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 30.1%, Colony Sim 9%, Medieval 7.5%, Economy 6%, Resource Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the same cozy medieval town-building fantasy, Foundation also centers on organic settlement growth, villager needs, and gradually adding grand monuments and castles.

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 16.2%, 4X 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.6%, Building 8.1%, RTS 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same grow-a-hamlet-into-a-fortified-town loop, but with deeper resource chains, harsher survival pressure, and detailed villager simulation.

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 30.9%, Colony Sim 29.7%, Survival 6%, Sandbox 4.5%, Medieval 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Banished is one of the clearest touchstones for Kingdoms and Castles, focusing on citizen-level resource management, town expansion, and surviving through careful planning.

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: City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Medieval 8.9%, Colony Sim 8.5%, 4X 7.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: Like Kingdoms and Castles, it blends medieval town building with regional management and military concerns, just with a more realistic and granular style.

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 25.5%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Building 9.1%, Management 8%, Survival 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a Banished-style colony builder where balancing food, labor, housing, and expansion feels very close to Kingdoms and Castles' core rhythm.

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 18.5%, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 10.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This takes the same colony-to-castle fantasy into fully 3D construction, with villagers, layered fortifications, and raid defense as major pillars.

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 28.4%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Management 6.7%, Economy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly accessible city-builder and colony-sim mix with trade, kingdom growth, and a strong emphasis on production chains and expansion.

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 24.2%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: Fabledom matches the seed game's lighthearted storybook kingdom vibe while adding neighboring realms, diplomacy, and easy-to-read city-building systems.

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: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 22%, Survival 6.7%, Economy 6.4%, Base Building 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: If you liked managing population needs alongside medieval production and expansion, Patron delivers a more system-heavy version of that loop.

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 23.8%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 16.2%, RTS 11.7%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Becastled leans harder into building walls, keeps, and defenses, making it a good pick if raids and castle construction were your favorite parts.

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 14.6%, City Builder 14%, 4X 12.9% ★, Base Building 6.9%, Economy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Norland focuses more on ruling nobles and social simulation, but it still captures the feel of building and managing a living medieval realm under pressure.

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 28.5%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.4%, Survival 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its charming art style, villager-driven base building, and gradual settlement growth make it feel like a more character-focused cousin to Kingdoms and Castles.

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 20.7%, Colony Sim 15.8%, RTS 9.6%, Economy 7.7%, Base Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Stronghold is a classic castle-building game that shares Kingdoms and Castles' mix of economy, fortifications, and defending a medieval settlement.

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 30.7%, Colony Sim 29.8%, Resource Management 8%, Medieval 6%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a grounded medieval colony sim about carefully growing and feeding a settlement, with a familiar focus on labor, resources, and town layout.

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 18.1%, City Builder 17.9%, 4X 16.1% ★, Base Building 7.6%, Economy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the same kingdom-building fantasy on a much larger and more complex scale, Songs of Syx expands it into massive populations, logistics, and warfare.

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 14.4%, Colony Sim 14.1%, 4X 12.8% ★, Base Building 6.9%, Economy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great fit if your favorite part was juggling citizens, resources, and city planning under pressure, though it frames that loop as repeatable runs.

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

Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Building 11.9%, Management 9.5%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although more trade-driven, it offers the same satisfaction of growing a medieval settlement while managing diplomacy, expansion, and inter-kingdom economics.

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 21.4%, Economy 7.5%, Base Building 7.2%, Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This gives you a similarly readable settlement builder with villagers, seasons, and threats, just shifted to a Norse village theme.

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 13.6%, Medieval 12%, RTS 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the same appealing mix of town economy, walls, and defending your settlement, but with much larger siege battles.

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 23.3%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Management 9.6%, RTS 9.5%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its cozy colony-management feel, population needs, and expanding town footprint give a similar city-builder rhythm despite the very different setting.

