- #1 Going Medieval
97% 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: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Management 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the most similar experience by combining 3D castle building with deep colony management and survival mechanics.
- #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: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title provides a highly detailed, realistic approach to medieval city-building and tactical combat that mirrors the feudal lord fantasy.
- #3 Farthest Frontier
96% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes complex resource chains and survival against the elements, perfect for those who enjoy the management side of First Feudal.
- #4 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 25.7%, Medieval 11.4%, Colony Sim 11.2% ★, Resource Management 8.5%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game features an organic, grid-less building system that makes creating a medieval village feel rewarding and unique.
- #5 Lords and Villeins
95% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 14%, Medieval 9%, Building 8.5%, Management 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique perspective on managing medieval families and social hierarchies within your growing settlement.
- #6 Noble Fates
94% 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: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 8.9%, Medieval 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the social dynamics and individual character management of your subjects within a fantasy-medieval setting.
- #7 Norland
93% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 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: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep simulation of noble families and social politics, adding a layer of intrigue to the standard colony-sim formula.
- #8 RimWorld
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, Base Building 17.9%, City Builder 10.4%, Management 7.6%, Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for colony-sims, it shares the core management and emergent storytelling mechanics that define the genre.
- #9 Kingdoms and Castles
91% 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: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Medieval 9.5%, Building 8.8%, Base Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It balances city-building with the constant threat of dragon attacks and Viking raids, similar to the combat focus in First Feudal.
- #10 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
91% 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: Colony Sim 33% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Resource Management 10.2%, Medieval 8%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: It directly shares the gritty, survival-oriented medieval theme and the focus on managing a small population.
- #11 Settlement Survival
90% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 17%, Building 10.4%, Medieval 10.3%, Base Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A deep management game that challenges players to balance population growth with limited resources and environmental hazards.
- #12 Patron
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Resource Management 7.7%, Medieval 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on social management and complex production chains in a charming medieval setting.
- #13 Colony Survival
89% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Building 11.3%, City Builder 9.4%, Survival 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique first-person perspective on colony management and large-scale defense against waves of enemies.
- #14 Clanfolk
88% matchVery Positive92% of 3,737 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36% ★, Crafting 16.9%, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Simulation 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that captures the struggle of building a life in a harsh medieval environment.
- #15 Becastled
86% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Base Building 23.3%, Colony Sim 21.6% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Medieval 11.5%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is heavily focused on the defensive aspect of base-building, requiring you to fortify your castle against nightly raids.
- #16 Banished
87% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Survival 6.1%, Medieval 6.1%, Strategy 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: The classic medieval survival city-builder that set the foundation for many modern resource-management games.
- #17 Founders' Fortune
86% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A more accessible, lighthearted colony-sim that focuses on building and managing the needs of your settlers.
- #18 Mountaincore
85% matchMixed66% of 253 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 11%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: A complex simulation game that focuses on the management of a colony in a challenging, mountainous environment.
- #19 Blacksmith Master
84% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game hones in on the crafting and economic management aspects of medieval life, which is a key part of the First Feudal experience.
- #20 Medieval Dynasty
83% 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: Building 19.5%, Crafting 18.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Medieval 14.1%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: While more personal, it captures the 'start from nothing' feudal progression by having you build a village from a single hut.
- #21 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Medieval 8.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic city-builder that emphasizes the management of production lines and the happiness of your medieval citizens.
- #22 Ostriv
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly realistic and detailed simulation of 18th-century village life with a focus on historical accuracy.
- #23 Empires and Tribes
81% 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 20.7%, Base Building 16%, Building 14.4%, Medieval 13.2%, Crafting 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with political and military management, allowing for a broader scope of feudal control.
- #24 Settlements Rising
79% 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: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Resource Management 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Medieval 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the growth and management of medieval populations with a strong emphasis on resource logistics.
- #25 Bastide
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 346 reviews2020
Dev: MedievalNexus
Windows
Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you lead a village of peasants toward survival and prosperity. You must contend with bandits, starvation, disease, and brutal winters as you work to develop your settlement into a fortified town.
Why similar: City Builder 50.2%, Strategy 22.6%, Simulation 21.9%, Indie 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: It centers on the survival and management of a small medieval village, requiring careful planning to endure the seasons.
- #26 Feudal Baron: King's Land
80% matchMixed43% of 82 reviews2024
Dev: Sim Farm S.A.
