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Merry Christmas from Civfanatics!
2K Winter Sale
2K has currently a winter sale, which includes big discounts for Civ4, Civ5, Civ:BE, Civ6 and Civ7! This also includes the Civ7 DLCs (besides Tides Of Power, which is currently free).
For people who already have all the civ games, there are also discounts for Marvel Midnight Suns, as well as XCOM 1 and 2 (among other, less interesting games 😉 ).
The sale runs until January 5, check it out here.
Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #279
And you are also getting the last Civ5 “Game Of The Month” for the year 2025! This time we challenge you to play as Oda Nobunaga on a standard size “small continents” map on (fittingly) Emperor level. Unfittingly, you must win a diplomacy victory though, and prevent all other civs from winning another victory. The earlier you win, the better! Check for the savegame here. You have until January 15 to finish this game and send in the winning savegame.
CivGive 2025: A historical interview
During this year’s CivGive, history student and civ streamer Paisley_Trees was interviewing Firaxis historian Andrew Johnson. They talk about what their Civ7 strategy is (historic roleplaying…or not), why Oxford is not a medieval wonder, the current view on the beginning of human civilization, the complications with the languages in Civ, and a lot more. Watch the video, and discuss with us here.
Play the new Civ7 “Game Of The Month” #13
And it’s time for the special December “Game Of The Month”, called the “Krampus” edition. This is again a challenge for you, but with some more spiced-up requirements. The basics are that you play Machiavelli of Aksum on a huge Archipelago map on Deity level. The disaster intensity is catastrophic, and the independents are hostile. As special requirements we have that you must take Hawaii and America as following civs (and you must unlock them), you must win a domination victory before anyone else, you must have the memento “Il Principe, Glass Armonica”, as Hawaii you must settle 2 islands, and as America you must settle 3 cities in distant lands on plains or grassland tiles.
Sounds like a challenge? Get the savegame here!
Civ7 update 1.3.1, and part 2 of Tides of Power
Today we got the latest Civ7 update! Patch 1.3.1 comes with a new map type, Shattered Seas, better biome generation, rebalancing, bugfixes in the AI, UI changes and a lot more.
The second part of the “Tides Of Power” DLC has also been released, and it’s still free until January 5. You can now (finally) play as the Ottomans, as well as Iceland, and we get the barbary pirate queen Sayyida al Hurra as new leader.
Check out the thread for the update here.
Lost LEGO Civ game, video leaked
We already mentioned it a while ago that there was apparently a cancelled LEGO civ game. It seems that this then flew under our radar for a while, and a month ago our user cuc had posted a leaked video from the unfinished game. Have a look at the video above, and discuss with us here.
Civ VII Developer Video – December 2025 – Update 1.3.1 drops tomorrow!
Sara came by today for again some news, and this time also the most exciting one: We can expect the update, and also the second part of the “Tides Of Power” DLC tomorrow! This all will come with another map type, Shattered Seas, better biome generation, some rebalancing and a lot more. Stay tuned for tomorrow, and check the discussion here.