Sid Meier's Civilization VII

I haven't fully explored the game yet, so don't take my word as gospel. This feels just like an extremely, extremely dumbed-down version of Civ6 so far. As a Deity player in Civ 6 and titles before, the lack of micromanagement feels almost like this is a mobile version of Civ 6. There's just less to do, I feel, and everything feels extremely shallow. Two separate things that immediately put me off were the settlement limits, and what they've done with cities. You cannot have a fully-functional city after your first settled capital without waiting a significant amount of time for your gold to stock up. When you setlle a new area, you're making a settlement, which has tile yields, and LOOKS like a city in other versions of the game, but you can't build anything yet! All of the production of this settlement converts to gold. This gold is supposed to be used to buy improvements/buildings in the settlement like a Library, for instance. You can't train armies there, either, you can only purchase them. So, early game, you have your capital, and then a few setllements that do absolutely nothing besides stockpile culture, science, influence, and gold. That's all they do. They only management you need to do with these towns is to change their focus, tell them what tile to expand to when their population increases... and that's it. No longer can you get right to work in the early game putting focus in one spot on improving science, this city building a wonder, this city pumping out archers. This time, you move your units, and hit End Turn. The complexity is gone to appeal to players that were never going to play a Civ game in the first place, I feel. Once you get like 1k gold, you can finally upgrade your settlement into a city. Now, if you want to play a super aggressive, expansionist game, you're just screwed from the beginning. You have a settlement cap, and it's pretty low. If you exceed this cap, you have accumulating happiness penalties that will absolutely screw you until you research a tech or have a policy or whatever to raise it. This completely eliminates certain playstyles, or handicaps them significantly. It feels like they want to make a specific, homogenized playstyle, which is just bogus. I want to be a conqueror. I want to have a sprawling empire. To top this all off, I bought the game and all released DLC. The very day after I did, they dropped another DLC, which is like 5 civs/leaders, and it's $20! It doesn't even have actual content! I realize that Firaxis isn't a 501c, and that they need to make a profit, but come on, man. tl;dr, this game appears as if it's trying to appeal to people that were never going to pick up civ in the first place. the gameplay is extremely shallow, and they appear to try and force you into specific playstyles. Finally, the greed behind the DLC is ridiculous. We don't even have the ability to advance to the space age yet! When the price gets down to like 30 bucks for the game and all DLCs, then I will recommend it whole-heartedly. As it is now, the price is way too high for a still-unfinished game.

Just not what expected, civ 6 was great though, a pitty

Change is good. Too much change is bad. Change for the sake of change is just horrible.

Its just not value for money and the gameplay isnt all that rivetting...

TLDR playing this game feels like doing WHAT THE DEVS WANT NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO I'm really trying to give it a chance but the age system is killing me. Going into negative yields at the beginning of a new age almost seemingly as a punishment for doing well in the last is just demoralizing. trying to rebalance the board TWICE per game really screws up the progression, and overbuilding on old city buildings is clever/confusing/super frustrating for any really strategy. The crisis' are interesting but god help you if you actually have a major military campaign going or are not doing well when they start. I could go on about the lack of info in the UI for important details(key to strategy games) and highly stilted war system that obtusely punishes you for the messed up war support system, etc. but many other players have covered this. They're working on it but the core gameplay is so uniquely different from other civs i don't think this will every come close to living up to the franchise. Contemplating a refund even after getting it half off

This feels nothing like Civilization. I really wanted to like it, but the UI was just awful.

£100 for drip fed "dlc" whats going on? thats crazy. Spent around a hour trying to see why anyone would even spend £25 for all that dlc. £100! Plus the 2k screen is always in the top corner of the screen while in game? and it says legend enabled. (they call it legend mode and all it does is watch you, and then they give you xp for some skins i guess...) To disable it... create a 2k account sign to disable...