Civilization 7 is a fun game to get lost in, given how complex and thought-provoking your leadership role can be. You might get lost in all the decision-making and end up spending hours of your time on a few turns.

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Learning all the keybinds and commands will take some time, but it will also save you time when playing. You have to memorize the useful ones to improve your quality of life, and here’s the perfect and complete Civilization 7 controls guide with all the useful shortcuts and keybinds.

All Controls and Keybinds for Civilization 7

Screenshot by Prima GamesScreenshot by Prima Games ActionPrimary KeySecondary KeyPan Camera DownKeyboard DownSPan Camera UpKeyboard UpWPan Camera LeftKeyboard LeftAPan Camera RightKeyboard RightDNext TurnKeyboard EnterEForce Next TurnShift + Keyboard Enter–Open AttributesP–Open Culture TreeC–Toggle Great Works ScreenO–Toggle Rankings ScreenF1–Open Tech TreeT–Open GovernmentL–Open CivilopediaF9–Quick LoadF6–Quick SaveF5–Move ToM–Range AttackR–Skip TurnSpace–SleepZ–Fortified HealII–FortifyF–AlertV–Text to Speech (Mouse Cursor)N–Toggle GridG–Toggle Yield IconsY–Toggle Resource IconsQ–

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While these are incredibly useful, the most important ones are Force Next Turn, Next Turn, Skip Turn, Sleep, Fortified Heal, Toggle Grid, Yield, and Resource Icons. Most keybinds, such as culture tree, attributes, Civilopedia, tech trees, government, and others, can be accessed by pressing the icons (mainly on the upper-left screen). You don’t need to open these tabs as often as the other keybinds, so you can start memorizing the keybinds.

Rearranging the keybinds will also help you keep track of where they are. Some players just put all the most important keybinds and tabs on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on.

You can also enable the Auto End Turn feature under the game settings to make things quicker. It just allows you to automatically skip turns where no “significant” decisions are to be made. Then again, this doesn’t count random potential threats like another leader closing in and you want to redirect your troops to a different city or town.

I suggest memorizing the force next turn, next turn, and skip turn keybinds instead of automating turns through the feature.

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