- #1 Bellwright
97% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Medieval 19%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 15.6%, Multiplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, settlement management, and tactical combat in a way that mirrors the core loop of Coronation.
- #2 Manor Lords
96% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 30%, Base Building 20.7%, Management 16%, Resource Management 12.8%, Open World 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the intersection of organic city-building and large-scale real-time tactical battles in a medieval setting.
- #3 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
96% matchVery Positive88% of 286,599 reviews2022
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 61.2 hrsMean: 152.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 41.4%, Open World 25.1%, Strategy 17%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Action 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive sandbox experience for medieval strategy, action combat, and managing your own kingdom.
- #4 Kingdoms Reborn
95% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 36%, Base Building 15.5%, Management 11.4%, Medieval 9.2%, Resource Management 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer city-builder that incorporates management and expansion elements similar to sandbox strategy games.
- #5 Foundation
94% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 43.7%, Medieval 16.3%, Management 10.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This city-builder offers a unique, grid-less approach to constructing medieval towns with a focus on organic growth.
- #6 Medieval Dynasty
94% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 24.9%, Base Building 19.9%, Medieval 19.9%, Management 13.3%, Open World 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the management and growth of a medieval settlement from a first-person perspective.
- #7 Going Medieval
92% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 28.2%, Base Building 19.9%, Management 15.6%, Crafting 13.9%, PvE 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A deep colony-sim that emphasizes building, defense, and managing the needs of your medieval population.
- #8 Medieval Kingdom Wars
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,602 reviews2019
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: City Builder 18.9%, Wargame 17.2%, Real Time Tactics 15.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Medieval 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends grand strategy with real-time city-building and tactical combat in a medieval context.
- #9 Albion Online
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 90,120 reviews2018
Dev: Sandbox Interactive GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 81.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Albion Online is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG featuring a player-driven economy, classless combat system, and intense PvP battles. Explore a vast open world full of danger and opportunity. Grow your wealth, forge alliances, and leave your mark on the world of Albion.
Why similar: Open World 30.6%, Crafting 21.3%, PvP 12.5%, Medieval 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer sandbox that features a robust economy and action-RPG combat mechanics.
- #10 Life is Feudal: MMO
91% matchMixed40% of 7,330 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Base Building 26.2%, Medieval 24%, Crafting 18.2%, PvP 15.3%, Open World 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore sandbox experience that centers on player-built settlements and a complex, player-driven economy.
- #11 Wartales
89% matchVery Positive87% of 34,222 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 51.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Medieval 37.6%, Open World 33%, Strategy 11%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Violent 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a tactical, party-based RPG experience set in a gritty medieval world that emphasizes management and combat.
- #12 Conqueror's Blade
90% matchMixed68% of 37,668 reviews2020
Dev: Booming TechPub: Poros Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 72.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Conqueror's Blade gives you a chance to be a true warlord. Commanding medieval troops in epic 15 vs. 15 siege battles, conquering cities with allies in the open world or fighting against players from all over the world – it's you who make the choice.
Why similar: Wargame 30.8%, Medieval 18.6%, Action RPG 14.9%, PvP 12.4%, Open World 11%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the action-heavy side of medieval warfare, allowing you to lead units in large-scale tactical battles.
- #13 Kingdoms and Castles
89% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 44.9%, Medieval 16.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Resource Management 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the defense and management aspects of building a medieval kingdom against various threats.
- #14 Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG
87% matchMixed68% of 10,474 reviews2023
Dev: gamigo US
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gloria Victis is an MMORPG with an emphasis on realism, set in a low-fantasy medieval open world. Enjoy MMO with skill-based non-target combat, open PVP with territory control, deep crafting system and player-driven economy – all that served with beautiful graphics and an immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Medieval 31.4%, Open World 21.8%, Crafting 16%, PvP 13.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It prioritizes realistic medieval combat and player-driven world dynamics in a persistent online environment.
- #15 Reign Of Kings
88% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Medieval 27.7%, Crafting 24.2%, Open World 20.7%, PvP 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer survival game emphasizes building, politics, and medieval power struggles.
- #16 Empires and Tribes
86% matchMixed67% of 419 reviews2023
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows · Mac
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 29.8%, Base Building 17.7%, Medieval 15.9%, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that incorporates elements of diplomacy, management, and medieval life simulation.
- #17 Conan Exiles
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World 32.6%, Crafting 31%, Multiplayer 13.7%, PvP 9%, Violent 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that offers extensive building mechanics and action-oriented combat in a harsh world.
- #18 Legends of Ellaria
86% matchMixed57% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: Larkon Studio
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 25.6%, City Builder 22.3%, Action 12.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It uniquely combines first-person action, RPG elements, and real-time strategy in a fantasy medieval world.
- #19 Life is Feudal: Arden
84% matchMixed42% of 817 reviews2025
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 25.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 21.8%, Base Building 20.2%, Medieval 19.6%, Open World 11%, Action 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides an action-RPG focus within a sandbox environment, emphasizing player agency.
