Release date: October 2016

Like other entries in the award-winning Civilization series before it, Sid Meier's Civilization VI challenges you to build an empire to stand the test of time. Playing as one of 20 leaders in the base game with different perks and abilities, you guide your chosen civilization from the Stone Age to the Information Age. Research new technologies, conduct diplomacy, and wage war as you pursue one of five possible victory conditions.

If you played previous games in the series, you need to learn some new tricks if you want to achieve a Science or Culture victory in Civilization VI. Winning with Science now involves landing on the Moon and later establishing a Martian Colony, while Culture victories are earned via Tourism. Domination and Score victories are largely unchanged. Religious victories are a new addition to the series, and challenge you to spread your Religion to other civilizations using things like Apostle and Missionary units. When your Religion becomes predominant in every civilization on the map, you win. 

Regardless of which victory condition you pursue, Civilization VI offers new ways to engage with your world: cities now physically expand across the local terrain, active research in Culture as well as in Technology unlocks new potentials for growth, and competing leaders pursue their own agendas based on their historical traits. Interactions with those leaders now evolve with the passage of time, from primitive first interactions where conflict is a fact of life, to the strategic nuances of late-game alliances and negotiations.

Civilization VI eases new players in with tutorial systems that introduce them to the game's underlying concepts, and provides a plethora of ways for veterans to build and tune their civilizations for success. In the months and years following the game's launch, several DLC packs as well as the two full expansions—all detailed below—added something for everyone, including new leaders, new civilizations, and even a new victory condition.

The ultimate entry point to one of the greatest strategy games series of all time, the Civilization VI Anthology includes the base game along with the Rise and Fall and Gathering Storm expansions, six New Frontier Pass DLC packs, six Leader Pass DLC packs, and all additional leader / scenario DLC packs. More details on the included contents below.

Return to rule with the Civilization VI: Leader Pass and build the greatest empire in history with a huge roster of new and familiar faces. The Leader Pass introduces 12 new leaders to Civilization VI alongside six new takes on classic Civilization leaders. Civilization VI is required to play add-on content, and some features of the Leader Pass require the Gathering Storm expansion, Rise and Fall expansion, New Frontier Pass, Byzantium & Gaul Pack, or Persia & Macedon Scenario Pack to play. The six included DLC packs were originally released between November 2022 and March 2023.

Continue your quest to build your greatest empire with the Civilization VI: New Frontier Pass, featuring eight new civilizations and nine new leaders, and a variety of new gameplay content, including six new game modes. Civilization VI is required to play add-on content, and some features of the New Frontier Pass require either the Gathering Storm or Rise and Fall expansion to work. The six included DLC packs were originally released on a bimonthly basis from May 2020 to March 2021.

Civilization VI: Gathering Storm introduces an active planet where climate and tectonics present unique new challenges. Floods, droughts, and powerful storms force you to adapt to a changing environment, and the choices you make have a lasting impact on the world's temperature, potentially causing ice caps to melt and sea levels to rise.

The second Civ VI expansion also extends the Technology and Civics trees with a future era, adds scenarios based on the Black Death pandemic and the outset of World War I, introduces eight new civilizations and nine new leaders, and so much more.

The first expansion for Civilization VI debuts new Loyalty and Governors systems, and expands on the existing Diplomacy and Government features. Genghis Khan's Mongolia and Robert the Bruce's Scotland enter the fray along with six other new civilizations, bringing with them a variety of new units, districts, tile improvements, buildings, and wonders.

Rise and Fall also presents challenges specific to the Dark Ages and Golden Ages that your civilization inevitably experiences. Can you lead your people into a Golden Age of prosperity? Or will your empire face the challenges of a Dark Age? Should you rise triumphantly from a Dark Age, your next Golden Age will be even stronger: a Heroic Age, which earns you additional Dedication bonuses.

The following add-ons for Civilization VI were released independent of those detailed above, and are all included in the Civilization VI Anthology:

• Australia Civilization & Scenario Pack
• Khmer and Indonesia Civilization & Scenario Pack
• Nubia Civilization & Scenario Pack
• Persia and Macedon Civilization & Scenario Pack
• Poland Civilization & Scenario Pack
• Vikings Scenario Pack