Sid Meier's Civilization VII

Can't play offline, WTF is the point? Trash

WORST Civ . Every aspect of the game is worse . War is bad : you dont decide when you stop . Ages are terrible - they wipe all your progress , intervene with your plans for no reason . Science works weird . Every mechanic is annoying . The amount of mechanics is stuggering : so many confusing stuff is happening , so many alerts regarding things you never knew existed ! The game does everything to confuse and annoy you , and nothing to help . Graphics are cool . Loading times are too high , especially when age changes . Leaders are , in most cases, are some random NPCs without any historical impact . I never heard about almost any of them . I downvote this game , because I love the series , and devs must know , that they are wrong . They did huge mistake , they lost loyal fans . I hope , they will learn the lesson . But if you read this to decide to buy or not - do not buy . You will suffer.

I just played this during the free play week, just got through one game and I cannot recommend this. Lets start with the game itself. It looks okay but not great, don't much like the art style or design of it. They kin of copied aspects of Humankind in the city building which I like more than in the last one but still wouldn't call it good. Human kind does it better. Cities look nice though. They did something interesting with the combat with the commanders, kind of copying Humankind again but making it more a mixed system. Units can be moved individually or with a commander, this I actually liked. But in general the combat isn't great. Same old formula but kind of limited in terms of units especially as you advance. Diplomacy is still hella limited, really cannot overstate how horrible the diplomacy sysem in this game is. Very limited interaction options, especially during peace treaties there's the options give gold, give influence, and give cities. Done, that's it. And the bots never have enough gold or influence for it to matter. Diplomacy is a big minues again. Tech and tech tree is standard, nothing different or special done with it. Big meh. The ages are garbage, I guess it's meant to be a reset that to an extend stops steamrolling by a player getting an advantage. That part is good, but it's just a weird interruption to the game. Best is if it interrupts a war, reseting everything to the previous status quo. And the best part, there's only 3 ages. That's it. The entirity of Human history is divided into 3 ages. And the crises are just boring and pointless. This might be the worst part of a bad game. Guess they'll add more in the coming paid dlc. And that brings us to the last point, the crazy lack of content. Too few leaders, too few civilizations and more copying of Humankind just worse again. This game is very obviously made with the idea of selling a barebones game with barely any content and then realeasing one DLC after the other seeling new leaders and civiliaztions. A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game that hopefully noone buys. I miss the good old days of Civ 3, 4 and 5 compared to what we get now.

Despite being such a long-standing franchise, even Sid Meier makes mistakes. Civilization VII is lacking in depth and variety, opting instead to introduce new systems that lack development. As is usually the case with more recent Civilization games, there will likely be a large expansion that will improve the game flow vastly. Until then, I cannot recommend this game.

Visuals are nice. That's about the best thing I can say. Rest of the game has as much soul as interactive spreadsheet. There's so much clicking, so many dubious game systems that seem to detract from immersion instead of promoting it. The UI is clunky and sense of epic civilisation building is absent. Worst of all, the decision of mix and match cultures is cancer. Copying Humankind was a dumb decision.

If you expect a Civ3/4/5 gameplay, just pass. Don't waste your time and money. Wait for another two, or I don't know how many years, of these pitiful kindergarten-oriented sequels, until these folks realize that they took the wrong turn. It's not a strategy. It's not a Civilization. Boring, linear and thoughtless gameplay. Pure disappointment. Play Civ5 and hope for the bright future (this is not it, 4sure),

too many bugs make the game unplayable, do not buy

Even with the update, still 6 > 7.