3
    I had high hopes for CIV VI, but unfortunately i was very disappointed. My number one complaint is that they got rid of the replay movie at the end of a game, one of the best features of previous versions of Civilization. When you win a game you're rewarded with a cheesy animation, and a line chart that looks terrible, like it was put together as cheaply as possible.

    Some other    I had high hopes for CIV VI, but unfortunately i was very disappointed. My number one complaint is that they got rid of the replay movie at the end of a game, one of the best features of previous versions of Civilization. When you win a game you're rewarded with a cheesy animation, and a line chart that looks terrible, like it was put together as cheaply as possible.

    Some other gripes:
    -The mini map is inexcusably pixelated and looks awful.
    - There's no large map/globe view, so you can't zoom out and admire the world, and you feel like you're stuck inside a small window.
    - The AI is awful, and makes incomprehensible decisions.
    - Setting up trade routes are now incredibly tedious once you have more than a handful of cities.
    - The diplomacy screen is slow and annoying and AI often offers pointless or confusing commentary.
    - The notification system is a pain to use. The tool-tip menu that slides in and out is painfully slow, and the amount of 'spam' quickly becomes irritating.
    - You can't filter the map to reveal only resources and exclude cities so it's sometimes hard to locate certain resources

    There are plenty of bugs too:
    - Objects can restrict view of city health bars, so you have to zoom in to see what's happening.
    - The game often freezes when you capture a city for a few seconds
    - The game runs slow if you don't have instant movement turned on.
    - Sometimes a unit becomes locked in place and can't be moved, and yet the game wont let you skip its turn either - I had to reload the game.
    - Diplomacy screen - in the list of cities that an opponent owns, it occasionally bugs out and lists cities that are not even owned by that civilization.
    - Notifications - AI civilizations make references to relationships with destroyed Civilizations, as if they still existed.
    - If you leave a game to go grab a coffee or something, and come back some time later - occasionally keyboard shortcuts stop working and you have to quit / reload    … Expand
  91. Evgen3
    Nov 7, 2016
    2
    Slow, boring, too complicated with "dead" animation, short research tree, unbalanced, worst interface ever. Disappointment...stopped playing. Definitely step back from Civ IV and V.
  92. brettrichardson
    Nov 5, 2016
    2
    I've tried so hard to get into this game. The ffirst Civ game I've actually had to take a tutorial for (played every game since Civ2.

    Problem: I'm bored. I just spent 3 hours playing on standard mode and I had 2 cities, was STILL surrounded by barbarians and was in 175AD. I had nowhere to expand because I had 5 million other Civs within 10 tiles of my capital. I needed to build this, I    I've tried so hard to get into this game. The ffirst Civ game I've actually had to take a tutorial for (played every game since Civ2.

    Problem: I'm bored. I just spent 3 hours playing on standard mode and I had 2 cities, was STILL surrounded by barbarians and was in 175AD. I had nowhere to expand because I had 5 million other Civs within 10 tiles of my capital. I needed to build this, I needed to build that. I had no time to build anything because everything takes so long.

    So far, so extremely boring. I haven't actually enjoyed myself yet, just been waiting 3 hours for something interesting to happen. Couldn't build a powerhouse city if I wanted, couldn't build an army to conquer if I wanted. Just so so boring.

    Really disappointed by this game, I expected so much. Going to play on fast mode, get rid of barbarians and see if I enjoy it more...    … Expand
  93. summerloud
    Nov 4, 2016
    2
    the last civ game i really played was alpha centauri, i loved it and spent countless hours on it. i also played a lot of classic civilization II back in the time.

    i never had time to try all the later civilization games, but after reading some rave reviews i thought id give the new iteration a try. what a letdown. sure, there are some nice improvements, but overall, its simply    the last civ game i really played was alpha centauri, i loved it and spent countless hours on it. i also played a lot of classic civilization II back in the time.

    i never had time to try all the later civilization games, but after reading some rave reviews i thought id give the new iteration a try.

    what a letdown.

