100 hours of Civilization VI

Under the release of 7th Civilization title, i’ve finally grasped the central mechanics of Civilization VI. To me it is a big improvement compared to Civ V, many things fixed and many things changed to a better alternative.

I’m not going to rush into newest release, but i’m going to pinpoint several things i’ve done in Civ VI and comment several mechanics.

For past 2 weeks i’ve went from 50 hours to 100 hours playing Civilization VI, and i’ve managed to:

• Beat King difficulty on several maps by war and science.
• Tried to win by culture but it seemed hard.
• Played multiplayer with 4 friends and 4 bots on standard map.
• Tried maps: continents, pangea, archipelago, fractal, inner sea (quite strange generation for small size).
• Tried civilizations: Rome (Caesar), Russia, Incas, Greece (Alexander), Germany.

Things to note:

• Districts mechanic is brilliant, it adds interesting challenge to plan your cities.
• Workers look better with charges.
• Unit connection mechanic is good.
• Groups and armies of war units mechanic is very good.
• Governors mechanic is good.
• Governments mechanic is good.
• Religious wars… quite time-consuming.
• Spies… don’t know yet. They looks quite boring, it’s not fun to defend your districts with spies.
• Air forces - quite good, definitely better than in Civ V. Could be still improved, at least with better controls (some hotkeys are not working).
• Ages mechanic - quite good, an experienced player can get a lot of things from it.
• Very good to see better balance of modern tech war units. In Civ V it was a disaster to see how Infantry unit destroy everything including tanks. In multiplayer many things (such as air) are broken, but still all units more or less viable.

Maybe i will play a couple more games in Civ 6, with increased difficulty and on new maps. I’ll keep an eye on Civilization VII, once the time is right, i will try this out.