Civ7 early access release times, reviews, and XBox controllers

By | February 3, 2025

Firaxis has today released when exactly Civ7 will be released during the early access. The console releases (not displayed here) will mostly be earlier. For more info please check the thread.

The first reviews are also in. We created a subforum for the reviews, and you can find a selection below:

And as last item of the day, Firaxis has released some Civ7 inspired colour designs for XBox controllers. For more information please check here.

Civ IV Hall of Fame Update

By | February 3, 2025

The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 11 games were accepted since the previous update.

Congratulations to ariosto for the highest score of the update with a Small, Normal, Prince, Domination game for 992,022 points.
fizbankovi was the most active player during this update, submitting 3 games.

Only 2 players were brave enough to take on Deity this update:

  • fizbankovi – 1874 AD, Standard, Normal, Deity, Diplomatic game for 126,122 points.​
  • fizbankovi – 1908 AD, Standard, Normal, Deity, Espionage game for 43,096 points.
  • fizbankovi – 1917 AD, Standard, Normal, Deity, Domination game for 95,396 points.​
  • Wednesday – 360 AD, Standard, Marathon, Deity, Cultural game for 599,364 points.​

​New Number One Entries:

A number of players gained number one positions:

  • Wednesday with a 360 AD, Standard, Marathon, Deity, Cultural game for 599,364 points.
  • nocho with a 1464 AD, Duel, Marathon, Immortal, Space Colony game for 456,005 points.
  • Lcpl Jack Jones with a 2050 AD, Huge, Marathon, Emperor, Time game for 17,422 points.
  • nocho with a 1520 AD, Tiny, Epic, Emperor, Space Colony game for 376,152 points.
  • Alexfin with a 1020 AD, Standard, Normal, Noble, Cultural game for 83,040 points.
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A number of players gained a composite table High Score (i.e. Any Condition):

  • ariosto with a 1280 AD, Small, Normal, Prince, game for 992,022 points.
  • nocho with a 1464 AD, Duel, Marathon, Immortal, game for 456,005 points.
  • nocho with a 1520 AD, Tiny, Epic, Emperor, game for 376,152 points.

Let’s congratulate all the winners here!

The Civ7 civ and leader timeline!

By | February 2, 2025

Our user evonannoredars has put together a timeline of when all the civs and leaders in Civ7 lived or were present. This timeline is a nice overview, and should help us identify urgently needed future content ;). If you want to discuss the timeline, then check out the thread here.

Civ5 Hall Of Fame: New gauntlets available

By | February 1, 2025

The Hall Of Fame is an ongoing competition for the highest scores in every setting in Civ5. You are always free to send in your highest scoring savegames, but sometimes we give you specific challenges for settings which are underrepresented.

This time we want you to do the following 2 gauntlets:

For the G-Major CLII we challenge you to play as Suleiman of the Ottomans on a small “small continents” map on Emperor level and to win via a domination victory. The deadline for this gauntlet is February 28. For more information please check this thread.

For the G-Minor CCXXV we challenge you to play as Ramessess II of Egypt on a standard size continents map on quick speed with Prince difficulty. You also need to win via diplomacy. The deadline here is also February 28. For more information please check here.

New short: Yields and Improvements

By | January 31, 2025

Firaxis has today released a new short, talking about yields and improvements. Civ7 does not have anymore worker units, so you do not improve tiles as in previous civ games. Instead, if you work a tile, it automatically gets improved. If you want to change the yield of an improvement, then you need to build a building with an associated modifier. Want to discuss this? Then join us here.

Old World: Wrath Of Gods DLC announced

By | January 31, 2025

Mohawk Games has today revealed the next upcoming DLC for Old World, this time titled “Wrath Of Gods“.
This DLC will come with Aksum as a new civ, will introduce 9 different natural disasters to the game, a new scenario and more than 200 new events.
The expected release date is March 3 2025.
For more info please check the Steam page here, and discuss it with us here.

Civ7 news of the day: Prussia, Friedrich, Victories, DLC: Great Britain, Carthage and more

By | January 30, 2025

Firaxis has released too much information today, therefore only a short breakdown of what we have:

  • There are many interesting details in the live stream thread, please check here
  • We got a new Civ game guide for Prussia
  • And a new first look at Friedrich of Prussia
  • Parts of the DLC content were revealed, which includes Carthage, Great Britan, Bulgaria, Nepal, Ada Lovelace, Simon Bolivar, Bermuda triangle and some other minor details. See the thread here
  • This was apparently leaked a bit early in a Polygon article, see here
  • A new game guide about victories was released, see here
  • It also seems we got a glance at the regional release times, but they might have been wrong. See the discussion here

GOG Dreamlist: Vote for Civ1 and Civ2!

By | January 29, 2025

GOG has today revelaed its “Dreamlist“, an official list where you can vote which games they should try to acquire and preserve! Our moderator blake00 has already a long time ago started a campaign to bring Civ1 and Civ2 back, and now there is a realistic chance via the Dreamlist!
The fight for the top spot is fierce! On first place we currently have “Black & White” with nearly 60.000 votes. Civ1 and Civ2 are somewhere on page 6 and 7, with 15.000 and nearly 14.000 votes respectively.
Vote here for Civ1, and here for Civ2, and discuss the voting for Civ1 here and for Civ2 here.