Games Like Bellwright

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 19%, Building 15.3%, Survival 15%, Medieval 14.9%, Open World 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most similar experience by combining deep village management with first-person survival and exploration in a medieval setting.

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11%, Medieval 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title mirrors the Bellwright loop of building a community and surviving in a hostile, historically-inspired open world.

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Survival 19.2%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, Open World 14%, Crafting 14%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: It features a strong focus on recruiting NPCs to perform tasks and manage your settlement while you explore and survive.

A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.

Why similar: Medieval 31.2%, Open World 26.1%, Multiplayer 10.5%, War 10.4%, RPG 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at the tactical command and large-scale combat aspects that define the rebellion and conquest themes of Bellwright.

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: City Builder 38.3%, Medieval 23.5%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 9.1%, Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the medieval city-building and tactical combat elements, focusing on the growth of your settlement.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Open World 22.5%, Survival 21.3%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished open-world survival experience with robust building mechanics and a focus on reclaiming a lost land.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Survival 27.9%, Open World 26%, Crafting 26%, Co-op 13.6%, Exploration 5%

Why You'll Like It: The recruitment system for NPCs and the survival-crafting loop are highly reminiscent of the progression found in Bellwright.

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: City Builder 36.5%, Survival 24%, Crafting 20.8%, RPG 6%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim offers deep vertical building and survival management within a medieval context.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Open World 16.1%, Survival 16%, Building 14.2%, Medieval 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game features extensive base-building, army management, and a medieval setting that aligns well with Bellwright's goals.

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: City Builder 28%, Medieval 17.4%, Survival 16.4%, Open World 15.7%, Building 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses on managing a noble family and their subjects, capturing the social and political management aspects of Bellwright.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: City Builder 36.6%, Building 21.3%, Medieval 19.5%, Survival 17.9%, Strategy 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a complex city-building experience with a strong emphasis on resource management and survival against the elements.

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Medieval 19.3%, Open World 18.6%, Survival 18.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-crafting game that emphasizes community building and realistic medieval labor.

Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.

Why similar: Medieval 22.4%, Open World 18%, Crafting 15.5%, Survival 15.2%, Building 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on building a rebellion and managing a secret settlement while exploring an open world aligns directly with the core premise of Bellwright.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Survival 24.1%, Open World 23%, Crafting 22.5%, Building 17.7%, RPG 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more brutal, its focus on squad management, base-building, and surviving in a harsh, unforgiving world is a perfect thematic match.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Survival 19.3%, Open World 16.9%, Online Co-Op 16.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a quintessential survival-building game that emphasizes the satisfaction of constructing a base and conquering a dangerous environment.

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 42.6%, Medieval 11.6%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder incorporates multiplayer and resource management elements that feel familiar to those who enjoy expanding settlements.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Survival 18.1%, Open World 16.2%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a vast open world with survival and building mechanics that emphasize exploration and preparation.

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: City Builder 42.9%, Medieval 13.3%, Survival 13.3%, Building 8.8%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses on the management of a medieval village and the survival of its inhabitants.

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: City Builder 27.6%, Medieval 17.3%, Survival 16.8%, Open World 15.6%, Building 13%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the crafting and economic side of medieval life, which is a core component of the progression in Bellwright.

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: City Builder 34.7%, Medieval 18.5%, Survival 15.4%, Building 14%, Third Person 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony management with character-driven narratives, allowing you to influence the lives of your subjects directly.

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Medieval 23.8%, Online Co-Op 23.6%, Co-op 14.7%, Multiplayer 11.9%, War 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with RTS combat, focusing on the development of a village in a harsh, medieval-inspired landscape.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Survival 16%, City Builder 13.5%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Online Co-Op 12%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game offers a unique perspective on building and exploration that rewards players who enjoy the crafting loop.

Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!

Why similar: Medieval 44.3%, Open World 38.3%, RPG 11.1%, Multiplayer 3.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: While less focused on management, it provides the most immersive medieval combat and exploration experience available.

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: City Builder 41.3%, Survival 21.3%, Building 17.1%, Medieval 9.5%, Simulation 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated city-builder that focuses on the challenges of keeping a population alive and thriving through resource management.

Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.

Why similar: Survival 16.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 15.1%, Medieval 14.9%, Online Co-Op 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that focuses on building and combat in a medieval setting, emphasizing player-driven conflict.

Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.

Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Survival 14.3%, Medieval 13.9%, Open World 13.6%, Online Co-Op 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a gritty survival experience with a focus on building and managing a settlement in a dangerous world.

Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!

Why similar: Survival 22.7%, Crafting 20.8%, Online Co-Op 20.4%, Open World 14.3%, Building 13.5%

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Survival 16.6%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 15.4%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Building 12.2%

KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.

Why similar: Open World 21.8%, Medieval 20.1%, Survival 17.7%, Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that allows for significant freedom in building and interacting with the world, similar to the open-ended nature of Bellwright.

Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Survival 14.4%, Medieval 13.6%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 12.8%

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: City Builder 38.9%, Survival 17.4%, Building 14.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-sim that focuses on building and managing a community, providing a lighter but equally engaging management loop.

The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!

Why similar: Medieval 26.9%, Life Sim 17.5%, Open World 13.1%, Building 9%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep life-simulation and economic management experience set in the medieval era.

The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.

Why similar: Medieval 20.4%, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 17.6%, Open World 12.7%, Building 12.4%

Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?

Why similar: Medieval 24.1%, Open World 23.5%, Crafting 23.2%, Multiplayer 11.5%, RPG 6.5%

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 47%, Medieval 18.7%, Building 9.4%, Survival 7.6%, Open World 7.5%

Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.

Why similar: Medieval 21.1%, Survival 20.8%, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 14.4%, Building 12.3%

You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.

Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Online Co-Op 19.6%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.2%

You’re a humble shopkeeper trying to live a peaceful new life, finding yourself surrounded by warring factions and dangerous creatures. Will you be able to carve out a new home for yourself and your customers in this open-world survival shopkeeping simulator?

Why similar: Survival 23.2%, Open World 22.1%, Crafting 21.6%, Online Co-Op 20.6%, Simulation 5.9%

Life is Feudal: Arden is a new free-to-play open-world MMORPG set in the Middle Ages, built on the foundation of Life is Feudal: MMO. Engage in thrilling PvP combat, navigate political intrigue, master a variety of professions and craft unique items. Forge your own path to power and greatness!

Why similar: Crafting 17.1%, Survival 16%, Medieval 15.8%, Building 14.4%, Open World 12.4%

Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

Why similar: Survival 19.3%, Open World 17.1%, Medieval 16.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 10.9%

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 16%, Building 12.9%, Online Co-Op 10.4%

👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟

Why similar: Survival 16.4%, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 13.5%, Medieval 11.8%, Building 10.3%

Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.

Why similar: Crafting 22.9%, Survival 22.9%, Online Co-Op 16%, Open World 15.9%, Building 12.7%

Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.

Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Open World 19.3%, Medieval 17.3%, Crafting 16%, Building 13.5%

Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.

Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Medieval 17.3%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 14.2%, Open World 10.4%

To protect the magical Lifestone, you must strategise, manage and build a fortified settlement. Lead your fellow survivors into battle against waves of nocturnal monsters who wish to take this precious Lifestone from your world.

Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Crafting 17.4%, Medieval 14.5%, Building 14.1%, Open World 12.5%

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: Open World 24.3%, Medieval 23.7%, City Builder 22%, Life Sim 8%, RPG 7.1%

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12.4%, Online Co-Op 8.9%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Survival 15.6%, Online Co-Op 14%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 10.5%

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Survival 21.3%, Crafting 18.6%, Online Co-Op 18%, Building 13.6%, Open World 12.1%

On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.

Why similar: Open World 19%, Survival 18.1%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Crafting 13%, Building 9.9%

Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.

Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Medieval 15.9%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 12.2%, Building 11.2%

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Medieval 20.9%, Building 18.5%, Open World 17.5%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 12.3%

Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!

Why similar: Open World 26.5%, Medieval 21.9%, Survival 11.7%, Co-op 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.8%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Survival 20.2%, Open World 18.6%, Crafting 17.3%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Co-op 10.8%

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: City Builder 35.1%, Survival 21.1%, Medieval 13.5%, Open World 11.4%, Building 9.5%

In this dark, open-world adventure, you awaken as a Vampire Lord. Build and customize your castle. Hunt for blood, fight, craft, and gather. Command your loyal servants. Shapeshift into a bat to explore the night and survive the relentless Inquisition, solo or in 4-player co-op.

Why similar: Survival 18.7%, Open World 18.2%, Crafting 17.2%, Online Co-Op 16%, Building 12.4%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: City Builder 45.3%, Survival 24.5%, Building 16.5%, Strategy 6.2%, Simulation 4.8%

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: City Builder 56.8%, Survival 23.6%, Open World 7.7%, Strategy 5.2%, Simulation 4.1%