When comparing Endless Space vs Civilization 6, the Slant community recommends Endless Space for most people. In the question“What are the best 4X games on Steam?” Endless Space is ranked 8th while Civilization 6 is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Endless Space is:
The Interface is quite good looking for a space 4X game and works well.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Efficent Interface
The Interface is quite good looking for a space 4X game and works well.
Pro Still Beautiful
Pro Diverse playable factions creating a lot of variety
The playable empires are really varied and often have quite different gameplay (though not as much as the factions in Endless Legends).
Pro Dynamic tax system
Endless Space's unique tax system allows you to strategically decide between Income and Approval.
Pro Easy city planning
The new district system introduces sprawling cities for the first time in the series and makes city planning much more interesting.
Pro Civics and government system
Replacing Civ5s Social Policies is a system of Civics, researched with culture unlocking policy cards of several categories and governments with different amounts of policy card slots.
Cons
Con Harsh learning curve
The game has a bad tutorial and is therfore hard to learn; early on even the lowest difficulty can feel almost impossible to beat.
Con Bad AI
The AI is not very good right now, often building obsolete units and hating player in 9 out of 10 cases.
Con Exploits
There are many exploits that still need to be ironed out, giving players a lot of ways to gain infinite money.