Firaxis has posted a first glimpse of Civ 7 player stats

[reddishrecue]

Multiplayer is a tiny part of the total playerbase. I would be surprised if even 3% of the games played are multiplayer. And if we talk about playing-to-win multiplayer instead of just having fun with friends, I would be surprised if that's even 0.5% of games.



Machiavelli isn't exactly lesser known...

For me, the only leaders I hadn't heard of before their Civ VII announcement are Amina, Harriet Tubman, Ibn Battuta, Jose Rizal, Tecumseh and maybe Lafayette - not sure if I'd heard of him previously. Machiavelli was firmly in the well-known category for me, ahead of people like Ashoka (only knew of him through previous Civ games), Himiko, Trung Trac, etc.

Makes sense.. good stats

 

[Tanel]

It’s way, way too early to have any meaningful data on how many people have finished games they started, particularly for the group of people (which is the vast majority of normal players) who they were concerned about.

I have a total of 40 hours in. Those are pathetic numbers for a CivFanatics reader, but for a typical game buyer, you really think they’ve managed to put in 40 hours since the game was released? It’s only the hardcore who put in those kind of hours.

In those 40 hours I’ve managed to finish one game. I started a Jose Rizal game on all standard settings with Greece > Hawaii and ended up so far ahead of the AI by the Modern Age, I restarted. I played a second game with Friedrich Oblique, Rome > Spain > Prussia. I really wanted to finish a game, so I went with Tiny Map, Online Speed, Viceroy and finished a full game yesterday.

So 40 hours, 1 online-speed game finished, 2/3rds of a standard game finished. That’s with having played Civ games since Civ1 watched a huge amount of Civ7 videos ahead of time and knowing how the game works. The normies are not going to know how the game works (and the UI isn’t doing them many favors) and they sure don’t have 40 hours of game play in one week. If they’re lucky they’re somewhere in the Exploration Age in their first game. If they’re have a young kids at home or a busy job they’re probably still in the Ancient Age.

Exactly. Most casual players probably didn't play enough to finish the game in one week.

 

[Siptah]

The average playtime of the 1m owners on Steam is currently 19.8h according to Gamalytic.

 

[ydejin]

The average playtime of the 1m owners on Steam is currently 19.8h according to Gamalytic.

I’d be curious how that compares with the median and how much of it is just coming from Mesix’s monumental achievement

Thread 'Who has finished all 37 achievements?'

Feb 19, 2025

I finished a Deity game today for the final achievement!

• Mesix
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• Forum: Civ7 - General Discussions

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[8housesofelixir]

5% may seem like very little… until you realize that the achievement of someone like Ibn Battuta was at 0.6% at the time.

Here are the current global leader achievements, and Confucius is comfortably at the top:
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Interesting to see Himiko being very high here. Right now, she is much more popular than any Japanese civ or leader in Civ 5 or 6, and it is also worth pointing out that Civ 7 is well-marketed in Japan and received a lot of (positive) Japanese media coverage (whether traditional Japanese gaming news outlets or Japanese influencers on Youtube).

 

[Leyrann]

The average playtime of the 1m owners on Steam is currently 19.8h according to Gamalytic.

Well, I've got enough hours to compensate for four people not playing at all then, lol.

 

[King of Prussia]

Interesting to see Himiko being very high here. Right now, she is much more popular than any Japanese civ or leader in Civ 5 or 6, and it is also worth pointing out that Civ 7 is well-marketed in Japan and received a lot of (positive) Japanese media coverage (whether traditional Japanese gaming news outlets or Japanese influencers on Youtube).

Personally, Himiko was the easiest leader i have played so far. Her free support for endeavors makes the AI like you, and lets you have those extra benefits for the entire game. I almost never sent my own endeavors. At least in ancient and explo eras. I think the costs are too high in modern for them to spam them a lot.(immortal difficulty)

 

[stealth_nsk]

Yes, with all those leaders and civs we have both sides - gameplay and target market appeal. Both Chinese and Japanese markets clearly contributed to the success of their civs and leaders, but ability did too. And without seeing per country segmentation which only Firaxis have, it's hard to distinguish one from the other.

I found the Himiko Queen of Woe persona to be very solid. I did city-state lover play with Greek start and the ability to support endeavors for free allowed me to get most from the diplomacy, while saving influence to get city-states.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Well, I've got enough hours to compensate for four people not playing at all then, lol.

Me too lol