I must admit that my first Civ game was the "call to power" produced by Activision, but since then i played every civilization game starting from Civ 2.
Picked this mess up after the most recent update hoping they fixed things and made it at least playable.
Well it is playable, but it is not a civilization game.
They have taken a hero based rogue lite, like "slay the spire", and gave it a civilization coat of paint.
Either because some one really wanted to make a rogue lite or they were trying to make something that will not crash on Switch every 2 minutes.
Don't believe me?
The primary focus of this pile of trash are "heroes" rulers.
You pick your ruler and a starting "weapon" civilization.
While playing as your "hero" you advance through the "stages" ages, and face a "boss" crisis.
Depending on how you played through the age and the crisis you unlock different weapons to play in the next stage, and you unlock mementos to make you next playthrough easier.
There are many more points like this you notice while playing.
On top of it basic civilization gameplay like Science, diplomacy, economy is severely nerfed.
Science pool is laughably small, where used to be a huge tree now lies a bush with maybe 50 choices spread across 3 ages. Diplomacy becomes click on your neighbor every 9-12 turns and renew "improve trade relations".
etc.
I tried both age transition methods, do not like either. They are just a reset point to free up ram on the switch because feraxis does not want to bother and have 2 versions of this game one for PC and one for console.
The game looks ok and as long as i use vulcan it does not crash, but if i forget and use the default aka Dx12 it crashes every hour on the dot.
I do not want to play a Switch hero based rogue lite on my PC. I do not want a civilization game that stops me every 2-3 hours to do an age transition just so handheld switches do not melt and it can be fair to the poor ai players.
I want the continuous raw experience of civ 2 - civ 5. I want to be able to have tanks, nukes and airplanes (or the fusion tanks and space cities from "call to power") while the ai barely has enough technology to make gunpowder at best.
Should have waited another year to buy it on sale for $10 + 50% off dlc.
