Games Like Manor Lords

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 36.4%, Medieval 14.5%, Base Building 7.9%, Simulation 6%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its freeform, organic medieval city building and focus on peasant needs, production chains, and believable village growth make it one of the closest pure-builder alternatives to Manor Lords.

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 19.9%, Historical 13.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Medieval 10.7%, 4X 8.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similarly grounded settlement-management experience with detailed farming, logistics, seasons, and the constant pressure of turning a rough frontier into a thriving town.

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: City Builder 20%, Historical 16%, Base Building 15.5%, Colony Sim 9.1%, Moddable 8.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: This mixes medieval colony management, layered construction, and defenses in a way that scratches Manor Lords' town-building and fortification side.

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: Grand Strategy 15.7% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Historical 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Medieval 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines feudal politics, class tensions, and settlement management in a way that echoes Manor Lords' focus on ruling people rather than just placing buildings.

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 39.5%, Colony Sim 16%, Medieval 8.7%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its austere, systems-driven village simulation remains a benchmark for historical-style town management built around survival, labor, and supply chains.

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 23.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Historical 12.6%, Medieval 12.6%, Colony Sim 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs medieval economy building with real-time battles and castle defense, making it a strong match for players who especially enjoy Manor Lords' warfare layer.

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 22.4%, Historical 14.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Colony Sim 7.8%, Medieval 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its meticulous historical town simulation, realistic production chains, and emphasis on believable settlement layouts make it a great fit for fans of Manor Lords' authenticity.

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 29%, Medieval 13.4%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers accessible medieval city building with walls, raids, and kingdom expansion, capturing the satisfying grow-and-defend rhythm Manor Lords players often want.

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: Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Medieval 8.2%, 4X 7.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its enormous simulated cities, layered economy, and ability to field armies give it a similar blend of settlement management and state-building at larger scale.

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 24.1%, Colony Sim 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Historical 9.3%, Medieval 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong Banished-style medieval city-builder with extra attention to policies, social issues, and how your population reacts to your rule.

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 34.6%, Base Building 16.3%, Colony Sim 9.6%, Medieval 9.5%, Economy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony-style city building, regional trade, and procedural world expansion in a way that feels like a broader sandbox version of Manor Lords' economy game.

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 39.7%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Medieval 12.2%, Strategy 6.6%, Resource Management 6%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into realistic medieval production, farming, and village growth, making it a good match for Manor Lords' slower, more simulation-driven side.

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: City Builder 25%, Historical 13.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its historical settlement-building, seasonal management, and villager-focused survival give it a comparable grounded-community feel despite the Norse setting.

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 44.1%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Historical 12.3%, Strategy 7.2%, Survival 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although set earlier in history, it scratches the same itch for organic settlement growth, seasonal planning, and detailed resource management.

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 28.1%, Medieval 15.2%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is another strong town-management game centered on logistics, labor allocation, and expansion under environmental pressure.

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: Historical 25.8%, Base Building 21.6%, Medieval 19.5%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Resource Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses more on survival and defense, but its combination of city building, walls, and massive medieval battles overlaps well with Manor Lords' combat appeal.

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: Grand Strategy 15.3% ★, City Builder 12%, Historical 9.4%, Base Building 9%, Medieval 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Even with its fantasy setting, its exceptional focus on production chains, housing, and adaptive settlement planning makes it a great fit for Manor Lords players who love the economic puzzle.

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 37.4%, Medieval 23.5%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes medieval village building, recruiting, crafting, and territorial conflict into a more hands-on version of the lordship fantasy Manor Lords evokes.

A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.

Why similar: Medieval 35.9%, Historical 14.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Open World 10.3%, Moddable 9.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is a stronger match for players drawn to Manor Lords' battles and medieval power fantasy, combining army command, politics, and territorial control.

Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.8% ★, Historical 17.4%, Medieval 14.7%, Strategy 8.3%, 4X 6.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: It lacks direct city-building, but its feudal politics, vassal management, and dynastic realm-building strongly match Manor Lords' broader medieval rulership fantasy.

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, City Builder 15%, Historical 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Colony Sim 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: The setting is very different, but its deeply detailed logistics, production planning, and settlement management will appeal to players who love Manor Lords as a systems sim.

