What are the best empire building games on PC that you can play a single game for 10's of hours to build a truly massive empire?

Question

Follow

GamingPC Games

What are the best empire building games on PC that you can play a single game for 10's of hours to build a truly massive empire?

2

Options
Considered

4

User
Recs.

Nov 3, 2018

Last
Updated

Find Awesome Games

2 Games Considered

Best empire building games on PC that you can play a single game for 10's of hours to build a truly massive empire	Price	Steam Rating	Genre
-- Civilization V	$29.99	Very Positive	4X
-- Crusader Kings 2	-	Very Positive	Grand Strategy

See Full List

Request recommendations from the community

I Recommend...

Help millions of people find awesome games.

Each month, over 2.8 million people use Slant to find the best products and share their knowledge. Pick the tags you’re passionate about to get a personalized feed and begin contributing your knowledge.

score 3 · Answer 1

Civilization V

Top Pro

Excellent DLC

Each of the DLC packs for Civ V are really great. They actually add something to the game and change the way it's played, instead of it just being ancillary addons. See More

Top Con

Most victories won by timed or military victory

It can be pretty difficult to win by diplomacy or culture which does add some challenge to the game but it can get tiresome if one keeps winning by only military or timed victories. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Genre:4X

Co-Op:2 to 21 Player Online / LAN

Controller Support:Steam Controller Officallly supported

See All Specs

Top Pro

Customization through policies

Policies are used as a tool to gain a variety of customizations that benefit ones society. There is a branching tree of policies that will allow the user to pick certain aspects that will suit them best such as adding law or religion to ones society which will give gains in certain aspects. See More

Top Pro

Endless scenarios and replayability

Civilization V has a large assortment of nation leaders to choose from that have an even bigger assortment of scenarios that are able to play out for said leaders. Each game can be quite unique in this way as each leader allows for a different nation to be controlled. See More

Top Pro

Beautiful graphics

From the players cities and armies to the lush landscape, Civilization is quite a beautiful game for those with systems powerful enough to push the graphics to the limit. Even when on lower graphical settings the game looks lush and well animated. See More

See All

score 1 · Answer 2

Crusader Kings 2

Top Pro

Freedom to play how you like

The game allows for one to make their own choices with there being many "win" conditions in that you can choose to progress how you like. Want to take over all of Europe, that is possible, want to create a successful lineage of family that keeps to themselves, this is also possible. See More

Top Con

Extremely complicated

Crusader King II is a very complicated game that seems overly complex at first and may take a while to really learn as there are quite a lot of things to not only balance in the game but also figure out how to do either through in game tutorials or reading online. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Genre:Grand Strategy

See All Specs

Top Pro

Massive online multiplayer

Crusader Kings II has a whopping 32 player online multiplayer mode. Something not often found in games of this sort which can make for a very intense and strategic gameplay session. See More

Top Con

No naval battles

No naval battles, which reduces the advantages of being an Island nation. See More

See All

What are the best empire building games on PC that you can play a single game for 10's of hours to build a truly massive empire?

2 Games Considered

Civilization V

My Recommendation for Civilization V

My Recommendation for Civilization V

Excellent DLC

Most victories won by timed or military victory

Customization through policies

Endless scenarios and replayability

Beautiful graphics

Crusader Kings 2

My Recommendation for Crusader Kings 2

My Recommendation for Crusader Kings 2

Freedom to play how you like

Extremely complicated

Massive online multiplayer

No naval battles

Don't see your favorite option? Add it.

One sec!