Games Like Mirthwood

Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Life Sim 12%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the fantasy-life-sim DNA, featuring aging mechanics, generational play, and a charming, hand-drawn aesthetic.

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: Crafting 20.7%, Medieval 15.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Immersive Sim 12%, Survival 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest experience to Mirthwood, combining realistic medieval survival, base-building, and life-simulation elements.

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.2%, Life Sim 17.6%, Management 12.5%, Medieval 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focusing on the trade and management aspect of Mirthwood, this game tasks you with running a medieval tavern while gathering resources.

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Why similar: Farming Sim 36.8%, Life Sim 15.8%, Fishing 10.7% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard of the genre, it provides the essential foundation of farming, relationship building, and dungeon exploration found in Mirthwood.

Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!

Why similar: Farming Sim 35.6%, Fishing 17.5% ★, Life Sim 13.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Character Customization 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This fantasy-focused farming RPG allows you to explore multiple magical realms while managing your own homestead.

Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!

Why similar: Farming Sim 32.4%, Farming 21.9% ★, Life Sim 13.3%, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A highly polished farming RPG that captures the cozy, character-driven narrative style of modern life-sims.

Journey to the vibrant world of Rune Factory and experience the legendary fantasy farming adventure like never before!

Why similar: Farming Sim 43.9%, Fishing 23.6% ★, RPG 12.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Farming 8.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: This title perfectly bridges the gap between traditional farming simulation and high-fantasy action RPG combat.

Embark on a magical journey in this captivating life simulation game. Escape to a welcoming valley, farm with spells, and master skills like fishing, crafting, and cooking. Engage in epic battles, strengthen the bonds with your companions, and build your dream home to achieve Immortal Life!

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.7%, Fishing 24.5% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Life Sim 11.9%, Action RPG 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a beautiful xianxia world, it offers deep farming and crafting systems alongside a rich, story-driven RPG experience.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.2%, Life Sim 18.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at the crafting and community-building loops while providing a vast, open world to explore and survive in.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Crafting 29.3%, Sandbox 19.5%, Management 16%, Medieval 15%, RPG 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a darker, medieval-themed twist on the management and crafting genre with a heavy emphasis on quirky narrative and survival.

Escape to the magical life of your dreams in Fae Farm, a farm sim RPG for 1-4 players. Craft, cultivate, and decorate to grow your homestead, and use spells to explore the enchanted island of Azoria!

Why similar: Farming Sim 61%, RPG 16.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Simulation 5.3%, Stylized 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the magical elements of farming and exploration with a strong focus on co-op play and cozy aesthetics.

Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.

Why similar: Farming Sim 34.3%, Life Sim 14.6%, Fishing 13.4% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A modern, expansive farming sim that features deep environmental storytelling and a large cast of characters to interact with.

HARVESTELLA, an all-new life-simulation RPG from SQUARE ENIX! Lead a life of self-sufficiency with your vibrant house as a base and cooperate with allies to overcome various threats.

Why similar: Farming Sim 31.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Life Sim 13%, Action RPG 9%, RPG 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends a traditional farming cycle with a complex, action-oriented JRPG narrative and world-ending stakes.

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: Farming Sim 28.1%, Medieval 13.8%, Life Sim 13.3%, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 13%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony simulator that focuses on the harsh realities of survival and management in a historical setting.

A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.6%, Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Crafting 10.4%, RPG 8.3%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique take on the farming genre by focusing on desert survival and the restoration of a dying ecosystem.

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: Open World Survival Craft 49.4% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: For those who enjoy the survival and exploration aspect of Mirthwood, this game offers a brutal yet rewarding medieval-inspired open world.

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.6%, Open World Survival Craft 21.2% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Life Sim 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a relaxing yet engaging take on survival and base-building in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.2% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, RPG 12.1%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world sandbox RPG provides a deep, classic fantasy experience with extensive crafting and exploration.

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.4%, Life Sim 14.9%, Fishing 13.2% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing life-sim that prioritizes town-building and character relationships after the world has already been saved.

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

Why similar: Fishing 31.5% ★, Life Sim 17.3%, Crafting 16.6%, Action RPG 10.3%, Character Customization 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the alchemy and community-service aspects of a medieval life-sim, tasking you with healing townsfolk through gathering and crafting.

