Sid Meier's Civilization VII

Yeah, it is Civilization. Yes, Once you configure every setting to not make the game annoying as hell from turn 15 it is better. Yes, it is better since you don't have to be forced changed into a different civ now. Overall, it is scratching my itch for Civilization. I have played 2,3,4,5. This is probably the most awkward of them all but once I dialled in the pre-game settings it is a bit more it became playable. IT IS NOT WORTH THE PRICE but the game is pretty reasonable.

They're not competing against other strategy games - they're competing against Civ V. A pretty game but the amount of pop-ups makes it feel like navigating a cluttered inbox. For my taste, there's a reason why less graphic detail is more thought provoking and engaging. If they reboot Civ V - I would say a very *light* refresh of the graphics and a culling of what works and doesn't work about the franchise would be the move. Let's be honest, these games are going to have to be playable on worse and worse computers because of part scarcity / price. Please, for the love of god, do not go full wharrgarbl and make shiny Blizzard level reboot (unless it's cute kawaii Civ V, i'm on board with that)

It's a bad game and it's even worse as a Civilization game. 1. Atrocious UI that bombards the player with information while most if is useless though. There are to many menus. Menu handling is terrible as well. Various functionalities are extremely confusing and frustrating in their use. Clicks are not being recognized. I want to cancel a simple action but instead the entire menu closes. Finding relevant information in this convoluted mess is unnecessarily difficult and time consuming. The supposed help in various cases didn't actually help because it contains self-referential statements. 2. Even the Tutorial is useless. You start a new map and get these giant popups with generic text that is supposed to highlight relevant functionalities which it doesn't really. Then there is supposed to be the "k" button to highlight something but it doesn't actually highlight anything and just makes the screen darker on the entire UI. I've tried to use that with various functionalities and it always just leaves me baffled in what it is actually supposed to do. If you have played Civ games before you can figure quite a bit out on your own but why have a Tutorial if it doesn't really help in learning the basics? 3. I do not like the visuals of Civ 7. In combination with the awful UI it makes a lot of things really hard to see. Where in Civ 6 it was usually quite easy to identify districts, basic tile improvements as well as general environmental aspects and units, it has become a lot harder as they have tried to go for a more realistic look that makes a lot of things just melt together in the background and it results in me always searching for stuff. 4. The nation and leader selection thing at the start in my opinion is also awful. I started two matches with mostly randomized settings and it resulted in an indian leader while playing as Japan and there other was some black woman leader while playing as Russia. It takes me completely out of the fantasy of playing as the respective nation. It just looks and feels disconnected - especially when after some time that age system kicks in an suggests to switch to a different nation. No.....just no.... 5. Also regarding the era system => I hate it. First off all, towards the end of the era the game forces debuffs on your nation (a "crisis") where you get mood penalties in the population or some other nonsense. It's not because of something natural that happens that you somehow defeat and get rid off. It's just that aftr 2/3 of the era, things are going bad and you for the remaining time till the era change you have to play with these debuffs which can be causing riots and other problems. I do not understand how this is supposed to make the game more fun. And then once the era timer reaches 100%, you switch to the next era which changes various things on the map for your cities and settlements, moves units around or even replaces them. You're basically put into a new game with a map looking mostly the same but a different status quo that you're now supposed to deal with. It's just bad design in my opinion. The entire idea behind it is awful and should've been scrapped from the beginning. 6. Military units no longer have experience. That is now entirely part of the leader unit. So if you want to fight wars, you're supposed to have these leaders in there, which then are supposed to be specialized either to something more melee or ranged oriented or be something of a defense supporter. They seem to also be used for certain buffs in the cities. It's definitely questionable whether this is good or bad design. Personally I think taking the entire experience aspect away from the combat units is a bad decision because it forces me to play with these leaders which makes the positioning and handling of combat more convoluted. It allows for movement as a single unit for the leader plus up to 6 military units but at the destination you then have to split them up again which creates another bit of a mess again. 6. The handling of non-combat units is also just confusing. I do not really understand what is going on with things like traders. I define a trade route and the unit moves there and then I select a trade route again but it's not really clear how or where things are actually moved or in what way. And due to Ui being bad it isn't really self explanatory what this stuff is doing. The game also isn't exactly motivating in a way so I'd want to look more deeply into it as it quickly just becomes boring and annoying. I'd like to say something positive about the game but it's really hard to find anything in Civ 7 that I actually like. It hasn't crashed in the couple of hours I've played it... In any way in my opinion Civ 7 is a complete failure within this series and the only thing I'm happy about is that I at least didn't buy it and was able to take a look at this mess for free (well I have spend time though...).

