Xbox Game Passjust addedValheim, a popular multiplayer survival game that will no doubt eat away quite a few hours from someone’s life, but its newest addition trumps that: Civilization 6. This entry in the ever-popular series ofFiraxis' Sid Meier strategy gamespushes the granularity of each and every tactical decision, resulting in a playtime that is massive.
Of course, it should be noted that hours of content is only one of many factors in a game. More content doesn’t make a better game, nor does a short game equate to a bad one, and strategy games typically end up on the longer end by design. Forstrategy game enthusiasts with Xbox Game Pass,Civilization 6clearly has a lot to offer.
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A typical match of Civilization 6 can take upwards of five hours to complete, depending on various settings and the number of civs in the game, but for someone looking to finish solely main objectives, it’ll take about 22.5 hours according to HowLongtoBeat.com. Per that same aggregator though, someone wanting to see all aspects of the newXbox Game Passgame and explore as much content as they can spend 293 hours at least to do so. That number can easily hit 300 or surpass it. Leisurely completionist playthroughs, meanwhile, can take several hundred hours - up to 800 or 900 in extreme cases.
Civilization 7is in development, though that’s all that’s currently known about this next entry in the franchise. In February, the official Twitter account posted “Hot off the presses. Next Civ game in development!” Firaxis Games studio head Heather Hazen described it as going to “exciting new heights” with the franchise, but what that will look like remains to be seen.
