Sid Meier's Civilization VI Reviews

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T.J. Hafer
Top Critic
93 / 100
Oct 20, 2016

Sight, sound, and systems harmonize to make Civilization 6 the liveliest, most engrossing, most rewarding, most challenging 4X in any corner of the earth.

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Recommended
Oct 25, 2016

Civ 6 harnesses the series' great strengths and adds wonderful new features of its own in an accessible and compelling entry.

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Dan Stapleton
Top Critic
9.4 / 10.0
Oct 26, 2016

Civilization VI will go down in history as the most fully-featured launch version in the series. Many of those are smartly revamped versions of Civ classics, buy it finds its own identity with great new ideas like spread-out cities, customizeable governments, research boosts, and leader agendas. And even though the AI has some improving to do, it can put up enough of a fight to make world domination a challenge.

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Metro GameCentral
Top Critic
9 / 10
Oct 26, 2016

An excellent sequel, that manages to evolve the series in terms of both accessibility and complexity, and maintain its place as one of the best strategy games of all time.

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Nov 11, 2016
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9.5 / 10.0
Oct 25, 2016

Civilization remains as addictive as ever. As soon as you start building your empire, say goodbye to your weekend

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9 / 10
Oct 24, 2016

The series that cemented the 4X strategy formula continues to stand the test of time with a stellar entry that adds richness and depth in expected places.

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 25, 2016

Civ 6 is smarter and more varied, but doesn't show much progress

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Luke Plunkett
Top Critic
Unscored
Oct 26, 2016

What we’ve got here is a strategy game that, while preserving most of the series’ longtime fundamentals, has also found new and surprising ways—through an investment in player choice and more hands-on time with your people—to keep things interesting.

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Luke Plunkett
Top Critic
Unscored
Apr 20, 2023

And like I’ve hopefully got across, it has been a success! This is still a Civilization game, and it’s still a very good strategy game. It just also happens to be the weakest entry in that series, the one least equipped to endure this long of a wait between games.

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Oct 25, 2016

Civilization VI is a worthy sequel for the franchise. Firaxis has crafted the best vanilla version in the franchise's history, with a host of leaders, a great soundtrack, some keen art direction, and new features like the city expansion. There's not much missing this time around and I look forward to seeing what Firaxis adds to an already amazing game.

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 25, 2016

The old Civ mantra of “one more turn” is stronger than ever. The additions make for a much deeper strategy game and the inclusion of most of the features from previous entries makes for a remarkably well-rounded launch. It will be interesting to see where Civ VI goes, but I have a feeling there won’t be nearly as dramatic a change as Civ V saw.

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Oct 26, 2016

This is a captivating game, one that consumes your time and gives back more than you put in. It’ll test your ability to make sound decisions, and anticipate the future. While diplomacy and numbers tuning will be required to combat some of the frustration that the game brings, this is yet another outstanding 4X game from Firaxis Games that will undoubtedly become one of the most popular PC titles for the years to come.

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10 / 10
Oct 21, 2016

Civilization VI is my new favourite addiction that I honestly can’t really fault. Each of the gameplay changes provides a fresh challenge, but they were well worth undertaking once they clicked. It’s packed full of the stuff that made the previous games great, but also has a crisp style that makes things clear enough when the game gets extremely busy. As such, the vanilla version of Civilization VI is so good, expansions aren’t really necessary to improve upon it. Having said that, I’m excited for what’s next.

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10 / 10.0
Oct 28, 2016

Civilization VI has reached the perfection inside the turn based strategy genre. Complex, addictive and with a very strong personality, Firaxis wants us to stay hundreds of hours in front of the PC.

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93 / 100
Oct 26, 2016

An addictive strategy masterpiece. More freedom, personalization, complexity and meaningful choices than ever. The best things are an improved difficulty, different victory conditions, city management, historic characters and roles.

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8.9 / 10.0
Oct 25, 2016

The king of the 4X games is back and came with a golden crown. Firaxis has made a whole new Civ with a taste both of the past and the present. Perfect for newcomers and a challenge for the experienced ones.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 27, 2016

If you’re looking for the best turn-based strategy on the market, it’ll be tough to find something as exceptional as this.

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Unscored
Oct 24, 2016
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Unscored
Oct 25, 2016

With Civ 6, I really do feel like I’m playing Civ right out of the gates – it’s remarkable how much it reminds me of the first ever game in the series. There’s a certain balance and pull of development vs competition that’s really present and correct, and now it’s accompanied by this delightful, colourful, busy appearance it feels surprisingly fresh, once one can get past its failure to explain stuff like Amenities.

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