Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?

Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI is a strategy, turn-based strategy and multiplayer game developed by Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac) and Aspyr (Linux) and published by Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux) and 2K.
Released on October 20th 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 346,976 reviews of which 301,328 were positive and 45,648 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7x64 / Windows 8.1x64 / Windows 10x64
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 2.5 Ghz or AMD Phenom II 2.6 Ghz or greater
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 1 GB & AMD 5570 or nVidia 450 or Intel Integrated Graphics 530
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 17 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Device
  • Additional Notes: Initial installation requires one-time Internet connection for Steam authentication; software installations required (included with the game) include Steam Client, Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 and 2015 Runtime Libraries, and Microsoft DirectX. Internet connection and acceptance of Steam™ Subscriber Agreement required for activation. See for details.
MacOS
  • OS: 10.14.6 (Mojave)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 2.7Ghz
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 1 GB GPU Minimum - GeForce 775M | Radeon HD 6970 | Intel Iris Pro
  • Storage: 17 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: NOTICE: It is possible for Mac and PC to become out of sync during updates or patches. Within this time period, Mac users will only be able to play other Mac users.
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 16.04 (64bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 530 or AMD A8-3870
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 1 GB VRAM Minimum - NVIDIA GeForce 650
  • Storage: 17 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Some Intel i3 Processors may require an additional 2 GB Swap Partition. IMPORTANT NOTICE: ATI and INTEL chipsets are NOT supported to run Civilization VI LINUX. Don't meet the above requirements? Running on a unique distro? That doesn't mean your configuration wont run Civ VI! Visit the Civilization VI community page to share your experience with other Linux players and learn about how to send bugs to Aspyr. Your feedback will help us improve Civ VI Linux and future AAA Linux releases!

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Jan. 2025
Great game and recommended if you are a strategy player. Looking forward to the new game soon!
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Dec. 2024
Good thing Luigi was around to resolve 25% of the UI bugs, the user experience of civilization 6 could have ended up being measurably worse without him
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Nov. 2024
Good one. Very good one. Almost as good as Civ V. Unfortunately, like every Civ game, the game becomes boring from middle game: the first hours are critical, the following ones are meaningless: the strong become stronger, the weak die little by little, and there is no more magic on discovering lands or technologies.
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Aug. 2024
My review of the game was going to be "Good game, buy it" or "I can't stop playing, please send help" or something cheesy like that. All of that is still true, but I recently had to move away from my gaming computer to a more compact, lightweight laptop without a GPU. Somehow the developers of this game have optimized the graphics, and provided enough options to select UI and graphical settings, that I don't see the massive slowdowns or bad textures that I expected. My worst fear was having to play the game without animations or having extremely long turn times, but I never actually encountered anything like that. In fact, the only bad thing about the game is that they removed my favorite feature from Civ 5: Being able to use my gaming laptop as a room-heater in the winter in my dorm. I've spent about a thousand hours on this game according to Steam, but I think that number should actually be much higher! I'd say every second of that was worth it, but I need to figure out how to stop playing this game and go to bed before the birds start chirping and the sun starts to rise. Buy it when it's on discount, though, because the full price of this game with all its DLCs will financially destroy you.
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July 2024
Great game, 1000 hours well spent. Anyways, use this to bypass the 2k launcher upon startup. In the launch options set a path direct to the .exe file. The default pathing plus command should look like this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Base\Binaries\Win64Steam\CivilizationVI.exe" %command% Replace the path between commas to wherever your CivilizationVI.exe is located.
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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
8.6
301,328
45,648
Online players
49,890
Developer
Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)
Publisher
Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux), 2K
Release 20 Oct 2016
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