Sid Meier’s Civilization 7: all the latest on the strategy epic from Firaxis Games

Sid Meier’s Civilization VII is the latest successful the long-running 4X strategy franchise that archetypal debuted successful 1991 connected MS-DOS. The caller turn-based crippled from Firaxis Games and the titular, legendary decorator is acceptable to merchandise connected PC and modern consoles successful connected February 11th, 2025 — implicit 8 years aft the past installment.

Civ VII promises to grow the scope of however players tin constitute their ain humanities fantasy, offering the state to premix and lucifer civilizations with antithetic humanities figures, specified arsenic Hatshepsut reigning implicit the Roman empire successful the Age of Exploration. It’s the benignant of crippled that easy consumes hundreds of hours of playtime, perpetually offering caller and unexpected ways to prosecute with its heavy city-building systems. Our ain Ash Parrish details successful her hands-on impressions however she lone managed to scratch the aboveground successful a lengthy three-hour demo.

Here’s each our sum of the adjacent large rubric successful the Civilization series.

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  Civilization 7 lets you premix and lucifer past — and it’s a blast

  

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  Imagine Caesar Augustus astatine the caput of an service of Mongol warriors oregon Ben Franklin gathering the Great Wall of China. In Sid Meier’s Civilization 7, specified flights of humanities phantasy tin go humanities fact. The crippled has caller ages to experience, caller civilizations to physique up, caller leaders to usher them, and — for the archetypal clip successful franchise past — the quality to premix and lucifer leaders and civilizations to physique the empire of your wildest dreams. The Verge had the accidental to trial retired the crippled and speech with its developers astatine Firaxis Games. The brief, three-hour demo wasn’t capable clip to get a consciousness for however good leaders and antithetic civilizations enactment together, but I near feeling excited astir each the ways Civilization VII aims to alteration the people of history. 

  In erstwhile Civilization games, civs were ever tied to a circumstantial person who was usually, but not always, a noteworthy caput of state. Later iterations of the crippled offered aggregate leaders for civs, and connected a mates of occasions wherever it made humanities sense, 1 person could straddle aggregate civs similar France and England some having entree to Eleanor of Aquitaine, who, during her unusually-long-for-the-time-period life, was the queen of some countries.

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• Here are the PC requirements for Civilization 7.

  Check ‘em out to spot if your PC tin tally the crippled erstwhile it comes retired connected February 11th. Specs aren’t yet disposable for macOS and Linux.

  
  

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  Baba yetu, yetu uliye!

  Ghandi’s coming, fell the nukes! On August 20th, Firaxis Games volition stock an in-depth look Civilization VII at 3:30 PM ET connected Twitch and YouTube. The uncover coincides with Opening Night Live, the past large video crippled lawsuit of the summertime hosted by video crippled hype meister Geoff Keighley. Expect a 20 infinitesimal heavy dive into the crippled including caller gameplay footage and caller features.

  
  

  

  

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  Civilization 7 is launching successful 2025

  It’s been a agelong wait, but the adjacent Civilization has yet been revealed. At the main Summer Game Fest keynote, steadfast 2K officially announced Civilization 7, the archetypal caller introduction successful the strategy bid since 2016. We didn’t get immoderate existent details oregon existent gameplay, but alternatively a precise little teaser trailer that looked a batch like, well, Civilization. But there’s 1 happening we bash know: the crippled won’t beryllium launching until 2025. And it’s coming to a fig of platforms, with the motorboat planned for PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch.

  More details volition beryllium coming successful August, according to 2K, with a “full gameplay showcase.”

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  A caller mainline Civilization crippled is successful improvement astatine Firaxis

  

  The past mainline introduction successful the bid — Civilization VI.

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  A caller Civilization game, apt to beryllium called Civilization VII, is successful improvement astatine Firaxis Games, incoming workplace caput Heather Hazen has announced. 

  “I’m thrilled to person this accidental to transportation connected the studio’s storied legacy, opening with the announcement that Firaxis is successful improvement connected the adjacent iteration of the legendary Civilization franchise,” Hazen said in a property release. “I’m fortunate to beryllium moving with immoderate of the champion developers successful our industry, and we person plans to instrumentality the Civilization franchise to breathtaking caller heights for our millions of players astir the world.”

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