Games like Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
If Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI, Sid Meier's Civilization® IV and Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its complexity of game mechanics, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 III Complete is a turn-based 4X strategy game where players build a civilization from ancient times to the modern era. The core experience centers on city-building, diplomacy management, resource-gathering, technology-tree progression, and unit upgrades, delivered through massive sessions that demand significant time investment. Developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K, the game launched on Steam in 2006 and currently retails for $0.99. Reviewers describe the experience as both nostalgic and challenging, with players highlighting the complexity of game mechanics and how tactical positioning matters in every decision. The game supports both single-player and multiplayer modes but is not currently supported on Steam Deck. It holds a 92% positive rating from approximately 4,000 Steam reviews.
About Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete: 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® VI
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Top pick for Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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® IV
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Second-strongest match for Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
With over 6 million units sold and unprecedented critical acclaim from fans and press around the world, Sid Meier's Civilization is recognized as one of the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Now, Sid Meier and Firaxis Games will take this incredibly fun and addictive game to new heights by adding new ways to play and win, new...
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Third-strongest match for Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Ranked #4 for Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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...
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Ranked #5 for Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
HUMANKIND™
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Ranked #6 for Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Ranked #7 for Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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!
Oriental Empires
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Ranked #8 for Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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...
Rome: Total War™ - Collection
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Control and conquer the greatest empire ever known to man.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® IV
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
With over 6 million units sold and unprecedented critical acclaim from fans and press around the world, Sid Meier's Civilization is recognized as one of the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Now, Sid Meier and Firaxis Games will take this incredibly fun and addictive game to new heights by adding new ways to play and win, new...
Tiny Civilization
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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.
Banished
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Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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.
Save the settlers
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Reviewers of Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
This is a tower defense game in which you have to defend a settlement from bloodthirsty creatures.
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aMAZE
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Priced ~44% under Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
aMaze is a straight-forward and surprisingly-difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze.
aMAZE Classic
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Priced ~44% under Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
aMAZE Classic is a straightforward and surprisingly - difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze with abstraction art and calm soundtrack.
aMAZE Dark Times
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Priced ~44% under Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
aMAZE Dark Times is a straightforward and surprisingly-difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze with cool soundtrack and timer!
Pair Of Stamps
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Priced ~51% under Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
This fun find-a-pair puzzle game will help improve your attention and memory, making you smile and sometimes think, both the kid and the bearded guy.
Magic of Autumn
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Priced ~49% under Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Magic of Autumn is a unique card puzzle game. Explore a magical island, turn the environment into cards, build decks to overcome card battles, and get your soul back.
Ninja Stealth 5
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Tractor Cargo Driving Simulator
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Priced ~44% under Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Amazing Tractor Cargo Driving Simulator is for you where you will Drive Tractor to Deliver Cargo on Hills and Mountains. You might played many tractor farming games but this Tractor Cargo Driving Simulator game is an Ultimate test of cargo Tractors Driving Skills.
Chocolate makes you happy 6
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Priced ~44% under Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Casual colorful physical puzzle with sweets, jumpers, teleports, accelerators, reverse gravity, traps, treadmills and explosions.
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The Lab
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Landfall Archives
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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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The Last Sovereign
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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.
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Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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
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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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® III Complete.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
XCOM® 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
Marvel's Midnight Suns
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
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Shares a challenging mood with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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.
Frequently asked about Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
- Does Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete work on Steam Deck?
- Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete 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 Civilization® III Complete cost?
- Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete are Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI, Sid Meier's Civilization® IV, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword.
- Who developed Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete?
- Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete was developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K.
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