Games Like Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim

In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the kingdom Ardania. At your service are your loyal and somewhat obnoxious subordinates, who have their own minds about how things should be done. In fact, Majesty is the only game where your heroes decide on their own what should be done and when, leaving you to try to control them through...

Why similar: RTS 25.1%, Strategy 23.1%, Simulation 15.6%, City Builder 14.2%, Fantasy 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the direct inspiration for the indirect control mechanics found in Lessaria.

You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, City Builder 17.6%, RTS 16.1%, Strategy RPG 11.4%, Medieval 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A very similar fantasy kingdom simulator that focuses on managing heroes and city expansion.

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 36.5%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Medieval 12%, Management 9.3%, RTS 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless medieval city-builder that focuses on organic growth and complex villager needs.

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 28.1%, City Builder 22.1%, Management 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Medieval 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep indirect control where you influence the lives and decisions of your subjects in a fantasy setting.

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: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 25.4%, Management 10.4%, Medieval 9.7%, RTS 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that forces you to balance infrastructure with defensive needs against fantasy threats.

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: Colony Sim 43.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Management 13.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony management, offering complex interactions and emergent storytelling similar to kingdom sims.

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 31.4%, City Builder 26.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Medieval 10.7%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for massive-scale kingdom building and management with a focus on population and resource logistics.

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 31.8%, City Builder 25.6%, Management 14.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the most intricate simulation of a fantasy colony, perfect for players who enjoy deep management systems.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.1%, City Builder 29.4%, Medieval 13.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Stylized 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist take on kingdom defense that distills strategy and base-building into a tight, satisfying loop.

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 17.7%, RTS 16.5%, Management 10.1%, Medieval 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and resource management within a vibrant fantasy world, emphasizing efficient supply chains.

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 36%, RTS 16.7%, Medieval 16.4%, Tower Defense 15.2%, PvE 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines large-scale RTS combat with tower defense mechanics to protect your kingdom from massive waves.

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 25.5%, City Builder 19.9%, RTS 19.3%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of castle building and tower defense that emphasizes strategic architecture to survive enemy sieges.

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 33.8%, City Builder 25.8%, Tower Defense 24.3%, Strategy 6.2%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends god-game mechanics with colony simulation, requiring you to manage resources while fending off supernatural 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 27.4%, City Builder 21.4%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, PvE 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that adds verticality to your building, allowing for complex defensive structures and multi-story 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: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 21.8%, RTS 13.7%, Management 9%, Medieval 8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style city-builder that captures the feel of medieval management with a focus on trade and expansion.

Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 20%, RTS 16.4%, Management 10.9%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the ability to influence your kingdom's development through divine intervention and indirect guidance.

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 25.1%, Colony Sim 22.7%, RTS 19.2%, Medieval 11.2%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the defensive aspect of kingdom building, tasking you with protecting your base from night-time attacks.

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: Tower Defense 25.5%, Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 23%, Medieval 10.4%, Fantasy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game where you manage your kingdom's economy and defenses through indirect royal commands.

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 21.9%, RTS 14.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder that takes place on flying platforms, adding a layer of movement and navigation to management.

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 40%, City Builder 31%, Sandbox 11.3%, Strategy 6%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that emphasizes building, crafting, and defending your citizens in a whimsical fantasy world.

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 30.7%, City Builder 23.2%, Management 13%, Medieval 11.1%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that focuses on the social hierarchy and management of a medieval village.

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: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 20.4%, RTS 16.4%, Management 10.5%, Medieval 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming settlement builder that emphasizes the balance between nature and your growing population.

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 35.6%, City Builder 26.8%, Sandbox 13.5%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony sim that allows for intricate building and management of a subterranean gnome civilization.

Warlords Under Siege is a mix of RTS and Roguelike genre, where you build a small city and defend it against continuous waves of enemies. Improve your assortment of weapons with each playthrough, unlocking new possibilities to beat the ever-increasing threat.

Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, RTS 25.5%, Medieval 15.8%, Strategy 6.5%, Stylized 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A hybrid of RTS and tower defense that requires careful base placement to survive waves of enemies.

Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Management 17.9%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management side of fantasy adventuring, allowing you to build up a kingdom to attract heroes.

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: Colony Sim 37%, City Builder 32.5%, Strategy 6.6%, Sandbox 6%, Medieval 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A pure survival city-builder that tests your management skills against harsh environmental challenges.

