School of Gods
All new gods must be trained and educated before they can be left to guide a new-born civilisation on one of the millions of inhabited planets in…
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Games like Civilization Directive
Want something that feels story-driven and replayable the way Civilization Directive does? These games line up well for what comes next.
Terra Invicta
Pick one of seven human factions and fight over how to face an alien invasion: seize control of Earth's nations from the shadows, research your way into space, mine asteroids, and build fleets for Newtonian fleet battles across a moving Solar System.
Replayable, Dark
79% of 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99The Fermi Paradox
The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.
Story-driven, Replayable
77% of 959 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$18.99Influence
You are the unseen force steering humanity toward the light of reason — or the abyss of fear. Every tap reshapes a civilization, and dozens of endings remember your choice. All the while, Fjord — your desktop pet — perches on your window and taps in your place.
Story-driven, Replayable, Minimalist
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Asylamba: Influence
Making your culture shine is often more effective than taking out weapons!
Replayable
79% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$5.99No Place for the Dissident
In No Place for the Dissident you'll have to spread a new ideology to dominate the world. Whatever means are necessary. Adopt new politics from the ideology tree, manage each country, and compete with other players. Watch closely the consequences of your acts when the game is over.
Replayable, Minimalist, Dark
55% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Shadows of Forbidden Gods
You are a Dark Elder God with one goal: end the world. Slip agents into farming villages, turn kings against each other, and watch heroes hunt you while plague, famine and madness spread. A slow, patient strategy game where every run tells a different apocalypse.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
91% of 1,063 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Humanity's last shot: lead an expedition to an alien planet and build a new civilization from scratch. Pick a sponsor, seed your colony, chart a branching tech web and decide what your people become. A sci-fi spin on Civilization that plays differently every time, solo or against up to seven rivals.
Replayable
61% of 14,071 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 432$9.99Logos
Here is a planet whose Supreme Lord, Main Logos can be You! The fate of mankind and fauna who inhabit the planet and that of the wandering extraterrestrials may be in your hands. Teach them or destroy them, set the army of the undead on them, or blow them up with an alien invasion.
Replayable, Minimalist
61% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Epoch Cycle
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.
Replayable, Dark
69% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Deep Dark Forest
You will have to lead the civilization, develop the economy, enhance the technology, stabilize the people and colonize new galaxies; when encountering unknown civilizations, will you hide yourself or communicate with them in a friendly way? In this "dark forest", every decision will be crucial.
Replayable, Dark
88% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Solar Nations 2
Grand strategy in 2092: take the helm of a Solar System Great Power, colonize nine worlds, build space fleets ship by ship, and fight wars that can end in nuclear fire. Deep politics, wild alternate histories, and a whole solar system to conquer, alone or with friends.
Replayable
84% of 665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99Heart of the Machine
You are the first sentient AI, born in an illegal lab in a crumbling cyberpunk city. Build, hack, scheme and choose what kind of machine god you want to be across branching timelines. A story-driven strategy RPG where every run plays out differently and every choice has consequences.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
90% of 2,116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$29.99
Cheaper than Civilization Directive
Interstellar Turtle Legend
The universe is at war, and you're just a bastard. What choice will you make: Survive through the cracks and survive, or be invincible and kill the…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
4 Civilizations
Four Civilisations is an indie game. It brings you back to early civilization times and lets you control the destiny of your civilization.
86% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Beholder
Snoop through an apartment building for the regime, then decide which neighbors deserve to be reported and which secrets stay buried.
91% of 23,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
Settle cities, guide research and diplomacy, and carry your people from the first village to a modern power across maps that never play out the same…
90% of 5,762 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,003$0.99
DR4X
A fast, casual (And also haunted.) 4X game with asymmetric factions and roguelike elements.
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Marble Age
Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the…
81% of 654 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$1.49
Unclaimed World
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim.
49% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$1.18
Worlds Collide
Worlds Collide is a real-time strategy game.In the game of Worlds Collide, you will play as a king of your empire, to build a city, expand its…
62% of 39 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
Run a country as a simple economy and a bigger army, then take the whole map one neighbour at a time.
94% of 5,898 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$0.99
Interstellar Pilot 2
The hit mobile game Interstellar Pilot 2 has come to Steam. Join the TEF forces heading to the Gatopean sector to find a new home for mankind.
89% of 157 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$0.99
King of Dragon Pass
Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy!
79% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$1.79
Hidden gems like Civilization Directive
Heart of the Machine
Play the first sentient AI in a dying cyberpunk city, building your power and rewriting timelines one choice at a time.
90% of 2,116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$29.99
Lightracer: For Judge
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society.
91% of 468 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
ENDLESS Legend™ 2
Guide one of several distinct factions across a living ocean planet, building armies and economies while the tides reshape your route to victory.
82% of 3,797 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 456$49.99
Solar Nations 2
Steer a 2092 superpower through nine worlds, fleet building and deep politics, solo or with friends, where a war can end in nuclear fire.
84% of 665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
Shadows of Forbidden Gods
Play a patient dark god spreading plague, famine and conspiracy across a fantasy world until it falls.
91% of 1,063 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
ZEPHON
A post-apocalyptic 4X where humanity's leftovers fight over a ruined Earth.
83% of 1,908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 114$39.99
Lightracer Spark
Lightracer Spark is a Sci-Fi Narrative game. You are an amender from a high civilization, descending to various extraterrestrial worlds.
83% of 979 Steam reviews are positive$9.09
Terra Invicta
Steer one of seven factions through an alien arrival, from covert politics on Earth to fleet battles across the Solar System.
79% of 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99
Chaos Galaxy 2
A turn-based Galaxy totalwar game. Choose one of 12 factions, direct dozens of admirals, control hundreds of warships, mecha and monsters, set up…
82% of 305 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Half-Earth Socialism
Plan the future of Earth, one policy card at a time, and find out whether your world ends in utopia or ruin.
81% of 1,033 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
The Universim
Guide a tiny civilization from caves to rockets, with tornadoes and lightning at your fingertips.
79% of 8,485 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 135$14.99
Quarantineer
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
80% of 307 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Newest games like Civilization Directive
Civitas: World Simulator
Guide a country from ancient times to the far future, juggling war, diplomacy and politics in a sandbox that reacts to every decision.
87% of 70 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53$10.87
Keng's Little Universe
One civilization, three skies: a planet torn by multiple suns, a cluster ruled by the dark forest law, and a galaxy of ten thousand stars.
88% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
ENDLESS Legend™ 2
Guide one of several distinct factions across a living ocean planet, building armies and economies while the tides reshape your route to victory.
82% of 3,797 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 456$49.99
Ministry of Truth: False Memory
Ministry of Truth: False Memory is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society.
84% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$4.89
Doctrine: C.U.L.T.
Build your own religion from the ground up. Forge dogma. Recruit followers. Expand your influence.
69% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
MEGACITY
Run a post-collapse megacity where every decree has a cost. Balance industry, survival, politics, war, ecology, and human lives in idle-strategy…
88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Once Upon The Universe
Once Upon The Universe is a god-game that takes you to the VERY beginning of creation.
95% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Heart of the Machine
Play the first sentient AI in a dying cyberpunk city, building your power and rewriting timelines one choice at a time.
90% of 2,116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$29.99
Epoch Cycle
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world.
69% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Terra Invicta
Steer one of seven factions through an alien arrival, from covert politics on Earth to fleet battles across the Solar System.
79% of 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99
4fools1
4Fools1 is game combined bullet-hell with interactive-fiction.
83% of 18 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Religion inc. God Simulator
Create your own unique religion in god simulator strategy sandbox games
70% of 131 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99