- #20 Eyes of War
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 321 reviews2025
Dev: Good Mood Games
Windows · Linux
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: Wargame 24%, City Builder 16.1%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Medieval 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that allows for direct control in real-time battles, mirroring tactical wargame elements.
- #21 Valheim
81% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Base Building 27.8%, Crafting 23%, Open World 21.6%, Multiplayer 12.8%, PvE 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: While stylized, it offers a compelling sandbox experience with deep building mechanics and exploration.
- #22 Pax Dei
81% matchMixed57% of 10,783 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 69.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Base Building 20.5%, Medieval 17.9%, Crafting 16.6%, PvE 14.2%, Open World 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A social sandbox game that focuses heavily on crafting, building, and player-driven community development.
- #23 March of Empires
83% matchMixed63% of 1,811 reviews2017
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 77.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Claim your title as Shogun, Highland King, Northern Tsar or Desert Sultan and join this genre-redefining strategy game where you will wage constant war for real territorial conquest! Fortify your castle, fuel a massive army, and enter the ultimate fight for realm domination!
Why similar: Wargame 20%, City Builder 16.5%, Real Time Tactics 14.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Medieval 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A wargame that emphasizes strategic expansion and medieval warfare on a global scale.
- #24 Citadel: Forged with Fire
82% matchMixed68% of 5,882 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World 35%, Crafting 20.9%, Base Building 19.2%, Multiplayer 10%, PvP 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that allows for massive building projects and exploration within a magical medieval setting.
- #25 Dungeons & Kingdoms
80% matchMixed42% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Uncle Grouch GamingPub: Camlann Games
Windows
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Medieval 20.2%, Action RPG 20%, Management 17.6%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: This title bridges the gap between dungeon exploration and medieval city-building.
- #26 Haven & Hearth
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 947 reviews2024
Dev: Seatribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
A free-to-play MMORPG with crafting, building, landscaping, foraging, hunting, fishing, a dash of poetry, and open PvP combat,
Why similar: Base Building 28.8%, Crafting 24%, Open World 20%, PvP 18.2%, 3D 9%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, complex sandbox game that focuses on survival, building, and long-term settlement development.
- #27 Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 35,447 reviews2006
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 42.8%, Strategy 27.6%, Real Time Tactics 20.2%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Action 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for medieval wargaming and large-scale tactical strategy.
- #28 Wild Terra Online
79% matchMixed60% of 1,830 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Open World 24%, Medieval 21.4%, Crafting 20.9%, Base Building 19.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that features crafting, building, and massive multiplayer interactions.
- #29 Stronghold Kingdoms
79% matchMixed64% of 9,483 reviews2012
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 84.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Wargame 14.5%, Medieval 14%, Real Time Tactics 13.6%, Strategy 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic strategy game that focuses on the multiplayer aspects of building and defending a medieval castle.
- #30 Renown
76% matchMixed60% of 1,544 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Medieval 20.2%, Crafting 19.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Open World 14.7%, PvP 12.9%
- #31 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
76% matchMixed60% of 455 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 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: Crafting 24.8%, Medieval 20.7%, Open World 17.1%, PvP 14.5%, Multiplayer 10.7%
- #32 Kingdom of Atham: Crown of the Champions
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 360 reviews2024
Dev: Sofa Mauve Studio Inc.
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
"Kingdom of Atham: Crown of the Champions - Embark on a medieval fantasy survival odyssey. Reclaim the stolen Crown, battle dark forces, and explore diverse lands. Uncover secrets, wield magic, and craft your destiny. Will you become the true champion of Atham?"
Why similar: Action RPG 19.4%, Base Building 19.4%, PvP 12.9%, PvE 12.9%, Crafting 12.5%
- #33 Kingdom Wars
77% matchMixed67% of 2,794 reviews2013
Dev: Reverie World Studios
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Kingdom Wars is a free to play 3D MMORTS with real-time siege combat, without the pay to win element so common in the genre. Kingdom Wars offers beautiful 3D online world, where players construct strongholds, direct citizens, complete quests and eventually manage a global empire.
Why similar: Strategy 31.2%, Medieval 28.9%, City Builder 25.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 2.7%
- #34 Noble Legacy
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 640 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
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: City Builder 27.5%, Medieval 16.6%, Management 14.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Action RPG 12.7%
- #35 KINGDOMS
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 4,079 reviews2015
Dev: Oreol
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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: Medieval 32.3%, Open World 25.2%, Crafting 21.6%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 5.7%
- #36 Ashes of Creation
72% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,678 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Studios, Inc
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.
Why similar: Crafting 22.6%, Action RPG 22.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Combat 14.1%, Strategy 9%
- #37 Veil of Crows
75% matchMixed51% of 479 reviews2018
Dev: Kerry FawdrayPub: Humble Sage Games
Windows
Veil of crows is a sandbox style real-time strategy game set in a chaotic medieval world. From violent, and overtly bloody battles, to completely destructible castles, RPG style hero development, and meaningful interactions with other factions. Trade, extort, and conquer!
