Games Like House of Legacy

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 16.3%, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Management 10%, Sandbox 9.7%, Economy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation of noble families managing their estates and subjects in a medieval setting with high stakes for failure.

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 23.2%, Diplomacy 13.9% ★, Historical 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly detailed medieval city-building experience that emphasizes realistic resource management and tactical territorial control.

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: City Builder 19.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Economy 12%, Management 11.9%, Base Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the essence of rising from a small estate to a powerful clan through colony management and strategic planning.

Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 16.6% ★, Management 16.3%, Historical 15.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Economy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive experience for managing a noble dynasty through generations of diplomacy, marriage, and political intrigue.

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: Diplomacy 30.6% ★, Economy 14.5%, Management 14.4%, Sandbox 12%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines grand strategy with a strong focus on managing the relationships and resources of competing noble houses.

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: Sandbox 17.8%, Open World 16.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 15.3%, Historical 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the personal journey of building a settlement from scratch and establishing a family line that spans decades.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Economy 13.1%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build a multi-generational stronghold while managing the survival and social needs of your settlers.

SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.

Why similar: Economy 16.6%, Management 14.5%, City Builder 12%, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of life simulation and strategy where you manage a family business and influence the local economy over time.

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 38.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 10.7%, Economy 9.9%, Resource Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less medieval city-builder that prioritizes organic growth and the management of a thriving, interconnected community.

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Why similar: Sandbox 27.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Base Building 12.2%, RPG 11.3%, Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep simulation of managing a sect, focusing on long-term growth and the legacy of your disciples.

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: Sandbox 29.5%, Open World 22.7%, Life Sim 19.7%, RPG 12.4%, Simulation 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes the importance of family lineage and preparing for harsh seasonal changes.

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 25.3%, Base Building 13%, Open World 12%, Management 10.5%, Historical 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and city-building mechanics with the goal of establishing a lasting legacy in feudal Japan.

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 39.4%, Open World 23.5%, Survival 8.8%, Life Sim 8%, RPG 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends settlement building with the personal journey of leading a rebellion and establishing a new dynasty.

Start as a humble commoner and guide your family through generations in this family sim meets city builder. Climb the ranks of society to become the most influential family in the land. With wit, strategy, and a bit of luck, build your legacy - just try not to trip over your ambition!

Why similar: Economy 17.2%, Sandbox 16.7%, Management 16.4%, Historical 13.3%, Life Sim 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the tactical and economic aspects of managing a medieval estate and its surrounding lands.

Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

Why similar: Management 29.5%, Economy 24%, Sandbox 12%, Life Sim 10.1%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: While modern in setting, it offers the most detailed economic and management simulation for those who enjoy building a business empire.

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: City Builder 27.6%, Economy 14.9%, Management 13.5%, Historical 13%, Base Building 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging city-builder that requires careful management of resources and defense to ensure your settlement survives the winter.

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: City Builder 33.8%, Management 16.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 8%, Economy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-oriented city-builder that emphasizes trade, resource management, and adapting to a changing environment.

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: City Builder 25%, Management 12%, Historical 11.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Economy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep, realistic medieval economic systems that reward careful planning and long-term infrastructure development.

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: City Builder 20.1%, Management 12.4%, Economy 12.4%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and economic growth of a medieval craft business, perfect for those who enjoy the trade aspects of House of Legacy.

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 28.6%, Sandbox 16%, Economy 14.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Supports massive scale city-building and dynasty-like management, allowing for complex economic and political systems.

In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?

Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Historical 14.9%, Management 12.9%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that integrates cultural and economic management within a beautifully realized ancient Chinese setting.

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: Diplomacy 19% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Economy 9.9%, Management 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled level of economic and logistical complexity for players who enjoy deep management simulations.

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: City Builder 26.8%, Management 17.1%, Sandbox 16.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate simulation game where the history of your fortress and the stories of its inhabitants create a unique, emergent legacy.

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: Diplomacy 22.5% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Management 9%, Economy 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique perspective on base-building and colony management through the lens of insect societies.

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: City Builder 25.3%, Management 11.8%, Economy 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A more accessible city-builder that focuses on the challenges of defending and growing a medieval kingdom.

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: City Builder 20.4%, Management 11.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Historical 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony sim that balances settlement management with the needs of the local ecosystem and population.

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: Base Building 20.2%, City Builder 18.8%, Management 16.2%, Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A premier colony simulator that excels at generating personal stories and managing the long-term survival of a group.

