About C7
C7 (working title) is an in-development 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 Preview 4 Has Been Released!
The C7 team has released the fourth preview of the “Carthage” milestone. This is a general enhancement over the “Babylon” release, and recommended for all newcomers.
New bugfixes and AI improvements in this preview:
- The AI will now attempt to take out nearby barbarian camps
- The game will no longer crash due to failing to remove zombie units from tiles after combat
- Cities with negative food growth will now shrink in size
- The credits formatting has been significantly improved
- Custom scenario graphics are now loaded for Civ3 scenarios/saves
- Cities and barbarian camps that only border water through a corner (vertex) connection can now build ships
Media files from Civilization III are still required in this milestone.
Download Carthage Preview 2
Download from the release page
All official releases of C7 along with more detailed release notes can be found on the GitHub releases page.
Installation
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
Linux Installation
This is an x86-64 Linux executable, and it requires media files from a Civilization III installation. We devs just copy the top-level “Sid Meier’s Civilization III Complete” (“Complete may not be there if your install was from pre-Complete CDs, but that’s OK) folder and its contents to our Linux machine.
- 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"
- 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. We devs just copy the top-level “Sid Meier’s Civilization III Complete” (“Complete may not be there if your install was from pre-Complete CDs, but that’s OK) folder and its contents to our Mac.
- 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