Daily Save for 6/25/25

Civilization II (PS1)
There is something dangerous about civilization as a series. One more turn is a thought that constantly echoes thru your head. I just need one more go to get my improvement done or check this map tile out. I have lost hundreds of hours of my life to Civ 2 and Civ 5 over the years. Sadly Civ 6 has never really stuck with me or maybe I'm just bad at it.

Where these games can fall apart though is when you just can't get things to work right. Civ 6's settler/engineer functions are switched up and honestly for the worse. In Civ 2 the issue is the government system really doesn't work right. Cities grow slightly bigger and its anarchy. You move more units into the town and that helps briefly but then that doesn't work and you have to change entire government systems to the only one that doesn't cause anarchy. It can feel stifling in a flow pattern that is so addicting that you can blink and suddenly be missing 12 hours of your real life.