- #1 Noble Fates
97% matchVery Positive83% of 1,489 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 23.3%, Base Building 17%, Moddable 16.2%, Medieval 14.1%, Procedural Generation 10.2%
- #2 The Bloodline
96% matchVery Positive83% of 3,985 reviews2023
Dev: Shieldbearer StudiosPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…
Why similar: War 16.5%, Medieval 16.4%, Action RPG 14%, Open World 12.3%, Fantasy 7.4%
- #3 Legends of Ellaria
96% matchMixed57% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: Larkon Studio
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.6 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: RPG 19.8%, Strategy 17.9%, City Builder 14.4%, Open World 10%, Action 9.1%
- #4 Empires and Tribes
95% matchMixed66% of 420 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 27.6%, Medieval 18.4%, Base Building 18.2%, Open World 9.5%, Strategy 5.9%
- #5 Songs of Syx
94% matchVery Positive94% of 9,302 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 42.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: City Builder 22.8%, Moddable 18.1%, Base Building 15%, Medieval 13%, Open World 11%
- #6 Mount & Blade: Warband
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 172,245 reviews2010
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 121.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!
Why similar: Medieval 31.4%, Open World 19.2%, Moddable 17.9%, RPG 10.3%, Strategy 7.2%
- #7 Fatekeeper
92% matchVery Positive80% of 11,030 reviews2026
Dev: ParaglacialPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Venture into a handcrafted world where ruins whisper of past cataclysms. Master the art of sword and sorcery and forge your path with relics, spells and choices that shape who you become in this first-person RPG.
Why similar: Action RPG 18.1%, Hack and Slash 14%, Medieval 12.9%, Magic 12%, RPG 8.5%
- #8 Sons of Valhalla
93% matchMixed67% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Pixel Chest
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Sons of Valhalla is a roguelike strategy game set in the Viking Age. Build fortresses, gather warriors, and lay siege to enemy strongholds, engaging in personal combat as you raid and conquer across England.
Why similar: Moddable 18.7%, War 17.3%, Medieval 15.2%, Open World 12.4%, Hack and Slash 8.9%
- #9 Castle Craft
90% matchVery Positive82% of 503 reviews2026
Dev: Twin EarthPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Medieval 16.1%, Magic 14.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Hack and Slash 12.9%
- #10 Epic Fantasy Battle Simulator
91% matchVery Positive84% of 459 reviews2021
Dev: Mutiny Software
Windows
Welcome to Epic Fantasy Battle Simulator, the most immersive medieval battle simulator to date! Throw tens of thousands of soldiers into battle, enjoy the show, or take control of one of them to prove your valor! The only limit is your imagination! Or maybe your CPU?
Why similar: War 30.6%, Medieval 27.6%, Strategy 12.9%, Fantasy 10.7%, 3D 8.1%
- #11 Sands of Salzaar
89% matchVery Positive82% of 23,042 reviews2021
Dev: 汉家松鼠Han-Squirrel StudioPub: XD
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Bringing you to an exotic desert where you’ll recruit, train, and guide your troops into battle against rival cities and factions. Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours; Customizable characters, professions, and factions. The land is filled with a variety of hidden secrets.
Why similar: War 20.3%, Open World 18.3%, Moddable 15%, Action RPG 11.7%, Hack and Slash 9.6%
- #12 Airborne Empire
87% matchVery Positive87% of 948 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Open World 18.7%, Base Building 15.6%, RPG 9.5%, Combat 8.3%
- #13 Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator
89% matchMixed54% of 376 reviews2022
Dev: Screambox Studio
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator is a physics-based tactical strategy game where you must lead a military force in a fantasy medieval world. Build an army. Construct siege equipment. Experience epic battles. Lead your people to victory!!
Why similar: War 30.3%, Moddable 23%, Hack and Slash 15.1%, RPG 9.6%, Strategy 9.2%
- #14 Bellwright
86% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 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 30.8%, Medieval 22.4%, Open World 21.8%, War 8.7%, RPG 6.1%
- #15 HammerHelm
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 398 reviews2021
Dev: SuperSixStudiosPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Open World 18.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Fantasy 11%, Strategy 8.7%
- #16 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
85% matchVery Positive88% of 298,242 reviews2022
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 62.4 hrsMean: 156.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 24.2%, War 21.8%, Open World 17.4%, Moddable 13.1%, Strategy 8.6%
- #17 Lords and Legions
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: Warborne Studios
Windows
Get ready to battle, make your mark, and create epic battles. Lead your Hero starting with small battles and grow into epic-scale armies and high fantasy wars. Unlock heroes, abilities, and 80+ units in a campaign or build castles, shape battlefields, and create endless wars in Battle Creator.
