Games Like Mount & Blade: Warband

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 28.1%, Open World 15%, Moddable 9.6%, Horses 9.2% ★, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: The direct modern successor expands Warband’s sandbox campaign, clan politics, recruitment, trading, sieges, and large real-time battles.

Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.

Why similar: Medieval 34%, Open World 16.9%, RPG 12%, Sandbox 9.5%, Moddable 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Warband’s original predecessor has the same foundational loop of roaming Calradia, recruiting troops, serving factions, and conquering territory.

The standalone expansion for Mount & Blade! With Fire & Sword builds and expands upon the highly regarded combat system from Mount & Blade: Warband. Firearms have been introduced to the battlefield.

Why similar: Medieval 26.3%, Open World 16.5%, RPG 10.6%, Horses 8.1% ★, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This standalone Mount & Blade campaign retains the open-world warband management and mounted combat while adding firearms and a seventeenth-century setting.

Welcome to Han Xiongnu Wars. A stand-along game and synergy of historical Far East and multiple features in role-playing, real-time strategy and action gameplay. This game brings you to the eventful years of the early Han Dynasty, and faithfully presents the ancient eastern culture with many objects and scenes faithfully reconstructed...

Why similar: Medieval 22.8%, Horses 15% ★, Open World 14.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, RPG 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This historical sandbox centers on a customizable adventurer who gathers followers, joins or opposes factions, trades, and fights in real-time battles.

In the anarchic world of Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare, only the mightiest warlord rules. Start with a pistol and a few militias, you will set yourself on a wild and ambitious journey towards world domination. Enjoy the immersive combination of intense FPS and sandbox strategy.

Why similar: Open World 23.3%, Sandbox 16.4%, RPG 14.7%, Strategy 14.7%, Military 12%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person Mount & Blade-like game about recruiting soldiers, navigating a factional map, managing equipment, and personally fighting alongside your squad.

Bringing you to an exotic desert where you’ll recruit, train, and guide your troops into battle against rival cities and factions. Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours; Customizable characters, professions, and factions. The land is filled with a variety of hidden secrets.

Why similar: Open World 27.6%, Moddable 19.4%, Sandbox 13%, RPG 12.8%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its desert sandbox lets you recruit and customize armies, build relationships with factions, capture settlements, and pursue your own conquest story.

'Blood & Gold: Caribbean!' is a blend of economic strategy and open-world RPG, set in the pirate era of XVII Century Caribbean. The game is based on the significantly improved Mount & Blade: Warband engine.

Why similar: RPG 28%, Open World 19%, Strategy 17.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Action 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It adapts the Mount & Blade-style formula to the Caribbean, combining personal combat, faction service, trading, armies, town ownership, and naval warfare.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Open World 41%, Sandbox 32.3%, RPG 21.7%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: A harsh open-world sandbox where a small band can grow into an army or settlement, trade, survive, and challenge powerful factions on its own terms.

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: Medieval 44.4%, Strategy 14.1%, Moddable 12.2%, Historical 10.4%, Military 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the medieval campaign-map conquest, diplomacy, economy, sieges, and massive battlefield command that appeal to Warband’s aspiring rulers.

Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!

Why similar: Medieval 34.5%, Open World 26.5%, RPG 15.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Lead a customizable mercenary company through an open medieval world, taking contracts, improving your camp, managing resources, and fighting tactical battles.

Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.

Why similar: Military 45.6%, RPG 30.3%, Strategy 21.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Warband’s mercenary-company progression, contracts, equipment scavenging, world travel, and factional warfare in turn-based tactical form.

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 38.9%, Open World 21.4%, RPG 11.7%, Horses 8.7% ★, Historical 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the grounded medieval open-world role-playing, mounted travel, melee combat, factional society, and lowborn-to-notable progression that Warband fans enjoy.

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: Medieval 34.4%, Moddable 15.8%, Strategy 10.6%, RPG 10.5%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a deeper dynasty and political simulation for players who most enjoy Warband’s noble factions, claims, marriages, and rise to rulership.

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: Medieval 32.3%, Open World 18.6%, Sandbox 13%, Multiplayer 9.9%, RPG 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a slower, civilian-focused version of medieval sandbox progression through survival, crafting, settlement building, family management, and exploration.

Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.

Why similar: Medieval 44.2%, Historical 11.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Moddable 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This grand-strategy medieval sandbox similarly lets emergent characters and dynasties pursue power through warfare, intrigue, alliances, and succession.

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 40.2%, Open World 29%, Multiplayer 10.3%, RPG 8.4%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world medieval game where personal exploration and combat support recruiting villagers, founding settlements, producing equipment, and resisting rival powers.

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: Medieval 53.7%, Strategy 20%, Historical 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Sandbox 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A more kingdom-focused medieval sandbox built around managing a realm’s economy, diplomacy, religion, vassals, and wars.

Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...

Why similar: Medieval 27.2%, Strategy 26.7%, Historical 23.7%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Open World 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its campaign combines migratory-era faction management and diplomacy with large real-time battles, raids, settlement development, and sieges.

A thrilling story-driven action RPG, with a rich open world, set in 15th century Medieval Europe. Experience the ultimate medieval adventure - through the eyes of young Henry - as you embark on a journey of epic proportions.

Why similar: Medieval 39.9%, Open World 24.1%, RPG 14%, Historical 6.9%, Realistic 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A larger, more polished historical role-playing alternative centered on first-person medieval life, grounded combat, exploration, and player-driven problem solving.

Experience an epic open-world brought to life by the award-winning Nemesis System. Forge a new Ring of Power, conquer Fortresses in massive battles and dominate Mordor with your personal orc army in Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™.

Why similar: Open World 38.5%, Medieval 20.7%, RPG 13.7%, Hack and Slash 4.8%, Action 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its action-focused open world features fortress conquest and the ability to recruit, promote, command, and betray captains in a dynamic hierarchy.

Besiege castles and raid villages in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, a fast-paced medieval first person slasher with a focus on multiplayer battles

Why similar: Medieval 69.4%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Action 4.4%, First-Person 4.1%, Historical 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Warband players looking primarily for accessible multiplayer melee chaos will find its castle assaults, archery, cavalry, and swordplay familiar.

Conqueror's Blade gives you a chance to be a true warlord. Commanding medieval troops in epic 15 vs. 15 siege battles, conquering cities with allies in the open world or fighting against players from all over the world – it's you who make the choice.

Why similar: Medieval 37.8%, Open World 19.6%, Sandbox 16.6%, RPG 10.1%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer hybrid lets you fight directly as a hero while commanding medieval units in large siege and territorial-war battles.

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: Moddable 32.5%, Open World 23.4%, Sandbox 18.7%, Historical 12%, Strategy 9%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval management and conquest game with detailed settlement growth, regional control, logistics, and real-time tactical battles.

Chivalry 2 is a multiplayer first person slasher inspired by epic medieval movie battles. Players are thrust into the action of every iconic moment of the era - from clashing swords, to storms of flaming arrows, to sprawling castle sieges and more.

Why similar: Medieval 45.2%, Military 13.4%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Historical 10.4%, Hack and Slash 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It recreates the chaotic close-quarters medieval battles and sieges of Warband’s multiplayer in a polished first-person multiplayer format.

MORDHAU is a multiplayer medieval slasher. Create your mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more.

Why similar: Medieval 55%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Historical 6.5%, First-Person 6.2%, Hack and Slash 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A skill-driven multiplayer medieval combat game with highly customizable fighters, large battles, mounted fighting, and siege-like objectives.

Fight on multiple fronts in Holdfast: Nations At War - A multiplayer first and third-person shooter set during the great Napoleonic Era and WW1. Charge into battle with over 150 players per server!

Why similar: Military 32.2%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Historical 19.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Action 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Although set in the Napoleonic era, it offers large community-driven multiplayer battles with cavalry, artillery, leadership roles, and siege objectives.

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: Medieval 28.4%, Moddable 25%, Open World 17.7%, Sandbox 15.9%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the long-term realm-building side of Warband, letting a small settlement develop into a vast empire with armies, diplomacy, trade, and warfare.

Gloria Victis is an MMORPG with an emphasis on realism, set in a low-fantasy medieval open world. Enjoy MMO with skill-based non-target combat, open PVP with territory control, deep crafting system and player-driven economy – all that served with beautiful graphics and an immersive atmosphere.

Why similar: Medieval 38.9%, Open World 23.7%, RPG 10%, Multiplayer 9%, Sandbox 6.6%

Battle Cry of Freedom brings brutal real-time first and third-person combat set in the 19th Century America, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the American Civil War as either the Union or the Confederates.

Why similar: Moddable 27.1%, Military 19.9%, Historical 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.9%, RPG 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its American Civil War setting replaces medieval combat, but its large organized multiplayer battles reward formation tactics, officers, and coordinated assaults.

Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG Expeditions: Viking. How will history remember you?

Why similar: Medieval 35.2%, RPG 27.9%, Historical 12.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its historical campaign follows a customizable leader who recruits companions, manages a warband’s supplies and reputation, and shapes faction relationships.

War of Rights is a first person multiplayer game featuring massive 400 player battles with a focus on historical authenticity, teamplay and immersion. It is set during the perilous days of the American Civil War, in the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862.

Why similar: Military 26.3%, Historical 22.8%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Realistic 9.9%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This Civil War multiplayer simulation is a thematic departure, yet its emphasis on commanding units and participating in disciplined large-scale battles suits Warband’s military side.

