Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$59.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9990% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.59/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 380,944
- Critics
- 88 players 2 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 23.2h
- To 100%
- 399.6h 17.2x the story
- Finish
- <1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 320
Price and sales
- Sales
- 98 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2024
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 21,191 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
74% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 98 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 4 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sid Meier's Civilization® IV ($3.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats HUMANKIND™ ($49.99, scores 20).
More about Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 23.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 6,245 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
23.2 hours to finish it, 400 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 17 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 380,944 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Downloaded Civilization VI thinking I'd play for an hour. 6 hours later, it's 3 AM, I'm at war with 4 different countries, my economy is collapsing, and Gandhi is somehow threatening me with nuclear weapons. The game is basically 10% strategy and 90% saying "just one more turn." Every game starts with: "I'm going to be peaceful this time." 20 turns later: "Your city looks very nice. It would be a shame if something...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Possibly the greatest Civ game ever made. I've put many hundreds of hours in Civ III, IV, and V but this is the crown jewel of the series. Gameplay, graphics, political structure, AI, are all extremely good. Music is also top tier. Scenarios are solid and civs/leaders are mostly well designed. Base game is great but do yourself a favor and get the DLC and Leader pass with it, if you're a Civ diehard like me you will...
I love this game, but the micro just becomes insane once you get over 10 cities. Really hoping Firaxis come back to Civ 6 someday and: - Allow Engineers to queue railroad destinations like Workers could with roads/railroads in Civ 5. - Allow Builders to be automated. Either just repairing damaged improvements, or replacing improvements if a strategic resource appears. - Remove the nonsensical Nuclear Power Plant...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB & AMD 5570 or nVidia 450 or Intel Integrated Graphics 530, 17 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/289070/sid-meier-s-civilization-viReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.