Recommendation Request: Civ V, Civ VI, or Civ VII for Steam Deck

[Scipo0419]

Started watching one of my favorite YouTube channels start a Civ VII playthrough and got intrigued. Ive played a lot of Endless Legend, but only a handful of hours of Civ V (I own both of these). I'll mainly be playing on Steam Deck, so what would any series/genre veterans recommend for me to get into it more seriously? Thanks in advance!

[Oaks]

Civ 6 works well on the 'deck, but has mouse controls. It works great once you get used to it.

Civ 7 has game pad controls so should control well. It just launched though, so there are probably some bugs to work through for the first few weeks.

[Scipo0419]

Originally posted by Oaks:

Civ 6 works well on the 'deck, but has mouse controls. It works great once you get used to it.

Civ 7 has game pad controls so should control well. It just launched though, so there are probably some bugs to work through for the first few weeks.

Sweet. I guess I'll just add both to my wishlist and see what goes on sale. I've seen people say Civ 5 is goated and I already own that. I can probably just play that to get used to the Steam Deck controls. I already play a few M&K only games on the deck (Guild Wars 1 and Anno 2205 for example) so I should be able to adjust quickly

[Merguin]

Originally posted by Scipo0419:

Started watching one of my favorite YouTube channels start a Civ VII playthrough and got intrigued. Ive played a lot of Endless Legend, but only a handful of hours of Civ V (I own both of these). I'll mainly be playing on Steam Deck, so what would any series/genre veterans recommend for me to get into it more seriously? Thanks in advance!

Cant tell you anything about steamdeck and civ, but I can tell you to step away from civ7, get 5 or 6 as a complete bundle for like 20$, and you will have fun with each of them for hundreds of hours.
Leave this bugridden alpha they call civ 7 1.0 for the next couple of years until they finish the game

[PrjMayhem68]

Originally posted by Merguin:

Originally posted by Scipo0419:

Started watching one of my favorite YouTube channels start a Civ VII playthrough and got intrigued. Ive played a lot of Endless Legend, but only a handful of hours of Civ V (I own both of these). I'll mainly be playing on Steam Deck, so what would any series/genre veterans recommend for me to get into it more seriously? Thanks in advance!

Cant tell you anything about steamdeck and civ, but I can tell you to step away from civ7, get 5 or 6 as a complete bundle for like 20$, and you will have fun with each of them for hundreds of hours.
Leave this bugridden alpha they call civ 7 1.0 for the next couple of years until they finish the game

So dramatic... The game is fine. I'm having lots of fun with it so far.

[HatlessHorseMan]

Originally posted by Oaks:

I've seen people say Civ 5 is goated

You're going to find a lot of people saying each game in the series is literally the best game ever and others saying it's literally the worst game ever. You're not going to find any consensus about which is the best. I've found something to appreciate about every Civ I've played. I recently decided to try Civ IV and am loving it. I wish I had a Steam Deck so I could tell you if it plays well, but I don't and I doubt it.

[Scipo0419]

Originally posted by HatlessHorseMan:

Originally posted by Oaks:

I've seen people say Civ 5 is goated

You're going to find a lot of people saying each game in the series is literally the best game ever and others saying it's literally the worst game ever. You're not going to find any consensus about which is the best. I've found something to appreciate about every Civ I've played. I recently decided to try Civ IV and am loving it. I wish I had a Steam Deck so I could tell you if it plays well, but I don't and I doubt it.

Haha, true. Thanks for your input though!

I found out that Endless Legend apparently runs well on Steam Deck, so I'll probably just install Civ 5 and that while waiting for a sale on Civ 6 and 7.

[HatlessHorseMan]

Originally posted by Scipo0419:

Originally posted by HatlessHorseMan:

You're going to find a lot of people saying each game in the series is literally the best game ever and others saying it's literally the worst game ever. You're not going to find any consensus about which is the best. I've found something to appreciate about every Civ I've played. I recently decided to try Civ IV and am loving it. I wish I had a Steam Deck so I could tell you if it plays well, but I don't and I doubt it.

