Games Like Life is Feudal: Forest Village

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 30.5%, Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 10%, Medieval 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A modern, highly detailed city-builder that emphasizes realistic survival, farming, and complex supply chains in a medieval setting.

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 38.8% ★, City Builder 36%, Survival 5.4%, Strategy 4.4%, Medieval 4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive survival city-builder that established the core mechanics of resource management and harsh winter survival found in Forest Village.

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 45.7%, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, Medieval 9.1%, Resource Management 7.7%, Building 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless, organic city-builder that focuses on medieval town growth and the unique needs of your villagers.

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 31.3% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 7.1%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines deep medieval city-building with tactical combat, offering a more complex and immersive simulation of feudal life.

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 42.3%, Colony Sim 39.4% ★, Survival 6.6%, Strategy 4.3%, Simulation 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival of a prehistoric settlement, requiring you to manage food, resources, and technological progress through the ages.

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 39.6% ★, City Builder 32.7%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 5.6%, Simulation 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony simulator that allows for vertical building and detailed management of villagers in a post-plague medieval world.

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 31.7%, Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Resource Management 8.6%, Building 6.4%, Survival 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique, gridless building system and deep historical simulation that rewards careful planning and resource management.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Building 23.9%, Medieval 20.7%, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends first-person survival with settlement management, allowing you to build a village and manage its inhabitants from the ground up.

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 31.8%, Colony Sim 30.6% ★, Medieval 8.7%, Building 7.3%, Survival 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct spiritual successor to the Banished formula, offering extensive resource management and survival challenges.

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 33.9% ★, City Builder 30.5%, Survival 7%, Resource Management 6.8%, Medieval 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with a strong focus on social dynamics and survival, requiring you to balance the needs of different social classes.

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 58.5% ★, Building 13.5%, Open World 7.8%, Simulation 6.7%, Crafting 6%

Why You'll Like It: A historical colony sim that emphasizes family management and survival in the harsh Scottish Highlands.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: City Builder 42.1%, Medieval 13.4%, Survival 13.2%, Building 9%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival and exploration with the ability to build and manage your own medieval settlement.

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 31.9% ★, City Builder 27.6%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 7%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A complex kingdom management sim that focuses on the social dynamics, politics, and survival of a noble family and their subjects.

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 38%, Colony Sim 35.9% ★, Building 7.5%, Survival 6.5%, Strategy 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique survival city-builder where you manage a beaver colony, focusing on water management and drought survival.

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 40.3%, Colony Sim 29.9% ★, Resource Management 6.8%, Medieval 5.5%, Building 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar management style to Forest Village with the added benefit of multiplayer and card-based progression.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Colony Sim 29.9% ★, Resource Management 12%, Survival 8.6%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate survival city-builder, forcing you to make difficult moral choices while managing a city in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world.

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Medieval 8.8%, Resource Management 8.3%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a survival-focused city-building experience set in a beautiful, feudal Japanese landscape.

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 36.9% ★, City Builder 31.2%, Resource Management 7.4%, Survival 6.5%, Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that tasks you with leading a Viking settlement through harsh weather and external threats.

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 33% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Resource Management 10.2%, Medieval 8%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the early stages of building a medieval settlement, emphasizing resource gathering and villager 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 40.9% ★, City Builder 33.5%, Building 7%, Survival 5.7%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony simulator that balances building, crafting, and defending your settlement from threats.

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 44.9% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Building 5.9%, Resource Management 5%, Survival 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that emphasizes the needs and personalities of your settlers alongside building and resource management.

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 34.1% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Medieval 7.8%, Resource Management 7.1%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy simulation that focuses on the lives and social hierarchy of your villagers in a medieval setting.

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Medieval 26.2%, Survival 18.8%, Building 16.5%, Open World 13%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same gritty medieval DNA and survival mechanics as the seed game, though with a different focus on open-world survival.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder set in a post-apocalyptic world where you must manage resources and protect your colony.

