Single-player games like Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic), 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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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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...
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Critias Empire
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
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Colonerra Age of Exploration
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Govern the New World as His Majesty's Viceroy during the Age of Exploration. Explore unknown lands, build thriving colonies, trade across the Atlantic, wage war, and forge an independent nation in this historical turn-based 4X strategy game.
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Millennia
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Heart of the Machine
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Machiavelli the Prince
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
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Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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Oriental Empires
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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X-COM: Terror From the Deep
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Idle Civilization
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
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Annor
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic).
Annor is a puzzle adventure where the player incarnate an explorer progressing through a city mined by hidden enemies to reach the stone of Annor. Illuminate your environment with your scepter to detect the keys of the puzzle and the threat in order to fight it.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
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X-COM: Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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X-COM: Enforcer
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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X-COM: Interceptor
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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Sid Meier's Covert Action (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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BloodNet
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.