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Games Like First Feudal

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Building, Strategy, Survival.

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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.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 76% — of 627 reviews
Released: 2021-04-08
Developer: Harpoon Games
Publisher: Gamirror Games
Genres: Action, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 3.6 hrs
Mean playtime: 11.6 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 81%

Overview

First Feudal excels at blending the intricate resource management of a colony-sim with the satisfying progression of building a fortified medieval castle. These recommendations focus on games that capture this specific loop of starting from humble beginnings, managing individual peasant needs, and defending your growing settlement against external threats.

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  1. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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.

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    76% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,719 reviews2022
    Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 12.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 8.9%

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    76% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
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    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%

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    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9%, Resource Management 7.8%

  34. #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%

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  35. #35 Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
    75% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,722 reviews2021
    Dev: Black Eye GamesPub: Ravenscourt
    Windows
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    73% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2026
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    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.

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  37. #37 Stonehearth
    74% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
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    71% matchVery Positive85% of 218 reviews2025
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    Windows
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  42. #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%

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    68% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
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    Windows
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    73% matchMixed53% of 342 reviews2016
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    Why similar: City Builder 48.6%, Medieval 18.2%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 15%, Indie 3.2%

  48. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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%

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