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 20.1%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Minimalist 9.8%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest match, expanding the same side-scrolling coin economy, exploration, recruitment, and nightly Greed defenses into a more varied standalone campaign.

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 14.8%, City Builder 13.8%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original minimalist kingdom-defense experience has the same core loop of spending coins wisely, recruiting subjects, and surviving attacks each night.

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 22.8%, Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 13%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It preserves Kingdom's distinctive side-scrolling micro-strategy and night-defense structure while moving the setting to a colorful 1980s suburban adventure.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.5%, City Builder 21.8%, Minimalist 11.8%, Medieval 10.6%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its stripped-down controls, compact kingdoms, and satisfying cycle of spending resources before defending against enemy waves capture Kingdom's accessible strategic feel.

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.9%, Base Building 18.3%, Building 12.3%, Medieval 10.8%, Local Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling pixel-art strategy game similarly has you lead a ruler, grow an economy, recruit defenders, and protect a settlement from recurring threats.

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 23.1%, Base Building 20.5%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Building 11.1%, Medieval 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: You develop a medieval castle economy during the day and turn it into a defensible stronghold for nighttime sieges.

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 29.9%, City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Medieval 12.1%, Fantasy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This compact fantasy defense-builder mixes kingdom growth and wave survival with the clever limitation that workers act only under the ruler's watchful gaze.

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 28%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.8%, Medieval 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a gentler but more detailed medieval settlement builder where resource planning, walls, soldiers, and monster raids all matter.

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 26.8%, Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art colony management asks you to expand a village, maintain supplies, and create layered defenses against escalating nightly monsters.

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%, Local Multiplayer 13.8%, Medieval 13.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Co-op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This frantic cooperative castle-defense game centers on producing supplies, manning defenses, and holding off invading forces under pressure.

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: City Builder 24.6%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 14%, Survival 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Building custom brick-by-brick fortresses and then watching them withstand enormous nightly hordes offers a deeply satisfying take on Kingdom's prepare-and-defend rhythm.

Sons of Valhalla is a roguelike strategy game set in the Viking Age. Build fortresses, gather warriors, and lay siege to enemy strongholds, engaging in personal combat as you raid and conquer across England.

Why similar: Medieval 41.1%, Fantasy 16.8%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Adventure 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines side-scrolling kingdom expansion, unit recruitment, resource gathering, and fortress assaults in a more action-oriented Viking setting.

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 30.3%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Medieval 12.3%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its small-scale medieval city-building and tower-defense challenges emphasize efficient layouts, resource decisions, and protecting each new settlement.

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 26.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 11.6%, Medieval 11.3%, Survival 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This dark-fantasy RTS is built around expanding a fortified settlement and enduring colossal nightly hordes with heroes, troops, and layered defenses.

In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.6%, City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Building 13.4%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: You construct a settlement, shape defensive chokepoints, and survive invading waves in a focused blend of town-building and tower defense.

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 47.4%, Building 15.4%, Medieval 13.8%, Strategy 7.3%, Fantasy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Although it is map-based rather than a builder, its charming fantasy art, clear upgrades, and highly polished wave defense make it an easy next step for Kingdom fans.

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 24.1%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 12%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It translates Kingdom's side-view expansion and defense loop into a post-apocalyptic setting where you recruit survivors and protect a vulnerable base from nightly mutants.

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%, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 12.6%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: You gather survivors, build a settlement, and establish defenses during the day before undead attacks test your preparations at 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 48.3%, Minimalist 22.1%, Survival 16.1%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its clean visual style and compact defensive battles make it a great fit if you enjoy Kingdom's minimal presentation and pressure to protect vulnerable subjects.

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 29.3%, Tower Defense 19.8%, Base Building 19%, Medieval 17.3%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers medieval resource management and castle construction with an emphasis on preparing for spectacularly oversized siege waves.

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%, Base Building 21.5%, Tower Defense 20.3%, City Builder 12%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Build a self-sufficient colony, fortify every approach, and survive immense enemy swarms in a much larger-scale RTS version of the same tension.

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 12.7%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Adventure 6.4%, Singleplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its appealing loop of gathering resources under pressure and returning to reinforce defenses before the next monster wave echoes Kingdom's day-and-night tension.

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 30.9%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Medieval 11.7%, Survival 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact settlement-building and wave-defense structure closely suits players looking for another ruler-led survival strategy game.

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: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 15.3%, Survival 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-view pixel city-building lets you manage a layered underground society, balance resources, and keep citizens safe from dangers and instability.

