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 27.2%, Colony Sim 9.4%, Economy 8.1%, Sandbox 7%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its organic, gridless medieval town growth and population-driven construction make it one of the closest matches for Manor Lords' village-building feel.

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: 4X 15.5% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Building 9.1%, RTS 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This demanding historical settlement builder emphasizes seasonal farming, supply chains, housing, trade, and keeping citizens alive through hardship.

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: Diplomacy 10% ★, 4X 9.5% ★, Grand Strategy 9%, Colony Sim 8.4%, Moddable 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines medieval colony management with noble-family politics, social class tensions, production chains, and conflict between rival lords.

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 14.1%, Moddable 13.8%, City Builder 11.3%, RTS 9.9%, Historical 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Build and defend a vertical medieval settlement while managing colonists, stockpiles, agriculture, weather, raids, and fortifications.

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 16.4%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Historical 10.8%, Base Building 8.9%, Economy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its meticulous pre-industrial village simulation focuses on believable logistics, farming, labor allocation, seasons, and organic settlement growth.

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 16.5%, Colony Sim 14.3%, RTS 11.2%, Economy 9%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic medieval castle builder that closely pairs civilian resource economies with siege warfare, defensive walls, and real-time armies.

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 13.5%, 4X 13.4% ★, City Builder 13.4%, RTS 7.7%, Base Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Build a medieval kingdom from a small village into a castle city while balancing food, housing, defenses, dragons, and Viking attacks.

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: 4X 14.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.6%, Grand Strategy 12.4%, City Builder 10.9%, Moddable 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Manage a growing realm's economy, population classes, infrastructure, diplomacy, and armies on a much larger simulation-heavy scale.

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 29.6%, City Builder 26.9%, Survival 8.1%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its harsh survival-focused settlement management, seasonal agriculture, workforce assignments, and supply planning strongly resemble Manor Lords' civic side.

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: Diplomacy 17.5% ★, Grand Strategy 15.6%, 4X 14.7% ★, City Builder 11%, RTS 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It directly mixes medieval city building, regional grand strategy, persistent settlements, and real-time tactical battles.

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 18.1%, City Builder 15.8%, Moddable 10%, Survival 7.4%, Economy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval city builder centers on survival, class needs, policy decisions, trade, and the social consequences of development.

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 23.8%, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 11%, Economy 7.9%, Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Develop a growing settlement through interconnected resource chains, district planning, trade, and technological progression in a living world.

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 19.4%, City Builder 16%, Historical 8.7%, Economy 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its historical settlement management revolves around village expansion, seasonal survival, resource chains, trade, and defending a frontier community.

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 21.1%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Building 11%, Management 8.8%, Survival 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep village-management game built around workforce allocation, agriculture, production, disasters, and adapting a settlement over generations.

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 10.4%, Diplomacy 9.8% ★, City Builder 9.2%, 4X 8.8% ★, Moddable 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although set in a different era, its exceptionally detailed construction, transport, labor, and production systems appeal to Manor Lords' logistics-minded players.

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 22.7%, City Builder 17.7%, Economy 9.6%, Management 9.5%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This feudal settlement simulator has you organize households, assign land and work, manage production, and navigate a lord-and-vassal economy.

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: Moddable 25.5%, Open World 22.9%, Sandbox 19.1%, Historical 13.1%, Strategy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Lead a medieval clan through a living feudal world, manage fiefs, raise armies, trade, and personally command large real-time battles.

Build. Survive. Thrive. Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you transform a vulnerable peasant village into a fortified town. Manage your workforce and protect your people from the constant threats of starvation, disease, winter, and bandits.

Why similar: City Builder 55.2%, Strategy 23.8%, Simulation 21%

Why You'll Like It: A grounded medieval town builder with farming, production chains, villagers, trade, weather, and the challenge of sustaining a growing settlement.

The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the strongest castle-economy-and-siege loop for players who especially enjoy Manor Lords' military side.

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 17.9%, City Builder 14.7%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 11%, Economy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on expansive settlement networks, resource gathering, detailed logistics, exploration, and a charming frontier-building rhythm.

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 34.8%, Economy 15.6%, RTS 8%, Resource Management 7.9%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its intricate production chains, city planning, trade routes, workforce needs, and territorial competition provide a more industrial-scale alternative.

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: Diplomacy 10.4% ★, 4X 9.8% ★, Grand Strategy 8.9%, Moddable 8%, Colony Sim 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its settlement-building gameplay emphasizes adapting to harsh weather, satisfying varied populations, and making difficult economic choices under pressure.

