Civilization 7: Release Window, Platforms, & Confirmed Civilizations

is set to be the long-awaited continuation of a beloved series that's helped to define the landscape of strategy games since the first game released over three decades ago. Every game yet released is focused around the standard «4X» elements — eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate — which challenge players to lead their civilization to a promising future through any and all of these methods. Racing to war can often be the most enticing option, but it's also possible to achieve victory through developing culture or leaping ahead in science.

The other core defining aspect of is its focus on cultures from human history, which can be guided from their infancy all the way to the modern age and the future beyond. Overall development also roughly mimics the march of progress, with technology and religion following a basic linearity that can be adjusted along different paths. It's all much more divorced from actual history than something like, but the basic framework makes it easily accessible in a way that many other 4X games can't quite recapture.

Sid Meier’s Civilization 7 was announced during this year’s Summer Game Fest, but the teaser trailer shows little in the way of gameplay.

was officially revealed in a trailer at 2024's Summer Game Fest, which announced that the game will release somewhere in a 2025 window. This will conclude a nine-year wait since the release of, marking the longest gap between games in the series by a significant margin. It might be a while before the specific release date ends up becoming clear, but and the spin-off stuck to autumn releases, with October being a particularly common release month.

An earlier window to watch for with is this coming August, which promises a gameplay showcase and a better look at the features and changes that the game will bring to the series. For now, the only core gameplay element that seems locked in place is the hex-based system utilized by and, as the logo at the end of the trailer shows a hex shape behind