- #1 Sengoku Dynasty
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,526 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Crafting 13%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Medieval 10.6%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: It is the clearest alternative to Medieval Dynasty, swapping Europe for feudal Japan while keeping open-world survival, village building, NPC management, and co-op progression at the center.
- #2 Bellwright
96% matchVery Positive81% of 19,796 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Crafting 19.4%, Building 15.5%, Survival 14.7%, Medieval 14.7%, Open World 13%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a very similar loop of scavenging, crafting, building medieval settlements, recruiting villagers, and growing from a lone survivor into a community leader.
- #3 ASKA
95% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,689 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Crafting 15.5%, Building 15%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op Viking survival game closely matches the fantasy of building a settlement from scratch and assigning villagers to keep it running and expanding.
- #4 Life is Feudal: Your Own
96% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Crafting 17.9%, Medieval 15.1%, Building 15.1%, Open World 11.5%, Survival 11%
Why You'll Like It: It is a hardcore medieval survival sandbox built around crafting, terraforming, cooperative building, and developing a functioning settlement.
- #5 Myth of Empires
94% matchMixed67% of 17,381 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.3 hrsMean: 229.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Building 21.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its historical sandbox combines survival crafting, base building, farming, taming, and workforce management in a way that strongly overlaps with Medieval Dynasty's long-term progression.
- #6 Enshrouded
93% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Crafting 18.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 14.1%, Building 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: While more fantastical, it delivers excellent co-op survival, exploration, crafting, and base-building in a large world with a similarly satisfying build-up loop.
- #7 KINGDOMS
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 4,083 reviews2015
Dev: Oreol
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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: Building 19.4%, Medieval 15%, Crafting 15%, Open World 12.8%, Survival 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the first-person perspective and core fantasy of founding and growing a medieval settlement in an open world.
- #8 Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders
92% matchMixed69% of 1,072 reviews2024
Dev: MeanAstronautsPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.
Why similar: Medieval 15.5%, Crafting 15.3%, Building 15.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes open-world medieval exploration and action with settlement construction and resource management in a way that feels very adjacent to Medieval Dynasty.
- #9 Going Medieval
91% matchVery Positive89% of 20,881 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 31.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Crafting 20.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Historical 14.5%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more into colony simulation, but the focus on building, defending, and expanding a medieval settlement makes it a strong mechanical match.
- #10 Pax Dei
91% matchMixed57% of 10,968 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 16.5 hrsMean: 70.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Crafting 20.2%, Medieval 14.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes communal medieval homestead building, deep crafting, and slow-burn progression in a social sandbox world that scratches a similar immersive-builder itch.
- #11 Valheim
90% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Building 17.9%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its rustic co-op survival, gathering, crafting, and homestead-building progression captures much of the same from-nothing-to-thriving-settlement appeal.
- #12 Manor Lords
89% matchVery Positive84% of 87,232 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Base Building 20.3%, Medieval 19.9%, Historical 18.2%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It lacks the first-person survival side, yet its grounded medieval atmosphere and satisfying town-building make it a great fit for players who love the settlement aspect.
- #13 Farthest Frontier
88% matchVery Positive86% of 24,477 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Building 21.9%, Agriculture 16.7% ★, Medieval 11.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Historical 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers grounded settlement survival, resource chains, and frontier town planning that appeal to the management side of Medieval Dynasty.
- #14 Noble Legacy
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 682 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
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: Building 20.1%, Medieval 15.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Immersive Sim 12%, Sandbox 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person medieval settlement sim centers on developing a village, managing production, and growing a community in a similarly hands-on way.
- #15 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
89% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: Building 23.9%, Medieval 20.7%, Survival 16%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This settlement-focused spin-off keeps the medieval survival and village-management themes even if it shifts into full city-builder form.
- #16 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
85% matchVery Positive88% of 290,096 reviews2022
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 62.3 hrsMean: 154.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 27.4%, Open World 18.1%, Sandbox 14%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Historical 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is lighter on crafting and building, but the immersive medieval sandbox and rise-from-nobody progression strongly overlap with the seed game's appeal.
