A recap of Civilization VII news for the week of April 20, 2025

This update brings several highly-requested improvements, balance changes, and new features – many of which were shaped directly by your feedback. In this update, we’ve added One More Turn, Multiplayer Teams, updates to resources, and plenty more!

We’ve also changed our food & growth curve, so you'll feel the power of playing tall with civs and leaders that build vast empires. Those empires will also feel safer, as we’ve reduced the natural disaster frequency in Light and Moderate settings, but kept the settings unchanged on Catastrophic. Outside of major systems, this update includes several addressed issues such as, AI improvements, UI polish, and some highly requested QOL features that will save you from bulk-clicking and give you more info on your empire.

For the full update notes, check them out here!

For a breakdown of the major highlights of the update, watch our latest Developer Update video, where Edward Zhang, Systems Designer at Firaxis, dives into 1.2.0. 

We’re celebrating our Discord community with a free banner to customize your profile in-game!. To claim the banner, jump into our official Discord, follow the instructions in the channel #earn-discord-banner,  and redeem your code in-game!

Banners aren't all that's going on in Discord: we’re also running our first screenshot event!! If you have a game with a Wonderous settlement, then consider submitting an in-game screenshot to the contest channel “#community-contests.” We’ve saved a spot for ya, so join us on Discord to participate!

Earlier this month, we confirmed that Civilization VII is coming to Nintendo Switch 2. You can now pre-order the Upgrade Pack that will upgrade your current build of Civilization VII from Nintendo Switch to Nintendo Switch 2! Have questions, check out our updated FAQ page. Visit the Nintendo eShop to upgrade your copy.