Long-time civ fan. Really wanted to give this a shot. Read the reviews and comments when it was coming out. Stayed away from purchasing at launch. Finally, within the last couple of months and after they released the test-of-time update, I tried to give it a shot and bought it on Steam Summer Sale. The game is still lost. It's a facsimile of the civ games we came to know and love through the years. Civ7 is just not a fun civ game, even with the updates. Maybe Civ8 will learn from this mistake, if the franchise can survive through the civ7 debacle. Pros: has the civ name. Fun for a few hours. Admirals and commanders, I guess (though air unit management is cumbersome and not intuitive). Cons (a few standouts among many): - Age transitions and turn-limited ages make it feel like each game is actually 3 mini turn-limited games, instead of building a civ that stands the test of time. Game only goes to modern age (WWII era) - no cool fun future/information era stuff. - Unvaried leaders - multiple 'versions' of same leader. Also, detaching leaders from their real-world civilizations breaks immersion (even with ability to match leader to their real-life civ counterpart - there are still missing civs). - Victories feel sudden and unplanned. You have to choose victory conditions, lest you find yourself winning a sudden cultural victory when you were wanting to play a military, or scientific-focused game for instance. - Micromanagement hell: Age-specific buildings and resources, policies and legacies, mementos and leader level-ups, make a micromanagement hell - so many small decisions (should I place the granary/warehouse district in this tile, or will that block a better science district in the next age? Or will it prevent a needed resource from spawning on that tile?... whoops... can't place this building in the ideal tile yet, because there's no district to it from the city center... should this tile have a harbor, a market, a lighthouse, a bridge, a fishing quay... then onto the next tile? Do I take this memento... oh, can't yet, because I didn't play enough games with that leader... if I don't take this legacy at age-transition, all my cities turn back into towns causing me to spend more gold again in the next age.... and on and on and on the micro decisions go until you accidentally win, or lose a game). Micromanagement gives the illusion of controlling your civ, while actually detaching you from any real strategy, or fun immersion and story-telling.

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I was familiar with a lot of the negative criticism surrounding this game, but I wanted to give it a fair shot since it was free to play for a week. As a fan of the Civilization series and strategy games in general, there is a lot of positive things I could say about Civilization VII but I believe this entry has some very poor game design decisions that absolutely kill my enjoyment of it. I could elaborate on some of its many issues (poor UI/UX, civ switching, excessive monetization...) but at its core what fundamentally kills the game for me is the era transition system. Just like most civilization games the game is actually fun once it gets going but even with the recent changes the era transitions still feel like a punch in the gut. It almost feels as if you were having fun building your own sandcastle and then the game goes out of its way to stomp it to the ground. It also kills most long term strategies once you get close to the end of an era, since beyond triumphs and what's already immediately available to you won't have much of an impact in the next one. It pains me to say this, but I think above all else this core mechanic is antithetical to a strategy game. I get that they wanted to curb player snowballing and make the eras feel more special, but all it amounts to is taking agency away from the player in a very unengaging way. If I wanted a "reset" I could already do that by starting a new game, instead now I am forced to do that twice a game while slowing down the pace and limiting my strategical options for no apparent reason.

Excellent game with endless replayability. Loved the changes to it and recommend it to any previous Civ player.

我说白了纯半成品一个，玩了20多小时已经没有打开的欲望了，除了画风比6强别的真没感觉有啥长进。