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Firaxis Games · 2007 · 96 % positive of 4,592

24 games that play like Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Civilization IV®: Warlords, Sid Meier's Civilization® IV and Sid Meier's Civilization VII.

Player tags

  • Strategy
  • Turn-Based Strategy
  • 4X
  • Turn-Based
  • Historical
  • Singleplayer
  • Multiplayer
  • Moddable

At a glance

What games like Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword: Strategy (23 of 24), Turn-Based Strategy (17) and 4X (15).
  • They came out between 2006 and 2025, 19 of them after Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (2007).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Sid Meier's Civilization® V (95 % positive of 204,265).
  • Sid Meier's Civilization® IV and CivCity: Rome both play and look like Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword.

By gameplay

Plays like Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition94 % positive of 162,462Shared: Strategy · Historical · Classic
  2. Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)95 % positive of 1,004Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · 4X
  3. Europa Universalis IV86 % positive of 134,436Shared: Strategy · 4X · Historical
  4. Age of History II89 % positive of 46,395Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based
  5. Age of Conquest IV81 % positive of 2,748Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based
  6. Through the Ages90 % positive of 2,190Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based
  7. Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition95 % positive of 33,344Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · 4X
  8. Europa Universalis V66 % positive of 29,851
  9. CivCity: Rome72 % positive of 858Shared: Strategy · Historical · Simulation
  10. Sim Empire44 % positive of 204Shared: Strategy · Simulation
  11. Anno 1404 - History Edition81 % positive of 3,048Shared: Strategy · Historical · Grand Strategy
  12. Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim87 % positive of 1,520Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · 4X

By look

Looks like Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Sumerians87 % positive of 303
  2. A Total War Saga: TROY71 % positive of 3,261
  3. Rome: Total War™ - Alexander75 % positive of 868
  4. Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator76 % positive of 12,155
  5. Return to Mysterious Island 266 % positive of 201
  6. Rome: Total War™ - Collection94 % positive of 16,177
  7. Age of Mythology: Retold90 % positive of 16,708
  8. Sid Meier's Civilization® IV92 % positive of 3,375
  9. DC Universe™ Online80 % positive of 21,016
  10. Zeus + Poseidon96 % positive of 1,758
  11. Promesa86 % positive of 176
  12. Darwinia80 % positive of 1,080

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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