I recently wrote about how the AI in Civ 6 seems to be worse at its own game than previous Civ games. I want to give a shoutout to the youtuber Sulla whose “AI survivor” series put this into sharp contrast for me. Sulla sets up games of Civilization 4 that pit the AIs entirely against each other, with no player involvement. He then looks to see how it all turns out.

In Civilization 4, the AIs will usually manage to conquer each other. The games start with 8 AIs and it’s never been the case that they all survive to reach the end of the game. On the other hand in Civ 6 I rarely see even a single AI get eliminated unless I’m doing the eliminating. It just goes to show how passive the Civ 6 AIs are, and how utterly incapable they are at using 1upt and the rules of their own game.

Just something to think about.