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Ign civilization beyond earth review9/7/2023 ![]() ![]() But Beyond Earth also calcifies much of Civilization V's vocabulary and play arc. ![]() Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth shifts the series' brand of turn-based discovery and conquest off-planet, and the sci-fi setting puts a slick, chrome sheen on my old neurosis. It's wonderful, soul-sucking entertainment. Then, in a sudden fit of self-loathing, I'll wipe the board clean. ![]() Eventually I'll nestle a few defensible cities into the mountainside, churn through tech advancements until I can fuss over cute little janissaries or hussar units like they're collectible figurines. I get into these obsessive restarting loops, curious just to see what new permutation the game's map-making algorithms spit out. I'm an absentee world leader: present for my peoples' first fumbling steps towards agriculture, gone again somewhere between the invention of the compass and the internal combustion engine. But I can tell you that for all those hours, I've only actually seen a single session with the history-based strategy game through to completion. It's below the "hours played" tab for my copy of Civilization V and I.well, I'm not sure I want to dwell on that figure. ![]()
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