Games Like Kingdoms and Castles

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 30.2%, Colony Sim 9.1%, Medieval 7.6%, Economy 5.9%, Resource Management 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its organic, grid-free medieval village growth and production-focused citizen simulation make it one of the closest relaxed kingdom-building alternatives.

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: Colony Sim 13.5%, 4X 13.4% ★, City Builder 13.4%, RTS 7.7%, Base Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Build and manage a living medieval settlement with detailed resource chains, seasonal needs, trade, and the option to defend your growing territory.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, 4X 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.6%, Building 8.1%, RTS 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval settlement builder emphasizes careful village expansion, individual settlers, supply chains, farming, trade, and raids.

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: City Builder 31%, Colony Sim 29.7%, Survival 6.1%, Sandbox 4.5%, Medieval 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its influential villager-driven colony management centers on keeping a small settlement supplied as it grows into a self-sustaining town.

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 28.6%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 6.6%, Economy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly accessible progression from a modest settlement into a large kingdom, with economy management, technology, and trade.

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 18.6%, City Builder 17.2%, RTS 10.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Build a layered medieval stronghold, assign colonists to work and defense, and survive raids in a more intimate colony-sim format.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Building 9.1%, Management 7.9%, Survival 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A direct Banished-style city builder with detailed population needs, production chains, disasters, and multiple ways to develop a settlement.

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 23.9%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 16.1%, RTS 11.8%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses squarely on building a prosperous medieval castle-town and fortifying it against recurring nighttime sieges.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 22%, Survival 6.7%, Economy 6.3%, Base Building 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Manage a medieval town’s resources, social classes, trade, and citizen happiness while expanding through challenging seasons and events.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This charming fairytale kingdom builder shares the seed game's gentle medieval tone, village growth, economy, and relationships with neighboring rulers.

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 13.6%, Colony Sim 13.6%, 4X 12.9% ★, RTS 7.4%, Base Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although built around repeatable expeditions, it delivers excellent resource-chain city building, citizen needs, trade, and difficult environmental pressures.

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: Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 18%, 4X 16.1% ★, Base Building 7.6%, Economy 7%

Why You'll Like It: Scale a small settlement into a vast fantasy kingdom while handling detailed populations, industry, trade, diplomacy, and military threats.

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: Colony Sim 14.2%, City Builder 13.8%, 4X 12.5% ★, RTS 7.1%, Base Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Manage a medieval realm through noble families, peasant labor, production, diplomacy, and conflict, with more emphasis on social simulation.

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, City Builder 28.7%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.3%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its blocky fantasy settlement building, citizen task management, crafting, and defense give it a notably similar cozy-yet-strategic feel.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 35.1%, Colony Sim 29.2%, Survival 7.4%, Sandbox 4%, Strategy 4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the same satisfying settlement-growth loop and individual-population management, shifted from medieval fantasy to prehistory.

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 20.9%, Colony Sim 15.8%, RTS 9.6%, Economy 7.6%, Base Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs castle construction and a peasant-driven medieval economy with defensive warfare, making it ideal for players who enjoy the castle side of Kingdoms and Castles.

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 21.5%, Economy 7.4%, Base Building 7.2%, Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Grow a Viking settlement through resource management, villager assignments, trade, and the dangers of harsh weather and raids.

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%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Medieval 12.1%, RTS 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes medieval resource management and settlement expansion with large-scale sieges for players who want the seed game's threats turned up considerably.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 22.1%, RTS 9.5%, Management 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Manage a compact community’s resources, buildings, food, and survival challenges in a similarly readable and thoughtful city-building format.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 19.8%, Management 7.8%, Medieval 7.1%, Economy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval colony sim focuses on assigning households, balancing local production, taxation, and social relationships as a village expands.

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 13.7%, Colony Sim 13.7%, 4X 12.6% ★, RTS 7.2%, Base Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Construct detailed fortress walls and manage a settlement's limited resources while defending it against relentless hostile attacks.

Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Economy 10.8%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Develop a Roman city through housing, production, trade, and military defense, offering a historical counterpart to building a medieval kingdom.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 7.8%, Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A polished colony builder with strongly simulated citizens, water management, vertical construction, and satisfying long-term settlement planning.

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%, City Builder 25.1%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.4%, Medieval 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Build a medieval town from basic homes and farms into a complex economy while responding to citizen needs, events, and disasters.

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 10%, Building 6.8%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Build a personalized colony, furnish homes, direct jobs, and meet residents' needs in a lighter character-focused settlement simulation.

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 7.5%, Economy 6.5%, Resource Management 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its meticulous simulation of a historical village's households, labor, farming, and trade is excellent for players who value a living settlement.

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: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 22.1%, RTS 10.4%, Management 7.6%, Medieval 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This fantasy city builder combines resource gathering, construction, citizen management, trading, and defensive concerns in a compact kingdom-management package.

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, Colony Sim 14.4%, 4X 12.2% ★, Base Building 7.7%, Economy 7%

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 44%, Economy 13.1%, Resource Management 7.5%, RTS 6.8%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a more elaborate economic city builder, but its layered production chains, population tiers, trade routes, and attractive growing cities are a strong fit.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 21.1%, Economy 9.7%, Building 8.2%, Base Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its peaceful automation-oriented colony building and expanding production networks capture the rewarding logistical side of growing a settlement.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 45.9%, Medieval 16.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 9.6%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Resource Management 7.3%, Base Building 6.6%, Building 6.3%

Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.

Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 9.8%, Economy 9.4%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 15.7%, RTS 8.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Resource Management 6.2%

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 10%, Management 8.9%

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: City Builder 30.8%, Colony Sim 29.7%, Resource Management 7.8%, Medieval 6%, Building 5.4%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5%, City Builder 15%, 4X 13% ★, Base Building 7.3%, Economy 7%

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

Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, RTS 14.2%, Medieval 12.9%, Economy 12.5%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Expand medieval towns across a large map while establishing trade routes, managing resources, researching upgrades, and competing with rival realms.

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 40.9%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 6.8%, Survival 6.8%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 8.3%, Economy 7.8%, Resource Management 7%

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 24.2%, RTS 14%, Colony Sim 13%, 4X 12.5% ★, Base Building 6.7%

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 24.4%, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 8.5%, Management 7.7%

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Management 19.5%, City Builder 16.2%, Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Medieval 11.7%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 19.9%, RTS 9.5%, Economy 9.3%, Base Building 8.2%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 7.9%, Management 7.3%, Resource Management 6.6%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 16.5%, RTS 9%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 6.6%

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 20.3%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 7.9%, Building 7.5%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 32%, Economy 12.6%, Building 12.4%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 10.8%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 10%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 26%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 6.6%, Resource Management 5%

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 21.6%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Base Building 10.9%, RTS 10%, Resource Management 8%

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 9%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 8.1%

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Colony Sim 13%, 4X 11.6% ★, Base Building 7.8%, Economy 7.6%

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 8.5%, Management 8.1%

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: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 8.7%, Management 8.6%

Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?

Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 7.7%, Economy 7.5%, Resource Management 6.8%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 14.4%, RTS 11.6%, Economy 9.3%, Building 7.8%

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: City Builder 28%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.8%, Medieval 9.6%