Games Like HUMANKIND™

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 16.5%, 4X 15.9% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Grand Strategy 12.3% ★, Historical 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest mainstream match to HUMANKIND™, offering turn-based historical 4X empire building, city specialization, diplomacy, wonders, and era-spanning competition.

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% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Historical 11.1%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This historical 4X blends cities, armies, diplomacy, and dynastic decisions in a way that feels very close to HUMANKIND’s more characterful approach to civilization management.

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 15.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Historical 9.8%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its era progression, nation development, and historical what-if storytelling make it one of the nearest alternatives to HUMANKIND’s rewrite-history appeal.

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

Why similar: 4X 22.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.1% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Historical 10.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%

Why You'll Like It: Like HUMANKIND™, it centers on building a civilization across ages with a strong focus on expansion, culture, and strategic adaptation over time.

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

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 26.1%, 4X 19% ★, Strategy 13.7%, Historical 11%, Turn-Based 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is still one of the strongest historical turn-based 4X games for players who want city growth, diplomacy, warfare, and long-form empire planning.

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 22.3% ★, Grand Strategy 15.2% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Historical 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It condenses the historical 4X formula into faster matches while keeping the same satisfying loop of territorial expansion, resource control, and rivalry.

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 36.9% ★, Strategy 17%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Turn-Based 11%, Hex Grid 7.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: It swaps history for fantasy, but its region-based expansion, faction identity, city development, and tactical turn-based battles feel very close in structure.

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% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Strategy 10.5%, War 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you like HUMANKIND’s mix of empire management and tactical battles, this fantasy 4X delivers a similarly rich turn-based strategic loop.

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 30.8% ★, Historical 14.7%, Strategy 13.7%, Grand Strategy 13.3% ★, Turn-Based 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based historical empire building, city management, and map expansion make it a very natural fit for HUMANKIND fans.

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 27.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.6%, Strategy 15.4%, Historical 11%, Turn-Based 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Though older, it remains a superb historical 4X with deep empire management and the same addictive one-more-turn arc of growth, research, and conquest.

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 22.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3% ★, Strategy 12.9%, Historical 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This historical grand strategy game emphasizes provinces, culture, expansion, and long-term statecraft in a way that strongly overlaps with HUMANKIND’s empire 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 24.3%, Strategy 19.7%, Grand Strategy 19% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, War 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its campaign blends empire management, diplomacy, and territorial expansion with major wars, making it a strong pick if you enjoy HUMANKIND’s strategic map play.

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 25.4% ★, 4X 20.9% ★, Historical 16.4%, Strategy 15.3%, Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It leans harder into character drama, but it still captures the fantasy of steering a historical realm through politics, growth, and shifting power.

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 37.5% ★, Historical 23.7%, Strategy 13.9%, Management 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses more on economics and politics than warfare, but it offers a similarly compelling historical sandbox of shaping a society over time.

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 28.3% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Historical 12.1%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers detailed turn-based empire management in a historical setting, with strong attention to logistics, growth, diplomacy, and regional control.

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 40% ★, Strategy 22.9%, Historical 20.5%, Management 4.6%, Multiplayer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: While real-time rather than turn-based, it delivers a similar pleasure of shaping a historical civilization through expansion, politics, culture, and warfare.

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 31.5% ★, Grand Strategy 25.2% ★, Historical 17.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Alternate History 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great next step if your favorite part of HUMANKIND is guiding a nation through centuries of diplomacy, conquest, and development.

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 32.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, Historical 15.3%, Strategy 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a focused historical 4X with city building, diplomacy, conquest, and nation development that will feel familiar to HUMANKIND players.

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 24.1%, 4X 15% ★, Historical 13.4%, City Builder 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is another accessible historical empire-management game built around expansion, diplomacy, economy, and ruling a growing realm.

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 11.2%, Historical 10.2%, Hex Grid 8.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: This streamlines 4X empire building into fast sessions while preserving the core pleasures of expansion, city development, and strategic adaptation.

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 28.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.2%, Strategy 15.2%, Grand Strategy 10.3% ★, Turn-Based 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the Civilization-style historical 4X formula into sci-fi, so it fits if you mainly want HUMANKIND’s turn-based expansion and development systems.

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 11.7%, City Builder 11%, Turn-Based 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its sci-fi setting changes the theme, but the combination of turn-based empire building, faction identity, and tactical combat is very close mechanically.

