The 4X genre has always intimidated me with its complex systems and mechanics, but Civilization 7 made it so approachable I already lost a weekend playing.
Having grown up almost exclusively playing games on consoles, PC games have always had this air of complexity surrounding them that kept me from engaging with them. I would see games like Fallout, Baldur’s Gate, and Sim City in magazines or online and instantly feel overwhelmed by the density of what I was seeing.
Recommended Videos Learning to be a leader From the outside, 4X games looked like all the most complex elements of a large-scale simulation, resource management sim, and turn-based tactics game wrapped into one. Admittedly, having never given one a proper chance before Civilization VII, I just assumed the only way to learn the game was to read a massive tome of instructions and be willing to spend hours of trial and error to understand how everything worked.
The early hours of Civilization VII are very structured. I was only given one or two tasks to do on each turn, and the game didn’t let me accidentally skip them. I start by learning how to expand my starting city and control a single unit before getting introduced to each of the resources and what role they play.
Because my Leader and Civilization were geared toward that goal, the game started giving me clear and short-term goals to work towards in pursuit of that. Rather than floundering around just trying to train units, I knew which were the best new technologies to research and to not simply devote all my time to forming an army and attacking every other Leader on sight which would have resulted in crippling my entire economy and growth.
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