Civilization: Beyond Earth App Reviews

As previously mentioned in other comments this game feels alot like Civ V, just in a new world. It appears with the new techs that they tried to keep it challenging to stratigize, but only really suceeded in making the game difficult to comprehend…it gets easier with time however, but still diminishes the initial enjoyment. As with all Civ games its still enjoyable to play however I hope future releases revert back to a more historical basis for creating the game. I recommend waiting for the game to come on sale to purchase as it isn’t a must have if you’re still playing earlier editions.

This game reminds me very much of Alpha Centauri, but with better graphics.

Sid made a mistake when he removed the stacking option. In the real world this is used all the time. And the squares would be large enought to handle stacks. Maybe the total number of pieces in a stack could be limited, but not eliminted. When launching a satellite the game would crash, so make sure you have saved. It seems impossible to keep up with the AI’s they grow fast have lots of wonders and tech and units. I struggle to keep up even at the easiest level. Also, often when launching a satellite the screen will freeze, unable to exit except by unplugging the computer. When in the action menu and an action is clicked there is no response and you have to click the action a couple more times before the action occurs.

had to revert to previous version, quicks suddenly half way through. I still find the graphic and performance slow, even with last top of the line macbookpro 15.

Game keeps crashing since the update, please fix.

I’ve twice removed and re-installed but no change keeps closing .Help needed..

Works absolutely flawlessly. Love it!

This game is pretty middle of the road. I wasn’t a huge civilization fan anyway, but this just doesn’t seem to get it quite right. You’ll need to play about halfway through your first game in order to get the hang of how this works. Game also takes a really long time to load, you’ll think it is hanging, but really it’s just taking 5 minutes to load a map, very odd. This is true even though I have a solid state drive. My computer can boot in 15 seconds, but it takes minutes to start Beyond Earth, some sort of bug is going on here.

This game is complex and rich with strategic gameplay. If you’ve played CIV as long as I have you’ll appreciate the three custom affinities that shape your civilization’s unit options, building type, and bonuses. Upgrading the same units over time makes watching units evolve and invests you in guarding kills. The environment is lush and pushes a nice computer on HD settings, but it’s worth watching the alien life lurk in the fog of war. I just beat the game on every difficulty level. The easiest setting is an arcade version where you can’t click to far from victory yet the hard settings push each weapon in your arsenal from your army, to diplomacy, to specializing your own society for conquest or peace. Enjoy!

When I first downloaded the game, it took 15 minutes for to even get to the main menu. I brushed it off as new game warmup issues, or what have you. However, when I tried playing it yet again, it took another 15 minutes to get to the main menu. At this point, I was a little frustrated, but again brushed it off and was just happy I could play. Now, the game doesn’t even load within 15 minutes. I waited half of an hour, quit the program, let it be for a few minutes, and tried to relaunced it. I waited, passing the time with Netflix, when I was amazed to see that after watching four episodes of Breaking Bad, that the loading screen was still there. After that, I tried everything from restarting my MB Pro to a full shutdown. This is utter craziness and annoying that I have to go through all of this. I wil be pursuing a refund.

I’m afraid that I think earlier games in this series were better, and that CIV V and Beyond Earth are fairly weak. So here are my complaints: 1. Combat is simply not very interesting. In earlier versions, particularly IV, you zoomed in to the combat, and it was a bit more realistic (for the values of realism inherent in a game). Frankly, I enjoyed hearing the sounds as cities were taken. It’s relatively quiet here. 2. No Nukes. There’s nothing more satisfying than dropping a nuke on a place, and seeing and hearing an earth shattering kaboom. Take that Napoleon. 3. It is difficult to build large armies. Those take vast amounts of resources, and long periods of time, or available energy (used in place of gold in BE). 4. Diplomacy is not improved by having the leaders offer favors in exchange for their demands. 5. There is, as far as I know, no option to exchange technologies with leaders. 6. The leaders are still irrational. They’re friendly one moment, then the next they’re condemning you. 7. There’s a limited set (8) of leaders and factions. 8. The end of game shots are bad. I think it was Civ IV that had the animated movies at the end. Here you get a static image. 9. Replay doesn’t. All you get is a static chart. There are a bunch of static charts connected to the main one. 10. Switching between the normal layer and the space layer is awkward. As the game gets on, and you try to place satellites the game may become unstable and crash. 11. It is moddable, but not not easily. You have to edit a couple of files by hand, and the instructions for doing so (from an external site) aren’t terribly clear. 12. Espionage is quirky. Frankly, I’d rather have the spy as a unit, and the results more immediate. 13. If you’re playing with a startup disk that is relatively full, and have a number of programs open, particularly Safari, the disk space will start to go down, and the program will become sluggish and crash. Game play is okay. My personal problem is that I preferred the earlier games, some of which are no longer playable under OS X to the current ones.

Works well on my 2013 MacBook Pro. No resolusion problem, no loading problem. Fun to play!

