Sid Meier's Civilization VI

This is an astounding game. Civilization has always been associated as the benchmark for strategy gaming, and Civilization VI is now at the peak. This is as good as it gets.

Veterans of the series, newcomers and children will all find a great deal to like here. The Civilization franchise is now 25 years old and much has happened to the genre in the meantime. Civilization VI couldn’t be a more terrific love letter to the franchise. The dynamic and reactive nature of the gameplay, while maintaining and refining all of the elements that make Civilization the game that it is, creates a distinctly new and fun experience in a much-beloved setting.

Civilization VI will go down in history as the most fully-featured launch version in the series. Many of those are smartly revamped versions of Civ classics, but it finds its own identity with great new ideas like spread-out cities, customizeable governments, research boosts, and leader agendas. And even though the AI has some improving to do, it can put up enough of a fight to make world domination a challenge.