Games like Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)
If Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization, Millennia and Heart of the Machine — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and nostalgic. 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.
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Top pick for Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
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...
Millennia
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Second-strongest match for Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
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.
Heart of the Machine
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Third-strongest match for Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Machiavelli the Prince
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
This award-winning 4X strategy classic lets you explore the Old World, exploit risky trade routes, expand your political and military power, and rise to dominance in the Renaissance. Every move can mean the difference between exaltation and excommunication in this multiplayer empire-building game
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Ranked #5 for Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
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.
Oriental Empires
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Ranked #6 for Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
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.
Old World
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Ranked #7 for Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
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?
Ymir
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Ranked #8 for Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
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X-COM: Terror From the Deep
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Reviewers of Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The war continues... X-COM: UFO Defense brought you to a galactic battlefield. X-COM: Terror from the Deep brings the alien terror into a totally new dimension.Seeking to take advantage of a weakened Earth, X-COM's deep space foes unexpectedly change strategy and launch a powerful second front against planet Earth.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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...
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
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.
Idle Civilization
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
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 Colonization (Classic) at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
X-COM: Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city.
X-COM: Terror From the Deep
WHY THIS
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
The war continues... X-COM: UFO Defense brought you to a galactic battlefield. X-COM: Terror from the Deep brings the alien terror into a totally new dimension.Seeking to take advantage of a weakened Earth, X-COM's deep space foes unexpectedly change strategy and launch a powerful second front against planet Earth.
X-COM: Enforcer
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
X-COM: Earth's top-secret eXtraterrestrial COMbat unit The Place: America - early 21st century The Mission: Eradicate the extraterrestrials Alien forces have invaded Earth and are terrorizing the population.
X-COM: Interceptor
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
They're back...only this time the heinous aliens are out to destroy Earth and rule the new frontier. As X-COM commander, it's your sole duty to protect humanity and the prized mining operations in outer space.
Sid Meier's Covert Action (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic). Shares Adventure and Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Sid Meier's Covert Action - A Techno-Thriller From the Case Files of Max Remington.
Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic). Shares Adventure and Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Ahoy mateys! From the Mind of Sid Meier, The Golden Age of Buccaneering has returned with Pirates! Gold!
BloodNet
WHY THIS
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic). Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
I met her in her penthouse, expecting payment for the freelance job-and perhaps a little more. But I got more than I bargained for. I'm now part of an exclusive fraternity that moves catlike in the night through a world of high technology and senseless violence.
Frequently asked about Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)
- Does Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) work on Steam Deck?
- Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) cost?
- Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) are Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization, Millennia, Heart of the Machine.
- Who developed Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)?
- Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) was developed by MicroProse Software, Inc and published by Atari, Nightdive Studios.
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