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 41.9%, Medieval 19.8%, Sandbox 17.2%, RPG 9.8%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation set in the Scottish Highlands that focuses on family survival and long-term management.

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 39.4%, City Builder 24.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.1%, Medieval 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic medieval management game that focuses on keeping your citizens happy and your economy stable.

Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!

Why similar: Medieval 44.2%, Fantasy 26%, Strategy 24.6%, Singleplayer 5.2%

Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, RTS 20.5%, City Builder 16.9%, Tower Defense 15.4%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that blends RTS elements with a dark, atmospheric fantasy setting.

Master the art of indirect rule in this fantasy RTS inspired by the classic Majesty. Forget direct orders, use gold to bribe subjects and set bounties for heroes. Build your kingdom in Rodovia and master a unique system where the coin is king. Can you lead those who won't obey?

Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, RTS 17.7%, Tower Defense 15.4%, Strategy RPG 11.2%, Medieval 9%

In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 16.5%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Management 9.5%

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 35.7%, Management 17.5%, Medieval 16%, Stylized 6.6%, Simulation 6.5%

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: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 23.4%, Management 9.1%, Medieval 9%, Tower Defense 9%

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: Strategy 21.4%, RPG 20.6%, City Builder 18.1%, RTS 17.3%, Sandbox 8.8%

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: Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 23.9%, Management 12.1%, Sandbox 11%, Medieval 10.2%

The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run

Why similar: RTS 25.8%, City Builder 24%, Tower Defense 23.2%, Medieval 11.8%, Fantasy 8.1%

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 20.9%, City Builder 17.4%, Tower Defense 14.3%, Management 12.8%, Strategy 10.4%

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 34.2%, Colony Sim 26.8%, Management 11.2%, RTS 10.8%, Medieval 7.8%

Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 19.6%, Tower Defense 18.9%, RPG 10.6%, Strategy 9.5%

Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 22.6%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Management 9.4%, Medieval 7.1%

In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the Kingdom. Your rule is not absolute, however, as you face subjects that are independent and stubborn. They will need a great deal of persuasion before they carry out your wishes...

Why similar: RTS 53.6%, Strategy 25.4%, Fantasy 14%, Simulation 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%

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: Colony Sim 32.4%, City Builder 29.6%, Management 14%, Strategy 8.6%, Sandbox 7.7%

Desktopia is a city-builder game which simulates an evolving, medieval-esque village along the bottom of your desktop, allowing you to work, watch, or browse something else while you play.

Why similar: City Builder 37%, Simulation 14.7%, RPG 10.8%, Idler 8.7%, Medieval 8.2%

Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Strategy RPG 18%, Medieval 14.3%, Management 12.4%, RPG 7.5%

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: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 27%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 10.5%, Fantasy 6.7%

Lords of Solgrund combines elements of real time strategy, city building and other unique additions. The game features detailed animations, complex gameplay systems inspired by the early middle ages and elements of fantasy.

Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, RTS 20%, Management 12.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Medieval 11.4%

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 22.2%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Management 12.2%, Strategy 6.5%

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: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 20.1%, Strategy RPG 12.6%, Medieval 7.8%, Management 7%

Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

Why similar: RTS 26%, Tower Defense 24.2%, Medieval 13.2%, Management 10%, Strategy 7.9%

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: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 26.3%, Medieval 11.8%, Management 11.4%, Sandbox 7.6%

ValeGuard is an RTS, Town-Management hybrid game that combines Turn-Based City-Building with Real-Time Combat. Each day you construct your defenses, train troops, and prepare for attack. When enemies come in the night, you defend with towers, troops, and heroes with powerful abilities.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.1%, City Builder 20.1%, RTS 16.8%, Management 10.8%, Medieval 10%

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 23.7%, City Builder 19.5%, RTS 16.7%, Management 10.3%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 27%, City Builder 22.2%, RTS 17.8%, Management 11.1%, Medieval 7.4%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 23.2%, Management 11.3%, Sandbox 9%, Stylized 7.5%

Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.1%, RTS 20.9%, City Builder 15.4%, Magic 9%, Stylized 6.6%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, City Builder 24.4%, Management 13.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Strategy 7%

In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 21.5%, RTS 17.7%, Medieval 11%, Tower Defense 10.2%

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: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 23.4%, RTS 12.7%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 8.6%