Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™

I thought to myself - this game can't be that bad, right? I was wrong. I feel that the reason Beyond Earth is this terrible is because everything seems half-baked. The leaders, their dialogues, the wonders, the music - everything feels mediocre. None of the tech or wonders feel relatable or good once you achieve it. While I understand that it's not supposed to be relatable since it is set in the distant future, the units and tech could have been given more character. Now, the numerous evolutions feel like the same unit. I don't know why I would build 5 different types of meele units - instead of building the one with the highest attack. Apart from the above, the orbital units - especially the weather controller and attack units - are kinda cool. It would have been nice to interact and collaborate with the aliens more through quests and tech.

New Eula means I don't want to reinstall no longer

Decent enough game, if you like the civs franchise you'll like this even for a while but for sure not the best. I've played and finished 3 campaigns and the only issue i really have is it doesn't feel like you're colonising a planet but rather just setting up the outposts or something despite what some of the campigns may have you think. Also they're very quick, you can finish a victory or more in a day on max settings, once you sort of have yourself set up you just steamroll. The english with thick indian accent is annoying as hell if you're gonna speak english have it be an english, american or even hell an australian. If you're gonna speak indian have them speak indian with subtitles or something, subnautica bz suffered from that and many other games around the time idk why. The factions are all the same but you sorta "evolve" into 3 different races with 3 hybrid races in between you can also opt for later which i think was neat. All in all the game is average as hell, it's easy, short and abandoned (i've experianced no bugs even playing mid 2025) but i think it still sits above civs 6 and 7 (lots of people will disagree with this and fair enough but i really hated the cartoony non-serious infantalised civs 6 and civs 7 speaks for itself so this is my say on the matter), it plays a lot like 5 and that's what really drew me in and got me to play it. It's a difficult decision but i think it's worth the play if you like these games so i'm gonna go 6.5/10 and give it a positive review. It is currently worth 12 bucks AUD something like 6 bucks USD so i mean you literally can't make a mistake buying it for that price you will get your moneys worth, i do not think it is worth 50 bucks aud based on the fact alone that it is a dead game. Mods are almost non existant at this point too.

This is the only Civ game I've played (I know I know don't judge me lol), but i have so much fun playing it because I love space themes. I've honestly had and played this for like 10 years before I even knew there was a DLC for this. Once I got it and played it I was pretty impressed how much I liked the revamped systems over the original. I decided to get all the achievements once my love for the game was rekindled with the RT DLC. Couple of hard ones but you can get them all eventually by just playing the game a lot.

confusing, annoying, over complicated no fun at all

Man, I duno Beyond Earth has interesting ideas I like the somewhat customizable units. I like the culture system which is close to 5's I like the idea of colonizing a strange, alien planet I, in theory, like the more freeform techtree But somehow, this game just doesn't click. Maybe it's the aliens we fight instead of barbarians Maybe it is the somewhat reduced tall playing possible Maybe it is the lackluster unit identity Or maybe it is the non.changin "era/age" we play in I guess I prefer the "Prehistoric dudes to Space Robots"- type more than this "age locked"- type of game. Then again, I loved Old World for having exactly that. So I dunno

this game taught me why I should never pre-order a game ever again

honestly a 7/10 for me really enjoyed the soundtrack!, which you dont have to buy the game for, its a $20 reskin of civ 5 , if the devs were honest about it, it was basic DLC not a full game.

One of the many mediocre efforts that marketing branded as "a spiritual successor to Alpha Centauri". Laughable writing and the bizarre choice to have almost all voicing be done by a single weak, blandly-accented actress, as well as the utterly generic, unimaginative design of the alien planet (which doesnt even get a name) stand out as the game's major flaws. The AI is weak and game balance is laughable, but thats standard for Civilization games (Which is why we only buy them on sale after the community mods make them what they should have been). All that said, the game is stable and pleasant in the sound and graphics categories, and I really like how POWERFUL the player feels in this one. And though lots of the voiced writing is a swing and a miss, some of it really evokes the raw appeal of optimistic science fantasy, albeit probably by accident, given how the UNVOICED writing reads. The unintentional comedy in that subsection is simply unforgettable: the faction leaders, rather than being flawed, passionate exemplars of human virtue, are fanfic-level examples of what small, stupid people think smart, successful people are like. The tech tree is full of worthless technologies with names so basic and inappropriate (a midrange technology of a spacefaring people is just called "computers") that you'd think an AI was used over a lunchbreak, but this was slopped out by actual humans. Anyhow, give it a go on a giga-sale - great for kids to learn 4X, and there are a few gems worth of moments to be found. In spite of its mediocrity, I can see the game that I WISH this was, which is more than can be said for most forgettable spinoffs

This is an enjoyable game to whittle away hours. The detail is incredible in the game play. The creation of the worlds, and tech development time line is enjoyable.