Games Like Kingdom Wars 4

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: 4X 13.6% ★, Grand Strategy 13.6% ★, Diplomacy 13.1% ★, Colony Sim 11.2% ★, City Builder 10%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most immersive blend of organic city-building and large-scale real-time tactical combat in a medieval setting.

Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.2% ★, RTS 17.8%, Medieval 13.9%, Strategy 10.3%, 4X 9.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the grand strategy and real-time battle hybrid gameplay found in the Kingdom Wars series.

Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…

Why similar: Grand Strategy 12.9% ★, Diplomacy 11.5% ★, 4X 10.6% ★, RTS 8.8%, City Builder 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: As a direct predecessor in the same franchise, it shares the exact same core mechanics and historical focus.

Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

Why similar: Colony Sim 13.1% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Real Time Tactics 10.2%, RTS 9.2%, Military 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at the city-builder and real-time-tactics hybrid gameplay that defines the defensive and economic side of the genre.

The year is 1510. As wars rage across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, it is the age of gunpowder and mercenaries - that changed the course of history. You can do it as well, going from a leader of men to the ruler of an empire in this unique mix of RTS and grand strategy.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 13.1% ★, Diplomacy 12.4% ★, Wargame 9.3%, RTS 9.2%, Real Time Tactics 7%

Why You'll Like It: This title continues the franchise's tradition of blending real-time strategy with grand-scale historical management.

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.1% ★, 4X 13.5% ★, Historical 11.4%, Medieval 11.4%, RTS 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the deepest grand strategy experience for those who enjoy the political and dynastic management aspects of the medieval era.

Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.3% ★, Medieval 15.9%, Historical 13.4%, RTS 13.1%, Strategy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for combining turn-based grand strategy with massive real-time medieval battles.

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: Medieval 31.9%, War 21.8%, Sandbox 17.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Historical 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an unparalleled sandbox experience where you rise from a minor lord to a ruler through combat and strategy.

An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.

Why similar: 4X 16.2% ★, Colony Sim 13.3% ★, RTS 12.4%, City Builder 11.7%, Real Time Tactics 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A key entry in the series that emphasizes the real-time strategy and survival elements against fantasy threats.

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 21.1% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Historical 12.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the colony-sim and base-building aspects, allowing you to manage a settlement through harsh medieval winters and sieges.

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: Grand Strategy 13.6% ★, 4X 13.1% ★, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, City Builder 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses on the social and political dynamics of ruling a medieval noble family, similar to the lord-management in the seed game.

Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, RTS 13.5%, Medieval 12.5%, City Builder 12.4%, Economy 10%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the economic and trading aspects of grand strategy across a massive map of medieval Europe.

Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?

Why similar: 4X 19.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.6% ★, Diplomacy 16.9% ★, Historical 9.4%, Military 8%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces character-driven grand strategy mechanics that add a personal layer to historical 4X gameplay.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: City Builder 33%, Medieval 21.1%, Survival 15.6%, Building 12.3%, War 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines colony management with third-person combat, perfect for players who want to lead a rebellion from the ground up.

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: Medieval 48.8%, Sandbox 22.1%, Survival 14.9%, Strategy 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep tactical combat experience focused on managing a mercenary company in a gritty, open medieval world.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Medieval 12.3%, Colony Sim 9.9% ★, Economy 8.2%, Sandbox 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder offers a more organic approach to medieval settlement management without the rigid grid systems of other games.

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: 4X 20.5% ★, Grand Strategy 14.6% ★, Colony Sim 10.7% ★, City Builder 10.6%, RTS 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This 4X city-builder hybrid forces you to make difficult moral choices while managing the growth of your medieval empire.

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 13.2%, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Real Time Tactics 11%, RTS 9.7%, Medieval 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that remains one of the best examples of combining castle-building with real-time tactical warfare.

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 14.1% ★, 4X 12.9% ★, Diplomacy 11.7% ★, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, City Builder 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique RTS experience focused on colony management and tactical combat, sharing the 'colony-sim' feel of the seed game.

As King, it is your duty to lead your people in their struggle to raise your kingdom from its humble beginnings to a position of power and prestige. War, diplomacy and a burgeoning economy are the means by which you increase your power and expand your influence.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.9% ★, Medieval 19.3%, RTS 18.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Historical 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: The original classic that set the foundation for the grand strategy and real-time battle hybrid genre.

Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.5% ★, Historical 17.8%, RTS 15.9%, War 13.1%, Strategy 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features intense survival mechanics and plague management that mirror the Black Death challenges in Kingdom Wars 4.

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 26.1%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Medieval 10.5%, Building 7.1%, Base Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a more accessible take on the city-builder genre with a strong focus on defending your kingdom from invaders.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Medieval 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends colony management with leadership decisions, forcing you to manage the needs of your subjects while defending your realm.

A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.

Why similar: 4X 16.1% ★, Grand Strategy 15% ★, Diplomacy 14.4% ★, RTS 11.1%, Real Time Tactics 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi, its blend of 4X grand strategy and real-time tactical combat is mechanically very similar to the Kingdom Wars hybrid style.

Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.

Why similar: 4X 22.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, Diplomacy 16.4% ★, Historical 9.4%, Economy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep historical 4X experience that allows for complex management of your civilization through various eras.

Védelem: The Golden Horde is a medieval Real Time Strategy and Survival game set in the 13th century. Build, expand and defend your lands against the deadliest Mongolian invasion ever witnessed. They will seek to destroy your walls and salt your earth. Will you survive the Golden Horde?

Why similar: RTS 14.5%, Wargame 13.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Real Time Tactics 11.7%, Base Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the defensive RTS aspects, requiring players to manage resources and base defenses against waves of enemies.

Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 15.8% ★, RTS 11.1%, City Builder 10.7%, 4X 10% ★, Wargame 9.2%

This is a deep focus on the Spring and Autumn period of the Warring States period of the grand strategy and real-time combat fusion sandbox game.

Why similar: 4X 14.9% ★, Diplomacy 14.7% ★, Grand Strategy 13.5% ★, RTS 10.5%, Wargame 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a focused RTS experience with diplomacy and 4X elements that cater to fans of tactical map control.

Kingdom Wars is a free to play 3D MMORTS with real-time siege combat, without the pay to win element so common in the genre. Kingdom Wars offers beautiful 3D online world, where players construct strongholds, direct citizens, complete quests and eventually manage a global empire.

Why similar: RTS 32.4%, Strategy 16.5%, Medieval 15.5%, City Builder 12.8%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: The original entry in the series that established the core RTS and massively-multiplayer elements.

Bellfortis is a strategy game from the early Middle Ages. Expand your kingdom, use politics and power. Strategic planning on the map alternates with realtime battles of armies. Play as a grand strategy or on smaller local maps, build, recruit armies and fight!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 26% ★, RTS 13.5%, Historical 11.9%, Medieval 11.3%, Real Time Tactics 10%

Claim your title as Shogun, Highland King, Northern Tsar or Desert Sultan and join this genre-redefining strategy game where you will wage constant war for real territorial conquest! Fortify your castle, fuel a massive army, and enter the ultimate fight for realm domination!

Why similar: 4X 17.5% ★, Wargame 14.5%, City Builder 12%, RTS 11.6%, Real Time Tactics 10%

Why You'll Like It: A wargame that focuses on the competitive, multiplayer aspect of building and defending a medieval empire.

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 27.2%, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Base Building 11%, RTS 8.8%, Economy 8.1%

Eyes of War is a real-time strategy game set in the medieval era, offering both single-player and multiplayer experiences where you can control every unit in character mode. Build your castle, lead your army, and dominate the map. Eyes of War invites you to epic battles of the medieval era!

Why similar: RTS 19.9%, Wargame 19.3%, City Builder 13%, Real Time Tactics 9.4%, Base Building 8.9%

Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state. Can you lead the state to political, economic, technological and military triumph? It depends on you.

Why similar: 4X 21.2% ★, Grand Strategy 19.9% ★, Wargame 12.4%, Historical 7.5%, Sandbox 7.4%

New Real Time Strategy Game based on medieval times, where you will control powerful factions and empires, with large-scale epic battles, asymmetric civilizations, unit customization system with RPG elements, dynamic AI, 8K support and much more.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.6% ★, City Builder 15.4%, RTS 15.3%, Wargame 14.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%

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 15.2%, Colony Sim 12.3% ★, RTS 11.4%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%

Ancestors Legacy is a squad-based real time strategy with a strong focus on tactics. Inspired by medieval European history, it brings to life four different nations and their conflicts, usually solved by war.

Why similar: RTS 30.3%, Medieval 20.4%, Historical 16.6%, Strategy 14.5%, War 9.1%

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Medieval 11.6%, Building 8.8%

Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!

Why similar: Medieval 28.4%, City Builder 25.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Sandbox 10.8%

A real-time strategy+team competition game, in 189, the Han Dynasty launched a mutual attack and expansion of territories, operating their own forces, and seizing generals and resources until the world was unified.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.6% ★, 4X 16.2% ★, Wargame 14.4%, RTS 13%, Real Time Tactics 9.4%

Great Houses of Calderia is a Feudal Grand Strategy game focusing on family dynamics & stories. Use your family strengths to compete against rivals to rise in the ranks of Calderia - produce, trade, scheme, bribe, and battle to build your legacy of power!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.9% ★, Diplomacy 12.2% ★, 4X 11.6% ★, Economy 8.3%, Military 8.3%

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: 4X 19.6% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8% ★, RTS 14.2%, Base Building 10.7%, War 9.3%

Fight for control during the Friso-Hollandic Wars. Set in the medieval 13th century, the game features a strategy campaign and historical battles. Fight alongside your army in 3rd person battles and command your troops in this strategy-action game.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 22.9%, Medieval 18.8%, Historical 16.7%, War 16.3%, Sandbox 13.9%

A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 12% ★, City Builder 11.1%, Colony Sim 10.2% ★, RTS 9.4%, Medieval 8.2%

Set sail and join the colonial powers of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands in their fight for supremacy of the Caribbean in the 17th century.

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Economy 21.8%, RTS 14.1%, Strategy 13.5%, Historical 11.4%

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 23.7% ★, Historical 14.8%, Medieval 13.4%, Base Building 13.3%, RTS 10.7%

Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.

Why similar: 4X 27.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8% ★, Diplomacy 18.1% ★, Historical 10.8%, Military 8.6%

In the medieval era, assume the role of a lord and engage with other lords，develop fiefdoms, and employ strategies involving intrigue, warfare, and plunder. Expand your territory and strengthen your house lineage Or, be a god, manipulate the world? This game primarily strategic role-playing elements

Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.5% ★, Medieval 13.7%, Historical 13.4%, Wargame 10.8%, Sandbox 8.3%

After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!

Why similar: 4X 18.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3% ★, RTS 12.7%, City Builder 12.6%, Economy 8.4%

Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.8% ★, 4X 22.4% ★, Diplomacy 13.2% ★, Wargame 10%, Historical 9.5%

From the multi-award-winning strategy series, A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia combines huge real-time battles with engrossing turn-based campaign, set at a critical flashpoint in history. Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans and Viking settlers clash for control. What Kingdom will you build?

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21% ★, RTS 20.7%, Historical 18.6%, Medieval 12.6%, Strategy 11.1%

Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!

Why similar: 4X 22.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5% ★, Diplomacy 15.3% ★, Historical 10.2%, Military 8.8%

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: RTS 22.8%, Real Time Tactics 17.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Medieval 14%, War 11.2%

Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.

Why similar: 4X 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Historical 10.5%, Medieval 9.5%

Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

Why similar: 4X 25.8% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8% ★, Historical 13.5%, Military 10.7%, Strategy 8.4%

Take up the reins of your country, guide domestic and foreign policy, navigate thousands of historical figures and events, engage in various struggles and lead your country to prosperity – all in the name of glory!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.1% ★, 4X 17.8% ★, Diplomacy 15.4% ★, Historical 10%, Economy 7%

Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.3% ★, 4X 16.2% ★, Diplomacy 15.4% ★, Wargame 11.1%, Historical 9.7%

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: 4X 16% ★, Grand Strategy 15.6% ★, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 7.1%

In this real-time grand strategy game, command armies, build cities, and manage a dynamic economy. Establish automated supply routes within your territory to streamline production. Fortify your defenses and brace for intense battles. Can you lead your empire to dominance?

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, Wargame 18.3%, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 15.6%, Economy 11%