    sure, there are some nice improvements, but overall, its simply unfathomable that this is the game they come up with 17 years after alpha centauri.

    i started my first game on the 2nd highest difficulty setting, since i figured i still know the basics from alpha centauri. i played around 15 hours until 125 A.D. of ingame time, and then i just stopped, wishing i could somehow get the time back i spent on this pointless game.

    the first thing i noticed is that the randomly generated map makes no sense. it does not feel real - it has snow next to desert, no logic behind it. any game with generated maps does this better nowadays, and alpha centauri did this way better 17 years ago, having simulated weather, where you could even raise mountains to change rainfall patterns.

    the whole game seems incredibly shallow and tailored to kids. tiles in general only allow one given upgrade, making building improvements a no brainer. diplomacy is completely nonexisting, and so is any form of aggression or warfare. in the 4000 simulated years i played, there was a single conflict that i myself started, when i attacked a city state. it took me a couple of hundred years of ingame time to take it.

    there is no aggression from ai players. they will simply pop up every couple of hundred years with random messages that make no sense. diplomacy as a whole is non-existant.

    really, really disappointed by this. for me, this is just another proof that today's reviews on big sites, in papers or magazines, are 100% rigged and bought. i will stick to indie games thank you very much.    … Expand
  94. Keatz
    Nov 2, 2016
    4
    AI is completely broken and so much worse than CIV 5. AI interactions are completely random. They get pissed off or happy for no reason, complement me on my fleet when I've not a build a ship the entire game, denounce me after I just liberated their city and so on...

    Also go denounced by myself when playing Cleopatra. UI is bad. Weird, slow auto-unit cycling will make you do many    AI is completely broken and so much worse than CIV 5. AI interactions are completely random. They get pissed off or happy for no reason, complement me on my fleet when I've not a build a ship the entire game, denounce me after I just liberated their city and so on...

    Also go denounced by myself when playing Cleopatra.

    UI is bad. Weird, slow auto-unit cycling will make you do many accidental moves. In general, it feels like you have to micro manage units more than CIV 5. The amount of clicking required is just off the charts compared to CIV 5. Especially, spying and trading. You would've thought that devs would make those little quality of life improvement in this iteration, but no.

    General art style of the game is childish/cartoonish. Leaders heads are ridiculously over-sized, their reactions are immature and overstated, as if the game is trying to appeal to 7-year olds.

    Rest of the game is pretty solid, but immersion is broken by the reasons stated above.

