So what do you want from Civ 7? I have my silly list of things, so what's your silly list of things? If you want to buy any of the older Civ games and support, use this GOG referral link: af.gog.com/?as=1715648857 Thank you!

An AI capable of playing the game.

For Civ VII, an art style more along the lines of Civ V is at the top of my wishlist. More serious and realistic and classical, less mobile gamey, superhero-y, plastic-y. There was a tasteful epicness, taste and majesty to Civ V that I just didn't get out of Civ VI. In fact, I would be very happy with a Civ V but with improved graphics and improved AI. But they will probably try out some new mechanics, and they might come up with something better than in Civ V. I don't know many people who have played both V and VI a lot, so I don't know what people generally think of the changes between V and VI, with the amenities and districts system, for example.

RIP Leonard Nimoy, my personal favorite civ narrator of all time...

Wish they would bring back Civ V style leader screens. They were the best out of all the games.

I want to be able to trade technology and land tiles.

It would be cool if factories created new luxury/strategic resources, it would add a new dynamic of choosing what to produce and would make industrializing that much more significant

I want the river tiles which ships can travel on them and can be used as international border.

What I most want is for each civilization to belong to a large umbrella Culture, with each of those Cultures having highly asymmetric gameplay and vastly different mechanics to one another. Western European civilizations should have different units, technologies, and strengths than African civilizations or Far East Asian civilizations

Spheric world map is a must! I'm tired of that annoying cilinder

yeah, absolutly right. The Emperor needs a Palace and Throneroom and his Heritage for Advice =) - Bring back the Multi Maps, Fantastic Szenarios Scripted or with AI, bring back the Future from Call to Power and CtP2 - Bring back the Amazing Szenarios from Civ 4 - for example: Master of Orion or XCOM - oh yeah, such a shame.... they forgotten really Test of Time, one of the most amazing Civs

I would laugh if they brought back the civ2 style advisors, those were hilarious. Doubt that will happen though.

I want the eco-terrorist unit to come back.

Loved the Roman High Council back in the day.

If Civ is going to do layered map, they should go the Call to Power route (best Civ spinoff), which had a deep sea layer, and a space layer. Once you researched the right tech you could build deep sea mines and space cities, it was awesome. As for the narrator, two words: Gillian Anderson.

I agree 100% about the Civ II advisors. The best advisors of any Civ game ever. The anarchy scene is amazing. If you love Civ and aren’t familiar with these advisors, you owe it to yourself to go look them up on KZfaq.

My main frustration with Civ 6 was that just settling and developing my cities always felt like a puzzle and a chore: are the zones placed well, will this Wonder work here, can I remember all the 3 million different Wonders/buildings/religion effects/culture traits/zones that I'm going to be opening up and have I placed everything correctly for them - it just felt like hard work instead of a game I'm supposed to be enjoying.

2K & Firaxis Games should consider adding an earlier age to Civilization VII. I suggest an option to start the game in a barbaric / primitive age. When you take a barbarian camp during this age, you have the option to keep it as an encampment / outpost that changes into a village, then a town, then a city as the population increases.

I miss those advisors.

I want the hall of fame from day one; it was frustrating to play for several months without the HoF and then have to backtrack and replay when it finally launched.

I agree about the Throne Room! I love that mechanic. I also want navigable rivers, and the ability to change the clothing of leaders. I want advisors, but ones that you choose based on your play style. And this is crazy, and I know they will likely not do it, but if they had leaders age and die and be replaced by heirs (See Old World) that might add an entirely new level of game play. Adding mechanics like marriage alliances would be really interesting, too. I want the core nature of Civ Game Play to stay the same, but you could add more robust narratives to diplomacy, religion and culture.

I liked Civilization 5's a brave new world cinematic a lot (and civ 4) because it *felt* like it embodied all of humanity. In this one, it seems like its aiming for a certain theme.

Sean Bean should narrate. So far, he says its the only role hes had where he didnt get killed

I would like the ability to turn rivers into canals, and the addition of radar

With their Shakespearean preference in narrators for a while, and trying to find someone who's not so old you can sadly hear their tremors and false teeth, I keep thinking of Benedict Cumberbatch and Ralph Fiennes.

Liam Neeson, love to get him to do the voice over!

