Games Like Driftland: The Magic Revival

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, RTS 20.2%, 4X 17.8% ★, Economy 9.3%, War 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines RTS and 4x elements with clan management and survival mechanics in a harsh, atmospheric setting.

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: 4X 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Economy 12%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that emphasizes resource management and survival in a fantasy world plagued by magical storms.

Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn!

Why similar: 4X 44.9% ★, Grand Strategy 31.7% ★, War 15.9%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep fantasy 4x experience where you play as a powerful mage-ruler building an empire across magical realms.

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 34.6% ★, RTS 22%, Medieval 14.7%, 4X 13.1% ★, Strategy 11%

Why You'll Like It: Blends grand strategy with real-time combat, allowing for deep control over your kingdom's economy and military.

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 23.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Economy 10.6%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale colony sim that focuses on managing complex populations and city infrastructure in a fantasy environment.

Take up the role of a great wizard, wield powerful spells, command fantasy races and challenge your rivals in this remake of a cult turn-based strategy classic. Do you have what it takes to become Master of Magic?

Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Economy 12.8%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic fantasy 4x strategy game that heavily influenced the genre with its focus on spellcasting and empire development.

A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.

Why similar: 4X 22.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2% ★, RTS 13.3%, Management 11.3%, Economy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A hybrid of 4x and RTS that emphasizes resource management and strategic territory control on a hostile planet.

ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!

Why similar: 4X 68.6% ★, Strategy 17%, Grand Strategy 11.4% ★, Medieval 3%

Why You'll Like It: A highly acclaimed fantasy 4x game featuring unique faction mechanics and distinct terrain-based exploration.

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 23.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Economy 12.4%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A complex colony sim that emphasizes the social and political dynamics of a medieval noble family.

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 18.6%, RTS 18%, Economy 15.5%, Management 11%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy city-builder focused on exploration and production chains with a charming, vibrant aesthetic.

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 25.9%, RTS 16.8%, God Game 15.6% ★, Management 11%, Economy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on management and survival within a medieval fantasy setting.

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 33.6%, Economy 12.7%, Management 11.4%, RTS 11%, Medieval 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused city-builder that incorporates 4x elements like territory expansion and card-based progression.

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 18.5% ★, 4X 18.4% ★, RTS 13.3%, City Builder 12.7%, Economy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy and RTS hybrid that emphasizes the brutal realities of medieval siege warfare.

Not everyone on the planet Driftland is happy with the new order brought by the mages-rulers. Is this nothing more than an attempt to restore the apparent balance that has almost destroyed the entire planet once? Join the brave Nomads and fight for freedom on your own terms.

Why similar: Dragons 42.1% ★, RTS 35%, Top-Down 14%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A direct spin-off of the seed game that focuses on exploration and unique RTS mechanics in the same universe.

SpellForce 3 - The perfect blend between RTS and RPG!

Why similar: RTS 71.7%, Strategy 20.5%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Seamlessly blends real-time strategy with RPG character progression in a rich fantasy world.

Fallen Enchantress is 4X strategy game from the makers of Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations. Build a civilization in the magical world of Elemental. Recruit heroes, train armies, build cities, forge alliances and save the world in this rich world where it's never the same game twice.

Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.6% ★, Dragons 18.7% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Lore-Rich 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy 4x strategy game that focuses on hero units and magical research within a post-apocalyptic world.

Warlock 2 is a turn-based strategy game of fantasy warfare. Rival against Great Mages, lead mighty armies into fierce battles, wield ancient magic and faith as your weapons.

Why similar: 4X 73.6% ★, Strategy 26.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy 4x game where you command powerful mages to conquer shattered lands and expand your magical influence.

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, City Builder 16%, RTS 15.4%, Economy 12.3%, Lore-Rich 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A planet-management game that challenges you to balance industrial growth with environmental sustainability.

In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.

Why similar: God Game 86% ★, Strategy 12.5%, Management 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game where you control powerful giants to manipulate the environment and foster the growth of human civilizations.

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 21.1% ★, God Game 17.8% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder that puts you in control of a goblin tribe, focusing on chaotic growth and survival.

In Dominions 6 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to old dragons or an enormous tree. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.

Why similar: 4X 40.4% ★, God Game 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.2% ★, Strategy 7.4%, PvP 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, complex 4x strategy game centered on magical warfare and the rise of a new god.

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 28.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17% ★, City Builder 12.8%, RTS 11.2%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 4x city-builder that focuses on the difficult choices of leadership and kingdom management.

Explore a rich fantasy world, go on quests for powerful weapons, and forge a new civilization in Sorcerer King: Rivals. Can you build a civilization to topple the malevolent Sorcerer King and become a god yourself?

Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Grand Strategy 23.8% ★, Dragons 18.6% ★, Building 9.7%, Lore-Rich 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy 4x game that tasks you with stopping a powerful sorcerer from destroying the world.

Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Why similar: 4X 27.2% ★, God Game 18.6% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Automation 13.2%, Economy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique 4x game that uses clicker mechanics to represent the rapid growth and management of a civilization.

The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?

Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.7% ★, RTS 29.1%, War 15.4%, Strategy 9.6%, PvP 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines turn-based empire management with massive real-time tactical battles in a high-fantasy setting.

El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.