A cozy 2.5D farm-life RPG that runs deep. Grow living soil into legendary harvests, romance 34+ villagers, breed magical animals, cook, fish, and dive the dungeons below for loot. No forced bedtime, no stress, just your dream farm at your own pace.

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.2%, Fishing 15.9% ★, Life Sim 12.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A farming sim that adds significant depth to its RPG mechanics, including complex crafting and a large, explorable 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: Medieval 17.7%, Life Sim 16.5%, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 13%, Open World 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar blend of survival, building, and life-simulation set against the backdrop of feudal Japan.

Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.

Why similar: Farming Sim 34.5%, Sandbox 16.5%, Life Sim 15%, Management 10.7%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the world-building and exploration aspects of the genre, allowing you to cultivate and manage entire worlds.

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: Open World Survival Craft 56.2% ★, Sandbox 14%, RPG 12.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully combines block-based building and town management with a classic, lighthearted RPG adventure.

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: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Medieval 14.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: A more hardcore, realistic medieval survival experience that focuses on community building and terraforming.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Crafting 22.7%, Survival 21%, Sandbox 18.1%, Open World 18.1%, Character Customization 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a compelling loop of survival, base-building, and combat, though with a darker, gothic-fantasy aesthetic.

Rediscover the simple life. Farm, fish, forge and fight to restore the peace in an all-new farming adventure. Features split-screen coop, a helpful pet, automated drones, resourceful pixies, a card-eating progression system, and dangerous dungeons to delve into!

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.5%, Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Fishing 16% ★, Farming 13.8% ★, Life Sim 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, story-rich life-sim that introduces unique card-based mechanics to the traditional farming and exploration loop.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Farming Sim 15.5%, Farming 13.6% ★, Fishing 12.9% ★, Life Sim 7.4%

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Farming Sim 32.3%, Life Sim 14.3%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 12.3%, Immersive Sim 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a community-focused farming sim experience set in the Stone Age, emphasizing discovery and technological advancement.

Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Farming 19.4% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game that focuses on the beauty of nature and the quiet satisfaction of building a home in the wilderness.

Discover the true power of rice in Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin! Take on hordes of demons in side-scrolling combat to reclaim the land as Sakuna, a spoiled harvest goddess banished to a dangerous island. Then, return to your mountain village and tend a field full of glorious rice.

Why similar: Farming Sim 66%, Crafting 26.4%, Simulation 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique, highly detailed rice-farming simulation paired with challenging side-scrolling action combat.

Explore a world filled with the magic of Disney as you discover rich stories and build the perfect neighborhood alongside Disney and Pixar heroes and villains in this new life-sim adventure game. Welcome to Disney Dreamlight Valley.

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.2%, Fishing 19.7% ★, Life Sim 13%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 9.7%

Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Farming Sim 18.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11%, Survival 8.1%

You’ve got land, time, and a whole lot to figure out. Start small, work hard, earn what you need, and build the kind of farm you’d never want to leave.

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.4%, Farming 15.7% ★, Life Sim 12.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Immersive Sim 8.8%

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Why similar: Farming Sim 31.7%, Life Sim 16%, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 9.6%, RPG 8.8%

A deadly plague threatens the village of Grimshire. Manage your farmland, forage the bounty of the wilds, prevent your harvest from rotting away and keep the root cellar full. Can you help bring the community together and survive?

Why similar: Farming Sim 38.5%, Fishing 13.6% ★, Survival 11.8%, Life Sim 11.2%, Sandbox 7.9%

A grinding medieval fantasy life sim with a detailed complex crafting system complemented by survival and RPG elements. Grind resources, craft items, trade with locals, master professions, fulfill quests and explore the world to uncover its long-lost secrets.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Farming Sim 23.1%, Life Sim 11.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 7%

Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.

Why similar: Farming Sim 41.3%, Sandbox 21%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12.7%, RPG 10.5%

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Farming Sim 20.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Life Sim 10.4%, Survival 7.6%

A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore your town, sail across a mysterious archipelago, rescue animal pals. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?