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 21.9%, 4X 13.6% ★, Historical 12.8%, Moddable 11.4%, RTS 9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Manor Lords' feudal setting and landholding fantasy, but expands it into a deep dynasty, politics, warfare, and realm-management strategy game.

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 37.7%, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 17.8%, Open World 15.3%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: Guide medieval Scottish households through farming, crafting, family life, and severe seasonal survival in a highly personal social simulation.

Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.

Why similar: Moddable 23.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Historical 11%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This Roman city builder blends supply-chain planning, expansion, trade, civic management, and military defense in a historical setting.

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 32.9%, Survival 20.7%, Open World 19.8%, Building 15.3%, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval open-world builder lets you establish and automate settlements, recruit villagers, develop production, and fight against oppressive rulers.

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 25.9%, Historical 19.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 13.6%, RTS 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Build a functioning medieval-style settlement and layered defenses while surviving enormous real-time sieges and managing scarce resources.

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 32.4%, RTS 19.4%, Historical 11.7%, 4X 11.1% ★, Strategy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Manage a medieval kingdom through economy, diplomacy, religion, provinces, and warfare while pursuing broader dynastic ambitions.

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 10.2%, Diplomacy 9.6% ★, 4X 9.3% ★, Colony Sim 8.5%, City Builder 8.2%

Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.

Why similar: RTS 25.9%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 16.5%, Historical 11.6%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its medieval factions, historical campaigns, base development, economy management, and large-scale real-time battles suit players wanting more warfare.

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: Diplomacy 10.4% ★, 4X 9.8% ★, Grand Strategy 9.6%, Colony Sim 9.1%, Moddable 8.3%

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 10.9%, Colony Sim 8.9%, City Builder 8.7%, Diplomacy 8.5% ★, 4X 8% ★

Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.4%, Historical 21.3%, RTS 16.4%, Moddable 13.5%, Strategy 12%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a classic medieval grand campaign of settlement management, diplomacy, territorial expansion, and massive tactical battles.

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 13.7%, Moddable 13.3%, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Economy 8.2%

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 20.9%, RTS 14.1%, Economy 11.7%, Historical 10.8%, Building 9.5%

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: Diplomacy 10.3% ★, 4X 9.6% ★, Grand Strategy 9%, Colony Sim 8.1%, Moddable 8%

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 28.3%, Colony Sim 27.1%, Survival 9.1%, Historical 8%, Sandbox 4.8%

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: Colony Sim 31%, City Builder 28%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 7.3%, Survival 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 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Historical 10.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Management 8.1%

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: Diplomacy 20% ★, Colony Sim 15.7%, City Builder 13.2%, Historical 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%

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

Why similar: Moddable 16.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Historical 12%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Economy 7.8%

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 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Historical 11.7%, Base Building 11%, Building 10.2%

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 20.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Historical 13.8%, Survival 12%, Open World 11.9%

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: Economy 28.8%, Building 9.7%, Open World 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Simulation 8.5%

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 20.3%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Resource Management 8.5%, Building 8%

Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.

Why similar: City Builder 15.7%, RTS 10.9%, Historical 10.8%, Grand Strategy 10.5%, Base Building 9.4%

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: Colony Sim 12.4%, City Builder 11.1%, Moddable 10.1%, RTS 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%

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: 4X 10.1% ★, Diplomacy 10.1% ★, Grand Strategy 9.7%, Colony Sim 8.8%, Moddable 8.4%

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

Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Building 13%, Grand Strategy 11.6%, Management 9.3%

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 14.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 9.8%, Building 8.1%

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 28.4%, Economy 18.3%, Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 12.3%

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 16.4%, Colony Sim 16%, RTS 10.9%, Economy 9%, Base Building 9%

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 19.7%, City Builder 16.2%, Moddable 13.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.3%

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 14.4%, RTS 12.8%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Historical 11.5%, Economy 10.5%

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 18.1%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9%

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 20.3%, City Builder 16.3%, Moddable 14.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.1%

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

Why similar: Diplomacy 21% ★, 4X 20.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5%, City Builder 13%, Historical 11%

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 16.4%, City Builder 14%, RTS 11.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8%

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: Diplomacy 24.9% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Economy 8.6%, Management 8.4%, Sandbox 8.2%

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: Colony Sim 15.6%, City Builder 14.6%, RTS 9.7%, Economy 8.8%, Base Building 8.3%