Civilization 7 has been Steam Deck Verified forward of its launch subsequent month

Firaxis has introduced that Civilization 7 has been verified for Steam Deck forward of its launch on February 11. This would be the first entry within the collection to get the total inexperienced checkmark seal of approval on Valve’s standard Linux-based handheld.

Civilizations 5 and 6 are each playable, however with caveats on Steam Deck: The first hang-ups for each appear to be textual content legibility on the Deck’s small display screen, and the necessity to manually invoke the Deck’s keyboard for sure features. Neither of these is normally a dealbreaker for me when contemplating video games for Steam Deck, although Civ is such a wordy collection, I may see eye pressure from small textual content being extra of a difficulty than normal. Like each of these video games, the system’s uncooked graphical grunt is by no means an issue with Civ 7⁠—it has some very breezy and light-weight system necessities:

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OS: Win 10 64 BitProcessor: Intel i5-4690 / Intel i3-10100 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200Memory: 8 GB RAMGraphics: NVIDIA GTX 1050 / AMD RX 460 / Intel Arc A380DirectX: Model 12Storage: 20 GB out there house

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OS: Win 10 64 BitProcessor: Intel Core i5-10400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600XMemory: 16 GB RAMGraphics: NVIDIA RTX 2060 / AMD RX 6600 / Intel Arc A750DirectX: Model 12Storage: 20 GB out there house

I can not think about it took an excessive amount of growth effort to verify Civ 7 performs good with the Steam Deck, and it strikes me as a no brainer transfer too. Civilization 6 was efficiently ported to the Nintendo Change in spite of everything, and the collection’ relaxed tempo of play ought to make the transition from mouse and keyboard to a pad extra snug than with different PC-first video games. Between taking Civ 7 handheld at launch and the structural modifications Firaxis has promised for the sport, it must be simpler than ever to truly end a recreation of Civilization with this one. For extra on Civilization 7, you may examine why it is our most-wanted upcoming recreation of 2025.