- #17 The Guild 3
86% matchMixed61% of 7,892 reviews2022
Dev: Purple LampPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 25.9%, Building 15.5%, Open World 10.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses more on social climbing, economy, and lineage, but it still delivers that long-form medieval dynasty fantasy of building a lasting legacy.
- #18 Norland
84% matchVery Positive82% of 9,913 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Building 17.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Medieval 13.4%, Historical 11.9%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its mix of medieval settlement management, family politics, and long-term ruler decisions echoes the dynasty and community-building parts of the experience.
- #19 SAELIG
86% matchVery Positive87% of 1,110 reviews2017
Dev: Atorcoppe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.
Why similar: Building 16.2%, Crafting 15.5%, Medieval 15.5%, Open World 10.7%, Management 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the slower medieval life-sim and dynasty-building side through household management, trade, relationships, and long-term family progression.
- #20 Clanfolk
84% matchVery Positive92% of 3,845 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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: Agriculture 20% ★, Crafting 18.6%, Building 17.5%, Medieval 14.2%, Sandbox 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is a smaller-scale survival colony sim about building up a family settlement through seasonal hardship and careful resource use.
- #21 Foundation
82% matchVery Positive86% of 23,739 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: Medieval 22.1%, Building 19.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its organic medieval town growth and production management make it a great pick if your favorite part of Medieval Dynasty is shaping a living settlement.
- #22 Lumberjack's Dynasty
83% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,789 reviews2021
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come.
Why similar: Building 26.9%, Crafting 24.4%, Simulation 19.5%, Open World 13.3%, Realistic 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same slow-paced first-person life-sim structure of gathering resources, repairing property, and building up a livelihood, just in a modern setting.
- #23 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 45,769 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.
Why similar: Co-op 15.7%, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Immersive Sim 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Even without the medieval theme, its co-op homestead building, hunting, crafting, and step-by-step property development overlap with the seed game's everyday loop.
- #24 Soulmask
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Building 19.4%, Crafting 17.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Although it uses a tribal setting instead of a medieval one, its recruitable NPCs, co-op survival crafting, and base management feel surprisingly similar.
- #25 Farmer's Dynasty - Final Harvest Edition
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,283 reviews2019
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Live – Build – Farm: Enjoy a unique mix of farming, constructing and life simulation that takes you to the countryside and holds plenty of challenging gameplay in stock!
Why similar: Agriculture 27.4% ★, Building 17%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 9.3%, Simulation 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world chores, crafting, home improvement, and routine-driven progression make it feel like a modern-rural cousin to Medieval Dynasty.
- #26 Land of the Vikings
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,222 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Building 22%, Base Building 15%, Survival 14.5%, Historical 13%, Sandbox 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends historical settlement building, survival needs, and village development in a way that feels close to Medieval Dynasty's community-management side.
- #27 Viking Frontiers
80% matchMixed54% of 522 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
Windows
Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.
Why similar: Medieval 19.8%, Open World 16.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Historical 11.7%, Immersive Sim 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It targets a similar frontier-founder fantasy with historical survival, crafting, exploration, and settlement-building progression.
- #28 Banished
79% matchVery Positive90% of 43,119 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Survival 25%, Medieval 18.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the challenge of establishing and sustaining a self-sufficient medieval-style community under harsh survival pressures.
- #29 Conan Exiles Enhanced
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 115,037 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Building 20.9%, Crafting 19.1%, Survival 18%, Open World 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is a harsher and more combat-heavy survival sandbox, but the open-world building, crafting, and multiplayer base progression are a strong match.
- #30 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
78% matchVery Positive92% of 7,920 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Building 28.3%, Crafting 18.9%, Sandbox 15.4%, RPG 11.2%, Co-op 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is much more whimsical, yet few games blend exploration, farming, building, townsfolk needs, and settlement growth this well.