Why similar: War 31.6%, Hack and Slash 15.4%, Fantasy 13.7%, Combat 12.5%, 3D 8.1%
- #18 Knights of the Crusades
84% matchMixed69% of 183 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 29.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Medieval 18.3%, War 14.1%, Strategy 8.6%
- #19 City States: Medieval
84% matchMixed63% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are the leader of a city-state in high medieval Europe. Expand your city through deep city-building systems, build a trade empire across the known world, and lead men to war to defend trade routes in a high-stakes struggle of global strategy and brutal warfare.
Why similar: City Builder 33%, Medieval 19.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 13.3%, Combat 7.8%
- #20 Eyes of War
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 329 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: City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 20%, Medieval 18.2%, Procedural Generation 18.2%, Strategy 12.6%
- #21 DSS 2: War Industry
82% matchVery Positive84% of 197 reviews2025
Dev: vikingfabian
Windows · Linux
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: City Builder 30.5%, Medieval 21.9%, Open World 13.5%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Strategy 7.6%
- #22 Viking Frontiers
81% matchMixed52% of 553 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
Windows
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: Moddable 19.7%, Medieval 19.4%, Open World 17.1%, City Builder 15.5%, RPG 9.1%
- #23 Coronation
82% matchMixed64% of 107 reviews2021
Dev: Twin Sword Studio
Windows
Coronation, an online medieval sandbox with player-built settlements, dungeons & economy.
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Action RPG 15.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Medieval 14.8%, Open World 10.7%
- #24 Polygon Fantasy Battle Simulator
80% matchVery Positive88% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Aerilon Studios
Windows
Welcome to Polygon Fantasy Battle Simulator, the most colorful medieval fantasy battle simulator in existence! Throw tens of thousands of soldiers into battle, enjoy the show, or take direct control of one of them to prove your valor!
Why similar: War 25%, Strategy 17.6%, Fantasy 12%, Magic 10.8%, Medieval 10.5%
- #25 Alek - The Lost Kingdom
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 414 reviews2021
Dev: Jessy LemieuxPub: Blackmyers Studio
Windows
Alek, the young man who will change Zarabon's World forever. In this adventure, you must rebuild the world of Zarabon in your image. Build villages and manage your production lines with the help of your villagers.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, War 16.1%, Action RPG 13.2%, Open World 12.4%, Medieval 11.5%
- #26 Huaxia: Warring States
79% matchMixed64% of 793 reviews2026
Dev: 秦川汉渚
Windows
Forge your epic in Huaxia: Warring States. Form your clan, conquer the lands, and build an empire. The fate of heaven & earth lies within you hands.
Why similar: War 24.9%, Action RPG 20.2%, Open World 17.9%, Hack and Slash 15%, RPG 8.7%
- #27 Break the Empire
78% matchVery Positive92% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
Fight your way to the capital and slay the emperor! Choose from a variety of characters with unique spells and skills! Featuring permadeath, interactable terrain, distinct builds, wild combos, and endless replayability.
Why similar: Action RPG 27.7%, Medieval 17.9%, Magic 15%, Fantasy 11.3%, Hack and Slash 9.6%
- #28 Heart of the Machine
76% matchVery Positive92% of 2,139 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: City Builder 27.4%, Moddable 25.2%, Base Building 21.2%, Open World 15.8%, Strategy 8.4%
- #29 Warlords Under Siege
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 482 reviews2025
Dev: RedKar Devs
Windows
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: City Builder 26.2%, Moddable 24.5%, Medieval 17.6%, Base Building 17.4%, Strategy 5.4%
- #30 Elengard: Ascension
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 120 reviews2026
Dev: Stèphano M. M. G.
Windows
Embark on an epic adventure to rise to power in this new Real-Time-With-Pause medieval fantasy RPG that combines action and strategy mechanics. Fight a lot, explore, choose how you fight, configure your abilities, create powerful builds and combos. Awaken your true power!
