Freeciv – open-source Civilization clone
While it may not have the shine and polish of Sid Meier’s Civilization 6, at least FreeCiv doesn’t force glitchy unwanted advertise-- er, launcher updates that break the game years after release:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/nkdh4d/follow_up_to_the_2k_launcher_issue_thing/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/nkdh4d/follow_up_to_th...</a><p>Truly can’t describe how aggravating it is to have Civ 6, my after-work happy place, effectively torn from my hands years after purchase by some MBA manager and bargain-bin programmer. Bypassing the launcher only sort-of works on my PC. Can’t roll back to an earlier version because Steam. At least we’ll always have FreeCiv.