3. CIVILIZATION VI
I just couldn’t bring myself to put it any higher. Yes, there are many ways you could argue that Civilization VI is the pinnacle of the series, most of them boiling down to the fact it has decades’ worth of hindsight to draw on and mistakes to rectify, but while in previous years I’d have replayed Civ games to death, Civ VI just hasn’t had the same draw.
https://kotaku.com/civilization-vi-gathering-storm-the-kotaku-review-1832445366
I think this is partly down to the game’s bizarre obsession with district placement bonuses, which is not the kinda thing I am playing these games for. And it’s partly down to the AI, which is neither as charming or as cunning as previous years.
But mostly it’s down to the fact it was just another Civ game. There are only so many times you can repeat the same formula over 30 years before it gets stale, and I think Civ VI is the game that finally hit that ceiling.
All that said, this is still a fantastic video game, and its most recent expansion has brought climate change to strategy gaming in an elegant and practical way
https://kotaku.com/civilization-has-helped-me-feel-slightly-less-terrible-1832546142
