Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™

Like a soulless "modern audience" version of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Whereas SMAC was a masterpiece of interactive storytelling within the framework of a Civ game, BE is an extremely-barebones attempt at simply having a futuristic Civ game without any real ideological messages. Virtually every civ is just another brand of generic 21st Century liberal-centrist mores applied slightly differently. In contrast to SMAC where you can mold your civ into whatever form of governance you like, decision moments from building new things in your cities that will be impactful for gameplay (ex. all Clinics will either provide +1 Energy or +1 more Health, etc.) are always presented from a frankly-authoritarian and vaguely insane perspective (ex. instead of choosing not to fire up a sentient AI to spy on everyone, the game simply says "we'll just not tell the public it exists. Would you like +1 Energy or +1 Food?"). Everyone is essentially the same character, with diplomacy being virtually nonexistent/meaningless and the backstories for these leaders existing solely in secluded corners of the wiki, never to be expressed in-game. There is no United Nations or similar institution, so forget melting the ice caps or winning by common consensus vote. They also clearly thought making the leaders speak the languages of their origin place on Earth would be more "realistic", yet it just detracts from each of them when I have to read subtitles to understand their 5-6 regurgitated lines. Anyways, the gameplay itself is actually alright. Similar to Civ4/5. They added an alignment system though: Harmony (pro-alien, biological integration), Purity (pro-human, reject change), and Supremacy (pro-machine, cyborg adaptation) which on paper sounds really cool, until you realize you can just advance all 3 alignments despite the game insisting that certain decisions will send you down one path or the other. This is largely due to the techs conferring alignment points upon completion. Mixing alignments can produce cool units, but when you can just make every unit in the game eventually, it's a pointless addition that could have made BE so much cooler and added a lot to what the diplomacy system could have been. Overall, it's worth checking out if you like civ games, but don't expect it to compare to Civ 4, SMAC, or any other top-quality Civ game.

I used to love the game, and though vanilla was a bit bland, Rising Tide fixed a lot of issues. The premise is good, the gameplay at the time was solid, and unlike Civ VII, it was not released with a terrible UI or broken age systems. Now, after updates and the stupid EULA updates, the game crashes more and more often and is literally just sitting there spying on you. Avoid anything by the devs.

This is, to me, the only civilisation game I ever truly enjoyed. I do realise that sets me apart from most people interested in the franchise. The combination of distrinct ideologies, unit synergies, and the evolution of the tech tree into a web instead of linear progression makes it infinitely replayable, and each match unique in unexpected ways. It is less punshing to the player, and encourages a broad spectrum of possible strategies and playstyles. I have played it loyally for these past ten years, and I will play for ten more, We started from Earth in search of survival. Here... we found home

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Game is broken now, used to be playable, latest patches have rendered mods useless and buggy and even without any mods, game breaks in many ways while playing making hours of play hopeless.

