Games like Sid Meier's Civilization® V

Loved how replayable and competitive Sid Meier's Civilization® V can get? These games are a good place to start.

Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Lead a historic civilization from its first settlers toward the modern age in this turn-based grand strategy game. You spread cities across a hex map, place districts for terrain and adjacency bonuses, court rivals and city states, and steer toward one of five victories. It rewards slow planning and watching a small settlement grow.
Replayable, Competitive
86% of 277,656 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29,139$59.99
HUMANKIND™
HUMANKIND™ is a historical strategy game where you rewrite human history by mixing up to 60 cultures, from Neolithic tribe to modern superpower. Build sprawling cities, fight tactical battles and chase fame instead of plain conquest, so every playthrough becomes a story only you could have written.
Replayable, Competitive
68% of 22,261 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 411$49.99
Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Build a medieval town into a walled city, work the economy behind it, then march that army across land and sea. With distinct civilizations, story-led campaigns, and co-op and ranked multiplayer, this is a full-fat real-time strategy game that stays welcoming to newcomers.
Replayable, Competitive
85% of 73,154 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14,798$39.99
Demise of Nations
Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.
Replayable, Competitive
81% of 558 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
Age of History II
Age of History II is a turn-based grand strategy wargame about running a civilization from the dawn of history to the far future. You manage economy, technology, diplomacy and armies to unify the world or conquer it, province by province. Simple to learn and easy to replay, it suits map lovers who want big alternate-history what-ifs without heavy rules.
Replayable
89% of 48,369 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 873$5.99
Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
A whole empire in one sitting. Ozymandias strips the 4X genre down to its sharpest moves: expand across hex maps, found cities, and pick one opportunity per turn. With 52 empires, 8 handmade Bronze Age maps and multiplayer with simultaneous turns, a full game takes about an hour, and the next one is already tempting.
Replayable, Competitive
89% of 1,324 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$14.99
Hexarchy
Hexarchy is a historical 4X strategy game played with cards. Build cities, grow your empire and decide each turn from the hand you draw: research, wonders, settlers or soldiers. Games last under an hour, so one more turn easily becomes one more match. Play solo skirmishes, daily challenges, or take on friends online.
Replayable, Competitive
83% of 1,255 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$19.99
Call to Power II
A turn-based 4X empire builder from 2000 that runs from 4,000 BC to 2,300 AD. Guide a tribe of settlers through six millennia of diplomacy, trade, war and science, stack your armies, sink cities to the ocean floor, and watch the climate push back. Old, quirky and still full of ideas modern strategy games dropped.
Replayable, Competitive, Retro
65% of 146 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$5.99
Aggressors: Ancient Rome
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.
Replayable
79% of 224 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)
Sail to the New World, plant a colony and turn timber, tobacco and sugar into a fortune, then into a nation. A 1994 turn-based classic about trade, diplomacy and one very awkward conversation with your King about independence.
Replayable, Retro
96% of 1,060 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 146$6.99
Millennia
Millennia is a turn-based 4X game that runs 10,000 years, from the first cities to possible futures. Guide your own nation through ten ages, steer history into alternate timelines, and build an economy that turns iron into weapons and grain into empire. Every run bends a different way, and no two histories match.
Replayable, Competitive
66% of 2,992 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$39.99
Galactic Civilizations III
A turn-based 4X strategy game about building a civilization among the stars. Pick from dozens of alien races, colonize worlds, design starships, spy, trade and wage war, then win your way: conquest, culture, technology or alliances. Every sandbox galaxy is set up differently, so no two runs play out the same.
Replayable, Competitive
77% of 8,340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 125

Cheaper than Sid Meier's Civilization® V

Sid Meier's Civilization® IV

Grow a tribe into an empire across the ages, one turn at a time, in a strategy classic that never plays out the same way twice.

$3.99

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…

$0.99

Age of History II

Guide a civilization from ancient times to the far future, deciding when to build, negotiate or send armies across the map.

$5.99

Civilization IV®: Warlords

Lead new civilizations, raise great Warlords and bend defeated rivals into vassals across a grand strategy campaign that never plays out the same…

$4.99

Call to Power II

Lead a tribe of settlers from 4,000 BC to 2,300 AD, balancing war, trade, diplomacy and science while the climate pushes back.

$5.99

Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)

Found a colony in the New World, grow its economy and declare independence from the crown in this turn-based 4X strategy classic.

$6.99

Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries

Rule an ancient culture your own way: buy loyalty, send spies, sign treaties or march, and watch every match unfold differently.

$5.99

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…

$1.49

Timeline

Timeline is a turn-based strategy game where you can play through the human history from stone age to modern times.

$2.99

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack

Lead a faction of ideologues across an alien world, out-think six rivals and shape a whole planet's future one turn at a time.

$4.99

TOHOTOPIA

Lead a cute empire as a historical warlord, expand across the fog and out-scheme your rivals in half-hour matches.

$3.99

Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition

Galactic Civilizations is a space based strategy game in which you are in control of humanity's destiny.

$4.99

Hidden gems like Sid Meier's Civilization® V

Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced

Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic.

$9.99

Rogue Hex

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x.

$19.99

Age of History 2: Definitive Edition

Guide any civilization across thousands of provinces, from ancient times to the far future, through war, diplomacy and alternate paths history never…

$9.99

Warnament

Pick a nation, build alliances and armies, and take your own version of history into turn-based matches with friends.

$9.74

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.

$49.99

Hexarchy

Build cities, draw your next move from a deck of cards, and grow a civilization one quick match at a time.

$19.99

Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim

Lead a Bronze Age civilization across hex maps, founding cities and choosing one move per turn, alone or against rivals in multiplayer.

$14.99

Hex of Steel

A turn-based WWII wargame on hexes, covering Europe, Africa and the Pacific.

$24.99

Yield! Fall of Rome

Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game!

$19.99

Galactic Civilizations IV

Guide a young spacefaring civilization across a fresh galaxy each run, growing it by war, trade, diplomacy or culture until the stars answer to you.

$39.99

Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition

Grow your cities, craft their goods and guide your people through history while every rival moves alongside you.

$49.99

Old World

Guide a family through generations of war, politics and heirs in antiquity, where every move costs an Order and every mistake shapes the story.

$39.99

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