Games Like Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

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Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 29.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Turn-Based 13.1%, 4X 11.6% ★, Historical 11%

Why You'll Like It: The immediate predecessor delivers the closest familiar loop of founding cities, choosing social policies, researching technologies, conducting diplomacy, and pursuing multiple victory types.

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.4%, 4X 16.3% ★, Historical 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, City Builder 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is the newest direct evolution of Civilization's historical 4X formula, with leaders, civilizations, expansion, diplomacy, and age-based empire development.

Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.

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: A direct historical 4X rival that emphasizes building cities, advancing through eras, claiming territories, and mixing cultures to shape a unique civilization.

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 15.2% ★, Grand Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Historical 11.4%, Turn-Based 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This historical turn-based 4X combines Civilization-style expansion and technology with dynasties, character relationships, and a limited-order system that makes each turn more tactical.

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: Turn-Based Strategy 23.3%, 4X 20.6% ★, Strategy 17.4%, Turn-Based 15.3%, Historical 10%

Why You'll Like It: This acclaimed Civilization IV expansion offers a deep classic 4X campaign with robust diplomacy, espionage, corporations, warfare, and alternate victory paths.

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: Turn-Based Strategy 21.2%, 4X 17.1% ★, Strategy 15.9%, Turn-Based 15.1%, Historical 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational historical 4X whose city management, tech tree, diplomacy, religion, and empire-scale decision making remain highly rewarding.

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 17% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Turn-Based 11.1%, Historical 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its era-spanning historical 4X structure, city development, technology progression, and alternate-history choices make it a natural Civilization-style campaign.

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: Turn-Based Strategy 26.2%, 4X 18.4% ★, Strategy 16.3%, Turn-Based 13.5%, Grand Strategy 10%

Why You'll Like It: It translates Civilization's hex-based expansion, research, city building, diplomacy, and victory races into a science-fiction colonization setting.

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 21.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.6%, Grand Strategy 18.4%, Strategy 11%, War 9%

Why You'll Like It: It blends 4X empire growth and diplomacy with customizable factions, magical tomes, and substantial tactical battles on a hex-based world map.

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 25% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Strategy 19.4%, Turn-Based 17.4%, Grand Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This stylish fantasy 4X pairs territory expansion and custom city districts with asymmetric factions, quests, tactical battles, and a rich technology system.

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: Grand Strategy 22%, 4X 21.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Strategy 10.2%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This large-scale space 4X offers Civilization-like colonization, research, cultural influence, diplomacy, ideology, and multiple paths to galactic dominance.

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 82.4%, 4X 5.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 3.7%, Turn-Based 2.5%, Grand Strategy 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A polished turn-based space 4X centered on expanding star systems, developing colonies, researching technologies, negotiating with factions, and pursuing unique victory goals.

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 22.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.3%, Turn-Based 18.6%, Strategy 12.3%, War 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A streamlined and highly replayable 4X that captures Civilization's core pleasures of exploration, city growth, technology choices, and conquest in brisk matches.

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.

Why similar: 4X 21.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.7%, Strategy 14.5%, Turn-Based 11.8%, Grand Strategy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A combat-forward 4X where distinct factions expand settlements, exploit resources, research upgrades, and fight constant tactical wars on a hostile planet.

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: Turn-Based Strategy 20.8%, 4X 19.4% ★, Strategy 18.8%, Turn-Based 16.7%, Historical 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This Civilization IV-based standalone game shifts the familiar settlement, production, trade, diplomacy, and warfare systems toward building an independent New World colony.

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 40% ★, Strategy 27.4%, Turn-Based 17.3%, Grand Strategy 6.9%, Multiplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: This accessible modern remake delivers a classic 4X cycle of exploring, colonizing, researching, governing planets, and competing for galactic control.

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 18.8% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Historical 13.2%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed ancient-world 4X with historical states, city development, technology, resources, diplomacy, and challenging strategic warfare.

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 22.6%, Strategy 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.8%, Grand Strategy 16.3%, War 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its campaign map provides historical state building, diplomacy, character politics, technological development, and territorial expansion, supplemented by real-time 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 21% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8%, Historical 15.8%, Strategy 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its ancient setting, province management, research, diplomacy, unit progression, and turn-based conquest strongly suit players seeking a more focused historical Civilization alternative.

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: Turn-Based Strategy 25%, 4X 19.5% ★, Strategy 13.8%, Turn-Based 12.5%, City Builder 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It brings Civilization-like sector expansion, research, diplomacy, and empire development to a sci-fi setting with robust turn-based tactical combat.

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 25.5%, Historical 17.9%, Strategy 17%, 4X 13.6% ★, War 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Players who enjoy Civilization's history-spanning campaigns can build and preserve a medieval realm through warfare, diplomacy, succession, culture, and dynastic politics.

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 17.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Turn-Based 12.8%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This exceptionally deep turn-based 4X combines territorial expansion and research with logistics, planetary governance, military organization, and emergent political crises.

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: Turn-Based Strategy 24.5%, Strategy 18.8%, 4X 15.6% ★, Turn-Based 13.5%, Historical 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: An older but still substantial Civilization entry offering classic city building, research, diplomacy, resource competition, and sprawling historical conquest.

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: Grand Strategy 25.1%, 4X 20.6% ★, Historical 18.9%, Strategy 12%, Moddable 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Although real-time rather than turn-based, it offers a deep historical sandbox of exploration, colonization, diplomacy, war, trade, and long-term national development.