Why similar: Fishing 23.6% ★, Farming Sim 22.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Life Sim 10.8%, Character Customization 7.2%

Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?

Why similar: Life Sim 19.6%, Management 13.9%, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Crafting 13%, RPG 11.2%

Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.3%, Fishing 20.8% ★, Farming 20.4% ★, Life Sim 11.8%, Crafting 8.4%

Armed with hand-me-down tools and some cash, you begin your new life as THE Chief Farmer, a position your grandfather once excelled in. Can you honor his legacy and transform the overgrown, untamed and desolate floating island into a flourishing farm abundant with produce?

Why similar: Farming Sim 23.8%, Fishing 21.2% ★, Life Sim 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%

A unique blend of a Soothing Simulation and an Idle Game with Music, Decoration, Fishing, Cooking, Farming and more...

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.4%, Fishing 18.5% ★, Farming 16.7% ★, Life Sim 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%

Howdy partner! Welcome to Cattle Country, the Cozy Cowboy Adventure Life Sim. Become a determined pioneer traveling west to start a new life. Make a home in the mountains, take on bandits, discover dastardly plots, build a farm, develop your town, and make friends with fellow residents.

Why similar: Farming Sim 32.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Life Sim 13.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Character Customization 9.2%

Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.

Why similar: Farming Sim 34.3%, Crafting 16.6%, Life Sim 12.1%, Character Customization 8.6%, RPG 8.6%

Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Fishing 21.7% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 7.5%, RPG 7.2%

Take part in healing after the Great Calamity. Tend your farm, complete quests for the villagers, and explore dungeons filled with challenge and treasure in this cozy, solo-developed farming sim. Build a new life in a recovering world with your fluffy Spellbook Companion.

Why similar: Farming Sim 31.7%, Fishing 16.6% ★, Life Sim 14.7%, Crafting 12%, RPG 7.1%

Whisker Waters is the ultimate RPG adventure that blends light fantasy and the art of fishing into a mesmerizing world. As a player, you'll create and play as your very own Cat character and embark on a whimsical fishing journey like never before.

Why similar: Fishing 32.6% ★, Life Sim 14.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Farming Sim 11.2%, RPG 10.4%

Experience a cute, cozy witch life! After losing your job your life just took a whimsical turn. You're now on a quest to create a magical food forest and make it a home for all kinds of adorable creatures!

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.7%, Life Sim 13.5%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Crafting 9%, Character Customization 8.6%

Tired of the city grind? Escape to Starsand Island and embrace the simple joys of country life! Live alongside capybaras, cats, and dogs, reel in a big catch, and explore the enchanting Moonlit Forest. Leave the hustle behind and experience the charm of this seaside paradise.

Why similar: Farming Sim 31.1%, Life Sim 15%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Immersive Sim 10.1%

Ikonei Island is yours to discover! Explore and gather resources. Farm the land, craft tools and gear, and build your base or a cozy home. Befriend magical creatures and fight monsters with your friends or solo!

Why similar: Farming Sim 45.9%, Crafting 19.9%, Exploration 13.1%, RPG 11.1%, Simulation 8.2%

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Farming 23.8% ★, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 8.6%

Medieval Blacksmith is a blacksmithing simulation set in a magical medieval world. Play as a blacksmith with no past, craft legendary weapons from daggers to spears, and forge your path to becoming the world’s greatest. Dive into a story filled with adventure and endless creative possibilities!

Why similar: Sandbox 20.6%, Life Sim 18.9%, Immersive Sim 17.2%, Medieval 14%, RPG 12.4%

Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.8%, Crafting 16.6%, Sandbox 16.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.4%

First-person Alchemist Simulator with RPG elements. Explore the world, gather ingredients, and sell or use potions you craft to help others and fend off enemies. Adopt pets to help you with your alchemy knowledge (and to pet them). Decorate your home however you like and brew your destiny!

Why similar: Farming Sim 23.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Life Sim 11.2%, Management 8.7%

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: Medieval 21.1%, Crafting 20%, Survival 18.3%, Open World 14.6%, Life Sim 10.5%

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: Sandbox 12.6%, Medieval 12.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Management 9.5%, Economy 8.7%

Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 8.7%