Firaxis Games has announced that Sid Meier's Civilization 7 will be Steam Deck verified.

The 26-year-old suspect had a brief stint in game development

Following years spent as a cult-classic among PC gamers thanks to the series' trademark high difficulty and rock-solid mechanics, Firaxis Games would boldly reinvent the legendary XCOM franchise courtesy of 2012's phenomenal XCOM: Enemy Unknown. With lead designer Jake Solomon at the helm, Enemy Unknown brought the XCOM series to a much wider audience, incorporating the grid-based movement and turn-based battling of games like Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics into a futuristic sci-fi setting. The older XCOM games may have been a hybrid of real-time strategy and turn-based tactics, but XCOM: Enemy Unkown abandoned any semblance of RTS gameplay in favor of a full embracing of TRPG mechanics and elements, resulting in the game becoming the series' (and, in some ways, the genre's) breakthrough. And in its wake, gamers have been treated to some of the best turn-based tactics games following Enemy Unknown's lead.