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Lead a civilization from its first settlement, plan hex-based districts, advance science and culture, and pursue one of five victories.
Released 20 Oct 2016
Plan Hex-Based Districts
Race for Five Victories
Advance Science and Civics
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
Developed by Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux) · Published by 2K, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)
Themes from a helpfulness-selected sample of Steam reviews, not the aggregate Steam score.
Guide a civilization from its early settlement through successive stages of history, expanding your cities while competing with other leaders, each with distinct traits and agendas.
Explore the map, develop land, and build districts, wonders, and improvements on individual hexes. District placement shapes each city and can provide different bonuses, so terrain and location inform your plans.
Advance through separate technology and civics trees, changing governments and cultural policies as you progress. Build influence with city-states, negotiate or fight with rival civilizations, and use spies to gather intelligence or disrupt opponents; pursue a military, scientific, cultural, religious, or score victory.
Players often describe the turn-by-turn loop as absorbing, with many finding that a short session stretches into hours. Reviews praise the strategic variety of different leaders and victory paths, as well as planning cities around district placement. Recurring criticisms include the learning curve, rival AI and diplomacy, and concerns about the game's online terms and data sharing.















| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 320 |
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| Players | From 2 (maximum not specified) |
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| Multiplayer | Sid Meier’s Civilization VI supports multiplayer alongside single-player. Store features explicitly list Online PvP, LAN PvP, shared/split screen PvP, cross-platform multiplayer, Steam Turn Notifications, Remote Play Together, and the multiplayer-related tag Online Co-Op. Reviews describe direct competitive matches, cooperative play against AI, play with friends, and Remote Play use, but also report peer-to-peer networking, desyncs, out-of-sync errors, and lobby issues. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop is supported. Reviews state that community mods and tools are used to improve multiplayer, including Multiplayer Helper, Better Balanced Starts, and Better Balanced Game, and mention workarounds for lobby and synchronization issues. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 10 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 88/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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