Civilization 7’s launch date leaked hours before its expected reveal in the Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase.
Billbil-kun, an industry insider who’s been dead-on with leaks of earlier launch dates, pegged the release of Sid Meier’s Civilization VII at Feb. 11, 2025. It’ll launch with two editions, a standard and a deluxe.
Some people are still thinking I stopped leaking stuff because YouTube source was fixed, lol
Anyway,
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII (CIV 7) will be released on
📅 Feb 11th, 2025
🗒️ Editions: Standard & Deluxe#CIV7 pic.twitter.com/4BnPgECP4o
— billbil-kun (@billbil_kun) August 20, 2024
A week ago, the earnings report given by Take-Two Interactive (parent company of Firaxis) pegged the launch window in its fourth fiscal quarter, which spans January to the end of March. That seemed a little soon for a game that has seen next to no publicity (and no screens, gameplay, or other proof of life).
Taken with Tuesday’s leak, it sounds like this game really is done and dusted and Firaxis is confident enough giving a fixed date, because lord knows the rending of garments if they have to announce a delay sometime in the next six months.
It’s been eight years since we saw the last main entry in the series, 2016’s Civilization VI. Firaxis supplemented with six post-launch civilization and scenario packs, plus two major expansions and content pack launches stretching from 2017 to 2022. If there’s a deluxe edition release for Civ 7, it’s likely there will be some kind of entitlement portending future premium content launches for it, too.
Gamescom Opening Night Live, hosted by The Game Awards’ Geoff Keighley, gets underway on YouTube, Twitch, and the Gamescom website at 2 p.m. EDT.
