This means there’s a lot less nuance between each difficulty.

Towns are a new addition in Civilization 7.

So now it’s more important than ever that you snag the right difficulty setting for you.

The Notre Dame Cathedral Wonder in Civilization 7.

How Does Difficulty Work?

Rather,difficulty toggles which advantages or disadvantages your opponents receive.

These aresome of the stats affected by difficultyin Civ 7.

Town Management In Civilization 7

Stat

Effect

Combat Strength

This affects the overall strength of the units you fight against.

Army XP

This affects how much experience enemy commanders gain during battle.

Independents Combat

Independent powers may have stronger military prowess.

Isabella and Washington go to war in Civilization 7.

Yields

Changes how high enemy Civs yields are for resources and more.

Production

Production costs for buildings and units can go down for enemy Civs.

Which Difficulty Should You Choose?

The improvement to city screen in Civilization 7.

All in all,there are six different difficulties to choose fromin Civilization 7.

By default,your first campaign will be set at Governor, which is one above the lowest difficulty.

While you might certainly lower the difficulty for your first go-around,we recommend giving Governor a try first.

The colosseum in Civilization 7 (1)

Difficulty Setting

Details

Scribe

This is thelowest possible difficulty setting.

Most enemy Civs and Independent powers will likely have nerfs to their yields and overall aggression.

Governor

This is the default setting for the game.We recommend starting hereand tailoring your experience afterward.

Triple-A Games

Just start with the tutorials switched on.

Immortal

Immortal will see enemies granted extremely high handicapsand buffs to stats.

At this point, Tech and Civic cost increases also start to get pretty intense.

Sid Meier’s Civilization 7

Deity

Like most top-tier Civ difficulty levels,the jump to Deity is pretty intense.

In some ways, it’s almost meant to be comically hard.

Adjacency makes a big return in Civilization 7.

It’s more important than ever to plan out your cities as you expand.