Sid Meier’s Civilization VI

Mild overall intensity
Highest flag: Spending — cosmetic purchases

What's in it

Violence cartoon/stylized
Low

Abstract warfare with no blood or gore; military units fight across a map of stylized terrain and city hexes.

Spending cosmetic purchases
Low

Optional DLC and expansions are sold separately on Steam; no in-game purchases or real-money gambling.

Who can reach your kid

User-created contentReal-money spending

What it is

Sid Meier's Civilization VI is a turn-based grand strategy game where you guide a civilization from the Stone Age through to the Space Age, building cities, researching technologies, waging wars, trading with other nations, and competing in a World Congress to achieve one of several victory conditions. The game is set in a historical and fictional world and includes warfare and diplomacy, but its content is abstract and non-graphic. There is no sexual content, nudity, profanity, or substance use depicted. Players can spend real money on DLC and cosmetic content, and user-created mods are available.

How it's framed

The game frames its content through the lens of historical and fictional world-building, presenting warfare, diplomacy, and economic competition as abstract strategic challenges rather than realistic violence or moral dilemmas.

Details

Developer
Firaxis Games
Publisher
2K
Released
Oct 20, 2016
Metacritic 88critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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