Games Like Sid Meier's Civilization VII

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: Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, 4X 16.3% ★, Historical 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, City Builder 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match on Steam to Civilization VII, offering the same historical 4X structure of settling cities, researching technologies, conducting diplomacy, and competing for multiple victory types.

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

Why similar: 4X 18.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Historical 12.3%, Hex Grid 10.8% ★, Grand Strategy 10.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is another direct Civilization predecessor with the same empire-building loop, strong diplomacy game, and classic historical nation progression.

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 15.6% ★, Diplomacy 15.4% ★, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, Historical 8.1%, Military 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Old World feels like a sharper, more character-driven historical Civ, combining hex-based expansion, city development, diplomacy, and warfare with a similar turn-based flow.

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: 4X 22.8% ★, Grand Strategy 16% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Historical 10.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%

Why You'll Like It: HUMANKIND is one of the clearest modern Civ alternatives, built around turn-based historical empire growth, culture shifts, territorial expansion, and layered diplomacy.

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 16% ★, Grand Strategy 13.7% ★, Diplomacy 13.1% ★, Alternate History 7.7%, Historical 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Millennia scratches the same historical 4X itch with nation-building across eras, expanding cities, managing resources, and steering your civilization through branching historical development.

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 30.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Grand Strategy 15.2% ★, Hex Grid 13.8% ★, Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the Civilization framework into a sci-fi setting while preserving the familiar loop of founding cities, advancing tech, negotiating with rivals, and expanding across the map.

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 29.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.7% ★, War 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Tactical 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is more fantasy-focused than Civ, but its turn-based empire management, city growth, diplomacy, and tactical wars make it a natural fit for 4X fans.

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 25.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Historical 13.1%, Grand Strategy 11.2% ★, Strategy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its age, it still offers the same core Civilization appeal of growing an empire from a single city into a world power through diplomacy, culture, and war.

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 42% ★, Hex Grid 17.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Grand Strategy 7.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: ENDLESS Legend is a strong 4X substitute for Civ players who want turn-based empire-building, distinct factions, territorial expansion, and meaningful strategic tradeoffs on every turn.

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 17.2% ★, Grand Strategy 14.6% ★, Hex Grid 12.3% ★, Military 8.8%, Historical 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Hexarchy condenses the Civ-style expansion-and-development loop into a faster format while still emphasizing territory control, city building, and strategic planning.

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 23.4% ★, Grand Strategy 22.1% ★, Diplomacy 21.4% ★, Hex Grid 12% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It takes the Civ formula into space, emphasizing colony growth, research, diplomacy, and strategic rivalry on a broad 4X map.

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 26.2% ★, Grand Strategy 16% ★, Historical 14.6%, Military 12%, War 8%

Why You'll Like It: This historical 4X game is especially good for Civ fans who want ancient-era empire growth, settlement planning, diplomacy, and warfare in a more specialized setting.

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 26.4% ★, Hex Grid 13.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, City Builder 10.8%, Economy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Planetfall blends 4X empire-building with turn-based warfare, giving Civ fans a familiar structure in a sci-fi setting with more combat emphasis.

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 17.8% ★, Grand Strategy 15.4% ★, Diplomacy 13.7% ★, Historical 8.7%, Alternate History 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Imperiums offers turn-based empire management in a historical framework with expansion, logistics, diplomacy, and regional politics that echo Civilization's strategic feel.

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 25.2% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1% ★, Historical 13.6%, Military 12.4%, Tactical 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on historical empire-building, province development, diplomacy, and conquest in a way that should click with players who like Civ's ancient-to-classical power fantasy.

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 21.1% ★, Diplomacy 18% ★, Political Sim 15.6% ★, Historical 11.1%, Economy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Victoria 3 suits players who love the empire-management side of Civ and want a deeper simulation of economics, politics, diplomacy, and national 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 20.4% ★, 4X 19.1% ★, Historical 11.2%, Military 9.2%, War 9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a deeper and harsher historical empire game, but its combination of expansion, nation management, diplomacy, and warfare overlaps strongly with Civilization's appeal.

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 66.8% ★, Strategy 15.5%, Grand Strategy 10.6% ★, Multiplayer 4.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: This modernized space 4X captures the classic Civilization rhythm of expansion, research, colonization, diplomacy, and military competition.

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 18.7% ★, Diplomacy 17.9% ★, Grand Strategy 16.5% ★, Hex Grid 13.9% ★, Economy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic 4X keeps the familiar Civ-style focus on settling territory, developing cities, researching upgrades, and dealing with other powers turn by turn.

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 18.9% ★, Diplomacy 17.9% ★, 4X 17% ★, Historical 10.8%, Military 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: EU4 is less of a 4X boardgame and more of a grand strategy simulation, but its nation-building, diplomacy, war, and historical sandbox appeal strongly to many Civilization fans.

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 31.4% ★, Grand Strategy 30.5% ★, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, Military 7.7%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Although it runs in real time, it delivers the same fantasy of growing a civilization, expanding borders, researching technologies, and navigating diplomacy on a huge strategic map.

