Civilization VI

Lots of options, but understanding them took so much work that I just stopped playing.

I think the rush to streamline the various trees actually serves to complicate things too much. Once you head down a losing tree it is almost impossible to pivot and the AI still swings from moments of human-level competence to utter stupidity on any difficulty. I prefer V for a bunch of reasons but I would like to see some ideas from this game brought forward.

To me, this is a revival in the series. Many people hate it, but the fact that it's way simpler than the two previous ones is why I like it - every decision you take has obvious consequences. I wish they could do something about the snowballing though, there's no fun in the lategame.

I've sunk a lot of hours into this game. I have it on Switch and that has definitely contributed to the problem. I can play in bed, on my lunch break, in the bath, in the car, literally anyplace! At first I didn't like this one because of how many cities you are expected to make to be able to win but it's grown on me. I just wish achievements were a thing in the Switch version.

Perfect.

I've been a fan of Civ for most of my life, but I can't get into this one. In the other Civ games, I was able to guess and have fun until I figured out the gameplay. In this one, the significance of a lot of the game mechanics were unclear to me and I had no clue if I was doing well or badly. Maybe I'm just getting old. It doesn't help the Switch controls are just awful.

Haven't played it as much as civ 5, but it feels like the franchise I've enjoyed.

Insufferable in that defenders have a stupidly high advantage over attackers that taking one city is a needless pain in the ass, forcing the game to be nauseatingly passive. There's also a lot of dumb snowball mechanics; the Era mechanic gives stupid advantages to the leading civ while dark age penalties are crippling. This is made worse by how much of the game is defined by starting position and how little incentive there is to playing tall. Even the modding scene is butchered from its prequel

Despite some new features like districts and armies it’s still the same game as civilization 4. Very repayable but still suffers from the problems that was introduced in civ 4. Some factions are still woefully underpowered in special features late in the game compared to others and the whole international diplomacy system is although slightly improved still very bad. More or less everyone denounces everyone towards the end which makes the whole system pointless.

I think it’s better than civilization V