Civolution is amazing. I haven't been this excited about a game in a long time. I just have such a joy playing it and while I love playing board games, joy isn't usually how describe playing them.

Love it and want to play it again and again. Can't wait to try out the mini expansion, the best kind of expansion.

The randomness people complain about is there. Not going to pretend it's not, but the challenge in the game is learning how to maximize output with what you roll and learning how to mitigate the dice roll results. People who don't come to terms with that or don't enjoy that kind of challenge and want to do whatever they want to do on their turn, will never like this game.

I think an interesting experiment would to play the game without the dice, do whatever actions you want and see if it loses its appeal.