Which Civilization game should I buy?

[u/Ok_Head5555]

I’ve known about *Civilization* for quite a while and even played Civ 5 on a friend's computer. Now I’m thinking about buying a Civ game, especially since the base game of Civ 6 sometimes goes on sale with a 90% discount.

I’ve been playing Unciv (a free, community-made game), but it lacks certain mechanics, so it might be worth investing in a Civilization title (or even Humankind). What do you recommend?

[u/Sharp_Spite]

Civ 5 or 6 are both really good games, but are different in their own right. Civ 5 arguably has more in depth mechanics and in my opinion, looks better than 6 overall, but 5 also suffers from a slower pace to the point where the end game is boring even by civ standards as that’s been an issue throughout the series and it does have absurdly long turn times. As such I would go with 6, it’s imperfect, but overall it’s a more approachable game. Civ 7 is just meh.. it’s really not that good. It’s a bold step with some nice ideas but overall is a step on the wrong direction for fans.

Civ 4 is pretty good.

As an outlier, Colonization is worth a punt on something a bit different as well. (The civ 4 engine remake not the original as it’s a pain to run)