Sid Meier's Civilization VII arrives February 11, 2025 - Gameplay reveal trailer live

I hope they will take care of that themselves and finally deliver a "release" rather than a "port".

Way too zoomed in, no UI to be found, it is a stretch to call it a "gameplay trailer" - more like an "in-engine trailer". We barely get to see a tile grid in one scene, and the water reflections in that scene look awfully overdone. I'll go look at their longer "gameplay showcase" later, after it is finished (I don't have the patience to sit down watching the advertising speech in real time, I'll want to skip forward the boring parts).

Still, the larger and more connected cities suggests districts working more like Humankind or Old World, it seems to be some kind of (land) cliff terrain, and storms/weather in some form. Terrain looks quite different but it may be entirely cosmetic.

Generally it looks ok, I like Civ 6's cartoony style better but that one was polemic so no wonder it is gone. The terrain looks a lot more detailed in a nice way, like possibly more variety in mountains and cooler trees, but the trailer is way too zoomed in, with a camera angle that I would never use while actually playing so who knows how it will look for real. Unit models look surprisingly basic, which I don't care (again, zoom level) but I assumed they would go for better models. And the leaders (?) in that scene that I assume is a diplomatic animation look really bad, which matters a lot more and on 6 they were so masterfully done - I assume they will still improve it, but weird choice to show this.

Way too zoomed in, would prefer to see actual gameplay. And "pre-order now to receive Tecumseh and Shawnee pack"? Hoping, but will be waiting to see what gets released.

Cool, I can't wait to not buy it and wait till all the DLC is out. And then the next day Civ 8 will be announced

Alright, I was without power so I'm a bit behind on all the news, but seems they also lifted a streamer embargo for people that went there and played the game (though they didn't record it, it is all stock footage provided by firaxis). For example, a youtuber I like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ5YGamtSjI (but others have also covered it, youtube has a bunch of videos).

And just from the first short video, the game looks so much better than the trailer, wtf. The UI looks good, the leaders have great animations and cool designs and are well done... I expected it was going to look a lot more unfinished because they didn't even have anything to put in the trailer. Also, they are really revealing a lot about gameplay changes this early.

Those curious may want to check out the showcase video that goes into the big changes with the game. Seems to be adapting a few ideas from Humankind and giving them their own twist—just as well as I disliked the execution of most of those things in Humankind. Some of the changes mentioned in previews I'm not so wild about and the diplomacy potentially sounds annoying. But, overall, I'm cautiously optimistic for this one. The explanations given by the team sound reasonable and the game looks engaging. Though, ouch, that preorder price is steep. I'll blame 2K for that one.

One detail I noticed from the trailer is it seemed like there was some kind of river travel.

Looking at articles that show what they changed.... it's even worse than Civ Vi.... it's not even really Civilization anymore.

Instead of the clones competing with Civilization.... Civilization is competing with the clones. Now it's all relativistic drivel all the way down dressed up in hunger games presenter costumes.

I'm more sad than angry.

As long as it has Strategic View, I can play.

Updated with their other video, and their continued Linux confirmation.