MicroProse Software, Inc. was an American developer and publisher foundational to the strategy and simulation genres, with a catalogue of around 68 games. They are responsible for landmark titles including the X-COM series, with X-COM: Terror From the Deep, and enduring Sid Meier collaborations like Sid Meier's Pirates! and Sid Meier's Colonization. MicroProse titles from the late 1980s and 1990s remain benchmarks in turn-based strategy and complex simulation design.