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That game is Clash of Cultures, the best (Sid Meier’s) Civilization game that isn’t Sid Meier’s Civilization.Ĭlash of Cultures balances the accessibility and elegance of A New Dawn with the more traditional gameplay of original Sid Meier’s Civilization.įirst released back in 2012, Clash of Cultures is Sid Meier’s Civilization with the serial numbers filed off. One that balances the accessibility and elegance of A New Dawn with the more traditional gameplay of original Sid Meier’s Civilization. Image: WizKidsīut if you’re willing to part with the familiar, there’s another civilisation game out there. If you’re committed to playing a board game with the name of Sid Meier on its box, and don’t mind something that veers away from the exact experience, A New Dawn is the best place to start today.Ĭlash of Cultures features all the parts of Civilization you're familiar with, but streamlined to a much simpler set of rules. (Its expansion, Terra Incognita, adds some optional complexity that brings it closer to the on-screen Civilization 6.) It’s an elegant, modern and approachable way to preserve the feel of Civilization in a two-hour game, without remaining tied to its weightier mechanical baggage. Players’ control of their civilisations’ many aspects is abstracted into a row of action cards, with just one action performed each turn.
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In fact, the most recent addition to the series-within-a-series, Sid Meier’s Civilization: A New Dawn, is excellent because it isn’t beholden to trying to copy the PC game one-for-one. While the multiple games bearing the moniker of Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game are still the most faithful to their namesake, in 2023 their complex rulesets feel increasingly unwieldy and imposing for the average PC player looking to jump across to the tabletop.
This is despite the fact that civilisation games are far more plentiful in cardboard than code, with everything from card game 7 Wonders to Scythe creator Jamey Stegmaier’s Tapestry dipping a toe into the epic strategy genre typified by recreating humanity’s progression from inventing the wheel to blasting off into space (and beyond).Ī New Dawn is the most approachable tabletop adaptation of Sid Meier's Civilization yet. The popularity of Sid Meier’s Civilization means the video game is, by extension, likely the best-known civilisation-building board game on the tabletop, too. (Perhaps its comparative obscurity is in part because Tresham, unlike Meier, kept his name off the box, leaving the generic mononym.)
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The most widely-known iteration of the classic civilisation-building genre, long-running PC game series Sid Meier’s Civilization, owes a heavy debt to the relatively little-known but enormously influential 1980 board game by late, great designer Francis Tresham. The history of Civilization - the game, not the whole of human development - on the tabletop is, fittingly, a long and complex one.
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