3:33 I really wish they’d add 2 Civ 2-style things: Video advisors and Wonder videos. Getting to see a video when you complete a Wonder is awesome (Leonardo’s Workshop is probably my favourite), and the video advisors were fun, although there’d need to be 30-40 times as much duration video material, otherwise it’d get repetetive.

For every Civ release I have hoped for the Test of Time fantasy and Sci-Fi scenarios to return. Here’s to hoping Civ VII will finally be the one.

They should hold a poll where we can vote for who we want as the narrator. I'm casting my vote for Danny DeVito!

I like your wish list !!! A new test of time... raaah, it would be so amazing ! I'm right there with you for a new Test of Time, best Civ game ever with all it's planes, especially the underwater one. (the army which rise from the sea to invade land lubbers has always been a favorite of mine) Would love it if they would be smart enough to include this in 7 ! But as you said, I don't think either it will happen :(

I loved test of time. Especially the alpha centauri gameplay. It's funny about 5 years ago I saw a boxed copy for sale at Jewel. It must've gotten lost somewhere in back for the better part of two decades and they just put it out. 😂

Civ 4 had some pretty wild scenarios! A full space 4x, a 1984 inspired future scenario, a couple WW2 scenarios, a fantasy RPG... I think they were taken from mods? I never hear anyone talk about it! I wanna see that again.

They can't seriously expect anyone to pre-order this with the state AAA studios are right now and with 0 info , as they only give us a cinematic.

I'd love the throne room/castle builder! I'd love Morgan Freeman to narrate!

On a related note-the New Frontier Pass included some new game modes which, whilst poorly implemented IMHO, did include some very interesting new ideas that I would love to see incorporated-in an improved form-into the base game. Most particularly Barbarian Clans and Monopolies & Corporations.

You can never have too much of Sean Bean I say 😃 and I really hope Christopher Tin is still on deck too 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

a to scale civ game would be amazing i know it would ruin the way the game feels and that might make people upset. but a real time civ game where everything is actually to scale including armies would just blow my mind

I want a throne room again!

Because i really loved those advisers in civ2 (and those wonders musics and videos) and ToT is still my favorite civ game, i sacrifice this comment to the algorithm god...

I have always wanted a civ random game creator. Where you jump into a random scenario built with all sorts of dials and rng where I could engage in a quick battle or two.

They haven't even finished Civ 6 and I am still on Civ 5 😂

3:20 - Okay. You mentioned the Advisors and that's exactly when you hit the like button. Then I heard the Elvis impression and took it back. JK. The Advisor Council was a Sid Stroke of Genius.

I would love some of the flavor features in previous civilizations to come back. Civilization III had shackles on the builders you captured, adjustable funding for science and culture on sliders. I would like to see the ability to create provinces under governors, I mean they currently work more like mayors than governors, and then the ability to release them as vassal states like in Civilization IV. Civilization V had the annex city-state feature I liked, it also touched on the inter-war weaponry that is often skipped in games, but I would love to see that early 1900 era really expanded on since it really was a key turning point and history changer for the world.

There was a first screenshot on there web site , with 404 error ;].For sure its going to be more realistic then CIV6 , and much more next gen.I really like it

Hear me out: Custom Wonders consist of fragments of techs/civics of your choosing and shape. Imagine your own wonder with custom effects (with chance of failure while building) combinig your acomplishments. It would be extremely fun

Here's hoping that Civ 7 will be a success from the get-go! ... And it will be not Forgotten like Humankind and Millennia, which I both like A LOT !!

I always wanted something they already 'tested' 10 years ago. I would love a game be like Civ 6 -> Beyond Earth -> Starships all in one. And then colonize the Galaxy. :D And the choice of the three pathes was a great idea, they did a kind-of-thing in Civ 6 with the alternate game mechanics.

Apocalypse mode to be Apocalypse mode. I've wanted this one forever. I want a great big list of random events which fundamentally shifts the game. Something which reshuffles the tile types and changes the map. Remove and add new types of win conditions after a true disaster. There's games of Civ where I know I'm going to win by the midgame. There's games of Civ where I have to pivot my entire strategy mid game. The second is more fun. I want to click a checkbox and not know what I'm in for just that whatever plan I start with won't be how it ends.

I want them to bring back some of the best elements of the Brave New World expansion to Civilization V-principally Ideologies, "Culture Wars" and the way Great Works could interact with various Wonders of the World...not just museums and art galleries. I'd also like to see them bring back the concept of State and Non-State Religion from Civilization IV.