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: Grand Strategy 32.1%, 4X 30.2% ★, Strategy 16%, Multiplayer 5.9%, Moddable 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This grand-strategy space 4X emphasizes exploration, colonization, technological advancement, diplomacy, internal politics, and emergent stories on a vast scale.

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 15% ★, Grand Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Historical 11%, Turn-Based 10.7%

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 20.9%, Strategy 15.3%, City Builder 10.5%, Moddable 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This historical grand strategy game scratches the empire-management itch through industrialization, diplomacy, population politics, colonization, and economic development.

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: Grand Strategy 16.6%, 4X 14.3% ★, Strategy 13.7%, Turn-Based 12.6%, Historical 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based grand strategy focused on ancient and classical empires, with province development, cultural decisions, diplomacy, military campaigns, and rise-and-decline mechanics.

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: Grand Strategy 15.4%, 4X 15.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based 10.2%, Historical 10.2%

In a time of chaotic upheaval, the player takes the role of a great mage, a warlord vying for ultimate power.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 30.1%, 4X 22.8% ★, Strategy 19.5%, Turn-Based 19.2%, Multiplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy Civilization-style 4X built around founding cities, expanding borders, researching spells, developing armies, and conquering a hex-grid world.

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 33% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 24%, Strategy 20.8%, Turn-Based 9.3%, Multiplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This challenging sci-fi 4X centers on colonizing an alien world, balancing resources and research, negotiating with rivals, and surviving environmental threats.

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 15.1% ★, Grand Strategy 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Historical 10.8%, Turn-Based 10.8%

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords is the first expansion pack for the award-winning game that has become an instant world-wide hit. Paying homage to some of history's greatest military leaders, the expansion delivers six unique and interesting scenarios, giving players the chance to change the course of history with the help of their...

Why similar: Strategy 25%, 4X 24.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.5%, Turn-Based 19.7%, Historical 8%

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 30.1%, Historical 17.4%, War 16.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Multiplayer 11.8%

Age of Wonders III is the long anticipated sequel to the award-winning strategy series. Delivering a unique mix of Empire Building, Role Playing and Warfare, Age of Wonders III offers the ultimate in turn-based fantasy strategy for veterans of the series and new players alike!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 27.4%, Strategy 25.5%, 4X 19.6% ★, Turn-Based 12.9%, Multiplayer 4%

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: Strategy 16.9%, 4X 16.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based 11.1%, Historical 11%

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 20% ★, Historical 15.3%, Turn-Based 15.3%, Strategy 14.7%, Grand Strategy 13%

Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.

Why similar: Strategy 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Grand Strategy 17.4%, Historical 16.2%, War 8.1%

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: Grand Strategy 16.5%, 4X 15.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Historical 12%, City Builder 9.1%

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 14.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Grand Strategy 12%, Turn-Based 10.2%, Historical 9.6%

You take the part of the military and political leadership, trying to lead your nation to victory, in the midst of some of the toughest operations of the Civil War. You will build, organize and command your armies over one of the largest maps of the USA ever made for a Civil War game.

Why similar: Strategy 24.4%, Historical 20.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.9%, Grand Strategy 18.5%, Turn-Based 8.2%

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 29.4% ★, Strategy 25.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.4%, Turn-Based 14.7%, Grand Strategy 4.7%

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 19.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, Turn-Based 12.8%, Strategy 8.9%

Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.5%, Historical 20.3%, Strategy 20.1%, War 13.9%, Multiplayer 6.4%

Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.

Why similar: Strategy 21.4%, Historical 21.3%, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, War 7.9%

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 38.2%, Strategy 25.1%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Historical 9.3%, Simulation 5.9%

Lead powerful civilizations across the globe, master strategies and tactics, and relive history in co op battles—now remastered in stunning 4K and modernized gameplay.

Why similar: Strategy 28.6%, Historical 20.4%, City Builder 18.6%, War 13.4%, Multiplayer 11.4%

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: Historical 19.1%, Strategy 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Grand Strategy 18.2%, War 11.4%

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

Why similar: City Builder 45.4%, Strategy 16.8%, Building 9.9%, Moddable 9%, Simulation 7.7%

42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.

Why similar: Strategy 34.9%, City Builder 23.6%, Historical 19.9%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Tactical 4.3%

From the multi-award-winning strategy series, A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia combines huge real-time battles with engrossing turn-based campaign, set at a critical flashpoint in history. Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans and Viking settlers clash for control. What Kingdom will you build?

Why similar: Historical 21.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.3%, Strategy 19.7%, Grand Strategy 16.4%, War 8.5%

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 21%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Grand Strategy 18.5%, Historical 16.4%, Turn-Based 7%

Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.

Why similar: 4X 17.9% ★, Grand Strategy 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Historical 11.1%, Strategy 9.7%

Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: NAPOLEON, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release

Why similar: Historical 22.3%, Strategy 20%, Grand Strategy 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, War 8.7%

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!

Why similar: 4X 22.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Historical 11.1%, Strategy 9.9%

Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!

Why similar: Strategy 37.4%, Historical 22.7%, War 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.6%, City Builder 6.9%

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 25.7% ★, Grand Strategy 24.1%, Historical 15.8%, Strategy 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.7%

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 21.9%, Strategy 18%, 4X 17.9% ★, War 9%, Multiplayer 6.8%

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.9%, 4X 17.3% ★, Historical 15%, Strategy 10.1%