Sid Meier's Civilization® VI

I’ve played civ since civ 3. I am very pleased that they managed to get this on a mobile platform. I’ve come to one rather significant issue though, game save corruption. Maybe playing on a large map is the issue? Idk. I use an iPhone 13 Pro Max, it handles the game fine once I’m able to load into the game save. Recently though, my game saves are no longer loading because of an error: “Save version is incompatible.” I get the same error on the auto saves as well for that save. I can load an older one, just many moves behind. That isn’t the end of the world aside from 10 moves taking about 1.5-2hrs to finish. I play on deity large map with 4 other AI with domination victory only and no mods aside from what comes with the base game. I can only imagine trying to run mods for this game on mobile smh. So this is quite frustrating of course, but for $10 it isn’t terrible. Personally I won’t buy any additional content as it seems clear to me at least that the mobile version just isn’t at a point to run that much without even more issues. Keep your worlds large maybe even standard or smaller and things will be smoother? If you enjoy the civ franchise and would like to play on the go, this is worth it. Just don’t expect the PC experience with massive maps and lots of civs and mods in one game save haha. And remember, you are just one move away from many more moves to come. So try it out! Cheers

I never played civ 6 on pc but playing mobile i see the appeal. I played on game on the smallest map and easiest difficulty just to get a hang of the game and it worked fine. I decided to up the difficulty and size of the map and the game is unplayable. Early into the game it glitches with the ui breaking and im un abble to make any move. Even reset the game and loading it to the previous save point the in progress game doesnt work. Its unfortunate because i wanted to get the expansion pack to get the full experience but i will avoid that now. I hope that the developers can improve this or with the release of civ7 it will be optimized for mobile devices. Some other improvements can be made about ux for mobile. The help guide is not easy to navigate. There are also times when i accidentally move a unit and there no way to undo the move before the game automatically goes to the next turn. There might be a setting i change but the point is that on mobile where my unit is and where i need to navigate on the map may not be in the viewport. This design constraint should be considered

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!