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 16.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Minimalist 9.8%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the clearest next step from Kingdom Two Crowns, keeping the same side-scrolling coin economy, expansion loop, and nightly Greed defenses in a slightly leaner solo form.

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 13.7%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the original stripped-down version of the same formula, built around the same minimalist kingdom management, exploration, and survive-the-night tension.

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 20.2%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 13%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It reworks the exact Kingdom framework into a new setting, so you still get side-on recruiting, upgrading, and defending against nightly waves with the same elegant flow.

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, Base Building 18.3%, Building 12.2%, Medieval 10.8%, Local Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-scrolling kingdom management, light resource gathering, and recurring pressure to fortify and push outward make it one of the closest non-Kingdom matches on Steam.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.1%, City Builder 21.4%, Minimalist 11.7%, Medieval 10.5%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Kingdom Two Crowns, it compresses city-building and defense into a highly readable, minimalist loop where every day is about preparing for the next night.

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 20.5%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Building 11%, Medieval 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a compact castle builder centered on growing a small settlement by day and surviving concentrated enemy assaults by night.

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 20.4%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 8.7%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is another side-view settlement builder where you expand your borders, manage workers, and prepare defenses against nightly monster attacks.

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 19.6%, Survival 12.5%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same urgent rhythm of building up a tiny medieval settlement fast and then desperately defending it when darkness brings attackers.

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 26.9%, Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines town growth, resource management, and recurring monster sieges in a way that scratches the same builder-meets-defense itch, just at a busier scale.

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 48.4%, Minimalist 22%, Survival 16%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its minimalist presentation, compact tactical decisions, and constant pressure to defend fragile territory create a very similar elegant-strategy feel.

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 11.9%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similarly focused left-to-right base-defense structure, asking you to scavenge, assign workers, and hold out against increasingly dangerous waves.

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 27.9%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.8%, Medieval 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although less minimalist, it nails the cozy-medieval-builder plus reactive defense balance that makes Kingdom so compelling.

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 63.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Adventure 6.3%, Singleplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its loop of gathering resources under time pressure and then returning home to survive the next attack mirrors Kingdom’s elegant risk-reward structure surprisingly well.

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 17.2%, Survival 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: If you like the pressure of building just enough economy and fortification before the next overwhelming wave, this captures that tension in a larger RTS format.

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 28.9%, Local Multiplayer 13.7%, Medieval 13.4%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Co-op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op scramble to load defenses, manage resources, and survive waves captures the hectic communal side of holding a tiny kingdom together.

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: It leans into the same nightly-survival tension, asking you to build up a stronghold and weather massive enemy assaults in a dark fantasy setting.

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 24.5%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 14%, Survival 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its core appeal is designing layered defenses and growing a settlement under relentless nightly threat, with a strong atmospheric sense of holding back the dark.

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 22.3%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Medieval 10.4%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the pleasure of turning a vulnerable medieval settlement into a fortified bastion, which aligns well with Kingdom’s defense-driven base-building.

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 25.1%, Base Building 21.5%, Tower Defense 20.2%, City Builder 12%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a harder, more complex take on the same fantasy of expanding a vulnerable settlement while constantly preparing for devastating horde attacks.

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 43.8%, Base Building 22.5%, Strategy 11%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Fantasy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more tactical and punishing version of the same rebuild-and-defend fantasy, centered on fortifying a last settlement against nightly monstrosities.

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%, City Builder 26.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Medieval 10%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a gentler medieval city-builder, but its focus on growing and protecting a compact kingdom makes it a good fit if you enjoy the builder half of Kingdom most.

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 33.9%, City Builder 20.1%, Survival 14.2%, Fantasy 10.3%, Strategy 10%

Why You'll Like It: Despite using cards, it revolves around the same satisfying pattern of building a small settlement economy while bracing for repeated side-on enemy assaults.

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 28.8%, City Builder 27.5%, Base Building 18.4%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: While fully 3D and deeper, it shares that same fantasy of shaping a frontier settlement and fortifying it against threats in a medieval world.

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 33.1%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.9%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly approachable strategy style where careful expansion, seasonal pressure, and measured resource use matter more than overwhelming micromanagement.

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 34.3%, Building 19.2%, City Builder 13.5%, Survival 10.1%, Tower Defense 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This side-view colony builder blends base construction, resource gathering, and defensive preparation in a way that feels adjacent to Kingdom’s 2D strategy loop.

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.1%, Base Building 20.4%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Building 11.8%, Survival 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a more action-heavy spin on the same satisfying loop of expanding an outpost, optimizing resources, and building enough defenses to survive swarms.

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 29.8%, City Builder 23%, Base Building 17.5%, Medieval 12.1%, Fantasy 6.9%

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 24.6%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Co-op 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its main draw is rapidly building, upgrading, and holding a base against escalating waves, echoing Kingdom’s defensive planning under pressure.

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 30.5%, City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Medieval 12.2%, Strategy 5.6%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 50.6%, Co-op 12.2%, Local Multiplayer 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art mix of exploration, base setup, and active defense offers a comparable blend of atmospheric 2D adventuring and tower-defense pressure.

Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!

Why similar: Strategy 30.9%, Multiplayer 24.5%, Pixel Graphics 22%, Local Multiplayer 15.8%, Co-op 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is another streamlined strategy game that values readability and fast territorial expansion, making it a good fit for players who like Kingdom’s simplicity.

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: Medieval 48.9%, Fantasy 24.3%, Strategy 20.9%, Singleplayer 5.9%

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 47.6%, Building 15.4%, Medieval 13.8%, Strategy 7.3%, Fantasy 6.6%

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%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 7.2%

Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods! Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities.

Why similar: Strategy 80.5%, Tower Defense 17%, Multiplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-scrolling RTS structure and lane-based push-pull battles make it a lighter, more playful match for Kingdom’s horizontal strategy style.

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 17%, Base Building 14.4%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Building 11%

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 18.6%, City Builder 15.9%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Minimalist 9.1%

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 18.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.6%

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 26.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Co-op 11.2%, Survival 10.4%, Building 8.3%

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 31.1%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Medieval 7.4%, Co-op 6.4%

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 34.1%, Base Building 19.3%, Medieval 15%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 6.8%

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 9.5%

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 12.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Fantasy 6.8%, Adventure 2.7%

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 56.8%, Medieval 19.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Fantasy 7.4%, Adventure 3.9%

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: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 21%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12%, Medieval 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 16.5%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.1%

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 34.2%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Medieval 7.9%

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 31%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Medieval 11.7%, Survival 10.8%

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 25.6%, Minimalist 16.8%, Medieval 15.5%, Survival 14.4%, 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 28.9%, City Builder 24.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.4%, Medieval 8.9%

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 59.1%, Building 14.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Fantasy 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%

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 39.2%, 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 26.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Building 12.5%, Minimalist 12.5%, Base Building 10.8%

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 19.3%, Tower Defense 15%, Survival 8%, Strategy 7.5%

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 33.4%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Survival 11.6%, Medieval 11.3%

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 21.7%, Strategy 11.1%, 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 26.1%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 12.3%, Medieval 6.4%

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 21.8%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Medieval 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%

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 42.4%, Medieval 18.9%, Building 15.6%, Minimalist 14%, Strategy 7.5%

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 6.4%