When you start a game you can change a lot of the rules to better adjust to the experience you want. Make a priority to explore (not necessarily killing everything on sight!) your surroundings, searching for camps to avoid having too many barbarians around you.Īlso, if you want, you can remove them from your game. I prefer 5 partly because I'm much more familiar with it and how it works and also because it's easier to do well building tall compared to 6 where it feels like you need to go wide. Civilization VI offers new ways to interact with your world, expand your empire across the map, advance your culture, and compete against history’s greatest leaders to build a civilization that will stand the test of time. Ah, 2010 Lady Gaga and Beyoncé were tearing up the dancefloor with Telephone, Inception was fuelling one million drunk philosophical conversations, Jackass had gone 3D, and Civilization V had yet to reach that point in every Civ games lifespan where its declared superior to its successor. Try taking them slowly with hit-and-run tactics until your units get some experience and don't send your first warriors too far too quickly, expecially if they are alone. Comparing the full versions of both games, 6. Civilization 6 artist mods it to look more like Civ 5. The game before and after the big expansions is completely different.īarbarians at first can be quite a problem, expecially in Civ VI. Not only new civilizations and game modes, but the expansions adds several new systems, victory types, resources, gameplay mechanics ecc. Also Civ V is cheaper, so if you don't like the series it's not a problem and you can always get VI in the future since they are quite different experiences. Players attempt to take a fledgling civilization from 4000BC to modern times and lead their civilization to victory through domination, science, culture or diplomacy. Since you never played the series I suggest Civ V: Civ VI can be quite overwhelming for a new player and it needs time to learn it, while V is a little simpler and straightforward. Sid Meiers Civilization V is a turn-based strategy game encompassing all of human history. Both are great games (with expansions, the base games shouldn't be considered) so both are excellent choices.

Civilization 5 or 6