Civilization VII is getting a Quest VR port this spring

Finally, a strategy committee crippled without each the setup. | Image: 2K Games

The Civilization franchise is getting the VR attraction with Sid Meier’s Civilization VII – VR connected Meta Quest headsets this spring, 2K and Firaxis Games have announced. The “virtual and mixed reality” crippled volition beryllium disposable for the Quest 3 and 3S, but nary terms oregon circumstantial merchandise day has been announced rather yet.

How are 2K and Firaxis making it work? It’s presented done a “board game-like construction” that’s projected into your carnal abstraction utilizing the Quest’s passthrough cameras oregon shown successful a virtual depository situation “looking retired onto a vista personalized to your leader,” says a Meta blog post astir the release. You tin power betwixt the 2 modes astatine immoderate time, Meta writes. And erstwhile you’re playing successful multiplayer mode, you’ll spot your opponents astir the table, represented by the integer bodies of their chosen leaders.

Here’s a trailer for the game.

Meta writes that this mentation “brings the existent Civ experience” to the Quest. For instance, you’ll beryllium capable to prime immoderate person you privation to tally a civilization, a caller tweak to the Civilization look that my workfellow Ash Parrish wrote astir successful her reappraisal of the regular game. One gameplay quality Meta mentions is that the crippled is sped up by default compared to different editions — not everyone finds VR headsets comfy for agelong sessions, aft each — but the institution adds that you tin set the gait to your liking.

We’ll spot conscionable however adjacent Sid Meier’s Civilization VII – VR hews to the PC and console versions of the crippled erstwhile it’s released successful the spring. Until then, I’ll beryllium reasoning astir that Futurama occurrence successful which Bender becomes a god.