Single-player games like Sid Meier's Civilization® IV
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV, 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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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV®: Beyond the Sword is the second expansion pack for Civilization IV - the 2005 PC Game of the Year that has become a worldwide hit.
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Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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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Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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Oriental Empires
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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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Old World
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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?
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Field of Glory: Empires
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture.
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Rome: Total War™ - Collection
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
Control and conquer the greatest empire ever known to man.
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Europa Universalis IV
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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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Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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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Banished
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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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Settlement Survival
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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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Anno 1800
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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® IV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® IV.
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.