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: Base Building 20.3%, Medieval 19.9%, Historical 18.2%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It approaches medieval settlement building from a first-person perspective, but the long-term loop of founding, growing, and managing a village is very compatible.

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: City Builder 26.5%, Medieval 15.2%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Strategy 7%, Economy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its feudal economy simulation and household-based production system make it especially interesting for players who like Manor Lords' class and supply-side complexity.

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: Base Building 23.3%, Medieval 17.7%, Economy 13.5%, Colony Sim 13%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends Norse town building, resource management, and military raiding into a lighter but still relevant cousin to Manor Lords.

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: Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Historical 10.6%, Base Building 9.8%, Diplomacy 5.8% ★

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 29.2%, Economy 16.7%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Historical 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the social and economic side of medieval life through dynastic business management rather than city planning, but the setting and simulation overlap are strong.

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

Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Grand Strategy 14.9% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 7.5%, Colony Sim 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its premodern city building, trade webs, and satisfying production chains make it a great recommendation for Manor Lords players who care most about economy and urban growth.

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: Medieval 32.5%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is more intimate and survival-focused, but its social simulation and pre-industrial household management appeal to the same audience that enjoys grounded historical colony sims.

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: Grand Strategy 16.4% ★, City Builder 13%, Historical 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Diplomacy 6.2% ★

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: City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Medieval 12.6%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Moddable 7% ★

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim adds nobles, hierarchy, and personal relationships to city building, which gives it some of the same ruler-centric appeal as Manor Lords.

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: City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Medieval 11.6%, Colony Sim 8%, Moddable 7% ★

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 33.8%, Historical 17.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Economy 8.5%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: City Builder 30.2%, Historical 16.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Strategy 6.2%

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 26%, Base Building 12.4%, Medieval 12.1%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Strategy 6.2%

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.5% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Medieval 15.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Historical 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is more of a trade and grand-strategy game than a city-builder, but its medieval setting and emphasis on building up a realm still make it a worthwhile lower-ranked match.

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: City Builder 21.5%, Historical 16%, Base Building 15.8%, Diplomacy 11.1% ★, Colony Sim 9.4%

Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Medieval 13.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Diplomacy 11.2% ★, Colony Sim 8.9%

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 23.3%, Historical 18.7%, Base Building 9%, Moddable 8.5% ★, Strategy 6.4%

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

Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Historical 11.7%, Medieval 9.8%, Colony Sim 7.4%

Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 37.3% ★, Medieval 18.3%, Historical 13.2%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 7.9%

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: Grand Strategy 16.7% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Historical 10.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Diplomacy 5.9% ★

Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.9% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Historical 16.2%, Diplomacy 10.8% ★, 4X 9.9% ★

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

Why similar: City Builder 49.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Economy 9.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Historical 8.1%

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 22.1%, Historical 14%, Base Building 13.6%, Medieval 8.1%, Colony Sim 7.7%

Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.

Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Medieval 13%, Historical 11.7%, Colony Sim 8.7%

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 22.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Medieval 13.3%, Colony Sim 9.1%, Historical 8.5%

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!

Why similar: City Builder 37.5%, Medieval 12.9%, Economy 10.7%, Simulation 10%, Building 9.3%

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: Base Building 27.9%, City Builder 27.6%, Medieval 14.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Colony Sim 8.9%

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 35.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 9.3%

Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Medieval 11.1%, Diplomacy 9.2% ★

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: City Builder 27.5%, Base Building 19%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Moddable 7.5% ★, Building 5.9%

Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.5% ★, City Builder 16.5%, 4X 11.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Medieval 10.1%

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: City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Medieval 10.6%, Colony Sim 10%, Strategy 5.8%

Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.1% ★, Historical 14.8%, Medieval 11.5%, Diplomacy 9.8% ★, 4X 9.5% ★

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: Medieval 21.1%, City Builder 18.6%, Management 12.9%, Simulation 11.8%, Building 11.1%

Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Historical 11.7%, Medieval 11.7%, Colony Sim 8.7%

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 27.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Resource Management 6.4%

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 31.5%, Base Building 20.4%, Medieval 18%, Building 7.9%, Strategy 6%

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 43.3%, Simulation 10.1%, Building 8.1%, Economy 7.9%, Sandbox 6.4%

Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.

Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Diplomacy 14.6% ★, Historical 13%, Base Building 12.6%, Economy 6.4%