Only Purchase on Sale

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.

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