Single-player games like Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to Sid Meier's Civilization VII, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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Imperialist
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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ENDLESS™ Legend 2
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Terra Invicta
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Airships: Conquer the Skies
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
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Millennia
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Europa Universalis IV
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Victoria 3
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Tiny Civilization
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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Idle Civilization
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
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Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization VII.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Marvel's Midnight Suns
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Sid Meier's Pirates!
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization VII — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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!