Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am your host for this week.

Len Hafer, joining me today are two people, one of which is 3MA founder Troy Goodfellow.

Hello, everyone.

And the other is freelance writer John Boling.

Howdy.

I introduced you kind of like there's something going on there.

John Bolding.

Sketchy.

There's always something going on there.

And we're here today because it has been, it's been at least a year since we even brushed over it but

closer to two since we talked in depth about civilization six and sidmyer's civilization in general

which is still one of the more popular strategy games on steam even to this day um and i think it's the most popular strategy game on Steam.

Is it still number one?

Yeah.

I know you've been looking at those.

It carries a solid 30,000 players average most days.

Yeah.

And, you know, we're a strategy podcast.

So we're going to take a look at where civilization is in 2021.

And, John, like, what is, what do you think it is that keeps bringing people back to it

with so many options we have now?

I think that the Civ series is a comforting series overall it's um it's it's complex and

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