It makes me happy to imagine this argument going out between Junkrat and Zen . A fucking robot just fully ignorant to code as some shirtless aussie gets progressively more pissed off with the robot ' s stupidity and insistence that because the aussie didn ' t code it , then he CAN ' T know anything about it . <| sep |> but if the drug problem is solved , then social workers will be out of jobs ! <| sep |> nice pixel <| sep |> Civilization games don ' t require knowing anything from other civilization games to play them . They are completely standalone . Civ 5 is a more mature game that has had several expansions with a lot of content and is well balanced . It ' s still very much worth playing . Civ 6 is a new game that does new things , has a somewhat different style , but as people play and discover issues with it , balance changes are still made . It will also most likely have several expansions that add content and game mechanics in the future . If you want to potentially spend more time on the franchise , it ' s worth getting Civ 5 , playing it for as long as you feel like , and then getting Civ 6 . Otherwise , just getting Civ 6 is also fine .