I loved Civ III. The game play was great. There was almost no animation, but who plays Civ for a realistic animation. This version chokes my Mac. It runs so slow that it is no longer fun. It crashed the last three times i tried to play. There are weird video problems.

The game is great, I’m not here to complain about the game rather I’m here to complain about the crappy experience the version the Appstore has limited me to. First of all you dont have an option to play a multiplayer game on the internet. The only option is to play of a local network, which unrealistic for most people. You posted over a month ago that an update for multiplayer for cross platfoming was in the works, and now its time to follow through. Highly dissapointed with the amount of money that I paid, which is the same amount else where, yet I do not have the same options as others who have purchased the game. In retrospect I would have purchased the game else where as to get my monies worth.

I purchased this game back in October at current full price 49.99$. I do not recommend this game for the price. Civ 5 Vanilla (no DL content) was better IMO than this. - City states, now Stations(?) give no boosts other than a trade route and seem less important compared to Civ 5 - Aliens do not scale/Not enough variety/Uniqueness. Some of the aliens start insanely hard (landworm), but as your units get stronger, they stay the same so eventually you dominate them & no new attacks/skins either. - The Uniquness of each Nation is also much to be desired. Before you had unique units/benefits for each Civ. Now you only have the difference of starting bonus. Difference in units is accomplished through the tech tree, but more then 1 nation can get the same units which just makes it seem you’re fighting yourself. - Lack of replayability. The game in current state offers no replayability except to “maybe" try out the 3 different Affinities, which is done through the unlocking in tech tree As it stands to me, this game is at best worth 30$. You can find it cheaper at times if you check out other vendors which I would recommend. DLC may make this game better, but only if it’s cheap enough to buy to hopefully give this game some replability value.

I bought this game, forgetting to check the supported chipsets, and waited hours to download. I then spent another half-hour trying to get it to work, before finally checking the chipsets supported after it crashed. I ended up having to install on a shared Mac Mini and play the game there. Unsupported chipsets need to be more obvious. Would’ve been a total waste of money if not for the Mac Mini.

This game is even more disappointing than Civ 5 was. And in addition to the boring gameplay the civiliopedia doesn’t document how to play the game. For example, there is a quest to “declare hositility towards Far Base One” but essentially no interface to do so. I’m dissapointed that I spent $50 on this game. Fraxis should throw away Civ 5 and go back to Civ 4. Or better yet, go back to the Fall from heaven II mod for Civ 4.

I’ve played all the civ games and this one still has a bug on the contact victory that prevents you from activating the beacon. This is after I’ve invested dozens of hours into playing, learning, and finally getting close to a victory. Multiple searches of the internet and 2ks forums show that this bug has been around for a long time. Some indicate that the beacon activation button is hard to see. On my computer, it is non-existent. I’ve spent another hour trying to click where it should be (after looking at other’s screen shots), adjusting my graphics settings, searching 2ks forums and such. I would have submitted a bug report, but their submission process is just too painful with a crummy forum interface and the requirement to sign up. So 2k, you are getting a 2 star rating. You could have been great, but you didn’t execute a sufficient QA plan to the end of the game and you wasted my time. Don’t even get me started on how this causes my computers fans to sound like jet engines. Starships, no problems, but this game just makes it unpleasant to play with the cosntant whine of the fans. I’m deleting it forever.

This is not like the original Civ V. It’s kind of fixed in what you can and cannot do. Also, I don’t understand some of the concepts that help gain advancements. I’m always playing until one of the other factions become so militarily advanced that they can take my cities a part at will. Yet, I can’t figure out how to build up a strong military with my own civilization. Just doesn’t seem as fun as the previous versions.

I have been waiting along time for this, since the first Civ game became available. I have always like The Civ games and when this version became available I was so excited to get it the very moment it would was available. BUT after readin and reading so many reviews I was getting more and more disappointed as to what people were claming that it was not nearly as good as everyone had expected it to be. I figured there were still lots of bug fixes that needed to be taken care for the first release of this so I waited a while until the updated versions came out with alot of the bugs fixed. And I am very happy to say that even though I waited for so long that it was well worth it. Nothing ever is perfect at first, there are always liitle tweeks that need to be done here and there. But I have had no problem with the game running on my Late 2012 iMac with 27 inch screen 3.4 GHz Intl Core processor i7 with 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Memory and the NVIDIA GeForce 680MX 2048 MB Graphics. Awsome!! And What is also cool about this game is that as time goes on there will always be updates and more and more cool stuff will be added hopefully, It’s the future so who knows what possibilities of ad-ons will be coming. As for me, I would really like to see how are colonists might fend off not just other humans from our home Planet along with the native lifeforms, but how about some some really advanced Aliens from another world that want to settle here too! Man what a battle that would be! So all in all its not perfect yet but it is a very good game and IMO will only get better, great job all! Can’t wait to see what next is coming to try and kill my colony. Ill be ready and waiting!!!!