Single-player games like Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Sid Meier's Civilization® V, 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® VI
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
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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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
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.
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Master of the Ages: Foundations of History
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
Command a civilization from antiquity to the modern era in a historical 4X focused on grand strategy over micro-management. Direct armies, research technologies, run spy networks, and shape your empire through deep, intuitive macro-mechanics.
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Revival: Recolonization
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.
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Millennia
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
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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Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
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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ENDLESS™ Legend
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
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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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
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® III Complete
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
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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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
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 Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack includes the original Alpha Centauri and the expansion, Alien Crossfire.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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Stellaris
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
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® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Civilization® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
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® V — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
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® V — 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!