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Most games for smartphones and tablets are designed to be simpler than PC and panel titles. These games entreatment to unlike audiences, and they're easier to play in short sessions on the become. That's not the instance with the latest loftier-profile iPad game release. Civilization VI is now available as an iPad exclusive, and y'all can attempt information technology for free. If you want the full game, information technology'll cost you a whopping $60.

For the uninitiated, Civilization Half-dozen is the latest in a long line of turn-based strategy games. Yous choose a civilization and start out at the dawn of culture. Your civ grows and becomes more powerful by developing new technologies like agronomics, masonry, sailing, and (somewhen) electricity. But there are other civilizations in the globe, and many of them may encroach upon your territory. To win, yous must all-time all the other civs in one way or another. There are armed services victories, but you can also win with diplomacy, civilization, or organized religion.

Civilization Half dozen launched in late 2022 on PC, then several months later it came to Linux and Mac. Firaxis Games developed the PC version, just the Linux and Mac versions are courtesy of Aspyr. Every bit for the new iPad port, that comes from Aspyr besides. That'due south the aforementioned developer responsible for porting games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Commonwealth and Jade Empire to mobile devices. Making Civilization Half-dozen run on a tablet is a much more impressive feat, though. It's the same experience you get on a PC, which is probably why the developer feels justified pricing information technology like a full PC game.

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You can download the game for free on your iPad, and it supports a surprising number of models — even the original iPad Air and the Mini 2 are compatible. It'south a pretty massive 3.14GB download, though.

The gratis version is express to lx moves (perhaps half an 60 minutes or so of gameplay), then you have to pay the $60 upgrade price to unlock the full game. That'south what Civilization Vi cost on PC when information technology was new more than a year agone. Today, you can get the PC version for $thirty, and the deluxe version with boosted content is simply $10 more. That extra content isn't available on iPad. At least not notwithstanding. For a limited time, the game is on sale for $30, the same every bit the PC version. That deal goes away on January 4th.