Games Like Lords and Villeins

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Colony Sim 11.1% ★, Medieval 10.8%, Management 7.6%, Economy 7.1%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Medieval 9.8%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 5.4%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3% ★, City Builder 28.4%, Medieval 5.9%, Strategy 5.5%, Sandbox 5%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Medieval 10.9%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.5%

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Building 8.4%, Management 6.2%, Sandbox 6.1%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Medieval 7.9%, Resource Management 7.1%, Building 6.2%

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 14%, Medieval 9%, Building 8.5%, Management 7.5%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Medieval 7.8%, Economy 7.6%, Management 6.9%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9%, Strategy 4.7%

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Building 10.2%, Management 10%, Sandbox 8.4%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Management 9.4%, Economy 9.1%, Building 8.7%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 6.4%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Management 9.6%, Economy 7.8%, Medieval 7.3%

Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Management 10.6%, Medieval 9.4%, Economy 9.2%, Building 9%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 17%, Building 11%, Management 9.9%, Sandbox 6.5%

For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, Economy 13.8%, Medieval 13%, City Builder 11.3%, Strategy 6.5%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Building 8.1%, Economy 7.9%, Sandbox 7.7%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3% ★, City Builder 35.6%, Strategy 5.9%, Sandbox 5%, Economy 4.5%

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Management 9.4%, Medieval 9.3%, Economy 6.5%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 21%, Management 9.4%, Building 8.5%, Economy 8.2%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Management 10.5%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 8.3%

Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Management 12.8%, Medieval 11.3%, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.4%

As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Economy 10.8%, Building 10.4%, Management 9.9%

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Management 22.1%, Building 16.4%, Medieval 13.9%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 9.8%

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Economy 8.8%, Building 8.5%, Medieval 8.4%

Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Management 11.7%, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.2%

It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Management 14.1%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Economy 10.5%, Medieval 10.3%, Building 9.4%

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3% ★, City Builder 14%, Management 10.9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 7.5%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 9%, Resource Management 8.9%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 11.3%, Management 9.8%, Building 8.5%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7% ★, City Builder 27%, Management 6%, Strategy 5.8%, Building 5.7%

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Management 12.2%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.8%

Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Medieval 10%, Economy 9.4%, Management 8.9%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Management 9.5%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6% ★, City Builder 10.6%, Sandbox 7.4%, Management 6.7%, Crafting 6.3%

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Economy 12%, Management 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%

Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Economy 10.3%, Management 10.1%, Building 9.4%

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Management 10.1%, Medieval 9.9%, Sandbox 9.2%

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Management 10.2%, Economy 9.8%, Resource Management 8.8%

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Economy 10.2%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.1%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.2%, Economy 7.3%

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Economy 12.1%, Management 10.8%, Building 10.8%

Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Resource Management 7.4%, Management 6%, Economy 5.9%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 10%, Management 9.7%, Building 8.8%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2% ★, City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 5.6%, Management 3.2%

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Management 16.6%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 12%, Economy 11.9%

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 27.1%, Building 21%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 10%, Economy 8.3%

The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Medieval 11.4%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.6%

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Management 9.8%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Management 9.9%, Economy 9.7%, Building 9.1%

Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Medieval 9.9%, Economy 9.5%, Strategy 7.1%

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Economy 11.8%, Management 10.7%, Building 10.5%

Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Economy 9.2%, Building 9%, Management 8.3%

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.1% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 6.7%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Economy 11.7%, Management 9.5%, Building 9.2%

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Management 20.9%, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 7.7%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Economy 9.9%, Management 9.8%, Building 8.9%

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Management 9.8%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 7.9%

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Management 19.1%, Building 14.4%, Economy 11.2%, Sandbox 11.1%