Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm (2019) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm

In Gathering Storm, the second expansion to Civilization VI, the world around you is more alive than ever before. Chart a path to victory for your people by developing new advanced technologies and engineering…

85 13 February 2019

What Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm is

Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm is a strategy game developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2019. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

In Gathering Storm, the second expansion to Civilization VI, the world around you is more alive than ever before. Chart a path to victory for your people by developing new advanced technologies and engineering projects and negotiating with the global community in the World Congress on critical issues. The choices you make in the game will influence the world ecosystem and could impact the future of the entire planet. Natural disasters like floods, storms, and volcanoes can pillage or destroy your Improvements and Districts – but they may also refresh and enrich the lands after they pass. In addition to these new systems, Civilization VI: Gathering Storm introduces eight new civilizations…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), fantasy, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 84% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm launched on 13 February 2019, within three weeks of Metro Exodus, Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III and Anthem. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Metro Exodus, Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Anthem.

Cheats and codes

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