My experience with Civ began with Civ 3 over 20 years ago, when it was on a 3 CD box set. Played for hours. Forgot about time. Loved the characters. Then came Civ 4, Warlords, Beyond the Sword. Civ 5. Each iteration brought something more: Deeper opportunities for the level of complexity at which I played. Not just the building of cities. The trade. Religion. Espionage. Warfare. Culture. Diplomacy. I came to Sid Meier's Civ Beyond Earth after trying and disliking Civ 6. This was a breath of fresh air. I grew up with Star Trek. Loved sci fi short stories, novels, films. Ranging from the 50's flying saucer films : The Day the Earth Stood Still. This Island Earth. Forbidden Planet. The concept of interstellar travel. Alien Worlds with bizarre environments and creatures. That is the mindset I brought to this game. When I hear the opening music, look at the satellites above the world in the opening, I am moved. Inspired. Transported to that place. The genius of this game is the creation and fostering of that feeling. An alternative history dealing with the consequences of the Great Mistake. The choices of what do you value when starting over - science, production, culture, etc. Who do you bring with you? Who are the colonists that start your world? What do you wish to maximize upon landing? Energy? Food? Instead of whose flag are you under, what leader do you follow? Each brings a different advantage - faster border expansion, faster production, faster acquisition of virtues. At this point, there are multiple similarities to previous generations of Civ. But the worlds which are generated, the aliens encountered, the differences in the tech tree, the addition of the virtues each leader possesses, and the increased importance of the active use of espionage, sets the game apart, as does the differences of the three affinities available. Harmony focused on adaptation to and respect for the indigenous creatures and environment. Purity focused on a transformation to a terra like environment. Supremacy focused on a transformation which exalts science - and its consequences. There was an initial version of this game which thankfully was upgraded by the Rising Tide DLC, as well as an exoplanet map pack. At the time of this initial review, I have played this game 712 hours. I am still learning about which combination of techs and virtues, with which affinity, which leader, works best for my satisfaction. I have yet to complete all the achievements. And that is the point. That is why I whole heartedly recommend this game. I am still learning. Still enjoying. Still playing for hours. I have yet to explore all of the mods available. All of the options. All of the possibilities.

To this day, Civ BE remains one of the most divisive games in the series. Clearly launched as a spiritual successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC), but without the Alpha Centauri branding or its quirky humor, I believe the typical player's experience of the game is closely tied to his/her perspective on SMAC. Do you remember SMAC with fond nostalgia, as a beautiful, brilliant and deep game way ahead of its time, never equaled by any 4X before or since? Then you will probably have a strong aversion to CivBE, viewing it as a shameless knock-off that tried to take advantage of player nostalgia in order to market a much different and far inferior game, with pretty graphics and high production values but lacking any of the OG's depth or charm. Or, do you remember SMAC as a hot mess of clunky and often broken mechanics and even worse UI, which, despite its imaginative worldbuilding and admittedly impressive gameplay [b]for its time[/b], also carried many tedious elements, was butt-ugly even by Y2K standards and possessed all the narrative subtlety of [I]Reefer Madness[/i]? Then you might very well see CivBE as an earnest and well-intentioned attempt to bring back the world and the vibe of Alpha Centauri in a format that 21st-century players might actually enjoy--which required radically streamlining the gameplay, and inevitably meant trading away some of the original game's depth. As the Civilization series continues to (d)evolve, I see more players starting to give this entry a second look. The game wasn't very successful at launch, and this caused the studio to abandon it not long after. This was unfortunate, because I think that if Firaxis/2K had been willing to stick it out for a little longer, it could have made a real comeback, especially around the time Civ VI came out and longtime fans began to see the writing on the wall. The Anchor Seti mod, which might as well be called a "required" mod at this point, gives us a glimpse of what might have been, and makes the game quite playable on its own, as long as you don't get hit by some of the more mood-killing base-game bugs such as losing sound after every reload or 20 minutes of continuous play. It has a great soundtrack, visuals that still hold up pretty well, and relative smooth gameplay with just a couple of essential mods--the only mods that still function, in fact. Honestly, it is worth your time if you can get it to work properly, but since that's a pretty big "if" to justify parting with $40, I'd advise getting it on sale. You can get a legitimate copy for considerably less than the Steam list price with a basic web search.

小偷:我大部分时间没空去你家光顾，也可能一辈子都不会去，但我得有你家钥匙，万一去的话你不能拦着，更要放弃报警的权力。

Overhated as ♥♥♥♥. They made a vibrant interesting world with genuinely incredible lore (just reading the Civpedia entries of stuff made me repeatedly go "YOOOO thats so cool!!!" about 100 times) and the gameplay is just classic Civ. There's nothing at all wrong with this game, most of the reviews seem to range from "Well its not (over a decade old other sci-fi civ game)" to "Its space not history wah" amongst a few other gripes but really? If you like Civ, and if you like sci-fi? This game f*cking rocks. Inarguably. It rocks. Its just awesome.