Games Like Citadels

Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.

Why similar: RTS 17.4%, City Builder 16.9%, Medieval 14.1%, Tower Defense 11.1%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the quintessential castle-building and siege-defense game that directly inspired the mechanics found in Citadels.

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Medieval 22%, Resource Management 18.5%, RTS 16.1%, Base Building 14%, Tower Defense 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the feeling of managing a growing settlement while defending against massive, overwhelming waves of enemies.

Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

Why similar: RTS 18.6%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Medieval 14%, Strategy 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming fantasy-themed city builder that emphasizes the construction of defensive walls and managing resources to survive enemy raids.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.6%, City Builder 20.6%, Medieval 18.1%, Strategy 14.3%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist take on the genre that distills the core loop of building defenses and managing resources during the day to survive nightly sieges.

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 23.1%, Building 18.6%, Resource Management 18.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Strategy 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly detailed medieval city-building experience combined with realistic, large-scale tactical battles.

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: RTS 30.9%, Strategy 26.7%, Medieval 26.2%, Simulation 10.7%, City Builder 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a comprehensive grand strategy experience that includes real-time tactical battles for those who enjoy the macro-management of a kingdom.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: RTS 19.8%, City Builder 14.2%, Tower Defense 13.6%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the architectural aspect of castle building, requiring you to design structures that can withstand intense siege attacks.

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: RTS 26.6%, Medieval 18.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines grand strategy with real-time tactical combat, focusing on the brutal reality of medieval sieges.

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: City Builder 27.5%, Medieval 17.2%, Building 13.3%, Strategy 12.3%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game balances city-building with tower-defense elements, challenging you to protect your kingdom from Vikings and dragons.

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 36.7%, Base Building 24%, Strategy 23.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep colony-management experience with a focus on building multi-story castles to survive in a harsh, post-plague medieval world.

Catapult werewolves over castle walls, incinerate troops with dragon fire and command the Knights of the Round Table! This remaster of the mythical ‘castle sim’ features Steam multiplayer, Workshop support, new maps, achievements and DLC campaigns.

Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, RTS 17.5%, Medieval 14.5%, Building 13%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This version adds fantasy elements and mythical units to the classic Stronghold castle-building formula.

Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.

Why similar: RTS 15.7%, City Builder 14.9%, Medieval 13.4%, Tower Defense 11.3%, Strategy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic entry in the series that brings the castle-building and siege mechanics to a desert setting with unique tactical challenges.

Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

Why similar: RTS 20.4%, Tower Defense 14.2%, Medieval 13.6%, Resource Management 11%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: An indie title that provides a condensed experience of base building and tower defense in a medieval setting.

Build, manage and defend your medieval castle in this crazy sidescroller RTS game. Build walls, towers and traps to protect your fortress from enemy sieges before launching your own. Command powerful siege weapons and design the perfect strategy to take back the empire.

Why similar: RTS 23.7%, City Builder 14.5%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 10%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward real-time strategy game that focuses on base building and military defense.

42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.

Why similar: RTS 30.6%, Strategy 20.5%, City Builder 17.9%, Medieval 11.4%, Base Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for medieval real-time strategy, offering robust base-building and diverse combat scenarios.

As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!

Why similar: RTS 19.9%, Tower Defense 17.6%, City Builder 17.1%, Medieval 15.2%, Strategy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the expansion and defense of a frontier settlement, requiring careful resource management and wall construction.

A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Medieval 19%, Resource Management 16.6%, Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shifts the perspective to the civilians inside a besieged city, focusing on resource management and survival under pressure.

A singleplayer fast-paced classic RTS game in which you take on the role of a fallen lord on his journey back to become one of the mightiest in the medieval realm of Valtoria.

Why similar: RTS 25.6%, Medieval 21.1%, City Builder 16.6%, Strategy 14.1%, Base Building 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A traditional real-time strategy game set in a medieval world that focuses on base building and resource control.

Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.

Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Resource Management 19.9%, Building 19.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that blends resource management with tactical combat, set in a historical context that mirrors the building focus of Citadels.

The cult heavy metal fantasy action-strategy gem comes to PC in HD. Lead your armies from the front lines, giving strategic orders to your forces while wading into hack n’ slash action battle. Crush your foes across four campaigns, and spend the spoils of war on upgrading your forces.

Why similar: RTS 30.5%, Medieval 18.3%, Strategy 14.6%, War 9.7%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RTS hybrid that allows you to command large armies while participating in the combat directly.

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Building 34.3%, Strategy 25.8%, RTS 16.8%, Tower Defense 15.5%, Simulation 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based strategy game where you design and build castles block-by-block to defend against waves of enemies.

Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?

Why similar: Tower Defense 18.6%, City Builder 16.4%, RTS 14.3%, Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines strategy and tower-defense mechanics with a dark fantasy aesthetic and roguelite progression.

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 28.4%, Medieval 17.6%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on organic city-building and resource management, allowing for complex medieval town layouts without the constraints of a grid.

