Games Like Going Medieval

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Historical 16%, Base Building 15.5%, Colony Sim 9.2%, Moddable 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Blends highly detailed medieval city-building with tactical combat and organic village growth.

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 24.2%, Moddable 15.8%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 9.4%, Survival 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-sim experience that shares the same core management and emergent storytelling DNA as Going Medieval.

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 32.9%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Economy 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on organic city expansion and complex social management without the constraints of a rigid grid system.

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 22.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for deep, complex simulation and procedural world-building that inspired the entire colony-sim genre.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 23.7%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Survival 16%, Crafting 11.7%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a 3D engine and gameplay loop that feels like a sci-fi spiritual successor to the mechanics found in Going Medieval.

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 20.6%, City Builder 19.6%, Historical 13.1%, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a challenging survival-focused city-builder experience with deep resource management and production chains.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Voxel 18.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Nature 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes voxel-based building and unique water management mechanics to create a distinct city-building challenge.

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 16.4%, Moddable 14.3%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Historical 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intricate social and political dynamics of a medieval noble family managing their domain.

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 37.2%, Crafting 17.6%, Sandbox 17.3%, Relaxing 10.4%, RPG 8%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony sim that emphasizes family lineage, survival, and adapting to harsh seasonal changes.

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 20.8%, Moddable 16.9%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for massive-scale colony management with deep simulation of thousands of individual inhabitants.

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 19.8%, City Builder 18.1%, Economy 9.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an accessible medieval building experience with a strong emphasis on tower defense and survival.

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 33.2%, City Builder 27.9%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 6.2%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city-builder that established the core loop of managing resources to survive harsh winters.

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 24%, City Builder 22.6%, Management 10%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes trade, production chains, and population management.

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 35.9%, Survival 23.6%, Crafting 20%, RPG 5.9%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines third-person medieval survival with the ability to build and manage a growing rebellion of villagers.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 20.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Historical 14.4%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines first-person survival and exploration with the long-term goal of building a thriving village.

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 17.6%, City Builder 17.5%, Historical 11.2%, Base Building 10%, Economy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features highly detailed historical city-building with a focus on realistic logistics and local production.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 30.2%, Survival 10.1%, Historical 8.2%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to guide a group of humans through the ages, focusing on survival and technological progression.

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 39.5%, City Builder 33%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 5.5%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-heavy medieval settlement management game that requires careful planning to keep your population alive.

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 30.3%, City Builder 22.5%, Voxel 12.3% ★, Sandbox 10%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming voxel-based colony sim that focuses on building, combat, and managing the needs of your settlers.

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 20.6%, City Builder 15.5%, Moddable 13.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that gives you god-like control over your subjects and emphasizes character interactions and personality.

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 27.8%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 9.8%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-compatible city-builder that uses card-based progression to manage your colony's growth.

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 22.1%, City Builder 17.9%, Moddable 11.4%, Survival 8.7%, Economy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that incorporates social policies and complex survival mechanics into the management loop.

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 17.7%, Moddable 16%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 10.9%, Economy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the production and management aspects of a medieval business within a growing settlement.

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 32%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 7%, Survival 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that places a heavy emphasis on colonist personality, needs, and individual development.

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 22.8%, City Builder 17.5%, Economy 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Historical 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A Viking-themed colony sim that requires balancing survival, raiding, and city expansion.

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 28%, City Builder 20.3%, Economy 11.6%, Management 11.5%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the social hierarchy and economic relationships between different classes in a medieval village.

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 24.3%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 10%, Management 8%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-heavy management game that focuses on the survival and growth of a medieval community.

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: Colony Sim 15.8%, Moddable 14.4%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 9.9%, Historical 9.7%

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 16.3%, Moddable 14.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Historical 9.8%

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 28.6%, Economy 24.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Management 12.6%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A Norse-themed city-builder that balances resource management with combat and survival in a cold climate.

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: Moddable 15.8%, City Builder 14.4%, Historical 11.3%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Procedural Generation 8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that emphasizes long-term development and survival in the ancient world.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival and management game that challenges you to rebuild society after a global collapse.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 10.6%

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 27.4%, City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Economy 7.8%

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: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Management 8%

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Historical 12.1%, Survival 10.3%

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 30.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 11%, City Builder 10.3%, Voxel 8.7% ★

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Moddable 13.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 7.7%

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: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 12.6%, Procedural Generation 9.8%

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 20.2%, Management 11.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Nature 9.3%

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%

Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Economy 11.4%, Sandbox 8.9%

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Historical 23%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 8.2%, PvE 6.7%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 14.2%, Moddable 13%, Base Building 10.7%, Historical 9%

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 27.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 10.9%, City Builder 8.5%, Sandbox 7.5%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Historical 9.9%, Management 8.6%

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: Colony Sim 15.2%, Moddable 13.8%, City Builder 13.4%, Historical 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 30%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 13.1%, Strategy 6.5%

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 20.4%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Management 9.9%, Survival 8.4%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 10%, Economy 8%

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 30.8%, City Builder 22.2%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 8.1%

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 21.7%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Management 9.2%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 13.9%, Voxel 13.9% ★, Economy 9.7%, Moddable 9.4%

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 11%, Sandbox 8.6%

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4%, City Builder 15%, Moddable 11.1%, Historical 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%

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 21.2%, Moddable 18.6%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 8.9%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 9.6%, Management 5.2%

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: Colony Sim 15.9%, Moddable 14.1%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Historical 9.8%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Historical 11.9%, Management 9.8%