For the uninitiated, Civilization: Eras & Allies is actually a rebrand of Civilization: Conquests and Alliances, an empire-builders strategy game that had already been soft-launched in several countries around the world for the past few months.
As part of the announcement, 2K Games released an official statement on the game that reads:
As part of our continued efforts to explore and expand into new audiences, Civilization: Eras & Allies is starting its soft launch today in limited territories within Southeast Asia, starting with Indonesia and The Philippines. Civilization: Eras & Allies is a new standalone free-to-play mobile 4X social strategy game, featuring exciting and unique cross-era gameplay mechanics designed with the mobile social strategy gamer in mind.
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In addition to the soft launch of Civilization: Eras & Allies in Southeast Asia, 2K Games also shed some light concerning the next mainline Civilization game by Firaxis Games. the official statement reads:
As we announced last year, Firaxis Games is in active development on the next iteration of the legendary Civilization franchise. We are working with an external partner specializing in mobile social strategy games to develop Civilization: Eras & Allies.
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