Game guide
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
Game overview
What is Sid Meier’s Civilization VI?
A turn-based 4X strategy game about building a civilization through exploration, research, diplomacy and war.
What you actually do
The core loop
City building, technology research, diplomacy, territory control and resource management shape the main loop.
How progress works
Progress through technology trees, civic trees and empire expansion.
Action and interaction
Expect strategic combat and turn based.
How the game is structured
Explore its procedural world map setting.
WhatToGame Verdict
Your setup
Can your group play it?
The essentials first, with platform-specific detail available below.
Player and mode details1 setup
Selected platforms
- 2-12 players online
- 2-4 players locally
- Couch co-op
- Shared-screen
Finder party ceiling is 12; dedicated-server or ambient-world capacity is intentionally not substituted for a normal group size.
In play
See how it plays.
Availability
Platform differences.
Important edition and storefront differences remain available without taking over the page.
Check platform and storefront details1 group
Steam
PC
- PC availability and input support from publisher-submitted Steam data; cross-platform matrix left unknown here.
PC hardware
Will it run?
Well suited to modest PCs.
View minimum PC requirementsExact specs
- CPU
- and operating system
- GPU
- 1 GB & AMD 5570 or nVidia 450 or Intel Integrated Graphics 530
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 17 GB
- Steam Deck
- Unknown
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