

Colonization is very fun and rewarding, however not all countries have the opportunity to colonize so you are limited to what countries to play as if you want to play the colonization game. You will play for 5 hrs and be more or less doing the same things, unlike CIV, EU never really goes any will take about 5 hrs or so to get to colonization. I have played both.we all know what we like and don't like with civ.soĮu….great music, great graphics.some great mechanics, some bad mechanics.biggest problem with EU is I always get bored as the game takes too long to go anywhere. I prefeer using its wiki as manual, other people prefer youtube videos. Very strongly based in one historical period, quite obsessively taken care of (recent edition has around 700 countries ), real time grand strategy with a **** ton of mechanics and modifiers, hard to get into because it is constantly evolving from patch to patch, from DLC to DLC, with current version of EU4 being extremely different experience from old EU4 - which means all sorts of manuals and old advice are useless and you need time to adapt to the current version. It has very conservative development model: every few years new Civ iteration appears, after various dev videos and press releases, and then it gets some sudden patches and 2-3 old style expansions.ĮU4 is product of very specific niche of Paradox Interactive. Those are pretty different experiences.Ĭiv is more casual, arcade 4X turn game which can be played by people of all ages and backgrounds, relatively easy to get into. I spent a ton of time both on Civ5 and EU4, as well as their forums.