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 29.4% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Medieval 7.4%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on ecosystem management and the growth of your settlement, requiring you to balance nature with expansion.

The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!

Why similar: Medieval 30.2%, Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deep economic and life simulation set in the medieval period, focusing on building a dynasty through trade and politics.

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

Why You'll Like It: An accessible city-builder that focuses on building a medieval kingdom and defending it against Viking raids and dragons.

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9% ★, Resource Management 21%, Medieval 12.6%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with RTS elements in a Norse setting, focusing on resource management and base defense.

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 36.6% ★, City Builder 30.4%, Medieval 8.2%, Building 6.9%, Survival 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim with god-game elements that allows for deep character interactions and complex social 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: Colony Sim 31.9% ★, City Builder 29.2%, Resource Management 9.1%, Medieval 6.8%, Building 5.6%

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 31.6% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 7.2%, Survival 6.3%

Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7% ★, City Builder 29.5%, Medieval 7.7%, Building 7.2%, Survival 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder set in the American Old West, requiring you to manage resources and survive against the elements and outlaws.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7% ★, City Builder 31.6%, Building 7.1%, Survival 6.4%, Strategy 3.5%

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 40.2% ★, City Builder 33.3%, Survival 6.4%, Resource Management 5.7%, Strategy 4.4%

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33% ★, City Builder 31.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 7.8%, Survival 7.5%

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 47.1%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Survival 9.7%, Strategy 6.4%, Building 4.7%

Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.

Why similar: Medieval 26.7%, Survival 20%, Building 17.2%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 30.1%, Colony Sim 27.4% ★, Resource Management 9.1%, Survival 7%, Building 5.9%

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 30.1% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Building 6.5%, Survival 6.3%, Resource Management 6.2%

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 40.1%, Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Resource Management 9.2%, Survival 9%, Strategy 6.9%

KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.

Why similar: Medieval 24.3%, Building 19.9%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 6.3%

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 31.8% ★, City Builder 27.9%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 7%, Survival 6.1%

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 33.6% ★, City Builder 28%, Resource Management 11%, Medieval 8.7%, Building 7.4%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3% ★, City Builder 30.1%, Resource Management 8.4%, Survival 7.3%, Building 6.7%

Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.

Why similar: City Builder 64.2%, Survival 15.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Sandbox 4.7%, Crafting 3.6%

For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.1% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Medieval 11.7%, Strategy 6.8%, Resource Management 5.5%

Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!

Why similar: City Builder 66.2%, Strategy 12.6%, Medieval 11.2%, Simulation 9%, Indie 1.1%

Life is Feudal: Arden is a new free-to-play open-world MMORPG set in the Middle Ages, built on the foundation of Life is Feudal: MMO. Engage in thrilling PvP combat, navigate political intrigue, master a variety of professions and craft unique items. Forge your own path to power and greatness!

Why similar: Building 22.4%, Medieval 20.7%, Survival 16%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 10.3%

Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you lead a village of peasants toward survival and prosperity. You must contend with bandits, starvation, disease, and brutal winters as you work to develop your settlement into a fortified town.

Why similar: City Builder 66.8%, Strategy 18.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Indie 1.8%

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 47.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Medieval 9.6%, Survival 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 39.3% ★, City Builder 31.2%, Building 6%, Survival 5.4%, Strategy 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 48.7% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.1%, Strategy 4.2%

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Medieval 24.3%, Building 23.9%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 8.6%

A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Why similar: City Builder 43.3%, Resource Management 15.8%, Medieval 12.4%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 6.7%

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.5% ★, Resource Management 12.2%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8.6%, Open World 5%

Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.

Why similar: City Builder 42.7%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Medieval 12.3%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 5.1%

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 35.5%, Colony Sim 34.3% ★, Resource Management 8.4%, Medieval 7.9%, Strategy 5.5%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37% ★, City Builder 31.9%, Building 8%, Resource Management 7.7%, Strategy 3.8%