One more turn, just one more, and suddenly the sun rises on your screen without you seeing the night go by.

When the community picks on gut feeling, no criterion, Civilization VI gets ahead of only a third of games. No love at first sight, then. The detail confirms a strangely flat profile: the desert island pulls upward, above average, on few votes to confirm, but the rest hovers around the middle. Connection stays measured, fun lands right in the average, and it is the controller feel that drops lowest, ahead of less than a fifth of titles. Makes sense for a turn-based strategy game, built for the mouse and the long haul, not for the instant feel of a pad.

Against the giants of 4X and strategy, this profile says something other than weakness: it says this game lives in your head, in calculation and planning, not in reflex. What makes it great, the depth, the one-more-turn addiction, simply is not what most of these questions measure.

So, for who? For you if you love to build, optimize, watch an empire grow over hours. Much less if you want a game you feel right away, controller in hand.