Games Like Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth (2026)

Shared: Turn-Based Strategy

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: Terraforming, Colony Management

Water management so deep it'll ruin your sleep schedule: Timberborn makes dam-building feel like genuine systems engineering, wrapped in a post-apocalyptic beaver colony that somehow stays charming the whole way through.

Shared: auto-admitted, Colony Management

Twenty years of obsessive simulation packed into one colony builder - if your fortress isn't currently drowning in goblin blood or tantrum spirals, you probably just started.

Shared: auto-admitted, Trade Route Economy

A Caribbean builder where your haulers, not your death squads, decide how long you stay in power. Gentle on newcomers, and largely solved once the trade routes click.

Shared: auto-admitted, Workshop Mods

Closer to a Vietnam War sim than a shooter, RS2 rewards squads who communicate and punishes solos who think they can CoD their way through a 64-player firefight.