Games like Sid Meier's Civilization VII
If Sid Meier's Civilization VII is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI, Imperialist and ENDLESS™ Legend 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its improved visuals and presentation, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Sid Meier's Civilization VII is a strategy and simulation game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K, released in 2025 at $69.99 USD. The game features an age-transition system where players guide their civilization through distinct historical eras, with era-based civilization switching requiring constant strategic adaptation. District optimization and diplomatic negotiation form core gameplay mechanics, while leader-independent nation choice allows players to pair leaders with civilizations outside historical restrictions. Players describe the experience as challenging and contemplative, with dynamic age transitions creating high-stakes decisions that generate tension throughout a campaign. Reviewers highlight the improved visuals and presentation, and the leader-independent nation choice mechanic expands replayability. The game is verified on Steam Deck and holds a Metacritic score of 79 based on a review score of 51% positive from 27,101 Steam reviews.
About Sid Meier's Civilization VII: The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Top pick for Sid Meier's Civilization VII fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with 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?
Imperialist
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sid Meier's Civilization VII fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Can you exploit the New World to control the Old? Lead your nation over five centuries of history in this 4X Strategy game. Build production chains, manage logistics, grow your Empire, and outmanoeuvre rivals diplomatically or on the battlefield, to become history's first Superpower.
ENDLESS™ Legend 2
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Third-strongest match for Sid Meier's Civilization VII fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
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.
Terra Invicta
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Ranked #4 for Sid Meier's Civilization VII fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
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.
Airships: Conquer the Skies
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Ranked #5 for Sid Meier's Civilization VII fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Millennia
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Ranked #6 for Sid Meier's Civilization VII fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
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.
Europa Universalis IV
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Ranked #7 for Sid Meier's Civilization VII fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
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.
Victoria 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Ranked #8 for Sid Meier's Civilization VII fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Sid Meier's Civilization VII
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Tiny Civilization
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization VII cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization VII cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
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.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization VII cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
Tropico 4
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization VII cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization VII cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization VII cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization VII cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Idle Civilization
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization VII cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Take command of a pair of villagers and help them build a mighty civilization that will spread across the world and conquer it. Idle Civilization is a civilization builder management game where you will oversee the growth of your people into a mighty kingdom through building, research, warfare, religion, diplomacy, culture, heroic...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sid Meier's Civilization VII at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Sid Meier's Civilization VII on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Sid Meier's Civilization VII on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Sid Meier's Civilization VII on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
BeamNG.drive
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Sid Meier's Civilization VII on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Sid Meier's Civilization VII on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Sid Meier's Civilization VII on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Sid Meier's Civilization VII on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Sid Meier's Civilization VII on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Firaxis Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization VII. Shares Strategy with 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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization VII. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization VII. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization VII. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization VII. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
Marvel's Midnight Suns
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization VII. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization VII. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
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.
Sid Meier's Pirates!
WHY THIS
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!
Frequently asked about Sid Meier's Civilization VII
- Is Sid Meier's Civilization VII verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Sid Meier's Civilization VII cost?
- Sid Meier's Civilization VII is listed on Steam at 69.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Sid Meier's Civilization VII have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Sid Meier's Civilization VII supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Sid Meier's Civilization VII?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sid Meier's Civilization VII are Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI, Imperialist, ENDLESS™ Legend 2.
- Who developed Sid Meier's Civilization VII?
- Sid Meier's Civilization VII was developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K.
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