2:13 omg dreamspot for a capitol, river valley and iron and a lot of mountains/hills? Have your other cities supply it with food and man that city can produce like a Nuclear ICBM every turn lol. Got Civ2 to work on modern windows after you said there existed a patch for it a few weeks back, thanks zakh. The combat sounds when you get to modern era are so awesome, really nails the audio atmosphere.

Id really like to see graphics thats going more into realism than the cartoonish route civ vi took.

Man, if they bring back two of my favourite scenarios in Civ history, I will be the happiest man in the world: Worlds of Jules Verne, from Civ II; and the Sengoku Jidai scenario from Civ III. About the narrator, well, I am spanish and the game will be dubbed so I don't care. A fun fact about the spanish version of Civ V is the voice of the narrator is the same voice actor who dubs Dr. Shen in the spanish version of XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within. Which makes a lot of sense...

Concerning special modes: I feel that Civ itself has somewhat... specialized within itself as grounded on earth. The idea of map expanding from one planet to another seems like a really exciting feature to perhaps make Civ: Beyond Earth II as an actual viable sequel to otherwise abandoned project... for obvious reasons

I hope they keep and improve upon their new city building and management system. And take another go at sci-fi with these systems.

I wwould like to see an expanded version of the governor system baked into the base game where every leader comes with their own set of governors based on real historical figures with uniqe abilities.

Reminds me of the Call to Power II opening

I want Civ 4.2.

Adding FMV to the advisory board is the best and hilarious just like in civ 2. The next iteration of civs just made them kinda platonic and no longer "speak" to you and just sends you a letter in a way. In civ 2 the advisors shows at least which one favours the most between and voicing disagrees but this could expand like showing why they disagree for example the civ need more food instead of making warriors or productions, more coins as luxuries are abundant. Also adding the thrones and palaces back is a cool mechanic too. It's really fun to mix and match or just a single style can add the euphoria in empire building. That said, civ vee (or VII) hasn't shown much or any gameplay so i'll reserve the hype and sadly the latest iteration doesn't hold much interest like back in civ 2-4 and alpha centauri.

They need to bring back more features from Call to Power. I loved the eco attacks, the space bombing, unit stacking. Etc.

I'm gonna call that the teaser's one continuous shot of this fully connected model of history is symbolic of doing away with "ages" in some way. Also, unpainted minis look: customizable Civ "skins" as a reaction to the reaction to Civ 6 art style.

Palace mode was lit af

I would love to have a 4x game with an auto battle mechanic like teamfight tactics. Just so i can spend more time managing cities and less time bogged down in troop movement.

The capacity to build Bridges that are not a Wonder

Logistics! This is a high level strategic game yet that whole mechanic with player defined roads and railroads was ignored after Civ 4. Add ship transport and supply problems. Remember, amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics.

My favorite narrator from civ5

I hope you could pick not only a starting era, but also an era cap. And that you could slow down gameplay, but to keep the production rate at normal level. As well as making it stable. Civ 6 just keep crashing. I used to really enjoy it, but I think some patch broke it, or something.

I would love to see a more detailed futuristic era, maybe add the possibility to travel to other planets

One common critique of Civ 6 is that many games end too abruptly with another Civ getting a science victory. There are ways to play "defense" against the other victory types (earn more culture, keep your cities in your religion, keep control of your own capital), but there is no way to stop someone else from winning a science victory except on offense: finding all of their spaceports and taking them out in time. I would like to see a dual map game, similar to the Alpha Centari you mentioned, but with the two planets being Earth and Mars, and Mars starts off uninhabited. Getting to Mars should be just the first step of a science victory, as you ultimately need to find enough native resources and build enough stuff to make your Mars colony self-sufficient. In the meantime, you might be distracted by the need to build more rugged settlements that can take a few military hits when other civs reach Mars, and also the non-self-sufficient Mars colony will die out if they don't get regular supply shipments from Earth spaceports. This way, once another civ reaches Mars, you would have a few options to stop them from winning the science victory. You could stay on Earth yourself, but attack their spaceports after the fact to stop the resupply missions. Or you could go to Mars yourself and attack their Martian colonies. Of course that would set up a dual theater war on both Earth and Mars, and one would have to win both of them (balancing resources on Earth between resupply missions and enough military to defend one's spaceports and possibly take out the AI's) in order to keep one's Martian colony alive long enough to reach self-sufficiency and win the science victory.