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 30% ★, 4X 17.9% ★, Historical 16.1%, War 9.5%, Economy 9%

Why You'll Like It: CK3 is more character-driven than Civ, but it still scratches the same urge to guide a realm through history using diplomacy, war, and long-term strategic planning.

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 36.1% ★, Political Sim 20% ★, Historical 15.1%, Strategy 8.5%, Economy 6%

Why You'll Like It: Its ancient setting, map-painting expansion, state management, and diplomatic maneuvering make it one of Paradox's more natural crossovers for Civilization players.

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.

Why similar: Historical 23.1%, Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, War 16.4%, Military 9.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a good pick if your favorite part of Civ VII is balancing statecraft, diplomacy, territorial expansion, and warfare in a historical setting.

A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.

Why similar: 4X 20.8% ★, Diplomacy 20.7% ★, Grand Strategy 18.1% ★, Economy 9.5%, War 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Dune mixes expansion, diplomacy, economics, and military pressure in a way that appeals to players who enjoy competing empires on a shared strategic map.

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 15.8% ★, Diplomacy 15.4% ★, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, Historical 7.9%, War 7.1%

Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!

Why similar: 4X 29.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1% ★, Diplomacy 13.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a traditional turn-based 4X built around exploration, colonization, tech progress, and rival empire management, making it an easy recommendation for Civ players.

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 49.7% ★, Hex Grid 15.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Strategy 10.6%, Multiplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Pandora is a straightforward hex-based 4X with city founding, tech progression, military conflict, and faction rivalry that feels structurally close to Civilization.

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 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, Diplomacy 14.8% ★, Historical 10.1%, Alternate History 8.3%

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 29% ★, Hex Grid 14.8% ★, Grand Strategy 12.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, War 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Gladius is a more combat-heavy 4X, but its city expansion, research, map control, and faction progression still line up well with Civ's strategic core.

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 21.6% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4% ★, Diplomacy 16% ★, Alternate History 10.5%, Historical 9.1%

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: War 24.4%, City Builder 24.3%, Historical 18.6%, Strategy 15.3%, Multiplayer 11.9%

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: Diplomacy 21.3% ★, 4X 19.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Historical 10.8%

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: Diplomacy 15.9% ★, 4X 15.7% ★, Grand Strategy 14.3% ★, Historical 8.1%, Military 8%

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 34.5%, Economy 20.8%, Historical 19%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.1%

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 31.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Historical 14.4%, Grand Strategy 12.2% ★, Strategy 10.1%

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 37.8% ★, Historical 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Strategy 12.3%, Grand Strategy 6.4% ★

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 43.3%, Economy 21.2%, Strategy 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Simulation 7.7%

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: Diplomacy 20.1% ★, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, 4X 18.9% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Historical 11.1%

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: Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, Diplomacy 19% ★, 4X 18.6% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Historical 11.3%

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.8% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Alternate History 12.1%, Military 11.7%, War 10.5%

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 40.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18%, Historical 13.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Grand Strategy 9.2% ★

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Political Sim 20.2% ★, Economy 16.9%, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Strategy 8%

Triumph over the land, take charge of the fate of China! Conquer territories and fly your colors!

Why similar: Diplomacy 20.8% ★, Grand Strategy 17.1% ★, Military 11.2%, Historical 9.6%, Alternate History 9.5%

In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.

Why similar: Political Sim 33.8% ★, City Builder 33.2%, Historical 19.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 5.3%

Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.1% ★, Hex Grid 16.8% ★, Military 12.8%, Historical 9.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%

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 25.9%, 4X 21.8% ★, Economy 10.7%, War 10.5%, Strategy 7.4%

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: 4X 50.5% ★, Strategy 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Historical 11.5%, Multiplayer 3.1%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Diplomacy 19.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, 4X 18.7% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Historical 11%

Company of Heroes 3 combines heart-pounding combat with deeper strategic choices in a stunning Mediterranean theatre of war. In Company of Heroes 3, every battle tells a story...what's yours?

Why similar: Military 17.1%, Historical 16.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%, Multiplayer 10.1%, War 10.1%

Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.

Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 27.2% ★, Diplomacy 25.2% ★, Military 9.4%, PvP 3.4%

Theater of war, infinite drama. A masterpiece of historical simulation "ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS 8" is revived after 20 years. Enjoy the greatest military drama in the Three Kingdoms series, with the largest number of officers and scenarios!

Why similar: Diplomacy 25.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.7% ★, Military 13.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.4%, Historical 8.9%

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 50.6%, Economy 22.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 7%, Multiplayer 5.5%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Historical 26.1%, Economy 24.3%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 8.2%

The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

Why similar: City Builder 44.1%, Economy 28.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%

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 15.5% ★, Grand Strategy 14.7% ★, Hex Grid 11.1% ★, City Builder 8.6%, Historical 8.1%

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 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 23.5% ★, Hex Grid 19.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, War 8.7%

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 24.7% ★, Historical 12.5%, Military 12.1%, Diplomacy 12.1% ★, War 11.8%

Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.

Why similar: 4X 56% ★, Tactical 14.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Multiplayer 10.7%, PvP 5.6%

Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!

Why similar: Economy 48.5%, Strategy 24.8%, Simulation 15.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%