Civilization 7 players can once again play as a single civilization in a massive overhaul update that's 'tentatively' coming in spring: 'Together, these updates are similar in scope to an expansion' - AOS for Lemmy.World - A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use.

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Civilization 7 players can once again play as a single civilization in a massive overhaul update that's 'tentatively' coming in spring: 'Together, these updates are similar in scope to an expansion'

4mon 13d ago by piefed.world/u/Agent_Karyo in turnbasedstrategy@piefed.world from www.pcgamer.com

To hold us over in the meantime, Firaxis added everyone's best friend: Gilgamesh.

So they tried to be like their own imitators, people hated it, so they're back-pedaling and calling it a feature. Cool. I mean it wasn't even released when I saw promotional let's plays and immediately said that if I wanted to play Humankind then I'd just go play Humankind.

There was a very popular civ iii mod called “Ryse and Fall" that i always assumed was the inspiration for civ-switching in 7. It worked pretty much the same, and was also an official gamemode in one of the civ iv expansions.