Civ 6 is DEFINITELY worth a purchase, just not quite yet.


The game has undergone massive improvements and built on the previous Civ's in only positive ways. It's visually pleasing, well voiced, intuitive in its interface and has resolved many of the previous idiotic issues the series had in the past - such as global happiness. It is by far the best state a Civ was released in the recent years and certainly a solid foundation to build on.


Unfortunately many of the - one would think - mandatory and essential mechanical informations about certain buildings or agents (even wonders) are only accessible through the in-game civ-pedia, rather than a mouseover and many of the early placement and development decisions will have late game consequences, which you will only learn about in the late game - in that aspect it requres a few playthroughs before you can fully optimize everything...


But you really don't need to quite yet, the AI is the absolutely and utterly worst to date with regards to diplomacy and warmongering. Much like in early Total War games, your long-term friend and ally can decide - after a thousand years of peace and cooperation - to declare a war, despite there being no relation penalties. The wars and denouncements come out of the blue and seem to be largely tied to the difficulty, rather than any logical or reasonable system. It's not tied to the numbers the game shows at the relations screen, nor is it tied to personalities. They will demand tributes from you, as you are infinitely ahead, they will denounce you despite long lasting friendships and they will declare wars..
And then the AI will get slaughtered due to complete ineptitude at actually handling their units near ANY terrain difficulty, be it a shore, a mountain or a city.

To beat the game on deity, marathon in the first try is the testiment of just how moronic the AI is, the main difficulty of the game are - at the time of this writing - the bloody BARBARIANS.

The first issue is easy to patch, the latter and more important one - AI - will probably take some time. Once that is done, you will have by far the best CIV to date. Before that, it unfortunately doesn't feel quite like a CIV, and more like a tower defense against bloodthirsty and mindless hordes with a broad research and development tree.

Civ 6 is DEFINITELY worth a purchase, just not quite yet. [h1]The Good[/h1] The game has undergone massive improvements and built on the previous Civ's in only positive ways. It's visually pleasing, well voiced, intuitive in its interface and has resolved many of the previous idiotic issues the series had in the past - such as global happiness. It is by far the best state a Civ was released in the recent years and certainly a solid foundation to build on. [h1]The Bad[/h1] Unfortunately many of the - one would think - mandatory and essential mechanical informations about certain buildings or agents (even wonders) are only accessible through the in-game civ-pedia, rather than a mouseover and many of the early placement and development decisions will have late game consequences, which you will only learn about in the late game - in that aspect it requres a few playthroughs before you can fully optimize everything... [h1]The Ugly..[/h1] But you really don't need to quite yet, the AI is the absolutely and utterly worst to date with regards to diplomacy and warmongering. Much like in early Total War games, your long-term friend and ally can decide - after a thousand years of peace and cooperation - to declare a war, despite there being no relation penalties. The wars and denouncements come out of the blue and seem to be largely tied to the difficulty, rather than any logical or reasonable system. It's not tied to the numbers the game shows at the relations screen, nor is it tied to personalities. They will demand tributes from you, as you are infinitely ahead, they will denounce you despite long lasting friendships and they will declare wars.. And then the AI will get slaughtered due to complete ineptitude at actually handling their units near ANY terrain difficulty, be it a shore, a mountain or a city. To beat the game on deity, marathon in the first try is the testiment of just how moronic the AI is, the main difficulty of the game are - at the time of this writing - the bloody BARBARIANS. The first issue is easy to patch, the latter and more important one - AI - will probably take some time. Once that is done, you will have by far the best CIV to date. Before that, it unfortunately doesn't feel quite like a CIV, and more like a tower defense against bloodthirsty and mindless hordes with a broad research and development tree.