5/10.
So, I'm one of the old crew that played civ 1 on an 8086 back in the 90s. Played Civ 4 on PS1. Played civ 6 on PC, bought all the DLCs. This game........... I don't like it. I'm already going back to Civ6, or even Millennia. Even the base Civ 6 portable/handheld experience is better than this. I literally just spent the holiday weekend playing civ 6 on my Iphone as Tomyris and had a better experience.

Civ 7 is buggy. Holy crap is it buggy. Vulkan flat out crashes to desktop repeatedly. It is almost unplayable. DX12 has all sorts of flashing and flickering issues in the UI. Yes, all my graphics drivers are updated. Radeon Vega 56 eGPU. Windows 10.

The scenery is lush and beautiful. It is absolutely gorgeous. No expense was spared on the graphics. I love looking at it. Unfortunately, the UI is terrible. It's like they just didn't even try to play test before release. Even a couple starts on a decent monitor with a couple different manufacturers' GPUs would have revealed these issues. Very disappointing.

The amount of civs available in each age is worse than Civ 1. Beyond disappointing. But this is what happens when you lock 2/3 of them behind the "Ages" mechanic.

Talking about Ages: My first time after the age changed and I found out that I literally lost units because "reasons", made me rage. WTLF?! Don't take my units because mechanics! Terrible design. Rise and Fall was my least liked feature in Civ6, and Firaxis chose to make it the core of the game in Civ 7. No. Just no. Do not take things from me or alter the game state without justification. And it is completely out of my control. I am literally penalized for no reason. All alliances and wars canceled?! And now I am required to swap to another entirely different civ, with different bonuses? NO! I can see what Firaxis were trying to accomplish here. But it just doesn't work. This is not Civilization.

The core concept from Civ 1 onwards was that we pick a civilization and play as them. Yes, we have a leader. Having specific bonuses attached to that leader that follows them while changing the civ was an interesting idea. But in practice it breaks the game. Swapping leaders would have been more realistic and acceptable. Many long-existing civs have had multiple leaders. Why not that?

BTW, Napoleon rocks. +1 movement on all military units forever, and culture on killing a unit? Yes, plz. He is better than Simon Bolivar from Civ6.

What I liked. Commanders. What a great mechanic! I love commanders. They both simply and amplify gameplay. Moving all the experience from the units to the commander is ingenious. Who ever thought this up needs to be promoted.

I also really like the fact that I can overbuild. This is so cool. It simulates history, which is a core Civ concept. This also eliminates city sprawl. Once you've got that seaside "district", or "quarter" as they are called now, its there. You can replace that moldy, nasty old roman bath with a new-fangled something or other that does the same thing, but better. Cool concept. I like it.

What I would change:
Reconnect ages/civs. The disconnect from age-to-age is game-breaking. Let me play the same civ! It's fine to give us the option to swap, similar to how we could swap governments in Civ6. But don't force us to change! I mean, China is still Chinese. Japan is still Japanese. France is still French. Gran Columbia is... well, yeah. Thanks Spain, France, England, Portugal, etc. But you get the point. It wasn't like one day the entire Egpytian people rose up and and declared "We are now German!"

As things stand now, I can't recommend this game. It's just not Civilization at its core. The state of the game is mediocre at best. I don't regret buying it, but I'm glad I didn't spend more on any fancy stuff either. I will not be buying any of the dlcs or expansions until the major issues (glitchy UI and age disconnect) are fixed. I'd rather play civ 6 or even Millenia.

I logged more than 1600 hours of play for Civ VI without even trying. I've managed to play 200 hours of Civ VII, and I'm just done. Total waste of money. Very sad.

卑弥呼がミシシッピの文明を用いてうんたらかんたら・・ていう時点で歴史的没入感が消えるので最悪です。歴史が好きでやってるんだよこっちはこのゲームを・・・