Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11

I'll still be playing 4 for the foreseeable future.

Tried 6, ended back up on 5. I prefer the simplicity of 5.

6 was free on epic games a few years back and it was recently on sale on steam for just a few dollars.

I picked it up on steam for the Linux version and it was pretty addicting. I never get games dlc and I don’t think I’m good enough at the base game to take advantage of the different things the dlc adds.

Well scratch that one of the list of interesing releases. Fuck Denuvo.

$90 here in maple syrup land + denuvo = yikes

Denuvo supports Linux. Most of the time, the publisher does not enable this support, but if Civ VII is compatible with Steam Deck, then it's different in this case.

Was wondering the same

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I have the same question as thread starter. Do you move cursor with a joystick or use something else to select units, waypoints, etc.? I am a keyboard-mouse person and find using keyboard much more convenient than gamepad even in games that have gamepad as recommended input (like Castle Crashers and some platformers).

Used to successfully play shooters with keyboard only before mouse era (the last I remember vividly is Project IGI). But now I'm terrified at the thought of playing shooter or RTS without mouse.

Also curious how (if) people play DotA2 with controller.

and keyboard commands can easily be mapped on either back buttons or onto a virtual menu on the other trackpad - with mode shifts you can define a huge amount of keys which are easily accessible

Good to hear thanks. And proton has worked well for 6? (Steamdeck i assume is using proton not native linux?). We still play V, when they broke mac/windows crossplay I had to install bootcamp to continue playing with my friends. But the family iMac I did that on definitely won't run 7, so was looking into building a linux tower I could use instead and would strongly prefer not to deal with windows.

95% of my desire to play Civ (and there's a lot of it) is to play super long single player games, ideally modded ones that extend it further, neither Civ V nor Civ VI were able to give a REALLY good experience for that. Civ V was too unstable and Civ VI was also a bit unstable and the AI was somehow even worse at playing in an interesting fashion in that context (ie. Trying to play through a world history with shifting borders and diplomacy)

CIvs have had lots of Mac players, enough so that they keep releasing it on the platform.

In this case, the bug ruined cloud games for our friendgroup that rarely has time for an active session. I'm a PC gamer, but two of us are not.

If they release an advertize a feature, it should function for everyone who purchased the game.

Their lack of commubication and ultimately not fixing it (at first, they said within 6 months - now it's been nearly 8 years) is the reason me and our group votes with our wallets for what it's worth.