Enlarge / Civilization VI is the first full Civ game to be released on mobile. (credit: Aspyr)

The game was ported by Aspyr Media, a company that has been doing Mac game ports for two decades and which had previously ported BioWare’s Jade Empire and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to iOS. While those games were available on the iPhone in addition to the iPad, Civilization VI is not.

Unfortunately, Civ VI will not work on just any iPad. According to Aspyr’s blog post announcing the release, Civilization VI requires “iOS 11 on an iPad Air 2, iPad 2017, or any iPad Pro.” This is not surprising, but it cuts out the entire iPad mini line—which is still available for sale from Apple—and the original iPad Air, which is still popular and in use.