Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm Reviews

Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm is ranked in the 89th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
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Mar 26, 2019

Civilization 6: Gathering Storm is the second expansion to the sixth part of the Primer of the Round Strategy. The name therefore has the addon that the environment plays a major role this time and can significantly influence events through natural disasters. However, humans are not uninvolved because their actions, such as high CO2 emissions, lead to catastrophes, just like in real life. Since it may happen that the polar ice melts and the sea game angel rises so much that our cities are lost on the coasts. Environmentally conscious action is therefore beneficial and rewarded. The use of raw materials has been revised and they are now produced per round and can then be used for building. On the political side, we now have the World Congress, where we regularly vote on events around the world among all parties. As a result, the diplomacy victory is back and our diplomacy value affects how much our vote counts. All in all, Gathering Storm Civilization is a lot better and therefore highly recommended.

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9 / 10.0
Feb 11, 2019

A strong expansion with new and significant additions that refreshes the Civilization VI formula for that one-more-turn feeling.

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Mar 18, 2019

While Gathering Storm still carries a lot of the issues presented by the base game, its new mechanics – especially with some in game tweaking – shakes up significantly the metagame, how to treat territorial expansion and give a new perspective on diplomacy. If you haven’t tried Civilization VI, now it’s the best time to do so.

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9 / 10
Mar 3, 2019

The most important and arguably the greatest Civ Expansion of All Time. Just thinking about it now is giving me the itch to dive back in. Wonderful!

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8 / 10.0
Feb 20, 2019

Gathering Storm is a great expansion. The quality of leader designs leaves me in anticipation for an upcoming DLC, and potentially, another expansion on the horizon.

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Mar 9, 2019

The Gathering Storm is a great add-on, which once again makes you feel like "Just one more round!". That's all you should know!

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8 / 10.0
Jun 13, 2020
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8.5 / 10.0
Feb 22, 2019

Civilization VI: Gathering Storm is not perfect, but it made Civilization VI better overall, and that's pretty much what people want from an expansion.

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8.9 / 10.0
Feb 27, 2019

With great changes to to diplomacy, units and new climatic events, Gathering Storm is this year justification to return to Civilization VI.

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8 / 10.0
Feb 11, 2019

Civilization VI: Gathering Storm makes Civilization VI feel complete, thanks mostly to the great new civs and small quality of life improvements.

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9 / 10.0
Feb 11, 2019

Gathering Storm enhances Civilization VI to such a degree that it is hard to think of this as anything other than the best possible Civ game. The array of new features make every match more interesting, and will keep you coming back for more time and time again.

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Gamersky
Top Critic
8.8 / 10.0
Feb 11, 2019

Gathering Storm makes impressive progress compared with Rise & Fall. The importance of this DLC to Civ 6 is just like Brave New World to Civ 5.

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4.3 / 5.0
Mar 3, 2019

Civilization VI: Gathering Storm is a great expansion that adds a number of interesting new world-affecting gameplay mechanics.

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6.5 / 10.0
Mar 1, 2019

A worthy expansion, given you own Rise and Fall first and get this on a sale.

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Mateusz Zdanowicz
Top Critic
7.5 / 10.0
Feb 17, 2019

Gathering Storm comes with some minor drawbacks, but I can easily recommend it to fans of Civilization VI. Bear in mind, though, that the new additions and tweaks in the mechanics may require some getting used to. Furthermore, the roster of civilizations hasn't been better in a very long time.

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5 / 5.0
Feb 11, 2019

Put simply, Gathering Storm checks all the boxes of what a great expansion should be and is a must own for hardcore Civilization VI fans looking for a reason to spice things up in an incredibly positive way or get back into the game if they've been dormant.

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7.5 / 10.0
Feb 11, 2019

With Gathering Storm, Civilization VI gets even richer and turns into a true mastodon of the 4X strategy. However, the "new" diplomacy and the World Congress pay the price of an outdated artificial intelligence that struggles to control all the aspects proposed by the Firaxis game, although it is necessary to attribute to the idea different merits

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7 / 10
Feb 11, 2019

The new World Congress and climate change mirror real-life in that they're partly beyond your control, making them hard to factor into your schemes. The new civs are among the best and most novel in the game, though.

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7 / 10
Feb 20, 2019

Gathering Storm is a good extension, and the ecology/pollution is a good surprise. On an other hand, diplomacy and the National Congress is lack of depth.

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93 / 100
Feb 11, 2019

I’m an easy mark for a new Civilization, but I have no fear in saying that Gathering Storm is one of the most creative and significant expansions a Civilization game has ever received.

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