
Before Arthur is an open-world grand strategy RPG set in dark age England. Enjoy total freedom as you lead your people through the dark ages and beyond, uniting England and forging your legacy. Will you survive as a Briton, or conquer as a Saxon?
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Before Arthur is an open-world grand strategy RPG set in dark age England. Enjoy total freedom as you lead your people through the dark ages and beyond, uniting England and forging your legacy. Will you survive as a Briton, or conquer as a Saxon?

RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores
From a humble campfire to a multi-city kingdom, lead with grace in RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores: a unique kingdom builder where every decision shapes the fate of your fox citizens and the legacy of your continent-spanning kingdom. With a freeform building system, no grids, no limits.

Knights of the Crusades
Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!
From a humble campfire to a multi-city kingdom, lead with grace in RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores: a unique kingdom builder where every decision shapes the fate of your fox citizens and the legacy of your continent-spanning kingdom. With a freeform building system, no grids, no limits.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, Diplomacy 15.4% ★, 4X 14.9% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 7.5%
Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24% ★, 4X 16.7% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Diplomacy 9.9% ★, Base Building 8.7%
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: 4X 22.7% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 7.5%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.1% ★, 4X 19.4% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Diplomacy 12% ★, Base Building 9.9%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: 4X 20.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19% ★, Diplomacy 13.5% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Base Building 9.4%
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: 4X 20.2% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, Diplomacy 13.1% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Base Building 9.6%
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: Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, 4X 19.4% ★, Diplomacy 12.5% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 9.8%
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: Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, 4X 19.5% ★, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 9.6%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, 4X 19.7% ★, Diplomacy 13.3% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Base Building 9.6%
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: Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, 4X 17% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Diplomacy 11.2% ★, Base Building 10.2%
To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!
Why similar: 4X 21.5% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8% ★, Diplomacy 13.1% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%
Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.5% ★, 4X 19.3% ★, Diplomacy 14.1% ★, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 9.7%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: 4X 19.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, Diplomacy 12.1% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 9.7%
Mandate Order is a strategy game set in the Warring States period. Starting from barren lands, build strongholds integrating production, defense and military functions. Manage resources and the people's will, expand your territory, counter threats, and ultimately rise to prominence amidst the chaos.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Grand Strategy 17.3% ★, 4X 16.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Medieval 9.9%
It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.5% ★, 4X 20.7% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Diplomacy 12% ★, Base Building 8.5%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: 4X 21.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, Diplomacy 14.1% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 10.6%
A funny pixel art roguelite strategy. You manage a fantasy island kingdom connected by magical portals. By day — build, gather resources, hire heroes, and dive through portals to expand into new lands. By night — defend! The same portals unleash hordes of demons straight from Hell.
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 8.3%, Medieval 7.2%
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.1% ★, 4X 25.6% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 8.5%, Immersive Sim 6.6%
Base of War is a next generation 4x RTS game.
Why similar: 4X 29.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Isometric 9.7%, Open World 5.8%
Craft, hunt, and survive in fantasy medieval world. Build your village, manage and defend castles and whole kingdoms. Become a local lord and a builder. Strongholds & Castles are waiting for you to manage them - alone or with your friends!
Why similar: City Builder 15.3%, Medieval 12.1%, Open World 11.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 8.5%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 33.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Medieval 8.5%
Conquer Medieval Europe and North Africa in a combination of Grand Strategy and Real-Time Strategy gameplay where you rule one of 28 kingdoms as you build and manage your cities, engage in diplomacy and command massive armies on the world map and on the battlefield
Why similar: 4X 26.1% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, Diplomacy 11.3% ★, City Builder 8.1%, Medieval 7.8%
Command any nation in a modern grand strategy simulation set in 2026. Manage diplomacy, economy, espionage, and warfare while shaping the global balance of power. Lead a superpower or build a small state into a global force in a dynamic geopolitical sandbox.
