Single-player games like Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™, 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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Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
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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Galactic Civilizations III
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.
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ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
ENDLESS™ Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS™ Universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
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ENDLESS™ Legend
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!
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Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
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Horizon
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
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Alliance of the Sacred Suns
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
Alliance of the Sacred Suns is a sci-fi grand-strategy RPG that begins with your coronation as the head of an interstellar Empire, and ends with your demise. Manage feuding noble houses and the schemes of would-be usurpers as you try to revive the glory of an Empire on the brink of collapse.
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Tiny Civilization
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
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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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack includes the original Alpha Centauri and the expansion, Alien Crossfire.
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
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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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
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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Anno 1800
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
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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Before We Leave
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
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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Settlement Survival
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
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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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
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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Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
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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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
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®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™.
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 Pirates!
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!