Haha, true. Thanks for your input though!

I found out that Endless Legend apparently runs well on Steam Deck, so I'll probably just install Civ 5 and that while waiting for a sale on Civ 6 and 7.

A couple of things I would like to mention: most fans will rightfully tell you that both (especially V) feel very unfinished w/o the major expansions. I would also say Civ VI is, IMO, unplayable w/o several QoL/UI mods (Civ V has some nice mods too, but no "necessary" ones). IDK how well Steam Deck handles Steam workshop mods.

I think Civ V (again, w/ G&K and BNW) is the best place to start with the series. It has a better learning curve than VI (and from what I've seen, VII falls between V and VI in that regard).

[Bluesky95]

civ 6 runs fine. this game is unplayable on deck

[Scipo0419]

Originally posted by HatlessHorseMan:

Originally posted by Scipo0419:

Haha, true. Thanks for your input though!

I found out that Endless Legend apparently runs well on Steam Deck, so I'll probably just install Civ 5 and that while waiting for a sale on Civ 6 and 7.

A couple of things I would like to mention: most fans will rightfully tell you that both (especially V) feel very unfinished w/o the major expansions. I would also say Civ VI is, IMO, unplayable w/o several QoL/UI mods (Civ V has some nice mods too, but no "necessary" ones). IDK how well Steam Deck handles Steam workshop mods.

I think Civ V (again, w/ G&K and BNW) is the best place to start with the series. It has a better learning curve than VI (and from what I've seen, VII falls between V and VI in that regard).

In my experience, workshop mods work great, nexus mods take a lot of work to setup.

[HatlessHorseMan]

Originally posted by Scipo0419:

Originally posted by HatlessHorseMan:

A couple of things I would like to mention: most fans will rightfully tell you that both (especially V) feel very unfinished w/o the major expansions. I would also say Civ VI is, IMO, unplayable w/o several QoL/UI mods (Civ V has some nice mods too, but no "necessary" ones). IDK how well Steam Deck handles Steam workshop mods.

I think Civ V (again, w/ G&K and BNW) is the best place to start with the series. It has a better learning curve than VI (and from what I've seen, VII falls between V and VI in that regard).

In my experience, workshop mods work great, nexus mods take a lot of work to setup.

Awesome! If and when you get Civ VI, here's some of those essential mods:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=939149009 -and-
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2428969051 -and-
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2266952591 -and-
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1312585482 -and-
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2495851756 -and-
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=873246701

Have you noticed how half the forum posts and reviews here are mentioning how awful Civ 7's UI is? Yeah, they didn't learn anything from Civ 6 lol. These mods are not only good for preventing migraines but also do a lot to help with that "learning curve" problem I mentioned. Particularly, "Detailed Map Tacks" will help you understand one of the most important, and complicated, aspects of the game: district/wonder placement. You'll read the description of, say, a dam and be like "oh what a wonderful tile to place a dam on", just to realize it's an invalid location 50 turns later when you actually unlock dams. This mod will warn you if it's placement is invalid, will tell you adjacency bonuses, etc. Use map tacks!



https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=970184582 -and-
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2683624437

These two are essential if you ever plan to capture, rather than raze, any AI cities. Remember how I said district placement is really important and complicated? The AI is complete ass at placing districts. Like, no joke, you'll probably be placing districts more logically that diety AI during your first run. Districts are normally immovable and indestructible. This mod "fixes" that.

There are definitely more mods I can recommend (like visual mods that make the textures look more like Civ 5), but I'll leave you with that. So exciting, getting to help a baby Civ player! <3 <3 <3

[Scipo0419]

Originally posted by HatlessHorseMan:

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What an absolute legend! Thank you so much for all of this. I'm downloading XCOM currently to scratch a different itch but once that's done I'll be downloading Civ5 and will make sure to grab the mods you recommended for it.