PC|MAC|XS|PS5|ONE|PS4|SW Sid Meier's Civilization VII

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It sure looks like Civilization 7 is getting underway at Firaxis

The next Civilization game appears to be getting underway. Developer Firaxis has posted a job ad that seeks a narrative lead to work on an upcoming “AAA Strategy Title,” and one of the qualities they’re looking for is someone who has a “knowledge and passion for world history.” That sure sounds like a certain 4X game series we’ve heard of.

The ad itself doesn’t explicitly say that it’s for Civilization VII, but there aren’t a lot of other possibilities – unless there’s a surprise plan to reboot Sid Meier’s American Civil War games, a new Civilization seems the most likely, by a wide margin. The ad says the studio is looking for someone with three years of credited games writing experience, and who can write cinematics alongside a cinematic director in order to tell stories visually.

The role will also requires a candidate who understands ways to tell stories within the structure of a strategy game, and who is “driven to find new ways of storytelling within our genre.” One of the ‘nice to have’ qualities is experience in directing either voice or live action performances.

Firaxis has several as-yet-unannounced games in the pipeline, one of which is rumoured to be an XCOM-style Avengers strategy game. Parent company Take-two has said 2K Games will be announcing an “exciting new franchise” sometime this month as well.

Obviously, there’s no Civilization VII release date set yet, since we’re still waiting for the publisher to officially confirm it’s in development. But it seems likely we’ll be hearing more about it pretty soon.

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Official Teaser Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pygcgE3 ... XVyolQO3wj



brown voices/accents make the trailer sound stupid. I didn't even watch it, just heard the accents and shut it down.

Thanks browns for ruining a trailer of a genre you don't even play.

Anyway, the game will be tuned for midwits, like the last ones. Just look at that Switch logo at launch. So not in the least excited. Will still be better than Humankind for what that's worth (nothing).

They will reveal play footage in August, if anyone cares.

TBA 2025.

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Okay I watched the trailer, and it's actually not bad. And it does have a space rocket at the end, which is of course racist. So they haven't quite killed the game yet.

I suppose the main question will be how it compares to Millennia [ > ], which btw is out now.

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Gameplay Reveal Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK_JrrP ... XVyolQO3wj

Finally navigable rivers

Looks like it's just the automated trade route travelling

We have no in-interface mechanism to interact with the "side" of a hex

Navigable rivers, more dynamic terrain, trains, civ-specific architecture and better sprawl generation... This game shows how far we've come in terms of game technology since 2016

@wedonteatbears almost every single feature you mentioned was there in sole form in Civilization 1, or at the very least 2. Navigable rivers perhaps not very literally, but travelling along the rivers was like using roads, only 1/3 movement point cost, and made a lot of sense from historical point of view. Dynamic terrain as in terrain changed due to climate change, nuclear wars and direct changes by settlers was there too. The last two things are not game mechanics, so honestly I don't care.

One thing that strikes me about this trailer is how detailed the terrain is now. It's a lot more vibrant and textured compared to Civ 6, which could often look identical. Even the layout of the cities seems to have been improved. They're not as disjointed as they used to be. There seems to be a lot more urban sprawl in the surrounding countryside.

I appreciate that the art style is still a bit cartoonish and colorful but a bit more realistic too. Like a perfect blend of Civ V and Civ VI.

I don't think enough people are talking about verticality yet, it looks like you have cliffs leading down to more land below, with ability to create elevators/something like that? Elevation is something we haven't ever seen here!!

The only thing I miss, is that seeing my people doing their everyday things (mining, woodcutting or riding a train etc.) to make my empire feel more alive. Otherwise looks amazing!

I love how they've scaled back the cartoonish artstyle of Civ 6 while maintaining its vibrant colors whilst maintaining the realism of Civ 5. A beautiful blend of both games. I think the units are WAY too big, but that's something mod authors can address later down the line.

The way to move this game forward is to start modelling everything at scale. Show the whole planet PA-style, and if a city has a million pop, show me a million people. Our hardware can do this now, especially since this isn't a networked game, or at least not a real-time one.

It will happen some day, but it won't be a midwit company doing it, it'll be a high-IQ one, for a small high-IQ playerbase, with a lot of AI helping to build the game due to lacking funds.

And btw,

Looks promising, but I am sceptical about the switching civ per age. I think I would rather just play the same civ throughout the ages. Wouldn't have minded it much if the leader changes per age, but a leader from that specific age.

This is what happens in human kind. Human kind is a really good game in honesty. There is more competition about now. I hope this game live up to the legend of its predecessors. I have thousands of hours across the series :)

Humankind is crap.

@BjornBS is this confirmed? I didn’t see the evidence in the trailer but only watched it once. Are you saying each era you’ll have to switch? If I start as Rome I can end up being Portugal or something?

@FeetFertilizer It was confirmed in the livestream announcement. I'm unsure to what extent you can switch civs, but in your Rome -> Portugal assumption seems like an accurate assumption. I saw something in the announcement that suggested you could switch from Egypt to Mongolia, so it might be decently far-reaching.

It's optional, you pick a civ but you can change the culture at the turn of the age if you want.

Thank Sid.

City sprawl and navigable rivers, I'm going to fucking cry

It basically looks like they played Humankind and took the new aspects and integrated them in a playable way, so that the good stuff like urban sprawl improves the game, and the bad stuff like civ-switching is made optional and can be ignored. Not a very creative approach, but not a bad way to make a decent sequel. They basically used Humankind as a free prototype and market-survey.

February 11.