[Barrin92]

I love the Civ games but I definitely agree with that criticism. Civ is to politics or culture what the world music genre was to music. Even the styles of the civ cutscenes, the character design, or the dialogue screnes aesthetically seem to resemble sort of 90s world music album covers.

This is why Alpha Centauri is by far my favourite Civ game, it's free from having to deal with a lot of historical accuracy and just has a very strong narrative and great worldbuilding.

[Termious]

Agree. Alpha Centauri is still the peak of the genre for me, two decades later. It's just a shame there's no active open source effort, because the technical implementation has aged poorly.

[Termious]

I was looking into AC again today and noticed that there are some unofficial patches, one of which allows you to freely configure the resolution. I'm sitting here playing Alpha Centauri at 1080p and I couldn't be happier.

Yitzi patch: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;cat=2 (you'll need to download 3.5 and 3.5d, then overwrite the terranx.exe in 3.5 with the newer one from 3.5d)

Graphics patch: https://github.com/DrazharLn/pracx

Requires Alpha Centauri with the latest official patch (GOG version comes already updated).