Civilization 7 Is in Development
I bought the original when it came out and, together with Master of Orion, it ate so much of my life that it added a year to my time at university.Since then I've bought every new Civ as it came out and maybe played through two or three games before abandoning it. None of them capture the original, but rather just add more and different crap to micromanage. They're just not fun.The big exception is Alpha Centauri, which is essentially a Civ 2 remake with good automation of the boring stuff. Over the years I've probably played that even more than the original.The other surprising exception is Civilization Revolution 1 for the iPad. It stripped out manual terrain improvement entirely and left a really fun game behind. Sadly because it's in the apple ecosystem you can't get it anymore. It only runs on iOS 8 and below, and has been replaced in the store by Version 2 With Microtransactions and Pay To Win. I keep an old ipad on life support just to play it.But yeah, the mainline Civ games have been (for me) a chance to pay $60 every few years, get excited, and be disappointed.I think I might finally break out of my cycle with this one.