    CIV fans: still must have. Others: wait till AI is fixed.    … Expand
  95. ChikatiloZ
    Nov 1, 2016
    3
    The good : Everything besides the AI
    The AI : 1st encounter : "So happy to meet you, I will send a delegation to send you cookies/pancakes/caviar"
    3 rounds later :" I declare war on you for no reason whatsoever" (even if they have 2 archers and you have 10 fleets of nuclear submarines) Every single round after that they say "Im sorry, I offer you all my stuff if we can make peace" You    The good : Everything besides the AI
    The AI : 1st encounter : "So happy to meet you, I will send a delegation to send you cookies/pancakes/caviar"
    3 rounds later :" I declare war on you for no reason whatsoever" (even if they have 2 archers and you have 10 fleets of nuclear submarines)
    Every single round after that they say "Im sorry, I offer you all my stuff if we can make peace"
    You can either accept, in which case they will send you cookies and declare war on you again within 3 rounds.
    You can destroy them, in which case every round they will offer everything they have over -& over again.
    Being at war with everyone is more enjoyable, because if you're in peace with someone (which almost never happens) they spam you "offers" every round, the offer is usually "you give me a bunch of stuff, i give you nothing, what do you say?" I click NO without reading it.
    Great game with the most retarded AI I've ever seen in a video game.    … Expand
  96. GrizzlyEdd
    Oct 31, 2016
    0
    Not in the least inspired by nor interested in VI. To me it is a step back in time from which CIV has graduated already. I would hope that Firaxis reads some of the comments on "Steam" and takes to heart some of the negative comments on here. I have read all the reviews, watched all the trailers, and educated myself as much as possible about VI. Not at impressed. I will not buy VI.Not in the least inspired by nor interested in VI. To me it is a step back in time from which CIV has graduated already. I would hope that Firaxis reads some of the comments on "Steam" and takes to heart some of the negative comments on here. I have read all the reviews, watched all the trailers, and educated myself as much as possible about VI. Not at impressed. I will not buy VI. What would be quite thrilling for a lot of CIV fans is another expansion of BE. Count me in as one of those fans. Firaxis, please consider an expansion for BE if you haven't already started.… Expand
  97. Wulfrune
    Oct 30, 2016
    2
    I've waited years for this game, years. Being a devote fan of Civ 5, I couldn't wait for the day to come for the release, but when it came, my initial thoughts were one of disappointment and disappointment turned to loathing. The ridiculous load times, the lighting which beggars belief... I mean why would you have what appears to be "day / night" lighting in a game that spans time periodsI've waited years for this game, years. Being a devote fan of Civ 5, I couldn't wait for the day to come for the release, but when it came, my initial thoughts were one of disappointment and disappointment turned to loathing. The ridiculous load times, the lighting which beggars belief... I mean why would you have what appears to be "day / night" lighting in a game that spans time periods in years? Awful twee cartoon graphics of leaders that I just want to punch, let alone play with. Untidy menus, overzealous space bar where you click to end the turn of one unit only to jump through multiple ones. The AI is frankly laughable making odd choices. Oh my god, I so wanted to love this game but to be quite frank, I doubt that I'll even complete one game with it, it's that bad. They had every chance to make this ground breaking and honestly you SHOULD break new ground with this game, as you bury it away, forget about it and go back to playing CIV 5. If Sid Meier's isn't holding his head down in shame at this travesty, he isn't the gaming god I thought he was. An awful game, avoid.… Expand
  98. 11Deadface
    Oct 30, 2016
    1
    Disgusting PC game.on computers disgusting retarded graphics,awkward control,piracy is rampant.Games crash,they need to spend hours installing,downloading updates and always buy the video card.
  99. Mascalzone
    Oct 29, 2016
    4
    Better graphic and animations. And that's all. Slow as hell to load games and go to next, even with an SSD, always the same useless diplomacy and no intel at all, as usual... A real mess.
  100. huginatree
    Oct 29, 2016
    0
    Have you critics lost your marbles,this game stinks.the only thing that is better is the smoother start menu.THATS IT.The list of things wrong with this game is to long ....its unmod able,unless you have god like hands on a keyboard to create a brand new game.Even the graphics are laughable,who do they think are the people who are going to play this long winded game that makes hardly anyHave you critics lost your marbles,this game stinks.the only thing that is better is the smoother start menu.THATS IT.The list of things wrong with this game is to long ....its unmod able,unless you have god like hands on a keyboard to create a brand new game.Even the graphics are laughable,who do they think are the people who are going to play this long winded game that makes hardly any sense.Cartoon graphics are good fun on your average tablet when your borred .This game deserves much more than this rubbish attempt,Sid and the gang need to move on to tablet games if this is the best they can do.just wish i could get my money back.On the plus side civ V is still here.THANK GOD for that… Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 84 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 79 out of 84
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 84
  3. Negative: 1 out of 84
  1. CD-Action
    Jan 12, 2017
    90
    You don’t want to spend your night in front of the computer? You have a wife and kids? You cherish your friendships and enjoy parties? Beware of this game. It’s that good. [13/2016, p.44]
  2. The Overpowered Noobs
    Jan 11, 2017
    90
    It's a more playful, fun feel to the franchise, perhaps, but all that's wrapped around a deeply nuanced game. If you've ever enjoyed playing a multi-layered, immersive and strategic board game with a bunch of funny characters, get in here.
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  3. Games Master UK
    Jan 1, 2017
    74
    Firaxis has made some significant, exciting changes, but has also obscured vital information. [Christmas 2016, p.70]
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