Why similar: Medieval 21.8%, Magic 17.6%, Fantasy 11.1%, Action RPG 10.5%, RPG 10.5%
- #31 Valorborn
75% matchMixed61% of 545 reviews2026
Dev: Laps Games
Windows
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: Medieval 24.2%, Open World 23.2%, Base Building 18.8%, RPG 12%, Strategy 10.1%
- #32 Mittelborg: City of Mages
78% matchMixed63% of 116 reviews2019
Dev: Armatur GamesPub: Asterion Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Mittelborg: City of Mages is a strategic adventure with elements of rogue-like and resource management. You are crowned to be Chancellor of the city, but this power is a heavy burden. Face tough decisions, fight mystical tempests, look for the cause of upcoming chaos. Will Mittelborg have a future?
Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Strategy 21.1%, Base Building 18.3%, Fantasy 17.4%, Indie 6.6%
- #33 Citadel: Forged with Fire
76% matchMixed68% of 5,895 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 30.4%, Magic 21.1%, RPG 13.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Fantasy 12.1%
- #34 Of Ash and Steel
73% matchMixed66% of 7,038 reviews2025
Dev: Fire & FrostPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 31.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Of Ash and Steel is an immersive third-person open-world RPG created by a passionate team that values the essence of classic old-school RPGs and modern design. Explore the lands of a once-prosperous island, hone your combat skills, and survive in the unforgiving realm of the Kingdom of the Seven.
Why similar: Medieval 25.2%, Action RPG 24%, RPG 9.9%, Combat 9.8%, Open World 8.1%
- #35 Castle Empire
75% matchMixed51% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: HaoPlay Limited
Windows
Empire falls eventually. Build your own empire and conquer the world.
Why similar: War 27.8%, RPG 18.9%, Strategy 18.1%, Open World 14.7%, 3D 11%
- #36 Fall of an Empire
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 92 reviews2026
Dev: JG Games
Windows · Mac
In a crumbling realm, hold back collapse in this grand strategy epic. Fall of an Empire has you balance deadly politics, manage resources, and command battles to survive invasions and intrigue in a vast, Roman-inspired world.
Why similar: War 45.9%, Strategy 20.5%, RPG 18.5%, Combat 6.6%, Story Rich 5.2%
- #37 Medieval Machines Builder
72% matchVery Positive81% of 138 reviews2026
Dev: FreeMind S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Step into the boots of a medieval engineer and master the art of siege warfare. In Medieval Machines Builder, you design, build, and operate powerful war machines capable of bringing down even the strongest fortress walls 🏰
Why similar: Medieval 40.5%, Combat 15.8%, First-Person 15.5%, 3D 12.4%, Action 7.8%
- #38 Hearthlands
74% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 42.6%, Medieval 22.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Fantasy 10%, Magic 8%
- #39 No King No Kingdom
74% matchVery Positive86% of 153 reviews2020
Dev: Fullmetal Developer
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
No King No Kingdom – First-Person Strategy Game. Ride Dragons! Command peasants! Build towns! Raise Armies! Tame Epic Creatures! Take your own sword and fight side by side with your troops against powerful giant bosses.
Why similar: War 24.6%, Base Building 24.5%, Strategy 11.4%, Fantasy 11%, RPG 10.7%
- #40 Age of Reforging: The Freelands
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,555 reviews2025
Dev: PersonaeGame StudioPub: Kunpan Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Age of Reforging: The Freelands is a medieval high-freedom sandbox adventure CRPG. You'll be a reforger in the freelands chosen by the Goddess to embark on a medieval adventure tour at your own pace, gathering teammates, fighting for survival, and craft your unique legend!
Why similar: Open World 25%, Medieval 23.8%, Magic 17.2%, Fantasy 11.7%, RPG 11.6%
- #41 Valand
73% matchMixed66% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: LOMS Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 38%, War 27.3%, Medieval 19.6%, 3D 8.7%, Action 6.5%
- #42 Blade and Sorcery
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 62,254 reviews2024
Dev: WarpFrog
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Blade & Sorcery is a built-for-VR medieval fantasy with full physics driven melee, ranged and magic combat. Become a powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer and devastate your enemies.
