Sid Meier's Civilization VII Will Let You Rule The World February 2025

I'm interested to see what new features have been added to the game besides navigable rivers. I hope the religion system has been totally reworked in this edition; I found dealing with religion to just absolutely bog down the gameplay in Civ 6.

@bransby I had to turn off religious victories when I wasn’t aiming for them. Such a PIA when you’re cruising along only to get sniped by religion. It’s a fun victory to go for yourself, but not fun to defend against random AI.

Civ 6 is my most played game on Switch! I have so many amazing memories playing it. Even 6 seemed to struggle with the switch hardware though. I hope they better optimize Civ 7 for Switch as I’m sure it’ll be an even bigger challenge to run on the system.

This is an awful trailer. Do all the same things you do in the current games, only ... they look slightly better? Or I don't know, maybe they look the same, no one plays with animations on anyways.

The gameplay reveal didn't do the game any favors either. It's Civ, with all the things you didn't like about "Humankind".

But hey, let's be honest ... that's not actually that bad. Civ has never been a series about revolutionary gameplay, it's been about small evolutions to the core game over time. I think leaving the impression that they might have played this one a little too safe is better then leaving the impression that they took a wide swing for the fences. Most game play evolution has come in the DLC anyways.

I'll still get this day one, but with 1600 hours in the Civ 6 and 1300 in Civ 5 ... I wasn't really a hard sell.

i wish legacy "computer" games got as much love as older console games. I bought and genuinely tried to love civ6 on switch but I just don't.

OTOH I loved CivNet on win95 when I was a kid, and I can very clearly imagine how well it would work on switch with a controller. 👍 and it's just super charming and imo a more fun game than later games in the series that I've tried.

Anyway this looks like more of the same, and i wont be giving 7 the same opportunity unless I learn something very tempting about it (which this article hasn't done, not that it was your job personally.) ✌️

I will get it on PC but for me Civ is one of the few games where I am like "wait on the successor".

Played the hell out of CIV6 on Switch. Really enjoyed playing Hotseat with people when we were also doing other stuff. (one weird night had us passing it around whilst playing D&D... boy spellcasters take time).

But MAN the Switch version took ages to load.

@-wc- I agree. I have been a fan since Civ I. Played through them all including all the mods with Civ II, Colonization, Alpha Centurai, Beyond Earth etc.

As I watched the announcement, I kept wondering what is the difference between 6 and 7 aside from the graphics. The base game is pretty much there since Civ l. They haven’t deviated much in terms of the technology evolutionary lines and winning options since. The biggest thing was moving to a hex-based map instead of a grid.

I hope I am wrong, but it looks pretty much like a graphics update.

@Deenroy @bransby

Here is some advice 7 years too late!

You can pretty much ignore religious aggression if you just build 3(ish) Apostles of a minority religion. You don't need to found a religion, just use any religion in any of your cities that isn't the one trying to take over the world.

Park them in a major population center. Don't use them to spread religion, just attack any missionaries that show up. The main problem with the computer is they will relentlessly send dozens of missionaries, but this turns that against them. Every time you kill one, it eliminates some of their religion from every nearby city. Not only will this completely derail their victory, but it wont be long before the run out of missionaries. The computer never utilizes any tactics in theological combat, and will just continue to toss units that can't even attack you back at you one at a time, so you'll be able to move the "front line" and keep eliminating their religious influence from more and more cities, without ever having to spread a religion.

@graviton

The gameplay overview was today, you can check it out at:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2229425918?t=1h28m23s

For the most part it's pretty safe, but the few changes they did make are substantial. Most of the talk is about graphical and emersion upgrades. But I mean, it was always going to be Civ 6 with a new paint job. Civ 6 doesn't play that different then Civ 2, really. Religion, districts, minor civilizations, and small tweaks to combat, zones of control, and stacking units are all that's changed in almost 30 years. I can't imagine Civ 7 will play radically different from Civ 6, and I would think that's what the overwhelming majority of fans want.

@abe_hikura

i didnt realize it had hot seat! i will forgive a lot about a game for hot seat multi player 😂 it's such a relaxing way to play games with other people, and vastly underrated imo.

Thanks 👍

@graviton

Hey cheers! I haven't kept up as well as you have but it's a series I've always "kept an eye on."
Civnet has yet to be topped though lol and I don't even prefer the move to hexagons, either. ✌️

I think that they should wait to release it on Switch 2.

@HeadPirate Thanks for the link. The new “ages” is interesting. Time will tell how it is implemented. Hopefully when one civilization enters a new age, it doesn’t automatically drag the others into it as well.

And yes, the graphics look great. I wonder if the Switch will be able to handle that…

@HeadPirate To be clear, I understand how to deal with getting spammed by the AI's missionaries, I just find having to do so to be tedious if I'm not playing as a religious civ myself.

@-wc- You know, Civnet was the only I never played. lol 🫣