About C7
C7 (working title) is an in-development open-source 4X strategy game built with Godot and C#, with a historical focus inspired by games such as Civilization, Galactic Civilizations, and Humankind. We aim to create a new game that looks and plays like classic Civ but incorporates features from the best of the genre and our own dreams.
Get C7 Carthage
v0.2 Carthage Has Been Released!
The C7 team has released the final version of the v0.2 “Carthage” milestone. This is a major enhancement over the “Babylon” release, and our debut with Godot 4.
New features and improvements in this version include:
- Ported the game to Godot 4 and .NET
- New default map playing as Carthage with starting settler & worker
- Added custom city graphics, and improved city rendering on the map
- Limited support for loading Civ3 saves and scenarios
- Show remaining unit movement as fractional numbers
- Improved unit go-to behavior
- Added option to change production from city right-click menu
- Added announcement when a civilization is destroyed
- Miscellaneous UI improvements
- Improved detection of Steam Civ3 installation
- Remember the Civ3 install location when it is set manually
- Updated game credits
Media files from Civilization III are still required in this milestone.
Download Carthage
Download the appropriate zip file for your OS from the release page
All official releases of C7 along with more detailed release notes can be found on the GitHub releases page.
Installation
System Requirements
- 64-bit Windows, Linux, or Mac OS. Other platforms may be supported in future releases.
- A local copy of Civilization III files (the game does not have to run). This will become optional in future releases.
Windows Installation
This is a Windows 64-bit executable and requires 64-bit windows and a Civilization III installation to be present on the computer for access to media files. C7 will find this install in the Windows registry automatically.
- Download and extract the zip file
- Double-click C7.exe
- If it is blocked, you may need to unblock it by
- Right click
- Click on Properties
- Check the “Unblock” checkbox near the bottom buttons in the “Security” section
- Click OK
- If your Civilization III installation is not detected, you can set the environment variable
CIV3_HOME pointing to it and restart C7
Linux Installation
This is an x86-64 Linux executable, and it requires media files from a Civilization III installation. You can just copy or mount the top-level “Sid Meier’s Civilization III Complete” (Sans “Complete” if your install was from pre-Complete CDs) folder and its contents to your Linux machine, or install the game via Steam or GOG.
- Download and extract the tgz file
- Set the CIV3_HOME environment variable to point to the Civ3 files, e.g.
export CIV3_HOME="/path/to/civ3"
- From that same terminal where you set CIV3_HOME, run C7.x86_64
Mac Installation
This is a universal 64-bit executable, so it should run on both Intel and M1 Macs, and it requires media files from a Civilization III installation. You can just copy or mount the top-level “Sid Meier’s Civilization III Complete” (Sans “Complete” if your install was from pre-Complete CDs) folder and its contents to your Linux machine, or install the game via Steam or GOG.
- Download the zip; it may complain bitterly, and you may have to tell it to keep the download instead of trashing it
- Double click the zip file, and a folder with C7.app and a json file will appear
- If you try to open C7.app it will tell you it’s damaged and try to trash it; it is not damaged
- To unblock the downloaded app, from a terminal run
xattr -cr /path/to/C7.app; you can avoid typing the path out by typing xattr -cr and then dragging the C7.app icon onto the terminal window
- Set the CIV3_HOME environment variable to point to the Civ3 files, e.g.
export CIV3_HOME="/path/to/civ3"
- From that same terminal where you set CIV3_HOME, run C7.app with
open /path/to/C7.app, or again just type open and drag the C7 icon onto the terminal window and press enter
Known issues
- C7 relies on having a Civilization III install on the machine and knowing where it is (via Windows registry or via CIV3_HOME environment variable, as described in the respective installation instructions)
- With some BIQ or SAV files, crashes to desktop may happen
- For Mac:
- Mac will try hard not to let you run this; it will tell you the app is damaged and can’t be opened and helpfully offer to trash it for you. From a terminal you can
xattr -cr /path/to/C7.app to enable running it.
- Mac will crash if you hit buttons to start a new game (New Game, Quick Start, Tutorial, or Load Scenario) because it cant find our ‘new game’ save file we’re using as a stand-in for map generation. But you can Load Game and load the c7-static-map-save.json file or open a Civ3 SAV file to open that map