There are a ton of new things coming in this second expansion for Civilization 6 and the team has broken them all down in an official Civilization website post: In the second expansion for Sid Meier's Civilization 6, game studio Firxis Games is introducing global warming and climate change to the latest entry when Gathering Storm launches February 14, 2019.Įd Beach, the Franchise Lead Designer for Civilization 6, says that the team did a great job capturing history's great empires, exploration, survival, and the human spirit, but the Civ story 'was missing something without the impact that a changing planet has had on our settlements, and the imprints that we have left behind on Earth.' One of the most most popular grand strategy games is about to change in a big way.