Hey Civ followers! On February 11, 2025, Sid Meier’s Civilization VII is coming to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, empowering you to construct the best empire the world has ever identified! At present, I’m delighted to offer you a primary look at Civilization VII on PS5, with a UI designed to your controller and options specifically made for PlayStation platforms.
This revolutionary new entry within the critically acclaimed turn-based technique collection enables you to embody an illustrious chief as you endeavor to construct an empire that may stand the check of time. As you assemble cities to develop your territory, enhance your civilization with technological breakthroughs, and conquer or cooperate with rival civilizations, you’ll progress by means of three Ages: distinct chapters of human historical past with their very own civs and gameplay mechanics. In a primary for the collection, you’ll select your chief and civilization individually, letting you mix-and-match their distinctive strengths to plan new methods.
Right here’s one other franchise first: Civilization VII is coming to PlayStation consoles on the identical day as its PC launch, with all the identical content material out there on day one, and is cross-play suitable with different platforms in multiplayer. With Civilization VII, we’re planning to ship new content material concurrently throughout PC and consoles, and this unified launch date is step one in that dedication.
Let’s take a better look at how Civilization VII performs on PS5, and a few of the brand new options we’ve developed particularly for PlayStation gamers.
Admire each facet of your civilization
After we’re designing the graphical type of a brand new Civilization sport, we attempt to make the sport world really feel like a playable museum diorama, or a tabletop technique sport come to life. As an alternative of easy hexes on a map, we would like you to really feel like your empire is evolving with each flip you are taking and each determination you make, and the visible illustration of your territory is a big half of that.
For Civilization VII, a guideline for our artwork group was the concept of ‘readable realism’—pushing the visible constancy even additional to make each tile, constructing, and unit really feel that rather more lifelike. As you proceed to develop your borders and assemble extra buildings and historic Wonders, you’ll discover the format of the tiles seamlessly connecting to kind plausible vistas with extra element than ever earlier than.
We’ve additionally taken the additional step of creating graphics renderers for every platform in-house, so the graphics engine is absolutely optimized on each PS5 or PS4. Your empire shall be gorgeously detailed because it grows and evolves throughout the Ages, whether or not you’re admiring it from the map’s aerial view or zoomed in for a better look at a specific unit or constructing.
Take management of your empire with ease
We’ve fully overhauled the UI for Civilization VII on consoles, incorporating a radial menu that enables for faster navigation between probably the most continuously used programs on the HUD. This alteration has performed wonders for making the expertise really feel extra streamlined. We wish to put all of the concentrate on the selections that matter most, and the radial menu helps put these selections at the forefront.
Our builders additionally had rather a lot of enjoyable developing with distinctive and playful methods to make the most of the DualSense controller’s haptic suggestions, so you may actually really feel key moments in your empire’s historical past. Together with easy, click-like vibrations to emphasise actions just like the completion of a brand new civic or the beginning of your subsequent flip, fight takes on a brand new dimension because the controller rumbles to point harm taken and models defeated.
Whenever you declare conflict, you’ll really feel a pulsing sample akin to a conflict horn’s name; whenever you discovered a brand new metropolis, hammer-like thuds mimic the basic constructing sound impact. There are extra results to find by yourself, and we hope they add that little bit of additional immersion to every flip. When you’d desire to play with out the haptic suggestions, they’re simply disabled by way of the sport settings!
Make pals (and enemies) in cross-play multiplayer
When you’re trying to check your strategic mettle in opposition to human opponents, Civilization VII’s on-line multiplayer is the right proving floor. Multiplayer matches could be epic campaigns that unfold throughout all three Ages—the Antiquity Age, Exploration Age, and Fashionable Age—or you may go for a shorter match protecting one particular Age, skipping straight to the endgame with a Fashionable Age match for instance.
Civilization VII helps as much as 5 gamers within the Antiquity Age and Exploration Age, and as much as eight gamers within the Fashionable Age. Extra gamers means much more alternatives to kind alliances, instigate battle, and even backstab your pals (hopefully they’ll forgive any in-game betrayals)! Greatest of all, cross-play is supported between PC and consoles at launch, so you may play along with pals wherever they’re.
We are able to’t wait so that you can take another flip with Civilization VII on February 11, 2025! You too can play the sport as much as 5 days early beginning February 6, 2025 if you are going to buy the Deluxe or Founders Editions!
*On-line play and options (together with development bonuses) require an Web connection and 2K Account (minimal age varies). As much as 5 gamers supported within the Antiquity & Exploration Ages. As much as eight gamers supported within the Fashionable Age. Map dimension restrictions might apply to sure cross-play multiplayer video games. Console on-line play requires PlayStation Plus subscription.