Civilization VI: Gathering Storm - Civ Tier List And Tips

PC Invasion: Civilization VI: Gathering Storm introduces new civs and leaders. How good are they? Find out in our updated tier list and mini guide.

[Glemt]

Author: "Please note that this tier list is based on personal opinion along with my experience and play style. My preferred game options include:

Immortal or Deity difficulty
Continents/Pangaea – Huge map size
Four to five opposing AI civs"

Six players on a huge map. Yeah, that's a good representation of the game and the strengths of each Civ then... =.=

[JJasonRodriguez]

Yes it is, and I covered that in detail.

Had it been 1v1, small, Pangaea, then that favors early aggression.
Had it been 10+ civs, huge, Continents/Fractal/Archipelago , then that favors completely different styles.

Keeping it down the middle allows me to ascertain everything from a more balanced point-of-view. Domination civs still remained ahead, though.

"Down the middle" doesn't include the difficulty, because it's easy to defeat the AI at lower difficulties anyway. I kept it at Immortal/Deity since that's where the true challenge lay.

[Glemt]

I don't agree that using way fewer players on a map makes things "in the middle", but to each their own. Six players is a small map, so the room for expansion is not there that much, making Amenities and housing already more valuable in your game (i.e. changing the game balance).

The middle, in my opinion, would be standard map size with standard amount of players. Then go Fractal/Continents. That would be a better representation in my opinion.