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 40.7%, Colony Sim 12.1% ★, Medieval 10.5%, Building 6.2%, Sandbox 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same relaxed medieval town-building vibe with organic city growth, layered production chains, and a strong focus on shaping a living settlement.

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 36.5%, Colony Sim 35.2% ★, Medieval 5.2%, Strategy 5.1%, Sandbox 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the clearest matches for Kingdoms and Castles' village-to-town progression, with individually simulated citizens, seasonal survival, and careful resource management.

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 37.2%, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Base Building 6.7%, Medieval 6.6%, Building 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony-sim micromanagement, expanding production networks, and kingdom growth in a way that feels very close to Kingdoms and Castles' long-form progression.

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 29.1%, Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Medieval 10.3%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its Banished-style loop of growing a small settlement into a robust city through resource planning and population management closely matches the seed game's core appeal.

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 26.5%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Building 11.9%, Medieval 9.3%, Base Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like Kingdoms and Castles, it is about building up a frontier settlement into a fortified town while balancing logistics, food, labor, and external 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 31.2% ★, City Builder 28.7%, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.5%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more survival-focused, it shares the same appeal of building and defending a medieval settlement and gradually turning it into a proper fortress.

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 29.4%, Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Medieval 7.3%, Building 6.1%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses on medieval settlement building, citizen needs, and strategic town expansion with a similar balance of accessibility and management depth.

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 25.9% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Building 9%, Base Building 7.3%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its medieval town planning, market logistics, region growth, and occasional military pressure make it a great fit for players who want a more detailed take on the same fantasy.

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 32.8%, Colony Sim 30.6% ★, Sandbox 7.4%, Base Building 6.8%, Resource Management 6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a lighter, charming medieval kingdom-builder with romance, diplomacy, and cozy expansion that overlaps strongly with Kingdoms and Castles' tone and structure.

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 34.2%, Colony Sim 29% ★, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Even with a different theme, its charming simulated population, city-building sandbox, and clever resource and infrastructure planning make it a strong mechanical match.

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 27.5% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Medieval 8.6%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: If you want a bigger-scale version of the same settlement-to-kingdom fantasy, this offers deep colony simulation, logistics, and state-building.

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 26.3% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Building 8.8%, Base Building 7.3%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This leans harder into politics and social simulation, but its medieval colony management and kingdom-building framework align well with Kingdoms and Castles.

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 35.4%, Colony Sim 34.5% ★, Medieval 7.1%, Building 5.5%, Resource Management 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is another medieval colony city-builder centered on villagers, production chains, and expanding a fragile settlement into a thriving stronghold.

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 43.7%, Colony Sim 36.5% ★, Strategy 5.2%, Survival 4.1%, Sandbox 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches a very similar itch of guiding a settlement through growth, defense, and resource bottlenecks, just in a prehistoric setting instead of a medieval one.

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 30.2%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Medieval 10.4%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses specifically on the castle-building and nightly defense side of the seed game's appeal, with a similarly approachable medieval strategy structure.

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 30.6% ★, City Builder 28.9%, Building 8%, Sandbox 5.8%, Base Building 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same satisfying loop of placing buildings, managing villagers, and growing a small settlement under environmental and external pressures.

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 37.2% ★, City Builder 34%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 6.7%, Strategy 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This combines colony-sim villagers, building, and town development in a colorful style that feels close to the seed game's accessible sandbox energy.

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 28.6%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Medieval 9.9%, Building 8%, Base Building 6%

Why You'll Like It: It is more mission-driven, but the blend of medieval economy building, castle construction, and defending your settlement makes it a very natural recommendation.

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 27.3% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Medieval 9.5%, Building 8.8%, Base Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building up a medieval village with direct labor management, production chains, and survival pressures that feel very familiar.

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 29.5% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Medieval 9.8%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its feudal economy simulation and town growth offer a more specialized but still very relevant spin on medieval settlement management.

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 27.5%, Colony Sim 27% ★, Medieval 8.3%, Building 7.2%, Resource Management 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a straightforward colony city-builder about scaling a settlement through production, housing, and citizen management, which makes it an easy fit here.

