A Gameplay reveal trailer has been released for Sid Meier's Civilization VII and we have a release date of February 11th, 2025. Some other good news is there will be no extra launcher this time too (and it was recently removed from the previous game), although they are requiring a 2K account for online play.
Check out the first gameplay below:
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It's available to pre-order starting from £59.99 / 69,99€ / $69.99 and more for the other editions of the game. The Deluxe and Founders edition give a bunch of extras, along with Advanced Access to get into the game on February 5th.
You can also check out their longer showcase:
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Their previous press releases very clearly mentioned Linux support and the pre-order on Steam has the SteamOS (Linux) icon too, so as far as I know, it will have Linux support again but it's not been stated who is doing it if it will be Firaxis Games themselves, Aspyr Media again or another team. The Linux system requirements are just noted as "TBD" (Windows and macOS are the same). Update 21/08/24 9:32 UTC: Their press release sent out later once again confirmed very clearly:
[…] it will be available on PlayStation®5 (PS5®), PlayStation®4 (PS4®), Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo™ Switch, PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, and Mac and Linux via Steam
Emphpasis mine.
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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.
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.
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.
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