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.9%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This Viking strategy game combines territorial expansion, seasonal survival, resource management, and defending a growing clan settlement.

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 43.7%, Base Building 22.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Fantasy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: You rebuild a ruined town and place defenses between nights of desperate monster assaults, with tactical combat adding more depth to each defense.

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 53.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Minimalist 10.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite tower-defense game condenses the satisfying upgrade-and-defend side of Kingdom into repeatable runs with consequential build choices.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 34%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Survival 13.4%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Kingdom's emphasis on leading a vulnerable settlement through scarcity and hard decisions, though its threats are cold, hunger, and social collapse rather than Greed.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.4%, Base Building 23.5%, Building 12.2%, Co-op 7.8%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It makes base expansion and defensive preparation more logistical, asking you to automate resources and build increasingly elaborate defenses against waves.

Kingdom Rush 6: Genesis is a fantasy tower defense strategy game that takes you back in time to the early days of the Kingdom with bold new twists. Build towers, command heroes, and stop Vez’nan’s corruption before it tears the kingdom apart!

Why similar: Tower Defense 45.1%, Medieval 15.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Fantasy 7.6%

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 25.1%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Co-op 10.5%, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This survival RTS focuses on rapidly building a defended stronghold and holding it against escalating waves of enemies in a hostile fantasy world.

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 68%, Medieval 12.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Fantasy 6.8%, Adventure 2.7%

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 20.1%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 7.1%

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 34.9%, City Builder 26.7%, Strategy 10.1%, Medieval 10.1%, Simulation 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 34%, Base Building 19.3%, Medieval 15%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 6.8%

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 20%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Tower Defense 12.3%, Building 11%

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 26.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Co-op 11.1%, Survival 10.4%, Local Multiplayer 8.4%

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 31.2%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Medieval 7.4%, Co-op 6.4%

Play solo or in co-op with friends, 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 18.5%, City Builder 16%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Minimalist 9.1%

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 30.8%, Building 12.9%, Co-op 11.7%, Base Building 10%, Online Co-Op 9.4%

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 22.5%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Medieval 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%

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 20.6%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.7%

A short incremental siege game centered around growing and strengthening an army to defend your kingdom. Seize the crown from an endless wave of enemies for your best chance at survival!

Why similar: Tower Defense 48%, Medieval 20.5%, Fantasy 9.5%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.2%

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 59%, Building 15%, Strategy 9.1%, Fantasy 8%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%

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 56.7%, Medieval 19.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Fantasy 7.5%, Adventure 4%

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 25.5%, Minimalist 16.8%, Medieval 15.5%, Survival 14.5%, Building 14.3%

Kingdoms vs Zombies is a blend of strategy, tower defense, and roguelike gameplay, where you must defend your kingdom against endless hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.1%, Base Building 25.5%, Strategy 14%, Medieval 12.1%, Fantasy 6.6%

Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Recruit and command workers to gather resources, build your camp and set up your defenses during the day. When night falls, fend off waves of deadly creatures with powerful, upgradable weapons.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.2%, City Builder 20.3%, Building 12.5%, Minimalist 12.5%, Base Building 10.8%

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: Fantasy 48.7%, Strategy 39.8%, Singleplayer 11.5%

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 20.4%, Colony Sim 16.4%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.1%

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 24.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.4%, Medieval 8.9%

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 33.3%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 11.6%, Medieval 11.4%

Transform a tiny settlement into a thriving medieval kingdom in this incremental strategy game. Build your economy, command your army, and keep discovering new ways to grow with every milestone.

Why similar: Medieval 38.9%, Fantasy 18.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 8.5%

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 42.3%, Medieval 19%, Building 15.7%, Minimalist 14.1%, Strategy 7.4%

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%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Medieval 7.9%

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%, Building 19.4%, Tower Defense 15%, Survival 8%, Strategy 7.4%

Noble Rulers — grow your realm and expand your castle in this short incremental game! Manage resources, discover foreign lands and build up an army to lay siege to your enemies.

Why similar: Medieval 30%, City Builder 24.8%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%

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 26.2%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 12.3%, Medieval 6.4%

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 37.6%, Building 19.9%, Medieval 14.1%, Minimalist 9.6%, Strategy 6.3%

While a formidable evil emerges, an unexpected alliance is taking shape! It will take the finest warriors of Linirea and the relentless Dark Army to stop it. Beware! Though they may journey side by side the ever-changing winds of fate could swiftly alter their course.

Why similar: Tower Defense 59.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Building 10.4%, Medieval 8.4%, Fantasy 6.2%