Windows
Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Resource Management 16%, Base Building 15.9%, Medieval 13.9%, Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management of feudal lands and resources, providing a direct experience in medieval administration.
- #27 Civitatem
79% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 10.8%, Medieval 10.6%, Strategy 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A charming and straightforward medieval city-builder that is easy to pick up but offers satisfying progression.
- #28 Songs of Syx
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.7%, Medieval 8.6%
- #29 Territory: Farming and Warfare
75% matchVery Positive86% of 690 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.5%
- #30 Rise to Ruins
77% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, City Builder 22%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 7%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #31 Make Your Kingdom
78% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 11%, Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the growth and management of a small settlement with a strong emphasis on building and expansion.
- #32 Cartel Tycoon
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,719 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 8.9%
- #33 Land of the Vikings
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #34 Anvil Saga
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,787 reviews2023
Dev: Pirozhok StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Medieval 10.6%, Management 9.5%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #35 Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,722 reviews2021
Dev: Black Eye GamesPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 17%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Medieval 10.8%, Crafting 10%
- #36 Royal Lord - 王权领主
73% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: 开发鸭
Windows
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: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 17%, Medieval 11.7%, Building 11.5%
- #37 Stonehearth
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, Survival 6.1%
- #38 Kingdom Ascension
71% matchVery Positive85% of 218 reviews2025
Dev: RainRingStudio
Windows
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: Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 16.8%, Medieval 12.5%, Building 11%, Management 8.8%
- #39 Edge Islands
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Building 11.8%, City Builder 10.3%, Management 7.4%
- #40 Dwarf Fortress
70% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.4%
- #41 Kingdoms Reborn
71% 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 23.3%, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 7.6%, Management 7.3%
- #42 Life is Feudal: Your Own
73% 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 24.2%, Crafting 20.2%, Building 18.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 13%
- #43 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
69% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 8.4%
- #44 Whiskerwood
68% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 9.5%
- #45 Gnomoria
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 7.9%
- #46 Frozenheim
71% matchMixed70% of 3,855 reviews2022
Dev: Paranoid InteractivePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Resource Management 17%, Base Building 16.4%, Medieval 11.6%, Management 9.2%
- #47 Villagers
73% matchMixed53% of 342 reviews2016
Dev: bumblebee.Pub: Avanquest Software Publishing Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
Why similar: City Builder 48.6%, Medieval 18.2%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 15%, Indie 3.2%
- #48 Great Houses of Calderia
70% matchMixed61% of 418 reviews2024
Dev: Resistance GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Resource Management 19%, Medieval 16.3%, Management 15%, Sandbox 12%, Economy 10%
- #49 Hammerting
70% matchMixed57% of 2,576 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%
- #50 Castle Craft
67% matchVery Positive87% of 359 reviews2025
Dev: Twin EarthPub: Astra Logical
Windows
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 23.3%, Base Building 16%, Medieval 14.5%, Building 12.4%, Survival 11.5%
- #51 MicroTown
68% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Medieval 9.5%
- #52 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
69% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 7.6%, Survival 7.5%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #53 Stronghold: Warlords
68% matchMixed65% of 5,227 reviews2021
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.7%, Medieval 9.1%
- #54 Feudal Fantasy Incremental
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 101 reviews2023
Dev: Luminosity Interactive
Windows
Feudal Fantasy is a short active incremental game in which you rebuild a town once lost to tragedy as its lord, by managing upgrades, new buildings and recruiting the wisdom of fantasy races.
Why similar: Resource Management 29.5%, Management 16.1%, Medieval 15.3%, City Builder 10.6%, Building 8.2%
- #55 Bellwright
64% 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 25.3%, Medieval 17.9%, Crafting 16.9%, Building 14.4%, Survival 13.1%
- #56 Rising Lords
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2024
Dev: ArgonwoodPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!
Why similar: Medieval 26.6%, City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 20.4%, Strategy 9.7%, Sandbox 9%
- #57 Monarch : Medieval Remastered
65% matchVery Positive81% of 375 reviews2025
Dev: Mr.Lordy
Windows
In the medieval era, assume the role of a lord and engage with other lords,develop fiefdoms, and employ strategies involving intrigue, warfare, and plunder. Expand your territory and strengthen your house lineage Or, be a god, manipulate the world? This game primarily strategic role-playing elements
Why similar: Medieval 24.4%, Management 16.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Strategy RPG 11.3%, Strategy 9.7%
- #58 Darfall
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 470 reviews2025
Dev: SquareNitePub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%