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 80.1%, 4X 9.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 3.3%, Grand Strategy 2.6% ★, Turn-Based 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This takes the same 4X empire-management pleasures into space, with strong faction flavor, expansion choices, and long-term strategic planning.

Politics, religion, war. They are nothing without a legacy that can stand the test of time. Lead any nation, and turn it into a mighty kingdom in one of the most compelling grand strategy games ever created.

Why similar: Strategy 40.2%, Historical 33.2%, Grand Strategy 13.3% ★, Multiplayer 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its historical realm management, expansion, and careful political planning make it appealing if you want HUMANKIND’s empire-building feel in a more focused era.

Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.

Why similar: Strategy 22.6%, Grand Strategy 22.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.4%, Historical 18%, Turn-Based 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based campaign map, province management, diplomacy, and historical conquest make it a solid alternative for HUMANKIND fans who want more warfare.

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 25.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Historical 11.2%, Strategy 7.4%

Conquer Warring States Japan under one banner

Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.6% ★, Historical 27%, Strategy 16.5%, Alternate History 8.8%, Tactical 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is more specialized and character-driven, but it offers deep historical statecraft, territory control, and long-term strategic planning.

Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.1% ★, Historical 20.4%, Strategy 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, War 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This delivers a darker historical empire-management experience with turn-based expansion, collapsing states, and constant strategic pressure.

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% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Hex Grid 10.1% ★, Turn-Based 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a turn-based 4X about rebuilding a civilization on a transformed world, making it a good offbeat pick for players who like HUMANKIND’s explore-expand-develop loop.

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 37.7%, Strategy 20.5%, Historical 19.1%, Management 8.1%, Multiplayer 6.5%

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 26.1% ★, Grand Strategy 16.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Historical 11.6%, Strategy 7.7%

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 29.7% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9% ★, Historical 15.7%, Strategy 9.9%, War 7.3%

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 33.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5% ★, Historical 12.3%, Strategy 10%, Alternate History 5.2%

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 50.2%, Strategy 21.1%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Historical 8.1%, Management 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 26.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Historical 13%, Strategy 8.9%

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: Grand Strategy 25.3% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Historical 18%, 4X 12.7% ★, Strategy 11.5%

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 33.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, Strategy 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Historical 11.1%

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 18.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Hex Grid 10.7% ★, Turn-Based 8.5%

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 29.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.3% ★, Historical 13.5%, Strategy 8.8%, War 6.9%

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 32.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Hex Grid 7.9% ★

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 43.2% ★, Strategy 22.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Turn-Based 9.2%, Grand Strategy 4.6% ★

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 32.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20%, Strategy 16.5%, Turn-Based 10.5%, Historical 9.7%

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 27.8%, City Builder 24.1%, Historical 16.4%, War 12.3%, Multiplayer 12%

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 25.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Historical 13.7%, Strategy 9.2%

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 30.5%, 4X 26.9% ★, Strategy 16%, Multiplayer 6.6%, War 6.4%

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 41.9%, Historical 24.1%, Management 12.7%, Strategy 12.2%, Building 5%

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 33.9% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Historical 15.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Management 6.7%

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 31.3% ★, Strategy 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Historical 13.1%, Turn-Based 11.5%

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 47.4% ★, Strategy 22.1%, War 11.1%, Alternate History 11%, Tactical 4.6%

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 48.4%, Strategy 26.3%, Multiplayer 7.5%, 4X 7.2% ★, Management 4.9%

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

Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Strategy 20%, Grand Strategy 13.5% ★, Multiplayer 9.7%, Management 8.5%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: 4X 34% ★, City Builder 29.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Historical 8.8%, Management 8%

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 52.3%, Strategy 14%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Management 11.1%, Building 2.7%

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 34.6%, 4X 34.4% ★, Strategy 16.9%, Management 5.3%, Multiplayer 3.7%

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% ★, Grand Strategy 11.8% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Historical 8.7%

Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.

Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.7%, Strategy 17.6%, Historical 10.8%, Turn-Based 9.1%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 55.8%, Strategy 17.4%, Historical 15.2%, Survival 3.8%, Simulation 2.3%

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 41.8%, Historical 22%, Strategy 16.3%, Management 11.6%, Building 4.7%

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 42.7% ★, Grand Strategy 29.8% ★, Strategy 13.4%, Multiplayer 5.4%, Management 4.2%

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 25.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18.8% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Historical 12.9%, Strategy 8.5%