“I did not see that coming, to be frank.”
Much coverage ofSid Meier’s Civilization VIIhas compared the Firaxis 4X to Amplitude’s 2021 releaseHumankind.
Developers Firaxis have elsewhere observed that the impression of Civ cribbing notes from Humankind is an unfortunate coincidence.

“But we could see from a while ago that already they were following [our work].
And it was very exciting for us, being much smaller at the time, and still is today.
So when these people look at my games, it’s very surprising.”
“Then most of our 4Xs are around 2 million-ish, Humankind is at 3.5 million.
So it’s big, but still far away from the 17 million.
If you take turn-based 4X, very quickly you go down to the very small numbers.
So it is difficult.”
“And you’re able to’t overnight become Civilization.”
I’m not sure Civ 7 players are as keen about the implementation of Ages.
In practice, they’re either irrelevant or deeply irritating."
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