Earthrise arrives in 2027. This first paid expansion of Civilization 7 significantly extends the turn-based strategy game into cosmic exploration and discovery. Civilization 7 achieved major commercial success following its September 2023 debut, establishing itself as one of the year's most significant video game releases, embraced by both longtime series enthusiasts and newcomers worldwide. The paid expansion specifically targets fans of Civilization: Beyond Earth, fundamentally extending core gameplay into space exploration, celestial discovery, and extraterrestrial resource development. Earthrise introduces space mechanics spanning every gameplay age throughout the game's timeline, alongside new civil engineering tools, structures, and comprehensive disaster-management systems designed to combat natural disasters and manage climate-related challenges.
Update 1.5.0 rolls out later this month as a quality-of-life patch. It delivers an Earth map option with historically accurate civilization starting locations, enhanced map generation algorithms, improved influence-based diplomacy systems, and comprehensive interface refinements across all platforms.
Arc of Tomorrow launches in 2027. This substantial free update introduces the Atomic Age, a fourth gameplay era centered on the modern world and its contemporary political and environmental challenges. Urban architecture options, expanded technology and civic trees, social policies, and narrative events woven throughout define this new era, and players will produce enriched uranium and film as valuable strategic resources to advance and develop their civilizations. Most significantly, Gandhi, the franchise's most iconic pacifist leader, finally appears in Civilization 7 for the first time. Polygon reported that public playtesting for Arc of Tomorrow opens to interested players later this year.
Earthrise distributes space exploration and discovery features throughout the game's entire timeline in several different ways. In Antiquity and Exploration ages, players conduct early astronomical research and discover and name new celestial bodies across the cosmos. Later ages bring different features. Orbital missions and reconnaissance satellites around Earth emerge in the Modern Age. Space agencies, solar system exploration, and extraterrestrial resource discovery unlock in the Atomic Age, directly feeding into Earth-based civilization development and strategic advancement. Also, terrain-altering unit abilities and new civil engineering structures emerge to combat natural disasters and climate impacts.