But what other civilizations should we still hope for in the forthcoming expansion pack? Civ 6: Rise and Fall will make things even better. Since then, the game dealt with much of the problem through DLC, and the diversity problem is now much less acute. It was a surprisingly non-diverse bunch, and Firaxis was rightly called out for it.
Major civilizations like the Mongols, Indonesians, and most shockingly of all the Persians were initially absent. That wasn’t itself a problem … but a full half of the game’s original eighteen civilizations were European. As usual for a new Civ game, the freshly launched version had many fewer civilizations than Civ V did (years of DLC and expansions will help with that). When Civilization VI first launched, the game had a bit of a problem-despite its generally great reviews, including our own.