Games Like HUMANKIND™

Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.

Why similar: 4X 22.6% ★, Grand Strategy 15.9%, City Builder 12.8%, Historical 10.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its age-based progression and changing civilizations make it the closest counterpart to HUMANKIND™’s culture-evolving approach to rewriting history.

Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?

Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, Grand Strategy 15.9%, Historical 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Turn-Based 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This historical 4X blends empire expansion with dynasties, characters, limited orders, and event-driven decisions across a tightly focused ancient-world timeline.

Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.

Why similar: 4X 25% ★, Grand Strategy 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Historical 9.9%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its six-era civilization campaign, alternate-history Ages, national spirits, and city specialization strongly echo HUMANKIND™’s evolving-empire structure.

Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, 4X 15.9% ★, Strategy 13.5%, Grand Strategy 12.3%, Historical 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: The most essential traditional historical 4X alternative, offering familiar turn-based expansion, districts, diplomacy, culture, and competitive multiplayer.

ENDLESS Legend™ is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS Space™ and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!

Why similar: 4X 37.1% ★, Strategy 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Turn-Based 11.2%, Hex Grid 7.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Made by HUMANKIND™ developer Amplitude, it combines distinctive factions, territory-based city building, empire management, and tactical battles in a fantasy setting.

Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 15.3%, City Builder 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Historical 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This streamlined historical 4X distills the expansion, technology, economy, and conquest loop into fast and highly replayable Bronze Age campaigns.

Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 25.8%, 4X 19.1% ★, Strategy 13.5%, Historical 11.2%, Turn-Based 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its one-unit-per-tile combat, social policies, diplomatic victory paths, and classic historical 4X pace remain highly appealing after HUMANKIND™.

Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture.

Why similar: 4X 22.8% ★, Grand Strategy 17.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Historical 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep ancient-to-medieval empire-building layer focused on provinces, culture, diplomacy, decadence, and historically grounded strategic competition.

Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!

Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Historical 12.1%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its ancient Mediterranean setting, city-state diplomacy, research, expansion, and scenario-driven empire building are an excellent fit for historical 4X fans.

Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

Why similar: 4X 31.2% ★, Historical 14.7%, Strategy 13.5%, Grand Strategy 13.4%, Turn-Based 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This accessible civilization builder focuses on growing Chinese dynasties through city development, resource networks, diplomacy, and large-scale warfare.

Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn!

Why similar: 4X 34.1% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Strategy 10.4%, War 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although fantasy-themed, it shares HUMANKIND™’s appeal of mixing cultural traits, customizing a growing civilization, expanding cities, and fighting tactical battles.

A mix of deep gameplay and rich historical flavor, Aggressors: Ancient Rome lets you relive history as the ruler of one of the mighty civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. Choose one of twenty available factions and conquer the world.

Why similar: 4X 33% ★, Grand Strategy 17.5%, Historical 15.3%, Strategy 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A traditional historical 4X with hex-based expansion, city management, diplomacy, technology, and warfare centered on the rise of Rome.

Hexarchy is an innovative, fast-paced, historical 4x strategy game where you use cards and deckbuilding to make your decisions. Single-player and online multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 23.6% ★, Grand Strategy 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Historical 10.3%, Hex Grid 8.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: It combines compact 4X empire growth with deckbuilding, producing brisk strategic matches built around expansion, research, resources, and military pressure.

With over 6 million units sold and unprecedented critical acclaim from fans and press around the world, Sid Meier's Civilization is recognized as one of the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Now, Sid Meier and Firaxis Games will take this incredibly fun and addictive game to new heights by adding new ways to play and win, new...

Why similar: 4X 27.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.5%, Strategy 15.2%, Historical 11.1%, Turn-Based 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A landmark historical 4X with robust technology, religion, civics, diplomacy, and city specialization systems for players wanting a deeper classic Civilization experience.

Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.8%, Historical 19.5%, City Builder 15%, Strategy 13.6%, Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A grand historical sandbox focused on industrialization, population management, diplomacy, and shaping a nation through the nineteenth century.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 50.6%, Strategy 20.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Historical 8%, Management 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its extraordinarily rich city building, production-chain management, colonial expansion, and diplomacy suit players who especially enjoy HUMANKIND™’s development side.

Unite Ancient China under your rule through a thrilling blend of turn-based empire building and real-time battles. Use the Guanxi System and diplomacy to forge alliances, and build powerful armies with hundreds of unique infantry, cavalry and war machine units.

Why similar: Historical 24.6%, Strategy 19.5%, Grand Strategy 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, War 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a turn-based historical empire map full of diplomacy and city management with spectacular real-time battles and character-driven politics.

Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Grand Strategy 24.3%, Historical 17%, Strategy 10.3%, Alternate History 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a vast early-modern historical sandbox where diplomacy, trade, colonization, warfare, and alternate history drive the fate of an empire.

Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.7%, 4X 20.8% ★, Historical 16.7%, Strategy 15.2%, Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It trades 4X turns for a character-driven medieval dynasty sandbox with territorial growth, politics, cultural development, and emergent historical stories.

Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.

Why similar: 4X 28.4% ★, Grand Strategy 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Hex Grid 10.2% ★, Turn-Based 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic 4X emphasizes terraforming, city construction, faction development, exploration, and a lengthy technology-driven campaign.

Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.2%, Strategy 22.2%, Historical 20.3%, Management 4.4%, Multiplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its ancient-world scope, provincial management, culture and religion systems, political factions, and conquest make it a strong grand-strategy companion.

ENDLESS Space™ 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS Universe™. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

Why similar: Strategy 79.9%, 4X 9.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 3.3%, Grand Strategy 2.6%, Turn-Based 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Amplitude’s science-fiction 4X offers beautifully presented faction asymmetry, planetary development, diplomacy, research, and long-form empire campaigns.

Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.

Why similar: 4X 32.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Hex Grid 7.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: A large-scale turn-based space 4X built around colony development, technology, diplomacy, ideology, and highly customizable civilizations.

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.

Why similar: 4X 28% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.2%, Strategy 11.6%, City Builder 11%, Turn-Based 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its faction customization, empire growth, technology trees, diplomacy, and tactical combat offer a science-fiction counterpart to HUMANKIND™’s strategic breadth.

Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

Why similar: 4X 42.8% ★, Grand Strategy 30%, Strategy 13.3%, Multiplayer 5.3%, Management 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This space grand strategy game captures the same satisfying arc of exploring, expanding, managing populations, researching, and competing with rival empires.

Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.

Why similar: 4X 24.3% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Historical 11%, Turn-Based 7.6%

Shadow Empire is a deep turn-based 4X wargame with a unique blend of military focus, procedurally generated content and role-playing features. Players take the seat of the supreme ruler of a small nation, with the goal of reconquering a devastated planet.

Why similar: 4X 26.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Hex Grid 9.4% ★, Turn-Based 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: For players who want far more depth, it layers a demanding turn-based 4X with logistics, regime politics, leader management, and operational warfare.

The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.

Why similar: 4X 55.1% ★, Strategy 22.1%, Turn-Based 10.4%, Grand Strategy 6.3%, Multiplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This polished space 4X provides approachable turn-based colony management, research, diplomacy, customization, and fleet warfare in a classic format.

Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.

Why similar: 4X 36.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Turn-Based 13.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This highly streamlined turn-based 4X preserves the core pleasures of exploration, city growth, research, conquest, and multiplayer in quick matches.

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 38.5%, Strategy 20.1%, Historical 19.3%, Management 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.

Why similar: 4X 33.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5%, Historical 12.4%, Strategy 10%, Alternate History 5.4%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: 4X 27.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, City Builder 17.1%, Historical 13.4%, Strategy 8.6%

Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.

Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9%, Historical 16%, Strategy 9.8%, War 7.3%

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

Why similar: 4X 25.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Historical 11.7%, Strategy 7.7%

Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.6%, Strategy 24%, 4X 15% ★, Historical 13.6%, City Builder 5.4%

Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.

Why similar: 4X 46.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18%, Strategy 17.1%, Hex Grid 6.9% ★, Turn-Based 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A focused sci-fi 4X featuring colonization, research, diplomacy, distinctive factions, terrain-based tactics, and aggressive competition for a hostile planet.

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.

Why similar: 4X 29% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22%, Strategy 15.1%, Grand Strategy 10.4%, Turn-Based 9.2%

Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.

Why similar: Strategy 27.6%, City Builder 24.4%, Historical 16.7%, War 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.8%

Wage total war across the ancient world from the Aegean to Mesopotamia in this free addition to Total War: PHARAOH. Challenge the Bronze Age Collapse by building your own dynasty and leading your faction to victory with new cultures, new units and dramatic new battle mechanics.

Why similar: 4X 33.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8%, Strategy 14.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Historical 11.5%

Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.

Why similar: 4X 30.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Hex Grid 10.7% ★, Turn-Based 8.7%

Grand strategy wargame where the destiny of Civilizations rests in your hands - will they stand united under your leadership or fall divided in conflict? Journey through the entire saga of human civilization, from its earliest days to the futuristic era, crafting your legacy age by age.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 44.5%, Strategy 20.5%, Alternate History 10.6%, War 10.4%, Multiplayer 6.2%

Sid Meier's Civilization IV®: Beyond the Sword is the second expansion pack for Civilization IV - the 2005 PC Game of the Year that has become a worldwide hit.

Why similar: 4X 33.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Strategy 16.3%, Turn-Based 10.7%, Historical 9.8%

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is the third offering in the award winning Civilization IV series. A re-imagining of the classic Colonization game Sid Meier created in 1994, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is a total conversion of the Civilization IV engine into a game experience in which players will lead a European...

Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.8%, Strategy 17.6%, Historical 13.2%, Turn-Based 11.6%

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 25.1% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Historical 10.3%, Strategy 7.7%

A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.

Why similar: 4X 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19.3%, Historical 13.7%, Strategy 8.8%, War 6.9%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 53%, Strategy 13.8%, Multiplayer 13%, Management 10.8%, Building 2.7%

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: 4X 28.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.8%, City Builder 16.8%, Historical 13.5%, Strategy 8.3%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: 4X 23.7% ★, Grand Strategy 20%, City Builder 18.4%, Historical 14%, Strategy 9.4%

ENDLESS Space™ is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS Universe™, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.

Why similar: 4X 43.3% ★, Strategy 22.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Turn-Based 9.4%, Grand Strategy 4.6%

Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.

Why similar: 4X 21.4% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Grand Strategy 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Historical 8.9%

The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

Why similar: City Builder 42.4%, Historical 24.3%, Management 12.2%, Strategy 12%, Building 5.1%

Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.

Why similar: City Builder 49.1%, Strategy 26%, Multiplayer 7.3%, 4X 7% ★, Management 4.7%

From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!

Why similar: 4X 25.7% ★, Strategy 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Historical 10.4%, Hex Grid 9.4% ★

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: 4X 33.5% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Historical 15.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Management 6.4%

Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...

Why similar: 4X 24% ★, Grand Strategy 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Historical 12.8%, Strategy 8.2%

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 35.1%, 4X 34.4% ★, Strategy 16.7%, Management 5.2%, Multiplayer 3.7%

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: City Builder 31%, 4X 26.9% ★, Strategy 15.8%, Multiplayer 6.5%, War 6.4%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: City Builder 42.2%, Historical 22.3%, Strategy 16.1%, Management 11.2%, Building 4.7%

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 36.3%, Strategy 19.8%, Grand Strategy 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Management 8.2%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: 4X 25.4% ★, Grand Strategy 18.8%, City Builder 16.3%, Historical 12.9%, Strategy 8.4%