The title is giving it fully away: Shacknews has crowned Civ7 to be their best strategy title of 2025.It managed to beat the latest Commandos title and Final Fantasy Tactics among others.The Shacknews team appreciated the changing civs (yes, they did) and the new strategies it allows, the navigable rivers and the removal of workers.At the end, Civ7… Read More »
Christmas is over, means many of us are having some free time now. What’s there better to do than a new round of Civ, with a fresh challenge? For the Civ5 connoisseurs among us we have a fresh “Game Of The Month”, as the first challenge for 2026. In this game you play Askia of the Songhai on… Read More »
Merry Christmas to all CivFanatics fans! Hope you have a great day and thank you for all your support this year! In case you want to post anything about the holidays, then join us here.
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… Read More »
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,… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
