Games Like Kenshi

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 26.7%, Survival 16.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Management 13.9%, Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers Kenshi's merciless emergent storytelling through individually skilled colonists, raids, trading, survival logistics, and expandable base management.

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: RTS 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Stealth 11.2%, Character Customization 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its open zombie apocalypse lets you recruit survivors, build and defend a community, manage needs, and create unscripted faction-driven survival stories.

A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.

Why similar: Open World 33.1%, Sandbox 27.3%, Character Customization 16.9%, RPG 15.3%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Kenshi, it lets you begin as a vulnerable wanderer, build a party, trade or fight across a living world, and eventually command armies or rule land.

The Matchless Kungfu is an open world sandbox RPG game based on a WuXia background. You can play any martial arts role you imagine in this wild world. Travel through the great wilderness, or be the leader of the group. The most important thing is, build your own story and live the experience!

Why similar: Strategy RPG 15.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This martial-arts sandbox emphasizes open-ended wandering, cultivation, survival, building, NPC relationships, and shaping your own world.

Bringing you to an exotic desert where you’ll recruit, train, and guide your troops into battle against rival cities and factions. Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours; Customizable characters, professions, and factions. The land is filled with a variety of hidden secrets.

Why similar: Open World 30.4%, Sandbox 19.4%, Action RPG 18.9%, Character Customization 17.8%, RPG 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: You can recruit and develop a roaming force, navigate competing factions, trade, conquer settlements, and pursue a self-made career in a desert sandbox.

Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 51.5%, Character Customization 31.6%, RPG 16.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Kenshi's appeal of turning weak, expendable recruits into a hardened mercenary company while surviving a dangerous and unforgiving world.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Survival 24.7%, Open World 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its brutally detailed survival simulation, base building, scavenging, and emergent character deaths capture Kenshi's constant sense of hard-won progress.

Successor to the roguelike RPG "Elona". Adventure, survival, crafting, home-building, myths passed down, and stories of humans and Elea spun. What scars will you leave on the land of Ylva?

Why similar: Character Customization 33%, Open World 27.9%, Sandbox 25.9%, RPG 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its deeply systemic roguelike sandbox supports companions, homes, crafting, factional life, survival, and a huge amount of player-directed chaos.

Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 37.4%, Open World 25.8%, RPG 14.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a mercenary band through dangerous regions, scarce supplies, tactical fights, and player-chosen contracts makes it a strong squad-focused alternative.

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: Base Building 21.5%, Building 17.8%, Sandbox 16.9%, Management 15.8%, Survival 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its unmatched simulation depth and fortress management create the same kind of unpredictable, player-authored disasters, victories, and settlement stories.

It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

Why similar: Survival 16.2%, RTS 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of scavenging, recruiting NPCs, building a safehouse, and navigating zombie-infested factions is a compact but very Kenshi-like survival loop.

Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

Why similar: Open World 39.9%, Character Customization 24.5%, Survival 22.9%, RPG 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: This strange post-apocalyptic sandbox rewards exploration, mutation-driven character builds, faction interaction, crafting, and surviving an alien world on your own terms.

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.7%, Survival 26.6%, Crafting 16.2%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its tense post-apocalyptic scavenging, injuries, hunger, crafting, and ruthless consequences strongly match Kenshi's vulnerable early-game survival feel.

Hero's Adventure:Road to Passion is a wuxia open-world RPG. You will commence your journey as an underdog in the tumultuous Martial World and will be met with a wide array of choices as you navigate your own heroic saga.

Why similar: Open World 38.7%, Stealth 28.3%, RPG 22.9%, Simulation 7.9%, Character Customization 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: This open-ended wuxia RPG offers recruitable companions, martial-arts growth, faction allegiances, survival-like hardship, and many ways to live in its world.

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 23.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Simulation 14.2%, Survival 12.8%, RPG 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a demanding settlement simulation with martial-arts advancement, disciples to train, resource management, and plenty of systemic catastrophe.

Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?

Why similar: Sandbox 19.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world sandbox RPG lets you influence factions, build a base, craft, recruit, and leave a lasting mark on a procedurally generated world.

UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 42.8%, RPG 23.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its punishing post-apocalyptic setting, resource pressure, build depth, exploration, and faction choices make it a good fit for Kenshi's harsher RPG side.

Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.

Why similar: RPG 33.3%, Survival 32.4%, Sandbox 20.7%, Open World 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its slow, punishing adventuring, injuries, hunger, trading, and deliberate character development suit players who enjoy Kenshi's vulnerable beginnings.

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: Survival 24.3%, Open World 23.4%, Crafting 22.3%, Building 17.5%, RPG 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: You start as an outlaw surviving in an open medieval world before recruiting villagers, building settlements, training forces, and challenging local powers.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Survival 14.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic base building, recruit management, scavenging expeditions, and desperate defense against overwhelming threats echo Kenshi's colony side.

Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Lead a traveling company through a harsh, unforgiving world where survival is never guaranteed in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 39.6%, Open World 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, RPG 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: You lead a caravan of specialists through a hostile post-apocalyptic world where supplies, trading, faction politics, and difficult decisions matter constantly.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Sandbox 17%, Crafting 16.6%, Open World 16.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its open survival world lets you explore, craft, build a settlement, recruit NPC settlers, and gradually turn a vulnerable camp into a thriving base.

The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.1%, Sandbox 23%, Immersive Sim 20.8%, Survival 20.3%, RPG 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This extraordinarily detailed apocalypse sandbox supports scavenging, crafting, vehicles, settlements, followers, mutations, and near-limitless emergent survival stories.

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: Base Building 18%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 13%, Management 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Though set in space, its crew needs, recruitable characters, ship construction, scavenging, trade, and emergent survival failures feel very Kenshi-like.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Base Building 26.7%, Survival 23.3%, Open World 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Recruiting survivors, securing resources, developing a community, and making difficult decisions in a hostile open world mirrors Kenshi's settlement-survival arc.

In the anarchic world of Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare, only the mightiest warlord rules. Start with a pistol and a few militias, you will set yourself on a wild and ambitious journey towards world domination. Enjoy the immersive combination of intense FPS and sandbox strategy.

Why similar: Open World 29.2%, Sandbox 27.8%, RTS 21.3%, RPG 17.6%, Simulation 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It blends first-person combat with recruiting troops, trading, faction warfare, and territory ambitions in an open-ended war-torn setting.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Building 19%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 17%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This large-scale survival sandbox lets you recruit and command NPCs, establish fortified bases, craft an economy, and wage factional warfare.

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.2%, Open World 23.3%, Immersive Sim 21.9%, Management 20%, Simulation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It trades swords for spaceships, but offers the same self-directed climb from lone survivor to trader, fleet commander, industrialist, or factional power.

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

Why similar: Open World 44.3%, Survival 29.8%, RPG 25.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving travel, survival needs, faction paths, crafting, and emphasis on preparation provide a similarly grounded open-world RPG journey.

Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 16.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%

In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!

Why similar: Open World 41%, Sandbox 32.3%, RPG 21.7%, Simulation 5%

Lead a samurai invasion into the mysterious island of Awaji! Recruit, promote, and upgrade your warriors while navigating the ancient world of feudal Japan. Use samurai weapons and strategies to conquer the entire island and become Warlord!

Why similar: Samurai 47.7% ★, Swordplay 15.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 10.1%

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: RTS 17.1%, Real Time Tactics 16.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.9%

Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.