Why similar: 4X 33.1% ★, Grand Strategy 27.4% ★, Diplomacy 11% ★, Sandbox 8%, Immersive Sim 7.4%
You will have to develop your city, watch over expenses, strive for higher tax revenues, meet the needs of your residents by producing the right products for them
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 19%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 8.9%
Lead your civilization in a galaxy brimming with life and intrigue. Seamlessly explore and expand across uncharted worlds, from their surfaces to the stars. Forge your destiny in this sci-fi 4X offering a unique blend of grand strategy, planetary city-building, and RTS combat.
Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Diplomacy 12.9% ★, Base Building 10.3%
Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.
Why similar: 4X 31.5% ★, Grand Strategy 25.7% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 7.7%, Building 5.6%
Build a city, Create an Empire! Research 400+ technologies, and Build 70+ buildings, Craft and Trade 380+ items in an entirely player driven market. Fight Wars and Forge Alliances with thousands of players and create your own Empire in this award-winning, critically-acclaimed MMO.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.5% ★, City Builder 16.2%, 4X 15.7% ★, Diplomacy 8.5% ★, Sandbox 8%
It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.
Why similar: 4X 25.3% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 9.5%, Open World 8.3%
Antimatter is a sandbox strategy game, colonise planets, build your city on the surface or the underground. Build your spacestation or control your own spaceships to explore a huge and living galaxy !
Why similar: 4X 31% ★, Grand Strategy 26.3% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 6.6%
Turn your clan into a Sengoku legend in this tactical RPG. Recruit and train warriors, shape alliances, conquer castles, and alter history through brutal turn-based battles. Influence the outcome of feudal Japan in Sengoku: Shadow Strikers.
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Grand Strategy 30% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Isometric 9.7%, Medieval 7%
Within a Dead City is a tiny RTS / autobattler inspired by Majesty. Hire autonomous heroes to search for gold and glory. Build shops where they can spend their hard-earned loot. Place bounties on monsters to influence their behavior. With skill and strategy, you will find riches in the fallen city.
Why similar: 4X 36.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 14.2%, Isometric 10.4%, Medieval 9.2%
Khaldun is a medieval-themed ASCII graphics kingdom management game. Take part in realistic war simulations and decide every detail of your kingdom, from its economy to its demographics! Your decisions will shape the life of a nation. Rise or be lost to history...
Why similar: 4X 27.8% ★, Grand Strategy 25.8% ★, Medieval 12%, RPG 11.8%, Sandbox 6.6%
Take up the reins of your country, guide domestic and foreign policy, navigate thousands of historical figures and events, engage in various struggles and lead your country to prosperity – all in the name of glory!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.4% ★, 4X 28.5% ★, Diplomacy 16.6% ★, Sandbox 7.4%, Medieval 6.8%
Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!
Why similar: 4X 37.4% ★, Grand Strategy 32.5% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Diplomacy 5.7% ★, Strategy 4.3%
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 33.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 9%, Isometric 6.9%
Become the dominant star-fairing-civilization throughout the procedurally generated star systems. The player must establish/pursue: (1) Ideology; (2) Population; (3) Military assets; (4) 4x dominance (5) Technologies; (6) Artificial Evolution; (7) Cyber attacks; (8) Peace or war.
Why similar: 4X 36.9% ★, Grand Strategy 31.1% ★, Isometric 11%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 5.1%
The grand strategy game "Empire Origin: Rise" is coming. Explore the traces left by human civilization on the earth, pursue the great achievements of the kings in the historical fragments, and revive the brilliant civilization in history. glory? territory? Waiting for you to dominate the world!
Why similar: 4X 32% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Medieval 11%, Base Building 7.6%
Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 32.4% ★, Grand Strategy 29.2% ★, Diplomacy 16.7% ★, Sandbox 7.8%, Open World 5.8%
Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 42.3% ★, Medieval 17.1%, 4X 14.6% ★, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.9%
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Diplomacy 17.6% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Medieval 10.3%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 9%
《万民长歌:三国》是一款单机 · 历史 · 战争策略游戏。在无缝连续、真实还原的3D沙盘地图上,玩家可以自选视角、以自己的意志重演三国。来体验真实的三国策略——真实的沙盘,真实的二十四节气,真实的百姓,真实的战争!
