Sid Meier’s Starships goes beyond Civilization: Beyond Earth

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 19, 2015
Updated June 18, 2025
1 min

Sid Meier isn’t done with space.

The famed game designer released Civilization: Beyond Earth, a sci-fi take on his long-running turn-based strategy series, last year. Now he’s following it up with Sid Meier’s Starships, a new turn-based game about a fleet of spaceships journeying across the stars to seek out other colonies of Earth refugees. Beyond Earth was about starting a new human colony on an alien planet, so Starships seems like the logical next step.

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Mike Minotti

Mike Minotti has been with GamesBeat since 2012, starting as an intern. Based near Youngstown, Ohio, he now manages GamesBeat's editorial team. He's also a prolific podcaster, appearing on multiple shows covering the gaming industry.