While spinoffs have made their way to consoles throughout the years, the main titles in the Civilization franchise have stuck with the PC platform exclusively for the last 20+ years. That’s been changing with Civilization 6, which has broken the trend and started appearing on other platforms over the past couple of years. Two months from now, Civilization 6 will also launch on the PlayStation 4.

During Sony’s State of Play presentation today, it was announced that 2K Games and Firaxis Games will be bringing Civilization 6 to the PS4 on November 22, marking the first Civilization game on a PlayStation system in over ten years. This version, Sony says, will debut with “the latest game updates and improvements,” so PS4 players will have the same strategic civilization-building tools available to them as their PC counterparts on day one.

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Going deeper into it, it was confirmed some of those “latest updates” will include a number of DLC civilizations that have been added to the game over the last few years, specifically the following:

-Vikings Scenario Pack

-Poland Civilization Scenario Pack

-Australia Civilization & Scenario Pack

-Persia and Macedon Civilization & Scenario Pack

-Nubia Civilization & Scenario Pack and Khmer

-Indonesia Civilization & Scenario Pack

On top of that, the PS4 version will let players access Civilization 6’s expansions, Rise & Fall and Gathering Storm, through an Expansion Bundle.

Sony wasn’t the only one with news to share about it, though. On the PlayStation Blog, 2K Community and Social Media Manager Dave Hinkle revealed that the game will come with online multiplayer for up to four players on PS4, a feature missing from the first console port of Civilization 6 on the Nintendo Switch. This will make it possible for friends to easily get together and either collaborate to outdo the completion or backstab one another in a cutthroat race to the top.

Like with the Switch version, 2K and Firaxis have “taken great care” to ensure that Civilization 6 will work smoothly on the PS4, with an optimized control scheme and UI designed to make the turn-based strategy gameplay work without a mouse and keyboard. “Our goal was to create a controller experience that gives the player total control over the map, menus and movement,” Hinkle said, “and we believe we accomplished that.”

Civilization 6 is available for PC, iOS, and Switch, with the PS4 version coming on November 22.

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Source: PlayStation Blog