Sid Meier's Civilization VII

absolute ♥♥♥♥ game, bought this and tried to give it a fair shot 29 mins in and already dealing with a bad ui and major game breaking bugs, i would not even pirate this garbage or get paid to play this. Casualized slop, somehow has less depth than civ revolution for the 360

Could be me, but the game feels unpolished. The game consistently hangs when loading screens, and hitting escape to try and get to the main menu or reload a save are unusable so I keep having to force quit the game. Its not my PC either: brand new rig, no bloat ware, didn't install my whole library just a 5 games, and I have updated drivers.

crashed endlessly on a very good system

Can't believe i spent 200AUD on this game as a show of faith, that maybe, just maybe they'd not be scummier than paradox with this, but instead they just release content that should have been in the game over and over and keep charging more money, nearly 50 bucks just to have more Japanese stuff? What happened to DLC being actual content? Civ 5 was the best, 6 had some cool features, Civ 7 has so much dlc content (when you break it down by whats in the dlcs) it seriously makes CK3 blush

Not fun. Terrain makes combat impossible (should have combat width with armies instead of non-stackable tiles), scouts commit suicide as soon as you auto explore. All the civs build the same buildings, so every civ is the same outside of artwork and a few bonuses. Crashes on the largest map in exploration era. The art is pretty cool, but the game overall is more of a rush to advance, than a fun civ building immersion.

Atrocious, amateurish and ahistorical game. Super gamey, unrealistic and unintuitive gameplay. There is no continuity in the game: after an age transition all your technologies and civics vanish. Resources get reshuffled, your city specialists are disabled. Citizens cannot be shuffled around city tiles and are stuck like serfs for the remainder of the game where you initially placed them. Paradoxically, cities grow faster by using gold than food to grow them. Massive historical inaccuracies and made up narratives: the Ming play as a maritime trading superpower, whereas historically they were extreme isolationists and imposed a maritime ban with the rest of the world!

Does not flow like previous Civ games. Boring and slow with too much details

I started playing Sid's Civ back in 1994. I've played every major release of this game and this is by far the worst game of the entire series. I don't know how anyone who ever played these games could possible design and produce this trash. If you love the Civ series, please DO NOT buy this game. It will only make you mad that they screwed it up this badly. Aside from clear graphics, its the worst computer game I've ever played.

If you are a hardcore CIV fan like myself, get it on a really really steep discount. Try it, enjoy it a bit, and try not to rage quit when your first age completes and you have to stop your production queues to rebuilt merchants, restart wars, evaluate your city/town setups, redo your resource assignments that are no longer there due to... oh wait, the trade agreements being reset!! I don't want this failure to prevent future iterations, but the developers definitely need to know they screwed the pooch on this one. I've never felt more disconnected from my progress in a game than this use of Ages. Humankind isn't nearly as complex as CIV has historically been, but they did it way better than CIV7. I've been playing every one of these since the original Civilization back when DOS was still a thing. I adore this series, but you've done what they did to the Homeworld series; Made eye candy and charged out the buttocks for it without really putting your mechanics into the wringer before releasing.

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