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 20.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 8.1%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: First Feudal is another small-scale medieval colony builder where assigning workers and expanding production feels very close to the seed game's 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 26.1%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 7.8%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Even with beavers instead of peasants, it nails the same satisfying settlement-growth and resource-balancing loop that makes Kingdoms and Castles so replayable.

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%, Colony Sim 29.3%, Survival 7.3%, Sandbox 4.1%, Strategy 4%

Why You'll Like It: Dawn of Man shares the same individually managed settlement flow, just moved to prehistory with survival, growth, and labor efficiency as the main challenges.

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 21.2%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Resource Management 7.5%, Base Building 6.6%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a straightforward colony-city builder centered on housing, jobs, supply chains, and steady settlement expansion in a way that feels familiar.

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 19.1%, Base Building 10%, Building 6.8%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Founders' Fortune offers a lighter colony-sim take on base building and villager management that overlaps well with Kingdoms and Castles' approachable style.

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%, Colony Sim 15.7%, RTS 8.2%, Base Building 7.8%, Resource Management 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends settlement management with ecological systems and production planning, appealing to players who enjoyed the more simulation-heavy side of the seed.

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 15.7%, Colony Sim 14.4%, 4X 13% ★, Base Building 7.5%, Economy 7.2%

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 21.9%, City Builder 19.6%, Management 7.9%, Economy 7.2%, Medieval 7%

Why You'll Like It: Lords and Villeins is more economy-driven, but its medieval setting and focus on structuring a working town still overlap with Kingdoms and Castles.

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 20.7%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 7.5%, Economy 6.6%, Resource Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Ostriv is a more realistic historical town builder, but its emphasis on organic layout, citizen needs, and resource logistics will resonate with city-builder fans.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 45.6%, Medieval 16.1%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 9.6%

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%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 8.3%, Economy 8%, Resource Management 7.1%

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%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.4%, Medieval 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter medieval city-builder that captures the easy-to-grasp town-growth appeal of Kingdoms and Castles.

Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.

Why similar: City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.6%, RTS 9%, Economy 8%, Base Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes medieval town management, castle building, and defending your realm in a way that overlaps strongly with Kingdoms and Castles, just in a more old-school RTS framework.

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: Colony Sim 13.7%, City Builder 13.6%, 4X 12.6% ★, RTS 7.2%, Base Building 6.8%

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 15.3%, City Builder 14.9%, 4X 13.4% ★, Base Building 7.3%, Economy 7.1%

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 16.1%, Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Medieval 11.5%

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 25.7%, Economy 12.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 10%, Management 9%

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 25.6%, Colony Sim 22%, RTS 10.3%, Management 7.6%, Medieval 7.1%

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: Colony Sim 15%, City Builder 14.7%, 4X 13.3% ★, Base Building 7.4%, Economy 7.1%

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 40.8%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 6.9%, Survival 6.7%

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 25.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 6.6%, Resource Management 5.1%

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%, RTS 14%, Colony Sim 13%, 4X 12.4% ★, Base Building 6.7%

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 19.4%, Colony Sim 16%, Base Building 7.9%, Management 7.4%, Resource Management 6.8%

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 23.9%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Management 7.9%

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 16.4%, RTS 9%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 6.6%

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 31.7%, Economy 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 11%

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, RTS 12.8%, Economy 10.5%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 21.4%, Colony Sim 16%, Base Building 10.9%, RTS 10%, Resource Management 8.2%

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 18.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.9%

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 30.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 11%, Economy 10%, Resource Management 9.6%

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 21.8%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.1%

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 30.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.7%, Economy 9.1%

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

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.4%

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 16.1%, Base Building 7.7%, Economy 7.6%, Resource Management 6.9%

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 32.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 13.3%, Survival 11%, Medieval 9.8%

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 16.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 8.6%, Management 8.2%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Building 8%, Base Building 7.9%, Economy 7.8%

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 19.1%, Colony Sim 14.3%, RTS 11.5%, Economy 9.5%, Building 7.8%