Ancestors Legacy is a squad-based real time strategy with a strong focus on tactics. Inspired by medieval European history, it brings to life four different nations and their conflicts, usually solved by war.

Why similar: RTS 34.8%, Medieval 25.4%, Strategy 24.6%, War 7.9%, Base Building 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A squad-based real-time strategy game that emphasizes tactical positioning and brutal, realistic medieval combat.

Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.

Why similar: Medieval 31.9%, Strategy 27.7%, RTS 24.1%, War 11.4%, Simulation 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: This classic offers the most expansive scale for medieval warfare, allowing you to manage entire empires and command massive siege battles.

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: RTS 27.5%, City Builder 18.6%, Medieval 15.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-style strategy game that emphasizes grand-scale kingdom management and tactical combat.

Islets Defense is a turn-based tower defense game in which you build a small village to gather resources and defend your castle. Carefully plan your actions, as each move brings the enemy waves closer! Strategize building placements and play your cards wisely, as timing and order are key.

Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Tower Defense 18%, Resource Management 14.4%, Building 13.3%, Medieval 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A tower-defense focused strategy game that requires careful placement of structures to manage incoming threats.

Warlords Under Siege is a mix of RTS and Roguelike genre, where you build a small city and defend it against continuous waves of enemies. Improve your assortment of weapons with each playthrough, unlocking new possibilities to beat the ever-increasing threat.

Why similar: RTS 22.2%, City Builder 20%, Medieval 18%, Building 16%, Base Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that forces you to adapt your defensive strategies against increasingly difficult waves of enemies.

How a Retired Strategist Saved the Country is a real time strategy simulation game where you manage resources to develop your country. The player is asked by elves, beastmen... Etc. various heroines ask you for help, and then you take command of their country's army.

Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Resource Management 14.8%, Medieval 13.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Building 12%

The offensive of the undead begins. Gather holy power to summon soldiers and strengthen the starlight of Hellendil to defeat the undead. If the undead destroy this place, it will be game over.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.6%, Strategy 23.6%, Medieval 17.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Sexual Content 5.7%

«Becoming a King» is an erotic time-management game! Not only you will take part in a battle for the crown, but also find yourself a worthy queen! Will you enter a political marriage, marry for love, or try everything at once? The fate of the kingdom is in your hands!

Why similar: Medieval 23.9%, Dating Sim 21.4%, Sexual Content 14.7%, Hentai 14.2%, Simulation 13.8%

"Dive into 'Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises', an RTS set in a mystical medieval world. Build your kingdom, lead vast armies, and uncover Avalon's legends. Chapter 1 launches in October, featuring the Dawn faction. Join our Discord for sneak peeks!

Why similar: RTS 31%, City Builder 25.5%, Medieval 19.1%, Base Building 12.9%, War 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical-rpg and real-time strategy hybrid that focuses on managing a medieval domain and its military forces.

The enemy is invading your lands, and only the Legendary Knight, the king himself, can rally his forces to stand against them. As both ruler and commander, you must lead your army, fortify defenses, and push back relentless waves of invaders to safeguard your kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.5%, Medieval 30.4%, Strategy 22.1%, Action 7.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Protect Harem City is a strategy tower defense game where you are the tower that will protect the city! Arm yourself with lots of weapons and skills and be ready to be the defender of Harem. Are you ready to appease everyone's lust?

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.3%, Strategy 22.5%, Hentai 15.1%, Sexual Content 12.8%, NSFW 11.5%

In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.

Why similar: RTS 16.9%, City Builder 14.1%, Medieval 13.6%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 10%

Warlord by Chance is a tactical RPG. Your destiny is to become a warlord. Build your economy, recruit gorgeous heroic girls, upgrade units, and immerse in stimulating love tales. Stand, Fight and Create your own dynasty, my lord.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.1%, Strategy 16.9%, Dating Sim 15.6%, Hentai 13.3%, NSFW 11%

Love n War: Hero by Chance II is a tactical RPG with exciting battles and hot girls. The fight against the Drogakan empire goes on with a more sophisticated storyline this time. Build your economy, recruit gorgeous heroic girls, upgrade units, and immerse in stimulating love tales.

Why similar: Tower Defense 17%, Medieval 16.7%, Strategy 11.4%, War 11.2%, Dating Sim 10.8%

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: RTS 19.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Medieval 14.3%, Tower Defense 13.5%, Building 12.1%

Pleasure Kingdom gameplay is a mix of traditional CCG mechanics with thrilling visual novel.

Why similar: Medieval 19.4%, Dating Sim 18.9%, Strategy 14.8%, Hentai 13.1%, NSFW 10.7%

Hero by Chance is a tactical RPG with exciting battles and hot girls. Upgrade your army with many cool unlockables, engage in striking love stories and WIN THIS WAR!

