Games Like Kingdom Two Crowns

Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Minimalist 9.8%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match outside the seed itself, using the same side-scrolling coin economy, day-night pacing, exploration, and minimalist kingdom defense.

Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

Why similar: Tower Defense 14.7%, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original Kingdom delivers the same stripped-down loop of recruiting subjects, expanding outward, and surviving nightly attacks in a quiet pixel world.

Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.9%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 13%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This entry keeps the signature Kingdom formula of riding out, spending currency wisely, and holding the line against night assaults, just with a more narrative 80s skin.

A 2D side-scrolling strategy game of resource management, base defense and conquest.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, Base Building 18.3%, Building 12.3%, Medieval 10.9%, Local Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It closely echoes Kingdom’s side-on kingdom management and exploration-driven base defense while adding its own fantasy strategy twists.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.2%, City Builder 21.6%, Minimalist 12%, Medieval 10.8%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Kingdom Two Crowns, it turns base-building and nightly defense into a clean, readable, minimalist strategy loop with strong atmosphere.

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: City Builder 23%, Base Building 20.2%, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Building 11%, Medieval 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another focused medieval base-builder about fortifying a small kingdom by day and surviving attacks by night.

Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island.

Why similar: Tower Defense 48.2%, Minimalist 22%, Survival 15.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its elegant controls, beautiful minimal presentation, and constant pressure to position defenses well make it a great fit for Kingdom’s tactical simplicity.

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: Tower Defense 26.7%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends village growth, automated defenses, and escalating survival pressure in a way that scratches Kingdom’s build-and-hold appeal.

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 31.2% ★, Base Building 19.7%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Medieval 17.1%, Survival 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same satisfaction of building up a settlement and preparing layered defenses against overwhelming enemy waves, only on a larger RTS scale.

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 36.1%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 12.5%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a compact 2D strategy game about building a settlement and surviving recurring monster attacks, very close to Kingdom’s core tension.

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 31.1%, Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Medieval 11%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the fantasy kingdom-building fantasy and defensive city-planning, though with a broader and less minimalist management style.

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Tower Defense 63%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Singleplayer 6.3%, Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the sci-fi setting, its addictive cycle of resource runs followed by pressure-filled defensive nights mirrors Kingdom’s cadence surprisingly well.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.2%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, City Builder 19%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on constructing defenses, managing limited resources, and withstanding nightly hordes makes it a strong modern counterpart.

No Heroes Here is a frantic co-op game for 1 to 4 players, available in local and online modes. Craft and use several items effectively whilst coordinating your ragtag band of non-heroes to defend castles and survive! ...Oh, as well as saving the Kingdom in the meantime!

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.8%, Medieval 13.5%, Local Multiplayer 13.4%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Co-op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op castle defense game captures Kingdom’s frantic improvisation under siege, especially if you enjoy the multiplayer side of Two Crowns.

Command your elven army and defend mystical lands from sea serpents, evil sorcerers, and wave after wave of gnoll tribesman, all with the help of brand-spankin’ new towers, heroes, and spells to fend off every last baddie.

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.3%, Building 15.5%, Medieval 13.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Fantasy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the exploration and base-building, but its fantasy theme and polished, pressure-heavy defense gameplay make it a natural adjacent pick.

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its rhythm of gathering resources, expanding a tiny settlement, and defending against night threats feels very much in Kingdom’s lane.

Get ready for an epic journey to defend your kingdom against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards and other nasty fiends using a vast arsenal of towers and spells at your command!Fight on forests, mountains and wastelands, customizing your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and specializations!

Why similar: Tower Defense 67.7%, Medieval 12.5%, Strategy 8.5%, Fantasy 6.8%, Adventure 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on readable defenses, escalating waves, and clean strategy scratches part of the same tower-defense itch.

Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets of the ancients.

Why similar: Survival 35.3%, Simulation 26.9%, Strategy 23.6%, Atmospheric 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly pared-down survival-management loop where daytime planning and nighttime defense are tightly linked.

A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.7%, City Builder 19.8%, Survival 14.1%, Fantasy 10.3%, Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This side-view kingdom defense game also revolves around balancing economy growth and military survival under constant wave pressure.

Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 11.7%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-scrolling perspective, narrow-frontier expansion, and constant need to defend a vulnerable base make it feel like a harsher post-apocalyptic cousin.

Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Medieval 10.4%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its appeal similarly comes from building a medieval stronghold, balancing economy and defenses, and holding off enemy assaults.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Tower Defense 20.1%, City Builder 11.8%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Kingdom is building a fragile settlement into a fortress against swarming nightly enemies, this is a heavier but excellent match.

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 29.1% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It takes the fortify-your-settlement-against-raids idea into a more detailed colony sim while keeping the same medieval survival spirit.

Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

Why similar: Tower Defense 43.6%, Base Building 22.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Fantasy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This also centers on rebuilding and fortifying a settlement between brutal enemy waves, with a similarly satisfying survive-the-night structure.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2% ★, Building 19.2%, City Builder 13.4%, Survival 10.1%, Tower Defense 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its 2D base-building, resource gathering, and defense against recurring attacks offer a more sandboxy take on the same build-protect-expand loop.

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.6%, Medieval 11.4%, Survival 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: While much larger in scale, it strongly echoes Kingdom’s core thrill of preparing by day and desperately surviving overwhelming night attacks.

Command your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!

Why similar: Tower Defense 58.9%, Building 15%, Strategy 9.4%, Fantasy 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is another excellent fit if the nightly siege aspect of Kingdom Two Crowns is what you most want more of.

The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.4%, City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Medieval 12.3%, Fantasy 7%

As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.6%, City Builder 24.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Medieval 12.3%, Strategy 5.7%

Take on wild beasts, ruthless soldiers, and ancient gods in this 2D Action-Platformer inspired by Tower-Defense combat.

Why similar: Tower Defense 51.5%, Co-op 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Local Multiplayer 9.7%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes pixel-art side-scrolling with base defense and co-op, making it a good fit if you like Kingdom’s 2D perspective and defensive focus.

From the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph comes the first ever survival RTS set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian. Play solo or team up in multiplayer in Conan Unconquered’s action-packed co-op Mode where you build a shared stronghold and fend off the hordes together.

Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Co-op 10.5%, Base Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses heavily on building a defensible settlement and surviving massive recurring assaults, matching Kingdom’s fortify-and-endure fantasy.

Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!

Why similar: Tower Defense 63.8%, Fantasy 17.3%, Strategy 14.5%, Singleplayer 4.4%

In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Tower Defense 12.3%, Building 11%

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 35.2% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Medieval 9.9%, Simulation 9%

Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!

Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Building 7.2%

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2% ★, Building 19.2%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Survival 8%, Strategy 7.6%

The King's dimensional orb has malfunctioned, bringing hordes of monsters into the Kingdom. Defend your safeground against the monsters by gathering resources, building defenses, upgrading your arsenal, and surviving long enough to find the source of monsters and destroy it.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Co-op 11.1%, Survival 10.4%, Building 8.3%

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.5%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.6%

Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.9%, Base Building 19.2%, Medieval 15.1%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 7%

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 30.7%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Medieval 7.4%, Co-op 6.5%

TOWER ▪ DEFENSE ▪ STRATEGY. Control Vessels. Utilize their uniquely deep set of towers. Create an everchanging defense. Play with friends. Protect your Basin at all costs. An absolute Tower Defense, Real-Time Strategy Hybrid

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.7%, Building 12.9%, Co-op 11.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.7%

It's payback time! Lead your mighty dark army and make the Kingdom tremble with every step. Build powerful towers, choose your arsenal for destruction, and find the deadliest combination - train legendary heroes and lead them to victory!

Why similar: Tower Defense 56.4%, Medieval 19.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Fantasy 7.5%, Adventure 3.9%

clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.1%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 17.8%, Strategy 10.4%, Medieval 7.9%

You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.3%, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.1%

Step into the role of a lord, starting from scratch to build your kingdom. Gather resources, construct buildings, recruit troops, explore, and embark on adventures to continuously expand your territory and defend your homeland.

Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Minimalist 16.9%, Medieval 15.6%, Survival 14.3%, Building 14.3%

Islets Defense is a turn-based tower defense game in which you build a small village to gather resources and defend your castle. Carefully plan your actions, as each move brings the enemy waves closer! Strategize building placements and play your cards wisely, as timing and order are key.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.8%, City Builder 24%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.4%, Medieval 9%

Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Tower Defense 19.1%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Medieval 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%

Will you be the savior to purify this land? The Monarch is a lane-defense game where you control a monarch, expand your kingdom, and defend against evil by strategically managing gold resources, recruiting diverse units, and exploring a world filled with mythical threats.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.8%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Medieval 11.7%, Survival 10.8%

Will you be the savior to purify this land? The Monarch is a lane-defense game where you control a monarch, expand your kingdom, and defend against evil by strategically managing gold resources, recruiting diverse units, and exploring a world filled with mythical threats.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.2%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 11.6%, Medieval 11.4%

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: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Building 12.3%, Medieval 6.4%

Build and defend using a modular system of castle blocks. Fend off enemies who will climb over and break through your defenses. Collect new blocks and research techs to improve their strengths. From lowly soldiers to powerful siege weapons; defeat them all as you strive to protect your kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 42.1%, Medieval 19%, Building 15.6%, Minimalist 14.1%, Strategy 7.6%

Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters. Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom by combining buildings, unlocking synergies, and creating efficient layouts.

Why similar: City Builder 37.1%, Building 19.9%, Medieval 14.2%, Minimalist 9.7%, Strategy 6.6%

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Building 16.6%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Co-op 13%, Survival 12.8%

Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.1%, Medieval 9.8%

Take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.4%, Minimalist 16.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10%

The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Tower Defense 20%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 8.6%, Building 8.2%

Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.

Why similar: Tower Defense 53.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Minimalist 10.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Building 6.9%

The castle needs a hero – hordes of trolls are surrounding it! Build towers, save money, learn spells - don't let the enemy in! Follow the exciting story of the dwarven kingdom's eternal struggle against the troll hordes, who want only to crush the dwarves and claim their territory.

Why similar: Tower Defense 58.6%, Strategy 15.6%, Fantasy 10.3%, Co-op 7.1%, Adventure 5.8%

Lift and throw anything as you build and manage your kingdom in this chaotic city builder for 1-6 players. Harness the power of your soul-stealing crown to defend your citizens from bandits and mutants, farm the land, and gather resources. Keep citizens happy or see them desert you!

Why similar: City Builder 39.5%, Building 22.7%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9%, Simulation 7.5%