Single-player games like Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete, 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® V
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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Sid Meier's Civilization® IV
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!
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Age of Wonders III
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Age of Wonders III is the long anticipated sequel to the award-winning strategy series. Delivering a unique mix of Empire Building, Role Playing and Warfare, Age of Wonders III offers the ultimate in turn-based fantasy strategy for veterans of the series and new players alike!
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Old World
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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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Oriental Empires
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
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Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Rome: Total War™ - Collection
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Control and conquer the greatest empire ever known to man.
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Tiny Civilization
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Before We Leave
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
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Save the settlers
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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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Anno 1800
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Marvel's Midnight Suns
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete.
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® III Complete — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.