Why similar: God Game 22.4% ★, City Builder 17.5%, RTS 15.2%, Economy 12.5%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that requires careful resource management and planning to build a thriving civilization in a jungle environment.

Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, RTS 15%, Economy 13.8%, City Builder 13.5%, Medieval 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game focused on trade, diplomacy, and empire expansion across a massive medieval map.

Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!

Why similar: RTS 52.8%, Strategy 18.7%, War 14.4%, City Builder 10.8%, Building 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential RTS that incorporates 4x elements like territory borders and technological advancement.

Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!

Why similar: God Game 86.3% ★, Building 7.6%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game centered on real-time terrain manipulation to protect and guide a primitive tribe.

A 4X strategy game in a fantasy RPG world. Create your own sovereign hero, build a dynasty, design custom units, and wage turn-based war across a world that's different every time you play. Every unit is an individual with their own name, gear, and story.

Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Grand Strategy 24% ★, Dragons 22.1% ★, Building 9.2%, Top-Down 7.3%

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 23.6% ★, 4X 18.1% ★, RTS 17.4%, City Builder 16.5%, Medieval 7.7%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, God Game 16.5% ★, RTS 16%, Building 10%, Management 9.9%

Step into the role of a lord, starting from scratch to build your kingdom. Gather resources, construct buildings, recruit troops, explore, and embark on adventures to continuously expand your territory and defend your homeland.

Why similar: 4X 20.8% ★, Grand Strategy 13.9% ★, RTS 13.1%, War 10.1%, Economy 8.6%

Lords of Solgrund combines elements of real time strategy, city building and other unique additions. The game features detailed animations, complex gameplay systems inspired by the early middle ages and elements of fantasy.

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, RTS 17.3%, Economy 16.3%, Building 11.6%, Management 11.1%

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: 4X 18.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3% ★, RTS 12.7%, City Builder 12.6%, Economy 8.4%

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: Grand Strategy 24.3% ★, City Builder 20.7%, RTS 19.2%, Economy 16.9%, Medieval 11.2%

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 24% ★, Grand Strategy 19.9% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Economy 12.4%, Building 8.7%

Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.

Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.3% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Building 9.3%, War 9.2%

In Dominions 5 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to huge titans or large monuments. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.

Why similar: God Game 33.6% ★, 4X 32.3% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6% ★, Strategy 8.5%

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: 4X 22.7% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Economy 12.3%, Management 8.8%

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 27.2% ★, City Builder 20.5%, 4X 17.2% ★, Economy 15.2%, Strategy 7.9%

Eador is a universe made of countless shards of land drifting in the Great Nothing. Each of the shards is a little world unto itself, with geography and denizens of its own. The power over the shards is bitterly contested by Masters, the immortal beings mortals believe to be gods.

Why similar: Strategy 89.5%, 4X 10.5% ★

In a time of chaotic upheaval, the player takes the role of a great mage, a warlord vying for ultimate power.

Why similar: 4X 78.6% ★, Strategy 21.4%

Valand is a Viking Age city builder. With your own strength you have to rebuild the whole settlement and bring it to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, RTS 20.4%, Swordplay 17% ★, War 12.1%, Economy 10.5%

Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

Why similar: God Game 27% ★, City Builder 17.2%, RTS 14.6%, Economy 10%, Management 9.7%

Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 27.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22.8% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Economy 13.2%, Management 9.3%

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: 4X 22% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Economy 12.5%, Building 8.9%

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 29.6%, Economy 24.7%, Management 17.6%, Survival 15.3%, Strategy 7.7%

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 22.1% ★, City Builder 19.1%, RTS 16.8%, Economy 13.1%, Management 9%

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: City Builder 21.5%, RTS 18.7%, Economy 10%, Building 9.7%, Medieval 8.5%

Become an all-powerful Sorcerer Lord and lead one of 8 different races to the ultimate victory. Explore multiple planes of existence, raid dungeons, and conquer cities. Expand your armies, cast mighty spells, and summon godly creatures to do your bidding. Fight the enemies in D20 OGL battles.

Why similar: 4X 78.6% ★, Strategy 21.4%

Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management. Take on the role of a leader trying to rebuild humanity in a broken and dangerous world. Lead your followers into battle and make strategic decisions on what to develop and build to survive.

Why similar: RTS 47.1%, Strategy 28.5%, Management 24.4%

Reprisal Universe places you in charge of the very elements themselves. Raise and lower land to expand your tribes, harness the power of fire and water. Explore the hidden mysteries of the Universe and gather your people together once again.

Why similar: God Game 40.7% ★, City Builder 26.9%, RTS 25.9%, Strategy 6.5%

Great Houses of Calderia is a Feudal Grand Strategy game focusing on family dynamics & stories. Use your family strengths to compete against rivals to rise in the ranks of Calderia - produce, trade, scheme, bribe, and battle to build your legacy of power!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.7% ★, 4X 15.5% ★, Economy 12.1%, RTS 8.7%, Management 8.6%

Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.

Why similar: God Game 35.6% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Management 12.3%, RTS 11.3%, Economy 11%

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 27.6%, Management 14.2%, Building 13.7%, Medieval 13%, Top-Down 10.4%

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 22.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Economy 12.4%, Management 9%

Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

Why similar: 4X 23% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Economy 14.2%, Building 13.1%, Survival 12.3%

Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.

Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 26.3% ★, Economy 15.6%, War 10.9%, Management 8.6%