A hotseat mode will also be added in the future, allowing players to take turns on a single system. While online multiplayer in the Switch release seemingly won't be happening, Nintendo players can still look forward to the Rise & Fall and Gathering Storm expansions coming to this version of the game later this year. The Mac App Store version and iOS version do not have online multiplayer for similar reasons. This was supported by a comment stating how Apple versions of the game did not include online multiplayer, either: I'm aware the Switch has some of those systems, but it's still requires custom implementation. Implementing these things per unique system takes considerable effort. It sounds basic, until you realize that both private and public games required significant back end work.Ĭiv VI on desktop utilizes Steam for things like friends lists (required for private games) and server listing (required for public games).

The community representative from Aspyr recently explained why this particular feature was absent from the Switch release: Unfortunately, this particular version is missing one major feature: online multiplayer.

Sid Meier's Civilization VI is almost the perfect portable companion on the Switch.

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