Sid Meier’s Civilization 7 finally had its gameplay reveal at Gamescom earlier this week, and as expected, it has been exceptionally well received. popular strategy games have become a household name, especially among PC gamers, and even the casual gamers have heard a lot about this series. However, if the teaser for Civilization 7 has only whetted your appetite, there is currently a sale on most modern parts of the series.
Above all Civilization 6 is currently particularly popular. You can download the basic version of Civilization 6 for (quite reasonable) $6. Anecdotally, I always hear from people that these games are such simple time-wasters, and no one I know who plays civilization has anything close to a “normal” number of hours. This means that for just six dollars you can probably get hundreds of hours of entertainment as you try to build your own civilization with any number of Chapter 6‘s available executives.
If you are new here, the civilization The series is a strategy game that lets you build your own nations and eventually empires. You can customize the details of these societies, including their values, religions and technologies, and you can pursue different paths to advance your society, hence the nickname for civilizations subgenre 4X, which stands for Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterminate. You can compete with other civilizations and famous world leaders (including a hilarious nuclear weapons enthusiast Gandhi) and can win these encounters and the game in a variety of ways, including war or diplomacy.
Civilization 6 is the newest entry, although it was released nearly ten years ago but has been widely supported since then. In the intervening years, it has received at least two major expansions and a number of smaller expansions that have added new leaders, civilizations, and mechanics (like damn climate change) to the game through early 2023. If you’re at all interested in getting more out of the game, You can purchase the extensions for about $5 eachor you can purchase one of two packages containing the DLC.
The first bundle, called Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 Platinum Editionincludes the two major expansions and about half of the smaller DLCs and is currently available on Steam for about $12. Alternatively, if you feel that you are ready to give everything on Civilization 6 Ahead of the upcoming sequel next year, you can grab the anthology bundle with all the content for just $25. In total, you get the base game and 18 DLCs, which cover about a decade of content. I don’t think you can get more out of the Civ series, apart from playing all the previous games.
While this game should be enough for you, some of the other modern games in the series are also on offer. Civilization 5 is pretty cheap at the moment and only costs about $5and if you want to go back even further, Civilization 4 costs $3. But don’t worry, you don’t have to play Civilization 1-6 to understand Civilization 7. Common misunderstanding in these parts.
As someone who is curious about the best PC strategy gamesand who has recently dipped their toes into PC gaming in general, it feels blasphemous not have a single civilization game on my hard drive. Maybe today is the day I fix that and look forward to the next game that I’ll probably be hearing about for ten years after it comes out. We might as well all jump on the bandwagon right now, and who wouldn’t with these insanely low prices.