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 32.5%, Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Resource Management 7.2%, Base Building 6.1%, Sandbox 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its unique setting, it offers the same satisfying cycle of compact city-building, population care, and adapting your settlement to ongoing hazards.

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 28.4%, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Building 7.8%, Medieval 6.4%, Base Building 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a grounded historical city-builder with strong household simulation and town planning that will appeal if you liked the organic growth side of Kingdoms and Castles.

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 37.6% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Building 7.5%, Base Building 7.3%, Sandbox 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a more character-driven colony sim, but the loop of placing buildings, expanding production, and growing a settlement maps well onto Kingdoms and Castles.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.8% ★, Building 18.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 6.5%, Open World 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Though more intimate and survival-oriented, it shares the charm of building up a small medieval community through smart layout, labor assignment, and long-term planning.

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 44.6% ★, Medieval 17.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, RTS 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes defending a growing medieval settlement from huge attacks, making it a good pick if you especially enjoyed the threat-management side of Kingdoms and Castles.

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: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Building 9.1%, Base Building 7.3%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is less of a pure sandbox, but its settlement-building, resource balancing, and repeated small-colony optimization will resonate with fans of the genre blend.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 49.5%, Medieval 18%, Building 10.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Base Building 8.6%

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 37.7% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Strategy 9.1%, Medieval 7.7%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a lighter medieval city-builder with accessible production and expansion systems that echo the approachable side of Kingdoms and Castles.

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 32.7%, Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Medieval 9.4%, Strategy 5.8%, Resource Management 5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a compact fantasy city-builder focused on growing and managing a medieval-style settlement, making it a decent lower-tier match for the same core loop.

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 42.2%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Building 12.1%, Strategy 8.9%, Medieval 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a stronger trade-and-economy take on medieval city-building, but its layered production chains and kingdom expansion make it a great adjacent recommendation.

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Why similar: City Builder 48.6%, Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Building 13.7%, Strategy 8%, Relaxing 2.3%

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 37.6%, Medieval 13.2%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Base Building 8.6%

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 23.6% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%

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: Colony Sim 38.5% ★, City Builder 34.7%, Base Building 6.8%, Strategy 5.7%, Survival 3.9%

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 31.1%, Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Medieval 11%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 7.7%

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 28.6% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Medieval 9.2%, Building 8.2%, Base Building 7.3%

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 23.5%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Medieval 8.3%, Building 7.5%, Base Building 6.6%

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 52.9% ★, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Strategy 9.2%, Survival 3.9%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, City Builder 31.3%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.3%, Strategy 4%

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 37.5%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Strategy 7.4%, RTS 7.1%, Building 7.1%

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 26.2% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Building 9%, Base Building 7.3%, Sandbox 6.3%

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: Colony Sim 41.1% ★, Building 14.7%, Medieval 12.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 7.7%

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 28.8% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Building 10%, Base Building 7.9%, Sandbox 7.1%

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 34.8% ★, City Builder 32.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Strategy 4.9%, Building 4.6%

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 43.2%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Resource Management 8.4%

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: City Builder 24.3%, Building 20.8%, Medieval 17.9%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%

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 27.8%, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Building 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Sandbox 6.8%

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 24.6% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Building 8.1%, Medieval 7.1%, Base Building 6.3%

Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 20.6%, Building 15.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Management 10.2%

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Why similar: City Builder 61.3%, Building 14.1%, Strategy 6.4%, Management 4.2%, Resource Management 4.1%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Building 9.1%, Medieval 9.1%, Sandbox 6.8%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, City Builder 30.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 8%, Strategy 5.6%

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

Why similar: City Builder 58%, Building 13%, Sandbox 6.5%, Strategy 5.2%, Simulation 5.1%

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 28.6%, Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Building 9.3%, Base Building 7%, Resource Management 6.6%

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Medieval 11.1%, Strategy 10%, Base Building 7.5%, Building 7.1%

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 26.2% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 7.3%, Sandbox 6.3%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 29.3%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 6.8%, Strategy 4.2%

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 27.9%, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Building 7.5%, Medieval 6.6%, Base Building 6.5%