Sid Meier's Civilization® VI Ratings and Reviews

It's a great game, but user interface was simply not considered when this was made for mobile platforms. All they did was make troops movable and reduced graphics and simulation to make the game run better, which it does. I does not, however, feel like it was play tested at all, as some things are very hard to do on smaller mobile screens (tile yields, city micromanaging, and placing tacks for district planning).

Also, screen froze for 7 minutes and then crashed on my free turn 51. Last time I saved was on turn 30. Definitely would not consider buying anything on mobile. It's a great computer game, though, even for laptop.

UPDATE: Aspyr released an update, and the game is working again! Yay! Thank you!!! Now I can give the review I really wanted to give, which is: this is a great strategy game. I’ve been a Civilization fan since Civ IV, and I think Civ VI does a great job of being both accessible and complex. The iOS port is very successful—truly just as good as playing it on desktop. I have spent way too many hours playing this game, but I do not regret it! Thank you, devs, for letting me play again!

I LOVE this game! I play it all the time. It’s great. BUT! I just updated my iPad to iOS 17.4.1, and now the game cannot launch at all! I just get an “Abnormal exit” notification and the game gets stuck on the launch screen. I did some research, and people have been having this bug for months! Aspyr finally acknowledged the issue about a month ago, but they say there is no ETA on when it will be resolved. As a person who spent a decent amount of money on this game and is a devoted Civ fan, it feels crappy that they don’t seem to treat fixing this issue as a priority. I’d love to give the game the 5 star review it deserves, but until this issue is resolved, I can’t!

Clearly a company other than Fraxis put out this super buggy version of civilization. I have played 5 different versions of this game and never seen one with so many bugs. It throws down new desired improvements randomly without asking consent on location, usually placing them on a natural resource and almost always in an inconvenient place. When you can eschew this behavior, you must tap your desired location 30 times to get the game to plant the improvement. The tutorial interrupts production of recommended items to begin a litany of new products without allowing completion nearly finished higher priority item. If you make a cue, the game will freeze and cease to progress. No other version of Civ is so problematic. Save your money and buy a different version of the game.

This is a pretty darn good port, but yes a mouse would work better. However I have enjoyed this a lot, when it isn’t weighed down by bugs. They finally cleared up the iOS 17 bug where it wouldn’t load but now every so often when I’m trying to target with a ranged weapon my screen locks up with all kinds of pretty pixelated colors, and I have to completely close the app (not minimize) in order to get out of it. I try to autosave every turn or every other turn for that reason.

It would really be nice if they could give us Beyond Earth on iOS, i miss that one too. And also improve graphics.

I love this game and is the game I play the most on iPad. Only issue is I dread updates either from Aspyr or Apple. One of their older updates would cause the game to start crashing after a certain number of turns. That took about 6 months to fix. More recent one with iOS 17.4 would error out on launch screen but they just updated and seems to be working again. I paid a lot for this game when it first released and all in-app purchases as they released, just wished they did better debugging.

I’ve been playing various Civilization games since the early 1990ties. It is still a great game, but now has many technical issues. I was muddling through the very slow launch time and late game performance, but I recently got a new iPad and now the game won’t launch. I get an error when I first try to start the game then and get stuck on the launch screen. Deleted the game and reinstalled, same issue. I’ve paid for every update and can no longer play. Very unhappy. It’s even over 9 months and I have a new iPad, Game is still broken and won’t launch. I’ve purchased all the expansions and I want my money back.

Updated. The game now launches but now wants me to repurchase all expansions even though they show as previously purchased in the App Store.

BAD.

So, I’ve been play Civ6 on PC for along time. I actually didn’t know an iOS version even existed until yesterday lol. Seeing some of the past reviews, and comparing to some of the most recent ones saying they fixed issues, I was a bit hesitant. I do have to admit I am beyond so happy with this product. It has worked flawlessly on both my iPhone and iPad and the ability to play anywhere without lugging around my laptop is amazing. The ONLY thing I wish for is cloud saving, but honestly at this point it’s not even a worry.

great game, i bought the expansion pack into the storm and its great but once u progress and need giant death robots they make the game super glitchy and makes me lag out!!!! its annoying at this point i really enjoy the mobile version i play it every day but cmon on man i just bought the expansion no more than a week ago ( 40 dollars that could have went to the gas tank) that just makes my game disfunctional?? please fix soon. I see the same problem with ships in canals but more rarely. its a hurt piece when u just made one of your greatest turns with the whole world at war with u and did 5 mins of research to then try move your queen of the battle field and it lags you out the game??????? 👴🏾😕

Update fixed the crash issue, thank you for responding developers! Many hours of organizing and exploring and losing and winning have been spent. Religion conquest is a little OP for duel games, but very difficult for multiple larger aggressive nation games. Honestly, I just like exploring, expanding and capturing resources before other nations get there. Don’t care about the fighting, but can’t be avoided when borders class, just like life.

I have been playing civ 6 on pc for a few years and have all the dlc so I thought that this port would be attest ok but it is far worse that I thought it would be. The lag is bad but manageable but the the controls are horrible, on pc you click on the city and then you click on the thing you want to make but on mobile you tap on the city, then a menu that takes up 60% of your screen pops up just as I go to tap on something to build I see that there is MORE MENUS IN THE MENU this with the lag make the game almost impossible to play at a steady rate without mis clicking on something because of input lag! GO PLAY CIV6 ON PC IT IS LEAGUES BETTER!!!