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Civilization 7 release planned before April 2025

Take-Two confirms a launch window

Marco Wutz

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Anticipation for Civilization 7 is high and fans now have a concrete release window for the next entry into the iconic strategy game series to look forward to: According to Take-Two Interactive’s latest earnings report, Civilization 7 will be released in Q4 of FY 2025 – that means between January and March 2025. 

It’s still a little too vague to plan taking days off from work – and there is always the possibility of a delay – but this means that Civilization 7 potentially is just half a year away.

Development on Civilization 7 was officially confirmed in early 2023 with the title’s announcement leaking right ahead of Summer Game Fest 2024.

Fans can expect the next wave of information about the turn-based strategy game rolling up very soon, because the grand Civilization 7 gameplay reveal is planned for Opening Night Live 2024, the showcase kicking off this year’s Gamescom. Whether visitors will actually be able to take an early version of the game for a spin on the showfloor is currently unclear.

Developer Firaxis is certainly under pressure to deliver a strong series entry after its latest game, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, ended up being unsuccessful commercially.

With how much the studio innovated in the series’ latest mainline entries – both Civilization 5 and 6 made drastic changes compared to their predecessors – we can’t be sure how exactly Civ 7 is going to end up looking at this point. With titles like Humankind and Millennia releasing between Civ 6 and 7 and bringing some fresh ideas to the table, Firaxis might have picked up a concept or two along the way. Microsoft’s Ara: History Untold should be nearing release as well, so it’s a great time to be a turn-based 4X strategy fan.

While everyone’s patiently waiting for details, there is a lot of fun speculation to be had about the upcoming title’s potential nation leaders – we got in on the action, listing new leaders we’d like to see in Civilization 7 as well as interesting female leaders we’d like to have featured in the game.

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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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