I've been playing Civilization, in one form or another, since the mid-1990s. I love the depth of the game and the multitude of ways that it can be played.
I take comfort in the knowledge that no matter what I do, or how good our in-game relationship might be, sooner or later Gandhi will try to slit my throat. When Civ VI popped a few years ago, I bought it as soon as I was able to scrape enough money together. I play it on my Mac. I play it on Windows. That wasn't enough. Soon, I found myself playing it on my iPad Pro as well. Civilization is everywhere in my life. It's like an old friend that you allowed to crash on your couch for a few days who now refuses to leave. Today, that old friend went ahead and helped itself to more of my life: Civilization VI has been ported to work on my iPhone.
This is a productivity nightmare. On the other hand, much joy will be brought to the time that I spend in the bathroom.
I downloaded the game to my iPhone 7 Plus this morning and took it for a quick spin. It's great! At least on an iPhone with a display the size of mine. It'll run on handsets as old as an iPhone 7. But I wouldn't want to attempt to play it on something that small. On the 7 Plus, the display, thanks to a number of tweaks that have been made to the game's UI is still completely usable, provided you don't have fingers the size of Snickers bars. Read the rest