Why similar: 4X 35.9% ★, Grand Strategy 30.1% ★, Base Building 10%, City Builder 9%, Strategy 4.8%
Terrol is a grand strategy game focused on capturing and holding strategic resources. The objective is simple: control all resources and destroy rival empires.
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Grand Strategy 30.4% ★, Medieval 8.5%, Open World 6.8%, Strategy 6.7%
Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.
Why similar: 4X 29.6% ★, Grand Strategy 27.3% ★, Diplomacy 16.4% ★, Isometric 9.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
Break from the traditional role of ruler and take up a new set of tools within Tales of a Spymaster, a turn-based strategy set in a fictional world, filled with threats and opportunities. Choose your kingdom and guide your ruler to victory, in whatever manner you deem fit.
Why similar: 4X 21.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18.8% ★, RPG 13.1%, Diplomacy 12.8% ★, Simulation 9.9%
Build your realm in a turn-based campaign. Break theirs in battle. Real-time, 1:1-scale warfare where tactics, not spreadsheets, win clashes between tens of thousands of soldiers.
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2% ★, Diplomacy 16.2% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Medieval 8.9%
Gate Builders is a sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game. Build space stations, manage work force, exploit, trade and transform resources. Face space pirates and enemy factions. Build, Expand, Thrive!
Why similar: 4X 34.3% ★, Grand Strategy 29.6% ★, Diplomacy 13% ★, Sandbox 7.6%, Building 5.9%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 46.4% ★, Grand Strategy 35.5% ★, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
It's a Chinese ancient city building strategy game that features ancient-style city building, a rich social simulation system, and always dissatisfied citizens. You come to a nice place, and you will become a lord who leads people to live in peace, reclaim wasteland, and build a stable city.
Why similar: 4X 42.6% ★, Base Building 25%, Simulation 12.6%, RPG 11.1%, Strategy 7.7%
Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and RTS game with procedurally generated campaigns. Build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Rule a medieval fantasy kingdom and conquer your rivals.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, Grand Strategy 29.7% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Medieval 10.7%, Base Building 7.3%
Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Grand Strategy 31.6% ★, Diplomacy 13.5% ★, Immersive Sim 5.3%, Building 4.4%
Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms is a turn-based 4X grand strategy game, played on a procedurally generated world. Battles are real-time and tactical. Every world-map and battlefield is entirely unique, so this game will always have something to throw at you.
Why similar: 4X 42.1% ★, Grand Strategy 29.9% ★, Medieval 12.9%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 7%
CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9% ★, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 13.1%, Medieval 9.4%
Turn-based strategy. Build, trade, fight, and lead your empire to victory.
Why similar: 4X 31.2% ★, Grand Strategy 26.2% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Diplomacy 14.2% ★, Building 5.7%
Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, Isometric 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%
Build a castle! Grow economy, recruit troops from Europe and the Holy Land, man the walls and towers! Place traps and defeat attackers with arrows, wood and stone, fire, disease and cold steel! Survive the Third Crusade and conquer enemy lands in Castleon!
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, 4X 12.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Isometric 10.1%
Apoikia is a city-building and economic simulation where you grow a settlement into a thriving hub by mastering supply chains, regional markets, and legal policy, with upcoming combat and free-market investment systems.
Why similar: 4X 26.2% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Medieval 10.8%, Building 10.3%, Open World 8.8%
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Grand Strategy 33.8% ★, Diplomacy 10.7% ★, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 5.4%
Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state. Can you lead the state to political, economic, technological and military triumph? It depends on you.
Why similar: 4X 34.8% ★, Grand Strategy 29.9% ★, Sandbox 9%, Medieval 8.4%, City Builder 5.3%