[SDGT]

You might like some of the Heroes of Might and Magic games.

The last one I played was III, so it's been over 10 years, but they were always fun.

[masklinn]

HoMM games are not 4X. They're great[0], but they're not like Civ at all.

[0] Though I prefer the King's Bounty remake[1]

[1] Although 1C is excessive in its milking, Armored Princess + Crossworlds had a somewhat better balance and interesting new units wrt The Legend, but Warriors of the North got seriously long in the tooth, felt like "well we'll just reskin a few units and change the magic/rage balance and call it a day