- #31 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
76% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Crafting 16%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 11.2%, Co-op 9.9%
- #32 Nightingale
75% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Crafting 17.1%, Building 16.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 10.6%
- #33 Everwind
73% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Crafting 19%, Building 18.6%, Co-op 12.8%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 11.1%
- #34 Survival: Fountain of Youth
74% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Crafting 16.5%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.7%, Survival 11%, Historical 8.6%
- #35 ICARUS
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 13.5%, Co-op 9.4%
- #36 Green Hell
74% matchVery Positive85% of 97,093 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Survival 16.7%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Base Building 10%, Open World 9.9%
- #37 Forever Skies
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Crafting 18.3%, Building 14.8%, Base Building 14%, Co-op 13%, Survival 11%
- #38 Life is Feudal: MMO
77% matchMixed40% of 7,344 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Crafting 15.1%, Building 13.6%, Medieval 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Historical 11.4%
- #39 Chinese Frontiers
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 516 reviews2025
Dev: SolidGamesPub: Big Cheese Studio
Windows
Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.
Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Building 14.8%, Medieval 12%, Historical 10.7%, Immersive Sim 7.7%
- #40 Subsistence
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Crafting 21.7%, Survival 16.2%, Building 14.8%, Open World 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%
- #41 Medieval Engineers
77% matchMixed52% of 7,297 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Building 23.8%, Medieval 15.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 10.1%
- #42 Farmer's Dynasty 2
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,051 reviews2026
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Build your dream farm and secure your family’s future. Cultivate your fields, raise animals, and shape your dynasty across generations in this beautifully crafted life and farming simulation. Start your dynasty today!
Why similar: Agriculture 26% ★, Building 23.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Immersive Sim 13.6%, First-Person 6%
- #43 The Last Plague: Blight
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,393 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight
Why similar: Building 19%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 14.3%, Co-op 12.3%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #44 No One Survived
70% matchMixed65% of 7,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Crafting 19.2%, Survival 18.2%, Open World 15%, Building 14.8%, Multiplayer 10.3%
- #45 Kingdom Come: Deliverance
71% matchVery Positive84% of 181,135 reviews2018
Dev: Warhorse Studios
Windows
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!
Why similar: Medieval 30%, Open World 20.5%, Historical 15.5%, Realistic 9.9%, RPG 9.1%
- #46 Mirthwood
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,338 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Ridge GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
Why similar: Crafting 20.9%, Medieval 15.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Survival 10.4%
- #47 Force of Nature
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Crafting 23.8%, Building 14.8%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 10%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #48 Voidtrain
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Crafting 15.6%, Building 12.9%, Co-op 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 10.6%
- #49 Kingdoms Reborn
69% matchVery Positive91% of 9,605 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Base Building 19%, Building 14.2%, Medieval 13%, Co-op 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.5%
- #50 Ale & Tale Tavern
67% matchVery Positive89% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Scienart GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING! Play with friends, feed and quench the thirst of the entire world!
Why similar: Building 25.1%, Co-op 18.4%, Management 14.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #51 Tavern Master
68% matchVery Positive92% of 12,957 reviews2021
Dev: Untitled Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Building 32.5%, Management 19.8%, Medieval 18.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Simulation 7.6%
- #52 Reign Of Kings
71% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Crafting 18.6%, Building 16.4%, Medieval 14.3%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 11.6%
- #53 The Planet Crafter
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Building 16.9%, Crafting 16.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Co-op 11.5%, Survival 10.9%
- #54 Frozenheim
69% matchMixed70% of 3,869 reviews2022
Dev: Paranoid InteractivePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 23.4%, Medieval 20.9%, Co-op 20.6%, Management 13.9%, Multiplayer 12.9%
- #55 Renown
67% matchMixed59% of 1,558 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Crafting 16.8%, Building 15.3%, Medieval 11.6%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #56 Lodventure
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Crafting 17.1%, Co-op 15.3%, Building 13.9%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 12.1%
- #57 This Land Is My Land
68% matchMixed68% of 4,612 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Crafting 20.3%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 16.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Historical 8.1%
- #58 Rising World
69% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Building 19%, Crafting 18.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Co-op 11.3%, Survival 10.7%
- #59 Vampires: Bloodlord Rising
65% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,580 reviews2026
Dev: Mehuman GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In this dark, open-world adventure, you awaken as a Vampire Lord. Build and customize your castle. Hunt for blood, fight, craft, and gather. Command your loyal servants. Shapeshift into a bat to explore the night and survive the relentless Inquisition, solo or in 4-player co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 19.4%, Building 17.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11.4%