A Civilization board game is coming

Take your 4X strategy to the tabletop.

The gist of Sid Meier's Civilization series is that you create an empire, build it, run it as you see fit, and see it through to an in-game victory via a number of parameters, and now Fantasy Flight Games is attempting to transfer the game into the world of tabletop board games.

"Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn is a strategy board game in which two to four players act as the rulers of history's most memorable empires," the website says. "Over the course of the game, players will expand their domains, gain new technologies, and build many of humanity's greatest wonders. In the end, one nation will rise above all others to leave its indelible mark upon history."

The board itself is just like the game, as it's split into tiles, and as you begin you build the map and place the usual things in it, like city-states and barbarians. Just like with Civilization VI, though, agendas are important, and players race to complete one agenda on each of their victory cards.

The game is played via a series of turns, and each player has one of five focus cards, one for each area of advancement, and one in the fifth slot has a greater impact than one in the first slot, so you must balance the goals of your empire and "know when to resolve a card for its maximum effect."

More detail on A New Dawn can be found on the website, but it's scheduled to hit shelves in Q4 this year, so this may well be the perfect Christmas gift, don't you agree?

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Thanks, PC Gamer.