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Civilization 7 is bringing back a neat feature from Civ 3

Learn how other leaders feel about you with one look

Marco Wutz

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Firaxis has been showing off more and more gameplay from Civilization 7 and the latest stream by the developers revealed a neat little detail in the UI.

In Civ 7, you can find all the leaders you’ve met on your run in the top right corner of the map – a click on their portraits allows you to quickly initiate diplomacy with them. However, looking at their faces will also reveal how they currently feel about you.

A leader with a positive impression of you will greet you with a smile, while neighbors considering you a pain in the butt will give you an angry expression. This is a nice little detail making it easy to see where you stand with each of your acquaintances.

This is also not the first time a Civilization game includes such visual indicators – back in the old days, Civilization 3 actually had a similar feature, so this is a cool callback to the classic as well as a great quality-of-life improvement.

Another feature making its return from a previous series entry are the leader personas from Civ 6 – though instead of allowing you to play as a different civilization with the same leader, they’ll provide you with an alternative set of traits and abilities this time around.

You can check our list of all Civilization 7 leaders and civs to find all the faces you may potentially see staring at you with hateful eyes.

Civilization 7 is set to come to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch in February 2024 and you can already check out its PC system requirements to plan ahead.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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