I would Love a sound track like Civ 4. It was awesome. As far as voice narrator Keith David would be excellent. Morgan Freeman of course would be on everyone wish list.

AI needs to be able to compete for victories based on what victory conditions are available not just the one condition they are programed with.

Shohreh Aghdashloo is narrating everything these days; isn't she already narrating a Civ competitor? That being said, I get why. Her voice is just awesome. Here's my list for narrators, in no particular order: Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Eva Green, Benedict Wong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Saoirse Ronan (with her Irish accent, obviously), Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen.

Let's go!!!

I miss workers toiling your land..

I just want gameplay rather than flashy graphics.

For narration, I'd like to hear Bahni Turpin - her voice conveys wisdom, which I think a Civ narrator needs, is very clear to understand, and she already has an incredible narration track record including a couple hundred of audiobooks, so knows how to do it well!

I never played 6, so not sure if they gave the ability there, but I'd like to have the option to have military units auto-escort caravans, ESPECIALLY with merchant ships. Going to war always guaranteed losing most if not all of them. It really sucked early game with the expense to produce a caravan or merchant ship only to lose to a barb a few turns after.

More internal politics like in early civ games! Would make it way more dynamic!

what i'd like is getting rid of tiled maps... so no more squares, no more hexes. why can't everyone just move according to distance? especially for combat?

even in the first black and white u have the palace

William Shatner!....We owe him.

Morgan Freeman as the narrator 100%

I want Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as the narrator. Adebisi!

I definitely dont want any fantasy stuff. Keep it historical. However im 100% down for layered maps such as underground tunnels that certain civs have boosts for!

CIV 2 was the best. Everything, from grafics, gameplay (though i didn´t play it for 20+ years by now), ost and the FMV advisors.

I would wish to not instantly die at Deity when spawning next to an aggressive AI...

Keith David would work well as the Narrator

I wonder how much they'll bring AI into it. Imagine ChatGPT-style advisors commenting on your gameplay and strategy. Would that be amazing, or annoying? Or if they had actual neural network trained AI opponents controlling the enemy civs. Would the game be more of a challenge?

The issue with 'wishlists' is that they often inundate developers with numerous feature requests, overshadowing the critical need for improved AI. It is essential to prioritize enhancing the AI before considering additional features.

What I'm most wondering about is, will it be leaner like civ 5 or will it continue to add more mechanisms ?

I would want some of the most famous/best world leaders or at least them as an option in the vanilla game: Catherine de Medici, Teddy Roosevelt, even Qin Huangdi all put me off Civ 6; if you.could change the leader for each era and have the leader represented by the age and government type more in the animation.

More viable tall strategy please and wonders that really have an impact 🙂

Interesting thing is that I have been developing a Civ like video game as a video game developer... right now... I wonder what Civ 7 offers...

We'll need Morgan Freeman. Or perhaps, James Earl Jones if he is still up for it.

I want the base game to have a lot more civs. I hated having to buy all the civs that I liked in DLC. I also really want a Philippines civilization, though I don't really see a high chance for that.

What about fixing game speed so medieval era doesn't end in 5 turns, this pissed me so much in 6

Good modding tools.

Character creator would be cool! Create your own ruler, but much more deeper customization than in Tropico games. A throne room sounds great. I'd love more mechanics like that. People sink a lot of time in these games, it would be cool to be rewarded for that with numerous metra-progression mechanics, even if just cosmetic and vanity in nature. I hope the art style is more gritty, grounded and has higher fidelity than one in Civ6 when it came out. I hope there will be an option to make combat more bloody (gore switch) and that it will be more satisfying (visuals and sound). More environmental destruction and player impact (creation and blocking of new paths and choke points).

I want bigger Maps and Civs more spread out, you meet other civs way too early right now and they try to box you in (which is fine) but way too early, and of course better Ai.

Science: "We NumbaWon!"

I would be super happy if when I set it to Warlord, I can actually be the first to complete the Pyramids. The last game, I lost every single time, despite following guides. It felt like they'd just set the game to difficult, then all rank above minimum went up from there. What's wrong with an actual easy mode when you do have 7 difficulty settings? :D But yeah, I'm sure they'll continue to do a Settlers on it every game where it'll just get a bit worse each time. Realistically, I've given up on it several versions ago. And I used to play it when you could literally walk away and make a meal between turns completing.