The Civilization sequence has been with us so lengthy that it could typically really feel like a part of the furnishings. A recreation comes out, is performed for years, one other follows, repeat till the warmth demise of the universe. However it has really been a really very long time for the reason that final recreation!
Right here’s a timeline of the principle releases within the sequence:
Civilization (1991)
Civilization II (1996)
Civilization III (2001)
Civilization IV (2005)
Civilization V (2010)
Civilization VI (2016)
As you possibly can see, that is at the moment the longest stretch we’ve had between video games in Civilization historical past, at seven years and counting. It’s a drought that has been pronounced in recent times; whereas Firaxis have been doing stuff like releasing chief packs as DLC, Civ VI itself has turn out to be a drained previous factor, and has discovered its place atop the 4X technique pile challenged by every part from Stellaris to Humankind.
Maybe sensing this, the sequence’ Twitter account posted this over the weekend:
The rational a part of me is aware of this was the case. It could have been the case, to some extent, not lengthy after Civ VI shipped all these years in the past. That’s simply how these long-running sequence go, as quickly as one recreation is finished, even once they get/want long-running help like Civ VI has obtained, there’s any person writing down notes for what comes subsequent.
The emotional a part of me, in the meantime, is ecstatic. Like lots of you I’ve been a fan of this sequence for all times, and like lots of you (or so the vibes appear) I’ve grown more and more despairing of Civ VI, a recreation that originally appeared to attempt some genuinely attention-grabbing issues to set it aside from its predecessors, however which has in the end fallen prey to an obsession with its district-improvement meta, that has come on the expense of extra necessary stuff like enemy AI and fight.
I do know this isn’t a correct announcement. There’s not even a Civilization VII brand to slap on that tweet. However it does a minimum of publicly herald that Civ VI’s days are lastly coming to an in depth, and that it’s hopefully not too lengthy earlier than we see one thing that reveals us how the sequence plans to deal with its fourth decade of existence.
UPDATE: Good tweet: