- #1 Medieval Dynasty
97% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 19.3%, Crafting 15%, Medieval 15%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title excels at the 'living in a medieval world' aspect, combining survival, crafting, and village management in a realistic setting.
- #2 Kenshi
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Open World 27.3%, Sandbox 16.4%, Survival 15.6%, Building 13.1%, RPG 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Like KINGDOMS, this game offers an unparalleled sandbox experience where you are just one person in a harsh, procedural world that reacts to your actions.
- #3 SAELIG
96% matchVery Positive86% of 1,077 reviews2017
Dev: Atorcoppe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.
Why similar: Medieval 19.3%, Open World 15.7%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the focus on life simulation and NPC interaction, allowing you to manage your character's life and business in a dynamic medieval world.
- #4 Kingdom Come: Deliverance
95% matchVery Positive84% of 178,391 reviews2018
Dev: Warhorse Studios
Windows
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 47.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!
Why similar: Medieval 38.4%, Open World 30.9%, RPG 13.2%, Historical 5.9%, First-Person 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides the most immersive, grounded medieval RPG experience available, focusing on realistic survival and character progression.
- #5 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
94% matchVery Positive88% of 286,599 reviews2022
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 61.2 hrsMean: 152.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 33%, Open World 25.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, RPG 9.7%, Strategy 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the large-scale medieval sandbox feel, allowing you to influence the world through war, trade, and politics.
- #6 The Guild 3
94% matchMixed61% of 7,840 reviews2022
Dev: Purple LampPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!
Why similar: Medieval 30.9%, Open World 14.1%, Building 13%, Sandbox 9%, RPG 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This life-simulation game focuses heavily on economy and social dynamics, mirroring the NPC-driven society interactions found in KINGDOMS.
- #7 Bellwright
93% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Open World 21.1%, Medieval 20.1%, Survival 17.3%, Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.4%
Why You'll Like It: This survival-focused title emphasizes building a community and leading a rebellion in a medieval open world.
- #8 Noble Fates
92% matchVery Positive83% of 1,455 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Medieval 24.6%, Building 23%, Sandbox 18.5%, Survival 13.6%, Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a sophisticated AI system where every character has their own personality and goals, much like the core feature of the seed game.
- #9 Sengoku Dynasty
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,351 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Medieval 19%, Open World 18.3%, Building 16.4%, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, crafting, and city-building in a beautiful feudal Japanese setting that emphasizes community growth.
- #10 Life is Feudal: Your Own
91% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Medieval 20.4%, Open World 18.2%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival experience that focuses on realistic crafting, building, and player-driven social structures.
- #11 RimWorld
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Survival 22.4%, Building 18.3%, Open World 17.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Management 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi, its procedural storytelling and deep AI-driven NPC behavior make it the gold standard for emergent sandbox gameplay.
- #12 Going Medieval
89% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Survival 20%, Crafting 19.4%, Sandbox 18.8%, RPG 10.3%, Management 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This colony sim allows for intricate building and survival management within a medieval landscape, featuring terrain manipulation.
- #13 Dwarf Fortress
88% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Building 28.3%, Survival 20.4%, Sandbox 19.5%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate procedural simulation, offering a level of world-building and AI complexity that is unmatched in the genre.
- #14 Medieval Engineers
89% matchMixed52% of 7,282 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Building 23%, Medieval 21%, Open World 16.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focused on the physics of construction, this game is perfect for players who enjoy the building and engineering aspects of medieval sandbox games.
- #15 Foundation
85% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: Medieval 28.2%, Building 17.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 10.6%, Survival 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on organic growth and grid-less building, capturing the feel of a developing medieval settlement.
- #16 Wurm Unlimited
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,128 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Why similar: Open World 21.1%, Building 17.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A deep sandbox experience that allows for massive world-shaping and complex crafting in a persistent environment.
- #17 Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders
86% matchMixed69% of 1,050 reviews2024
Dev: MeanAstronautsPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.
Why similar: Medieval 23.8%, Open World 17.7%, Building 16.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends exploration, base building, and RPG elements in a classic medieval setting.
- #18 Reign Of Kings
86% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Medieval 20%, Open World 19.1%, Building 16.2%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 14%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the brutal, player-driven politics and survival of a medieval sandbox world.
- #19 Outward Definitive Edition
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 30,417 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.
Why similar: Open World 47.1%, Survival 25%, RPG 22.6%, Adventure 2.7%, Atmospheric 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world RPG that treats survival mechanics as a core part of the adventure, requiring careful preparation and management.
- #20 Valheim
82% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World 24.7%, Building 22.7%, Survival 20.4%, Crafting 16.5%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly satisfying procedural survival and building loop in a Norse-inspired open world.
- #21 Legends of Ellaria
84% matchMixed57% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: Larkon Studio
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.
Why similar: RPG 23.7%, Open World 14.8%, Building 13.7%, Strategy 9.6%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It uniquely combines first-person RPG exploration with kingdom management and strategy elements.
- #22 Kingdoms and Castles
82% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Medieval 29.4%, Building 25.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 9%, Simulation 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A more approachable city-builder that emphasizes medieval defense and survival against external threats.
- #23 First Feudal
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Medieval 21.3%, Building 20.8%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the daily life and resource management of a growing feudal village.
- #24 V Rising
79% matchVery Positive89% of 132,034 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Open World 29%, Survival 22.2%, Crafting 18.4%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: While featuring a supernatural theme, its base-building and survival progression loop are top-tier for sandbox fans.
- #25 Conan Exiles
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World 24.6%, Survival 21.9%, Building 20.9%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game features extensive building and a thrall system that allows you to capture and utilize NPCs.
- #26 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
81% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Medieval 24.3%, Building 19.9%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes the management of villagers and resources in a challenging medieval environment.
- #27 Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
79% matchVery Positive88% of 48,202 reviews2016
Dev: Capcom
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 31.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Set in a huge open world, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen presents a rewarding action combat experience.
Why similar: Open World 57.8%, RPG 28.2%, Adventure 4.9%, Action 4.3%, Singleplayer 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: The pawn system and open-world exploration offer a unique take on NPC interaction and adventure.
- #28 Wild Terra Online
80% matchMixed60% of 1,830 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Open World 19.2%, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 15%, Medieval 13.4%, Building 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses heavily on crafting and building within a persistent, player-influenced world.
- #29 Banished
78% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Survival 23.6%, Medieval 20.1%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 10%, Simulation 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A pure survival-focused city builder where managing resources through harsh winters is the primary challenge.
- #30 Kingdoms Reborn
77% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Medieval 25.8%, Building 20.1%, Open World 17.5%, Management 12.1%, Survival 12%
- #31 Life is Feudal: Arden
77% matchMixed42% of 817 reviews2025
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 25.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Life is Feudal: Arden is a new free-to-play open-world MMORPG set in the Middle Ages, built on the foundation of Life is Feudal: MMO. Engage in thrilling PvP combat, navigate political intrigue, master a variety of professions and craft unique items. Forge your own path to power and greatness!
Why similar: Building 17.7%, Medieval 14.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 13%, Open World 10.5%
- #32 Renown
75% matchMixed60% of 1,544 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Medieval 16.9%, Open World 15.7%, Building 15.6%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.3%
- #33 Life is Feudal: MMO
78% matchMixed40% of 7,330 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Medieval 19.8%, Building 14.2%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 12.1%
- #34 Alek - The Lost Kingdom
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 403 reviews2021
Dev: Jessy LemieuxPub: Blackmyers Studio
Windows
Alek, the young man who will change Zarabon's World forever. In this adventure, you must rebuild the world of Zarabon in your image. Build villages and manage your production lines with the help of your villagers.
Why similar: Building 18.2%, Open World 18%, Medieval 15.4%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 12.1%
- #35 The Bloodline
74% matchVery Positive83% of 3,777 reviews2023
Dev: Shieldbearer StudiosPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…
Why similar: Medieval 28.8%, Open World 24.8%, Sandbox 18.2%, RPG 11.4%, First-Person 6.1%
- #36 Force of Nature
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Crafting 19.4%, Survival 18.2%, Open World 17.9%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 12.5%
- #37 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
74% matchMixed60% of 455 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Building 16.5%, Open World 16.3%, Medieval 15.4%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 14.1%
- #38 Novus Inceptio
75% matchMixed52% of 1,300 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World 19.4%, Building 16.5%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 13.2%
- #39 Mount & Blade: Warband
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 170,226 reviews2010
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 120.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!
Why similar: Medieval 35.1%, Open World 23.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, RPG 10.1%, Military 6.5%
- #40 Rising World
73% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Building 23.3%, Hunting 18.9% ★, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 16.1%, Sandbox 15.5%
- #41 Dungeons & Kingdoms
72% matchMixed42% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Uncle Grouch GamingPub: Camlann Games
Windows
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.
Why similar: Medieval 27.9%, Building 26%, Open World 15.9%, RPG 10.2%, Management 9.1%
- #42 Mount & Blade
73% matchVery Positive92% of 6,621 reviews2008
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
Why similar: Medieval 34.2%, Open World 24.8%, RPG 13.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Strategy 3.3%
- #43 Chinese Frontiers
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 485 reviews2025
Dev: SolidGamesPub: Big Cheese Studio
Windows
Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.
Why similar: Medieval 19%, Building 16.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #44 Battle Brothers
71% matchVery Positive88% of 27,117 reviews2017
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 19.4 hrsMean: 93.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
Why similar: Medieval 23.3%, Open World 20.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Military 10.6%, RPG 8.7%
- #45 Gedonia
70% matchVery Positive87% of 3,849 reviews2022
Dev: Kazakov Oleg
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Gedonia is a classic open world rpg, featuring a complete freedom of building your character, exploring a huge world and completing quests.
Why similar: Open World 33%, Medieval 27.3%, Crafting 19.1%, RPG 13.7%, Adventure 2.7%
- #46 Dark and Light
73% matchMixed52% of 11,804 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World 29.5%, Survival 21.2%, Sandbox 17%, RPG 10.5%, Medieval 7.7%
- #47 Empires and Tribes
71% matchMixed67% of 419 reviews2023
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows · Mac
Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.
Why similar: Building 25.1%, Medieval 24.7%, Crafting 18.6%, Open World 13.7%, RPG 6.6%
- #48 Norland
68% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Building 22.1%, Open World 20.5%, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Management 8.3%
- #49 Enshrouded
67% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 28.4%, Survival 19.4%, Crafting 15.6%, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #50 Outland Kingdoms
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: GBL
Windows
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Why similar: Building 22.4%, Medieval 21.7%, Open World 18.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 8.1%
- #51 ENDALOR
67% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Medieval 18.8%, Open World 18.3%, Building 16.7%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 12.2%
- #52 Rise of Ages
71% matchMixed44% of 217 reviews2019
Dev: Anguis Game StudioPub: 99Gamers Digital
Windows
Rise of Ages is a sandbox game, allowing you to explore, build, found cities, make wars and evolve technologies to reach the highest level of a civilization and then travel to other planets! The game begins in prehistory and will advance ages, one by one, as the player evolves.
Why similar: Open World 30.5%, Survival 24.7%, RPG 16.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Adventure 5%
- #53 Manor Lords
65% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Building 22%, Open World 20.9%, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Management 8.2%
- #54 Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG
67% matchMixed68% of 10,474 reviews2023
Dev: gamigo US
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gloria Victis is an MMORPG with an emphasis on realism, set in a low-fantasy medieval open world. Enjoy MMO with skill-based non-target combat, open PVP with territory control, deep crafting system and player-driven economy – all that served with beautiful graphics and an immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Medieval 27.7%, Open World 24.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 9.4%, RPG 8.3%
- #55 Hearthlands
68% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: Medieval 38.8%, Sandbox 20.5%, Management 14%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 8.1%
- #56 Knights of the Crusades
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 165 reviews2025
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
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: Medieval 28.3%, Sandbox 24.9%, Crafting 15%, Survival 13.2%, Simulation 7.6%
- #57 Medieval Kingdom Wars
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,602 reviews2019
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Medieval 34%, Crafting 19.9%, Sandbox 18.9%, Survival 16.3%, Simulation 5.8%
- #58 Pax Dei
64% matchMixed57% of 10,783 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 69.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Medieval 26.6%, Open World 23.9%, Crafting 19.6%, Sandbox 17.3%, RPG 9.7%