Why similar: Open World 31%, Sandbox 23.6%, RPG 21.1%, Action RPG 11.4%, Character Customization 9.3%

This Three Kingdoms sandbox RPG lets you do whatever you wish in the late Han Dynasty. Be a ruler, courtier, or hermit. Make friends, marry, raise children, manage estates, train yourself & allies, govern, drill troops, experience & alter history, and conquer all to win the hearts of the people.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 25.7%, Action RPG 18.3%, Immersive Sim 16.3%, Building 12.3%, RPG 9.8%

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 16.6%, Building 16.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 10%

This survival game is packed with features including crafting, exploring, building, excavation, farming, fishing, capturing creatures, torture, battle, and a story with many forks along the way. The objective is to escape the island, but is that really your only choice?

Why similar: Open World 19.8%, Survival 18.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Character Customization 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%

KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.

Why similar: Open World 19.2%, Building 19.1%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 14.2%, Sandbox 13.2%

Age of Reforging: The Freelands is a medieval high-freedom sandbox adventure CRPG. You'll be a reforger in the freelands chosen by the Goddess to embark on a medieval adventure tour at your own pace, gathering teammates, fighting for survival, and craft your unique legend!

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 19.1%, RTS 15.7%, Strategy RPG 14.2%, Real Time Tactics 13%, Sandbox 12%

Blackthorn Arena is a strategy/management sim with a real-time/turn based combat system, set in a world of mythical monsters and classic fantasy races. Play as the master of Blackthorn Arena, train your slaves into gladiators, forge them into your champions, and send them to fight for your glory!

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 28.2%, Building 17.8%, Sandbox 16.8%, Management 16.8%, Open World 12.6%

In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.

Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 13.5%

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: Crafting 19.9%, Open World 19.5%, Sandbox 17.5%, Survival 17.3%, Building 16.7%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Party-Based RPG 11.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy RPG 10%, Crafting 8.3%

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 18.4%, Open World 16.8%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.9%

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: Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Management 11.4%, Building 11.3%, Open World 10.4%

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.5%, Base Building 21.9%, Survival 20.4%, Management 9.1%, Building 7.6%

A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.6%, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 15%, Building 10%, Management 9.3%

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Survival 18%, Base Building 16%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Open World 13.1%, Building 12.2%

Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 16%, Stealth 15.4%, Base Building 15%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Crafting 12%

Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.

Why similar: Base Building 30.9%, Sandbox 23%, Open World 21.5%, Crafting 19.4%, RPG 5.1%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Crafting 20.7%, Survival 17.1%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 13.3%, Building 12.8%

Disgraced is a unique samurai themed role playing game that allows players to lead a rebellion in a fight for freedom against a cruel and tyrannical Shogun in Feudal Japan.

Why similar: Samurai 48.4% ★, Party-Based RPG 17.1%, Character Customization 10.5%, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 8.5%

Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and factions who shape your fate.

Why similar: Base Building 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12.6%

Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...

Why similar: Strategy RPG 15.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 11.4%

Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.

Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Character Customization 13.1%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 12.8%

Welcome to Han Xiongnu Wars. A stand-along game and synergy of historical Far East and multiple features in role-playing, real-time strategy and action gameplay. This game brings you to the eventful years of the early Han Dynasty, and faithfully presents the ancient eastern culture with many objects and scenes faithfully reconstructed...

Why similar: RTS 24.2%, Sandbox 17.9%, Open World 16.7%, Action RPG 16.2%, Character Customization 15.6%

Forge your epic in Huaxia: Warring States. Form your clan, conquer the lands, and build an empire. The fate of heaven & earth lies within you hands.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 17.6%, Real Time Tactics 16.9%, Action RPG 11.8%, Character Customization 11%, Management 11%

Mortal Online is a first-person medieval fantasy MMORPG, set in a huge, open, unforgiving world. Choose your race, choose your playstyle, choose a profession, choose where to place your loyalties - if you have any...

Why similar: Open World 31.6%, Sandbox 27.2%, Survival 18.9%, Crafting 11.9%, RPG 10.3%

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: RTS 17.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 12.1%

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.

Why similar: Base Building 20.8%, Survival 19.2%, Open World 17.8%, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 13%