Why similar: Moddable 35%, Magic 18.6%, Medieval 18.3%, Fantasy 8%, First-Person 6.7%
- #43 Norland
69% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 27.9%, Moddable 24.4%, Base Building 21.4%, Open World 15.9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #44 Lay of the Land
69% matchVery Positive80% of 1,234 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World 21.3%, Procedural Generation 18.1%, Base Building 15.8%, RPG 12%, Fantasy 11.8%
- #45 First Feudal
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Base Building 27.4%, Medieval 24.2%, Strategy 9.1%, RPG 5.7%
- #46 BURGGEIST
69% matchVery Positive97% of 273 reviews2024
Dev: GHRIAN STUDIO
Windows
With the walking fortress Burggeist at your command, fight back the enemies and build "the Tower."
Why similar: Medieval 28.2%, Strategy 21.6%, 3D 13%, Story Rich 12.9%, Action 12.4%
- #47 Land of Glarefall
68% matchVery Positive87% of 232 reviews2026
Dev: BLAIKE GAMES
Windows
An action-adventure survival game where every night could be your last. Explore a vast, dangerous world where survival depends on smart resource management, tactical combat, and what you choose to do before night falls.
Why similar: Base Building 22%, Action RPG 20.9%, Medieval 16.6%, Hack and Slash 16.5%, Fantasy 8.1%
- #48 Brinefall
72% matchMixed42% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: Qwerty StudioPub: Gamera Interactive
Windows
Embark on an epic journey in Brinefall, where you'll gather resources and construct your own village while exploring a vast open-world filled with secrets and mysteries. Battle fierce enemies and collect valuable loot in this unique blend of sandbox and RPG gameplay.
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Action RPG 17.9%, Hack and Slash 15.4%, Open World 14.8%, Fantasy 9.9%
- #49 Ortharion : The Last Battle
70% matchMixed66% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: Ortharion project
Windows
Ortharion: The Last Battle is a hack'n slash RPG that immerses you in a medieval fantasy world full of secrets. Customize your hero by combining classes, equipment and spells to create unique synergies to face formidable bosses to prove your strength.
Why similar: Action RPG 20.7%, Hack and Slash 19.1%, Medieval 14.2%, RPG 10.3%, Fantasy 8.1%
- #50 Driftland: The Magic Revival
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,015 reviews2019
Dev: Star Drifters
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!
Why similar: City Builder 35%, War 24.7%, Medieval 22.2%, Strategy 9.9%, 3D 8.2%
- #51 Empires of the Undergrowth
66% matchVery Positive94% of 18,977 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: City Builder 27.8%, Moddable 24.4%, Base Building 21.6%, Open World 15.6%, Strategy 8.6%
- #52 Medieval Kingdom Wars
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,616 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 28.2%, Base Building 22.2%, Medieval 21.9%, War 19.6%, Strategy 8.2%
- #53 Ember
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 995 reviews2016
Dev: N-Fusion InteractivePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Ember is a homage to classic role-playing games (RPG) that features a deep branching story, endless exploration across dynamic and living environments, a robust skill system, and an intricate crafting system.
Why similar: Action RPG 25.9%, RPG 21.1%, Fantasy 17.7%, Hack and Slash 14.6%, Strategy 6.9%
- #54 Mandate Order
65% matchVery Positive81% of 1,304 reviews2026
Dev: Digital Sky
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Base Building 20.2%, Medieval 16.8%, War 15.3%, Strategy 10.2%
- #55 Genesis of a Small God
67% matchVery Positive82% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Pierre Nury
Windows
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Why similar: City Builder 36%, Base Building 27.5%, Open World 19.8%, Strategy 11%, Indie 3.3%
- #56 Enshrouded
64% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 29%, Base Building 28.8%, Action RPG 16%, RPG 8.7%, Fantasy 7.9%
- #57 Bloodface
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Iron Forge Games
Windows
An unforgiving medieval action RPG with a Souls-like combat system. Explore, grow stronger, defeat enemy forces, and reclaim the city torn apart by civil war.
Why similar: Medieval 31.8%, RPG 16.2%, Action RPG 13%, War 10.3%, Action 7.4%
- #58 Pompeii: The Legacy
66% matchVery Positive81% of 294 reviews2026
Dev: Siscia Games
Windows
Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Medieval 22.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Story Rich 7%