2025's Longest Games Are Coming in The Shortest Month

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Despite being the shortest month, February’s place in the bleak and dismal ass-crack of winter for half the planet often makes it drag. In 2025 though, there aren’t enough hours in the day or days in the month to fit all the massive games that are coming out. But it’s not so much the quantity of new releases as it is the density of a select few, because some of the year’s longest games are dropping in the shortest month.

If any of your friends are major history buffs, you should probably check and make sure they’re okay over the next couple of weeks. If they’re unresponsive it’s likely they’re completely immersed in – or frozen with decision paralysis – over the two huge games that come out in February: Sid Meier’s Civilization 7 and Kingdom Come Deliverance II.

These are two very different games with a couple major things in common. One, they’re jam-packed with tons of extensive deep-cut lore from that hit, long-running immensely controversial franchise known as human existence (in other words, actual real-world history), and two, they’re infamous timesinks. The upcoming sequels are bound to keep even the most casual players busy for at least a couple 40-hour workweeks, but if the previous installments are any indication, they’ll keep serious players occupied waaaaay longer than that.

Sid Meier’s Civilization 7 needs little introduction and whether you realize it or not, multiple people you know – or possibly, you yourself – will sink hundreds, possibly thousands of hours into the next entry of the prolific turn-based 4X strategy series. I don’t just mean your gamer pals, either; this is one of those series with crossover appeal that attracts players who typically don’t play many games otherwise, and hardcore Civ players are hiding in plain sight all around us. Whether it’s your teachers, your co-workers, your dentist, that one aunt who doesn’t talk much at family gatherings, the person at the deli counter, or that guy at your gym who grunts too much when he’s working