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.9%, Dating Sim 16.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Hentai 12%, NSFW 9.9%

Tend to the needs of seven alluring Valkyries and defend humanity's last sanctuary in this lewd tower defense game!

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.2%, Medieval 15.4%, Resource Management 13%, Hentai 12.1%, Strategy 11.8%

Gather resources and strategically build up your Viking settlement by day, fortifying it to withstand the relentless onslaught of skeletons by night

Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, Tower Defense 17%, RTS 16.6%, Building 15.6%, Strategy 13.5%

It's payback time! Lead your mighty dark army and make the Kingdom tremble with every step. Build powerful towers, choose your arsenal for destruction, and find the deadliest combination - train legendary heroes and lead them to victory!

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.4%, Medieval 29%, Strategy 22.4%, Action 5.7%, Singleplayer 3.5%

The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run

Why similar: RTS 23%, Tower Defense 15.4%, City Builder 14.8%, Medieval 13.8%, Resource Management 12.4%

"Last Stand:Defense" is a tower defense-themed Rogue-like game. Players need to defend against waves of enemies by building bases, matching talents, and performing delicate operations during battles. Remember, every choice you make will affect the final outcome of the battle!

Why similar: RTS 23.1%, Tower Defense 16.5%, Building 13.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Strategy 11.2%

A minimalist tactical base defense game where you play as a powerful hero, command troops, and harness class synergies inspired by auto-battlers. Fortify your city’s defenses to withstand hordes of enraged sheep, plan your tactics, and lead epic battles in a thrilling cycle of strategy and combat.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.1%, City Builder 19.8%, Medieval 18.3%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 12.8%

Eyes of War is a real-time strategy game set in the medieval era, offering both single-player and multiplayer experiences where you can control every unit in character mode. Build your castle, lead your army, and dominate the map. Eyes of War invites you to epic battles of the medieval era!

Why similar: RTS 30%, Strategy 14.8%, City Builder 13.8%, Medieval 13.7%, Resource Management 13.4%

Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.

Why similar: Strategy 28.7%, RTS 15.3%, City Builder 11.1%, Action 9.7%, Building 9.2%

Fortify is a real-time strategy game with a tower defense twist. Defend your castle from attacking monsters and siege weapons by using ranged and melee defenders, catapults, cannons, oil fields and more. You start at the iron age, advancing to the medieval age, and later, the imperial age.

Why similar: RTS 40.3%, Strategy 39.4%, Action 13.1%, Indie 7.2%

Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.

Why similar: RTS 19.1%, City Builder 15.7%, Tower Defense 13.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Medieval 11%

Become a battlemage, build a city, and command your troops in this fantasy warfare simulator. Jump into the fray and use your might, magic, and wits to fight enemies in battles of up to a hundred units and fully destructible city siege combat. The fate of an empire is in your hands.

Why similar: Medieval 24.9%, City Builder 21.9%, Strategy 15.5%, Base Building 14.2%, War 13.9%

Dive into intense, fantasy, tower defense action! Using turrets, spells, and your cunning, you must defend your kingdom against an onslaught of enemies launching a surprise attack while the king is away.

Why similar: Strategy 28.1%, Tower Defense 22.9%, Medieval 14%, Building 13%, Resource Management 11.7%

With the walking fortress Burggeist at your command, fight back the enemies and build "the Tower."

Why similar: Strategy 29.4%, Medieval 24.7%, 3D Platformer 17.3%, RTS 13.8%, Action 11.2%

Beautiful Mystic Defenders is a tactical tower defense, romantic visual novel game where you are the savior of the mystic realm's incredibly gorgeous ladies. Build towers wisely, level up heroines, obtain upgrades, defeat hordes of monsters and immerse in a stimulating harem love story!

Why similar: Tower Defense 26%, Hentai 14.9%, Dating Sim 12%, Strategy 11.5%, NSFW 10.2%

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: City Builder 24%, RTS 21.8%, Medieval 16.7%, Strategy 13.7%, Resource Management 12.1%

Siege of Avalon is an isometric story-driven fantasy-RPG. The Citadel of Avalon is all that remains of the once-mighty seven kingdoms. The invaders have surrounded Avalon and the depleted garrison is bracing for the final assault. Now is the time for the birth of a legend.

Why similar: Medieval 61.7%, War 24.7%, Action 8.8%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Be a newly appointed royal minister fresh out of the army, evade or contribute to the court drama. Alliances are breaking but you can make the difference. Choose who to bed or wed. Compete or consolidate with your foes. Only you have what it takes to be a king.

Why similar: Dating Sim 28.6%, Hentai 19.9%, NSFW 18.1%, Sexual Content 15.9%, Nudity 13.1%

A neighboring country has declared war! The first war in a long time. Due to a shortage of personnel, Estelle, the princess, has taken command of the army. She can't afford to lose this war, but... What will she do, Estelle!?

Why similar: Strategy 31.9%, NSFW 22.6%, Sexual Content 19.9%, Nudity 19.4%, Indie 4.2%