Games Like Civilization 5 (Gold Edition) (2026)

Shared: Turn-Based Strategy, Hex Grid, Multiple Victory Conditions

Few strategy games have the staying power to sit at 96% positive after 200,000 Steam reviews and still pull newcomers in. With both expansions, Civ V is the most complete the series ever felt before Firaxis moved on.

Shared: Workshop Mod Support

A survival game that stops being about survival: 30 days in, it turns into a four-season logistics puzzle you solve with friends, a wiki tab, and a very busy crock pot.

Shared: Workshop Mod Support

Forget casual zoo-keeping fantasies. Planet Zoo is a systems-heavy management sim that will punish lazy planners and reward the kind of person who reads habitat welfare tooltips for fun.

Shared: Multiple Victory Conditions

Vikings meet tight resource loops in this acclaimed strategy title where every tile placement and clan choice can make or break your colony.

Shared: Workshop Mod Support

Few card games will make you question whether the software itself is haunted. Inscryption pulls that trick off, then dismantles the whole table and rebuilds it twice before you finish.