New Civ 7 logo found via Steam

[Gori the Grey]

I like it, even it it's a little pale-on-pale.

Are those garlands in the inner circle Beaux-Art style? Need a better art historian than I am to confirm. If so, we may know the game's art style.

The only problem I have with that theory is the seeming lack of completeness.

Remember the purpose of cover art is to set a mood, not provide an exhaustive account of game features.

 

[Leucarum]

The rectangle floating towards the top left of the cog hexagon is weird. It's casting a shadow too. Apart from the rocket it looks like the only thing not connected to the main C

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I think the structure clockise of the Colosseum is a Japanese castle of some sort, possibly Himeji Castle returning from Civ V, although the profile isn't quite that elaborate.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

If the outer wheel is chronological you'd just have to add some nuclear launches at the end to make it a complete circle...

Well, that's dark. I like it.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Looks like El Escorial maybe?

Once I looked at a reference picture, I agree. It looks like El Escorial

 

[SeelingCat]

I like it, even it it's a little pale-on-pale.

Are those garlands in the inner circle Beaux-Art style? Need a better art historian than I am to confirm. If so, we may know the game's art style.

My first thought was Rococo, but I think the Baroque/Beaux-Arts/Louis XIV style spectrum feels close in general

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Now I'm wondering if the other small structures mixed in with the known wonders are also wonders. Like, the obelisk could be a dramatically misproportioned Temple of Karnak. The little thing between the Colosseum and Ankor Wat could be the Mausoleum of Theodoric. The buildings under the launched rocket could be Kennedy Space Center.

 

[Vandlys]

Now I'm wondering if the other small structures mixed in with the known wonders are also wonders. Like, the obelisk could be a dramatically misproportioned Temple of Karnak. The little thing between the Colosseum and Ankor Wat could be the Mausoleum of Theodoric. The buildings under the launched rocket could be Kennedy Space Center.

What would that mean for the ship though? (at 22:30) And what could that house in between the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty be? If the wonders are proportionate to each other, it's quite large but looks like a standard 19th century European house. If it's chronological it would have to have been built between 1886 (Statue of Liberty) and 1889 (Eiffel Tower).

In general, I think this logo looks absolutely dashing.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

What would that mean for the ship though? (at 22:30) And what could that house in between the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty be? If the wonders are proportionate to each other, it's quite large but looks like a standard 19th century European house. If it's chronological it would have to have been built between 1886 (Statue of Liberty) and 1889 (Eiffel Tower).

In general, I think this logo looks absolutely dashing.

I think that ship is meant to be associated with the wonder it's sailing away from, El Escorial.

I agree that that house is probably a wonder, although it's difficult to say what.

 

[Vandlys]

I think that ship is meant to be associated with the wonder it's sailing away from, El Escorial.

I agree that that house is probably a wonder, although it's difficult to say what.

The ship being associated with alleged El Escorial (looks like it indeed) seems odd to me because of the following:
1) The size of the ship, why make it that large if it's not a stand-alone object?
2) The position of the ship, why is it so close to the unidentified building between the cogs and the ship?

Furthermore, if that is indeed the Wright flyer it's completely out of time chronologically, even if we count the unpowered glider. That glider should be situated right of the Eiffel Tower, not so far on the left.

Unless, of course, we count the ages in a sort of overlap. Saying that the Eiffel Tower from 1889 counts as the Industrial Era or later, but the Wright Gliders (1900-1902) do not.

A third option could be that nothing is chronological, but merely catalogued in 'ages'.

 

[Starina]

Could there be a microscope or telescope in the hexagon under the Eiffel Tower?

 

[CivLuvah]

The logo was found here: https://steamdb.info/app/1295660/info/#assets

Looks really interesting! Any thoughts on the meaning?

I love the logo. Must be the "box art" for the game? Reminds me a lot of Civ4's but in a stylized way

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

@Solver solved the house between the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. It's Thomas Edison's Invention Factory in Menlo Park, NJ

 

[pokiehl]

Remember the purpose of cover art is to set a mood, not provide an exhaustive account of game features.

Promotional art is crafted very carefully to convey the right things. For whatever they choose to show us in the art, I can't imagine it'd be incomplete and risk misleading people. I'm inclined to believe what we have displayed in the hexes, which are the focal points of the image, are full sets of whatever they represent.

I am on-board with the smaller hexes being victory types (which to me implies that we're losing both religious and diplomatic victory types, for the base game at least), but the 3 larger hexes to me can't be eras then and must represent something else.

 

[OzzyKP]

@Solver solved the house between the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. It's Thomas Edison's Invention Factory in Menlo Park, NJ

*could be*. Despite his name, I don't think Solver solved it, but it is a pretty good guess.

 

[SeelingCat]

@Solver solved the house between the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. It's Thomas Edison's Invention Factory in Menlo Park, NJ

I'm not so sure on this- pictures I could find of the Edison complex don't show a building with dormers or anything beyond a simple A-frame roof; and the chimneys are placed on the sides of the building and not the middle as in the logo. Doesn't seem to match up with his home either, unless it's based off an earlier version before it was expanded?

 

[Solver]

Yes, even I'm thinking the Edison building is quite speculative - while plausible, the graphic shows a generic enough house to conceivably represent a very large number of late 19th century buildings.

 

[SeelingCat]

The ones on either side of the Gears (at 12 o'clock) intrigue me the most - the castle on the left seems familiar but I can't place it, and the one on the right I thought was Bolshoi, but I don't think the roof matches....

 

[Gori the Grey]

If the outer wheel is chronological you'd just have to add some nuclear launches at the end to make it a complete circle...

That's what the gap in the O represents: nuclear annihilation of civilization itself. Or blowing a big wedge out of the earth itself.

 

[Leucarum]

That's what the gap in the O represents: nuclear annihilation of civilization itself. Or blowing a big wedge out of the earth itself.

If there's a high-enough resolution version and we zoom in on the gap really close, we'll see a hidden laughing gandhi...

Also are we certain the rocket isn't an ICBM?