We tested Civilization VI: it reaches your mobile in the best possible way to enhance the saga

When we get news this fast about the arrival of a great name in PC video games to Android we almost touch wood, since there are some attempts that have fallen far behind what was expected. This is not the case with Civilization VI and that it honors the saga so you can enjoy it to the fullest from your mobile.

With its more than 5GB of data that you will have to download, Civilization VI makes it very clear that it wants to reach mobile phones to take over turn-based strategy in a game in which you will be able to embody the civilizations that drew what the human panorama on this planet is today. Go for it.

More than 20 euros are not an outrage

Reading some timely reviews in the Play Store of Civilization VI, it seems that some forget that when you bring a complete game from PC to your mobile it's like you have to give it almost free for a few euros. In other indy games it can be understood. For example, we have the huge Stardew Valley that on Steam costs more than 10 euros, but that on Android is half. It can be understood that a PC game that exceeds 40 or 50 euros has the cost that it has on a mobile.

It is also interesting this move by Sid Meier of not selling cheaply and more when a game is going to provide us with months and months of play. And it is that if we focus on Civilization VI, having the same experience that we can have on a PC on a mobile is something very great (and one who has bought its version on PC speaks).

Not only for the comfort of throwing ourselves on the couch and discovering their voices in Spanish or all those civilizations plus that map very well carried out on mobile, but because it can suppose that we see a path of hope for premium games that are worth buying and leave those freemium games that dominate the Play Store in the lurch.

Starting with the tutorial

If you never touched a Civilization, Now you can go playing the tutorial that will put you on the trail so that later you can enjoy this great turn-based simulation game that leads us to set ourselves the goal of turning our civilization into an empire that takes over all territories.

We are not going to go into detail about Civilization VI either, since we would need many words to enter in the investigations, policies, troops and all those details that have made Civilization one of the best sagas of all time.

It's a turn-based game, so you can take all the time in the world to decide what will be the construction that you will do in that city that your settlers have created or if you are going to attack that town of barbarians and then make them your people. From the first second, the Civilization VI experience is identical to PC, saving the distance in the graphical optimizations and that smaller screen, but at no time does it give the feeling of being limited.

Expansions for Civilization VI

The Civilization VI monetization model part from the expansions. That is, for just over 20 euros we get the game, but then we can buy expansions to increase the playing time that it will offer us. We have the first installation with a game of up to 60 turns and the tutorials. After there it was over.

And we will move on to the expansions that offer high quality content. We have Rise and Fall to lead our civilization into an age of Gold; to Gathering Storm and whose central axis is natural disasters and how these influence the development of our civilization; Unique civilizations to know the ins and outs of Australia, Poland and other countries; and many others that will surely expand the possibilities of Civilization VI. Logically always going through the box.

At a technical and graphic level, and starting from a Note 10+, the game is playable from the first moment without any slowdown. It is everything we have on PC, but optimized so that on the mobile it does not exceed and make an exaggerated consumption of resources for the battery. And here we return to what was said in some games, we need the best of the best on the market to be able to enjoy them to the fullest. Coming with a low end to complain about the time it takes for the screen to load… ahem.

And so we have Civilization VI that in the time that the tutorial has lasted the truth that the best one has left us of sensations and we hope that other studios take the example to bring their games to mobile phones without selling themselves cheap. A great example that there are ways to monetize your game with all the greatness of enjoying this saga from a mobile phone. That Civilization launched on Android in 2014 is far away.