Overview
- Firaxis and 2K revealed the roadmap at PAX West on Saturday, announcing a near‑term patch, a large free update called Arc of Tomorrow, and a paid expansion titled Earthrise.
- Update 1.5.0 is due later this month and will add a True Start Earth map with historically accurate start positions plus map‑generation, resource and diplomacy quality‑of‑life fixes.
- The free Arc of Tomorrow update, planned for 2027, will extend playable history into a new Atomic Age and add new civic and tech trees, urban visuals, and period‑specific units and buildings.
- Arc of Tomorrow will also change gameplay systems by expanding nuclear mechanics with a delayed‑strike response window, enabling city‑state creation and proxy warfare, and introducing Manufactured Goods and Great Works of Film along with returning leaders such as Gandhi.
- Earthrise is Civilization VII’s first paid expansion, slated for 2027, and will add multi‑age space‑race features that let players chart celestial bodies early, launch orbital missions in the Modern Age, and run solar‑system expeditions in the Atomic Age; Firaxis is opening playtests and says details remain in development.