Firaxis announced Arc of Tomorrow, a free update adding a fourth Age spanning roughly the 1950s to the 2050s. It will land in 2027, with the paid Earthrise expansion later the same year.
Creative director stated "Our shared proximity to the recent past makes it a unique and fascinating period of history to explore with Civ. There's a compelling need to honor the uncertainty and Fear present in that history, where proxy warfare became the new norm by which global conflict was conducted and the specter of nuclear war loomed, as it still does today."
Firaxis says it's a bigger update than May's Test of Time rework.
What's in Arc of Tomorrow
- Expanded nuclear gameplay, with new offensive and defensive units and a reworked take on mutually assured destruction
- Multilateral Agreements, letting leaders collectively respond to a growing nuclear stockpile with disarmament calls or escalation
- Settlement-to-City-State conversion, giving finer control over your Settlement Limit
- Proxy Warfare, channelling conflict through City-States rather than direct empire war
- Great Works of Film, where Film Crews hunt locations that vary by genre, with benefits scaling to the quality produced
- Manufactured Goods, combining commodities via recipes into resources like Enriched Uranium
- Period buildings, units, visuals, music, modern city architecture and updated tech and civic trees
- New civilizations and leaders, with Gandhi returning
Playtesting sign-ups open through the Firaxis Feature Workshop later this year.
Earthrise
The first paid expansion, will arrive later in 2027, it will be a spaceplay through the entire campaign rather than bolting it onto the endgame.
Antiquity and Exploration Ages let you chart and name celestial bodies. The Modern Age unlocks early orbital missions around Earth and the Moon. The Atomic Age opens a full national Space agency launching missions across the solar system, with planetary discoveries feeding resources back to Earth. Environmental mechanics feature too.
Details on its civilizations and leaders come later.
The reception problem
Civ 7 launched in February 2025 and has struggled to hold above 50% positive on Steam despite steady patches.
The missing Atomic Age sits near the top of most complaint lists, alongside the UI and a general sense that parts of the game were simplified too far. Delivering it in 2027 makes it roughly a two-year wait from launch.
Update 1.5.0 arrives this month with diplomacy and resource generation tweaks, new maps, and the long-requested True Start Location: Earth map, where civilizations begin in geographically accurate positions. Natural Wonders appear in their real locations, though Firaxis will vary which ones spawn each game.
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