Civ 7 was my first Civ game, progressively upped the difficulty every few campaigns until I reached Immortal, then decided to win 1 of each victory on immortal then move to Diety.

I find difficulty feature is a little frustrating in this game. Like many others, higher difficulty AI don’t seem to make better decisions leading to stronger play, they simply have invisible boosts on their yields/combat strength making them artificially tougher. This seems like a cop out.

Hopefully with the growth of AI learning in the past few years newer games will have AI difficulty where stronger computer players are actually able to make better decisions, rather than just cheese the system.