Yes, worth buying.
At $49.99. It has been as low as $4.99.
- Gameplay: 26 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Story and characters: 20 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Multiplayer: 10 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Crashes: 7 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Combat: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 137k player reviews · updated 4 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Super content rich but in terms of roleplay a little bland, but worth it purely for the gameplay of blobbing (Expanding as fast and as far as possible).
Every situation in this game is truly different and you will basically never have a campaign that ever feels same-y.
Vanilla single-player is fine but it gets boring by the 1600s but thankfully there's a lot of mods/overhauls out there, multiplayer is pretty much dead but there's still a decent amount of communities/groups hosting lobbies, just keep in mind that there are a lot of try-hards that make the game really unfun so proceed with caution.
The AI's competency doesn't scale with difficulty, they just get more bonuses, a la Civ.
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Currently $49.99. The lowest we've tracked is $4.99.
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