Civ 7 release time – here's exactly when the game goes live in your region on PC and console

It's been astir 10 years since the past mainline introduction successful the Sid Meier's Civilization series, and the franchise is backmost with immoderate large changes.

The Civ 7 merchandise is astir here, and there's a batch to look guardant to with the caller series' mechanics that should respire caller beingness into the stalwart 4X turn-based strategy game.

Firaxis is astir to unfastened the doors of Civ 7 to anxious players who've been waiting astir a decennary for the adjacent introduction successful the series, and whether you're a newcomer oregon Civilization veteran, the developer has a fig of franchise firsts connected the mode for you to tuck into. Coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox adjacent week, nary console is getting near behind, including PS4 and Xbox One players.

The biggest shakeup that mightiness beryllium a spot divisive is the caller Age system, that sees a afloat run modulation betwixt 3 Ages: Antiquity, Exploration, and Modern. At the extremity of each Age is simply a multi-stage Crisis period, earlier the Age Transition ushers each players (and immoderate AI opponents) into a caller Age. It's astatine this constituent that players tin prime a caller civilisation, but determination are immoderate caveats, truthful you can't conscionable take any, willy-nilly.

Another monolithic alteration is Leaders, who tin beryllium selected independently of the chosen civilisation, and volition beryllium fixed for the people of the campaign; truthful the person that you take astatine the outset is who you volition decorativeness the crippled with. Unlike past entries, Civ 7 opens up the level to humanities figures who weren't needfully a caput of state, truthful you tin person immoderate amusive with that.

Of course, if you picked up the Deluxe oregon Founders Editions of the game, you'll person a bully fewer days of playtime up of the authoritative motorboat with Civ 7 aboriginal access, but for everyone else, here's precisely erstwhile you tin commencement playing connected your level and portion erstwhile Civ 7 releases connected Tuesday, February 11.

Civ 7 merchandise day and time

Civ 7 releases connected Tuesday, February 11 connected PC and console, but the nonstop merchandise clip differs connected some your level and region. Here's erstwhile the Civ 7 PC merchandise clip is for your region, which is based connected a midnight EST launch, arsenic shared by the game's authoritative Twitter account:

Civ 7 merchandise clip connected PC

Monday, February 10

• 9pm PST

Tuesday, February 11

• 12am EST
• 2am BST (Brasilia Standard Time)
• 5am GMT
• 6am CET
• 8am SAST (Saudi Arabia Standard Time)
• 1pm SGT (Singapore Standard Time)
• 2pm JST
• 4pm AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time)
• 6pm NZDT

Civ 7 merchandise clip connected console

The Civ 7 merchandise clip connected console is overmuch simpler than connected PC, with the crippled launching astatine 12am section clip in each clip zone. Of course, the only objection is successful the US, arsenic is tends to beryllium the case, with the midnight East Coast time dictating the merchandise clip successful the state arsenic a whole.

So the Civ 7 merchandise clip is 12am successful your section portion connected Tuesday, February 11 unless you're successful the US, with the times arsenic below:

Monday, February 10

• 9pm PST

Tuesday, February 11

• 10pm MST
• 11pm CST
• 12am EST

You tin preload the crippled up of the Civ 7 release, unless you're connected PC, truthful we tin perchance expect a sizeable time 1 spot based connected that. You'll request astatine slightest 20GB escaped abstraction connected PC and between 15-20GB connected PlayStation and Xbox. If you're playing connected Nintendo Switch, you're looking astatine astir 5GB.