Just two days after releasing the Empires of the Indus expansion, Mohawk Games has announced what they are working on next – a dinosaur-themed strategy game.
Sid Meier will be on loan to Mohawk to create the game that he described in 2022 as his “holy grail” game. Meanwhile, Soren Johnson will be spending the remainder of 2026 working with Firaxis on the design of future expansion packs, whose names have not yet been announced.
“Soren spent seven years with Firaxis in the early 2000s, including leading the Civilization IV design team, and we’re excited to have him back to contribute to Civilization VII,” said a Firaxis representative. “He has some really interesting ideas on how to fuse some of the ideas from the Firaxis Feature Workshop, his own and our team’s ideas, and the core elements of the game, and the future will be brighter for having him with us this year.”
From Mohawk, technical director Alex Mantzaris said, “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Sid to help him realize his lifelong vision of creating a dinosaur strategy game.”
Meier himself commented that design discussions over the past year convinced him that a solution had been found to the challenges that he had noted about a dinosaur game in his 2020 book. He will remain an employee of Firaxis on loan to the smaller studio.
No release date had been announced for either the Civilization VII expansions or Sid Meier’s Older World, and as of this time we do not have confirmation on whether this also means the end of future expansion to Mohawk’s existing title, Old World.
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