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Civilization 7sports five distinct victory paths: Cultural, Scientific, Economic, Domination, and Points. This isn’t far removed from prior games - in fact, it’s presently missing a couple of other mainstays, although that may change over the next few years - but the details have shifted. It’s happened in some more than others, but they’ve all seen a revamp.
If you’re just heading into Firaxis' latest behemoth of a 4X strategy title, it would behoove you to have a firm grasp of how each functions. Treat this guide as a resource for each of our full-coverage articles, as well as a primer for them all!
Civ 7’s Cultural Victory
Sinceloyalty and pressureare both gone in Civilization 7, you aren’t working to draw in rival settlements, nor are you seeking to make your culture fully dominant over the others. Well, yousort ofare, but stuff has changed big-time.
Instead,your ultimate goal is to build the World’s Fair, an endgameWonder. But you can only do that once you’ve obtained15 artifacts, and these precious, limited, resources will require you to dispatchExplorers.
You can uncoverExploration Ageartifacts immediately upon their deployment, but forAntiquity Ageartifacts, you must firstsend your Explorers to settlements with museums for proper training.
OurCultural Victory guide,while concluding with details at every step of the way, also covers the Legacy Paths in both prior Ages, which will get you enough bonuses to make your life far easier in this final phase of the game.
Civ 7’s Scientific Victory
The Scientific Victory features a series-mainstay concept:launching a rocket out into the stars. Civilization 7 doesn’t have the whole “Mars mission” or “Alpha Centauri flight” of certain other Firaxis games, but it insteadfleshes out the requirements for this monumental achievement.
This occurs with three distinct milestones, all of which are, of course, in the Modern Age:
As with the prior projects, initiate it via the city production screen. With this out of the way, you’re all set to win - but we still recommend ourScientific Victory guidefor the full scoop.
Civ 7’s Economic Victory
Money makes the world turn, for better or worse, and in Civilization 7, an Economic Victory requires a hefty investment. Your end goal is to earn aGreat Banker, whom you’ll thensend to each civ’s capital.
At increasing costs of bothGold and Influence, you click on their action, untilevery capital has been affected. At which point, you win;no project required.
But before the Great Banker can spawn, you must earn500 Railroad Tycoon Pointsbyresearching Industrialization, constructing Rail Stations in your cities, researching Mass Production, building Factories,and waiting to rack up points while yourFactory resources are automatically distributed on a per-turn basis.
You’ll be off to the races with plenty more Gold and Influence heading into the Modern Age once you’re familiarized with ourEconomic Victory guide.
Civ 7’s Domination Victory
You don’t have to crush every rivalin order to attain a Domination Victory in Civilization 7… but that’s always an option. You can insteadcomplete the Manhattan Project, followed by the Operation Ivy project,
To do so, you must obtain20 Ideology Points. This is pretty interesting stuff, actually:
From there, either research those aforementioned projects, or crush everyone who’s left beneath your heels. Or, most fiendishly of all,learn how to make nukes via the project, and, well, choose the nuclear option, as they say. Regardless, ourDomination Victory Guidegoes over it all.
Civ 7’s Points Victory
This last one’s arguably a bit lame, but it’s always an option if nothing else pans out. For a Points Victory,you must have accumulated more Legacy Points than any other civ throughout the course of the game.
We don’t actually have a guide on this, because frankly, there isn’t any need for one!
This is a fun twist on the conventional Civilization points-related formula, though, asrather than being assigned vague points galore from achievements across the game, you can keep sturdy tabs on your progressbymaking sure you obtain as many Legacy Points as possiblefor theconclusions of each Age.
TheModern Age automatically endsin Civilization 7, unlike in previous games, which couldgo on until you’ve reached the end of an assigned turn count, or even carry forward indefinitelyif you’ve disabled that function. So, you really need to stay vigilant, asthere will be a progress meter for the Modern Agejust like the Antiquity and Exploration Ages had.
If you reach the end of the Modern Age, and a rival civ happens to have acquired more points, then it’s game over. On the other hand,if you want to experience every last morsel of the Modern Age, there’s really no better play than this.
If that’s the case, though,make sure none of your enemies are slated to win a different victory.