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: Diplomacy 23.3% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Economy 8.8%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.3%

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: Diplomacy 24.6% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Economy 8.6%, Management 8.5%, Sandbox 8.3%

Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

Why similar: Sandbox 20.1%, Life Sim 19.4%, Open World 15.5%, Management 12.8%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty life simulation that focuses on the struggle for economic stability and personal growth in a challenging environment.

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

Why similar: Diplomacy 18.7% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Economy 9.3%, Management 9.3%, Base Building 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: Diplomacy 22.2% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Economy 8.8%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%

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: City Builder 47.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 6.6%, Economy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic city-builder that focuses on the struggle for survival and the careful management of a growing population.

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Diplomacy 31.9% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Economy 14.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Historical 12.8%, Management 12.1%

To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!

Why similar: Diplomacy 27.7% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 10.2%

"Legend of Heroes: Three Kingdoms" is a single-player RPG where you shape the Three Kingdoms era. Choose to be a ruler, a loyal advisor, or a cunning mercenary. Marry, build homes, or train in martial arts. Restore peace through diplomacy or conquer with mighty armies.

Why similar: Historical 36.1%, RPG 23.5%, Simulation 20.7%, Strategy 19.7%

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: City Builder 52.1%, Resource Management 13.2%, Open World 8.1%, Strategy 6.6%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a realistic approach to medieval settlement management with a focus on survival and terraforming.

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 28.1%, Management 13.5%, Historical 13.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.2%

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 29.9%, Economy 16.9%, Historical 14.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.3%

Make movies, even if someone has to die. Take the helm of a major Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema, and guide it through decades of creative achievements and glamor, debauchery and dark deeds, tough choices and unpleasant compromises.

Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Real-Time with Pause 20.3% ★, Economy 15.4%, Historical 10.4%, Management 8.1%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.9% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Management 11.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Economy 9.7%

The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!

Why similar: Economy 26.2%, Life Sim 15.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 9.5%, Simulation 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: City Builder 24.3%, Management 14.4%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.7%, Historical 10.7%

Once there was a prosperous village of Martials, now none of it remains. As the son of the former Master, you will lead your followers to rebuild this village. Recruit followers and enter the mysterious illusional domain, acquire lost wonders. Will you see the rebirth of ancestors’ glory again?

Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 15.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Simulation 6.6%

Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend, it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

Why similar: Management 26.4%, Economy 25.6%, Sandbox 17%, Life Sim 11.2%, Simulation 8.4%

In this cultivation 4X strategy game, your sect has been in peril, and so they open a portal—sending you, a young disciple and their last hope, inside. Stand tall as the new sect leader and guide disciples to rebuild what was lost. Sharpen your focus, master alchemy, and ascend to immortality.

Why similar: Sandbox 21.8%, Management 19.9%, Economy 17%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 11.9%

Destiny of Immortal is a cultivation RPG with branching plots and the nonstop wish-fulfillment thrills of a top web novel. At creation's dawn, a few Treasures of Creation were born, each world-reshaping. One falls into your hands by chance—and your immortal rise begins.

Why similar: Economy 24.8%, Sandbox 23.9%, Open World 20.8%, RPG 11.5%, Simulation 8.4%

Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.

Why similar: Diplomacy 23.9% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Management 13%, Resource Management 9.3%, Historical 7.7%

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 31.6%, Sandbox 19.6%, Management 17.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 5.9%

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: Diplomacy 23.9% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Management 8.8%, Economy 8.4%, Sandbox 8%

Experience the first months after a brutal assault on your own estate in the free prologue of a realistic simulator of a medieval noble combined with a strategy game of historical depth. Manage your town and villages and make decisions in non-linear events.

Why similar: Diplomacy 33.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 11.2%, Management 10.4%, Historical 9.5%

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

Why similar: Diplomacy 27% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Historical 9.9%, Economy 9.7%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Management 13.3%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 8.6%

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: City Builder 26.5%, Management 16.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Economy 12.6%, Open World 10.1%

Polismos is a city builder set in ancient Greece. To ensure your city's prosperity you will need to care for your people, trade valuable resources, enact wise policies, and maybe even dominate other cities.

Why similar: Historical 20.4%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 16.2%, Open World 13.1%, Economy 7.8%

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Management 19.5%, Economy 17.9%, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%

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 38.2%, Management 13.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Economy 11.3%, Resource Management 7.2%

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Economy 14.2%, Management 10.5%, Historical 10.3%

If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Sandbox 19%, Base Building 18.3%, Open World 16.4%, Resource Management 11.7%