Why similar: Medieval 46.3%, Strategy 27.3%, Violent 26.4%
- #38 DSS war party
71% matchVery Positive93% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: vikingfabian
Windows
A real-time grand strategy game set in a low fantasy world. Recruit vast armies to conquer the world. Dominate through strategic resource management and production chains.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Wargame 20.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Strategy 14.6%, Medieval 12.9%
- #39 Knights of the Crusades
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 165 reviews2025
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
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: City Builder 23.4%, Wargame 20.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, Base Building 13%, Medieval 11.5%
- #40 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
73% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 49.2%, Medieval 14.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Open World 6.1%
- #41 Andalia
73% matchVery Positive85% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: Joel St.Pub: Sundust
Windows
Andalia is a fantasy real-time strategy game (RTS) with a diverse range of civilisations, resources and environments. Build up your town and lead your forces into war against enemy players. Alternatively you may construct a monument and hold it long enough to reach victory.
Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Medieval 16.4%, PvP 13.1%, Strategy 10.1%, Multiplayer 10%
- #42 Overthrown
70% matchMixed63% of 265 reviews2026
Dev: BrimstonePub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Lift and throw anything as you build and manage your kingdom in this chaotic city builder for 1-6 players. Harness the power of your soul-stealing crown to defend your citizens from bandits and mutants, farm the land, and gather resources. Keep citizens happy or see them desert you!
Why similar: City Builder 40.4%, Management 20.4%, Combat 12.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #43 Little Kingdom RTS
70% matchVery Positive86% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: MyDreamForeverPub: Andgo Games
Windows
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: Real Time Tactics 22.7%, Base Building 20%, Medieval 15.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 10.2%
- #44 Life is Feudal: Your Own
72% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 34%, Crafting 27%, Open World 23.8%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Strategy 3.4%
- #45 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
69% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: City Builder 23.4%, Real Time Tactics 17.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Medieval 13.5%, Management 10.6%
- #46 Medieval Businessman
67% matchVery Positive98% of 128 reviews2024
Dev: Teamey
Windows
Welcome to the Empty Patch of Land. Can you create your own beautiful kingdom here? In this strategy in real time you can build farms, taverns, barracks, and more.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 46%, City Builder 43.8%, Strategy 10.2%
- #47 King and Kingdoms
71% matchMixed40% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Bad Button Studio
Windows
Factions, countries and empires that have truly existed in the real history await you. The only difference is that it is in your hand to rewrite their history. Become the ruler of any country you want and lead your nation from small village to the way to be the magnificent empire!
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 29.7%, Medieval 17%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 10.9%, Strategy 9.6%
- #48 Nested Lands
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 344 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
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: Base Building 23.6%, Medieval 20.4%, Crafting 18.6%, PvE 14.7%, Open World 14%
- #49 DSS 2: War Industry
66% matchVery Positive86% of 146 reviews2025
Dev: vikingfabian
Windows
In this real-time grand strategy game, command armies, build cities, and manage a dynamic economy. Establish automated supply routes within your territory to streamline production. Fortify your defenses and brace for intense battles. Can you lead your empire to dominance?
Why similar: Wargame 29.4%, City Builder 27.4%, Medieval 15.7%, Open World 8.2%, Strategy 6.3%
- #50 Noble Fates
67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,455 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 31.6%, Base Building 20.9%, Medieval 15.7%, Management 15.1%, Strategy 8%
- #51 Empire of Ember
69% matchMixed66% of 148 reviews2022
Dev: Poleaxe Games LLC
Windows
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: City Builder 22%, Base Building 15.5%, Action RPG 15.1%, Medieval 14.9%, Open World 10.4%
- #52 Settlements Rising
66% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Medieval 13.7%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #53 EDYN
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: GALESTORM GAMES
Windows · Mac
Join the battle for EDYN, the ultimate multiplayer strategy game. Build settlements, command armies, and unify the realms in epic PvP warfare to etch your legacy into history. Raid, loot, make alliances, and unite to conquer the planet itself, with no Pay-To-Win mechanics to upset the playing field.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #54 Heroes of Eldemor
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 85 reviews2021
Dev: Brian Laflamme
Windows
A multiplayer medieval sandbox open world game with original music by real people.
Why similar: Wargame 28.4%, Medieval 21.3%, Action RPG 20.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Strategy 7.5%
- #55 Imperia Online
70% matchMixed59% of 309 reviews2016
Dev: Imperia Online JSC
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 28.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Imperia Online brings you into a world, which exists in the times before the age of gunpowder. It is the world of the sharp blade, long bow and war horse. Experience the vast amount of gameplay mechanics and compete with thousands of players in a totally realistic medieval strategic simulation!
Why similar: Wargame 22.3%, Medieval 15%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 12.7%, PvP 10.2%
- #56 Heartwood Online
65% matchMixed69% of 3,249 reviews2023
Dev: E Bros
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Heartwood Online is a cross-platform free-to-play MMO. Explore a vast world filled with adventure where you choose your own path. Immerse yourself in crafting, trade, PvP & PvE battles, guilds, politics, and a thriving player economy.
Why similar: Action RPG 24.9%, Crafting 21.8%, Medieval 19.2%, PvE 18.4%, Open World 15.7%