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

Why similar: Medieval 38.4%, Open World 23.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%, RPG 7.3%

Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.

Why similar: Military 24.1%, Open World 18%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Moddable 12.6%, Sandbox 9.9%

Sons of Valhalla is a roguelike strategy game set in the Viking Age. Build fortresses, gather warriors, and lay siege to enemy strongholds, engaging in personal combat as you raid and conquer across England.

Why similar: Medieval 17.5%, Horses 13.9% ★, Moddable 13.7%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 8.1%

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: Medieval 38.9%, Open World 25.5%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, RPG 5.5%

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

Why similar: Medieval 34.6%, Open World 23.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, RPG 10.2%, Military 6.5%

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 21.2%, Horses 14.6% ★, Open World 13.8%, Moddable 13.7%, Sandbox 9.3%

"Blood of Steel" is a fair competitive multiplayer online game. You will ride into a battlefield where thousands clash, employing unique four-directional slashing maneuvers and strategic formations to defeat your opponents, experiencing the charm of warfare in the age of cold weapons!

Why similar: Medieval 26.6%, Horses 21.8% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, RPG 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

Why similar: Moddable 29.1%, Military 19.6%, Sandbox 17.2%, Historical 13.8%, Strategy 10.3%

Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?

Why similar: Medieval 32.1%, Open World 23.1%, Sandbox 18.3%, RPG 11.1%, Multiplayer 7.5%

The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…

Why similar: Medieval 33.4%, Open World 18.6%, Sandbox 15.8%, RPG 11.3%, Strategy 6.3%

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

Why similar: Medieval 37.1%, Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 16.1%, Historical 10.7%, RPG 7.5%

For Honor is a groundbreaking team-based PvP melee fighting game where Knights, Samurai, Vikings, Wu Lin, and more clash in endless battles. Pick unique heroes and master intense 4v4, 2v2, or 1v1 battles.

Why similar: Medieval 78.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Third Person 2.6%, Action 2.5%, Hack and Slash 2.3%

As King, it is your duty to lead your people in their struggle to raise your kingdom from its humble beginnings to a position of power and prestige. War, diplomacy and a burgeoning economy are the means by which you increase your power and expand your influence.

Why similar: Medieval 62.8%, Strategy 22.7%, Historical 9.8%, Multiplayer 4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.

Why similar: Medieval 33%, Open World 23.4%, Sandbox 18.1%, RPG 12.6%, Strategy 7.9%

This Three Kingdoms sandbox RPG lets you do whatever you wish in the late Han Dynasty. Be a ruler, courtier, or hermit. Make friends, marry, raise children, manage estates, train yourself & allies, govern, drill troops, experience & alter history, and conquer all to win the hearts of the people.

Why similar: Military 27.2%, RPG 24.5%, Strategy 17.7%, Historical 15.4%, Realistic 9.2%

Stronghold Crusader 2 is the long awaited sequel to the original castle sim. After 12 years Stronghold returns to the desert with a new 3D engine and powerful Havok Physics. Crusader 2 recaptures the original game’s addictive, fast-paced gameplay and authentic castle simulation.

Why similar: Medieval 46.5%, Strategy 20.3%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Open World 6.2%, Historical 6.1%

Myth of Empires: Throne is a free seasonal multiplayer warfare sandbox. Explore vast lands inspired by multiple civilizations, tame creatures, forge powerful weapons, and build your guild. Lead cross-server expeditions, conquer territories, and compete with players worldwide for the ultimate throne!

Why similar: Sandbox 22%, Open World 17.5%, Military 14.8%, Strategy 14%, Hack and Slash 7.9%

Conqueror's Blade: Three Kingdoms is an open-world action war game blending hero combat and troop command. Lead legendary armies alongside allies to siege cities and claim vital resources. Forge alliances, crush rival factions, and seize the realm with steel and strategy!

Why similar: Sandbox 26.1%, RPG 23.3%, Strategy 16.5%, Open World 11.5%, Historical 9.4%

Lead a Roman expeditionary force into the heart of Ancient Britain! Recruit, promote, and upgrade your legionaries while constructing a series of fortified marching camps. Use Roman tactics and strategies to conquer the entire island and become Warlord!

Why similar: Open World 39%, Historical 16%, Sandbox 15.8%, Strategy 14.3%, First-Person 5.6%

Building on 10 years of constant engine development, ARMA II boasts the most realistic combat environment in the world. It models real world ballistics & round deflection, materials penetration, features a realtime day/night cycle and dynamic wind, weather and environmental effects.

Why similar: Military 23.2%, Open World 18.1%, Moddable 15.8%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Realistic 6.5%

Kingdom Wars is a free to play 3D MMORTS with real-time siege combat, without the pay to win element so common in the genre. Kingdom Wars offers beautiful 3D online world, where players construct strongholds, direct citizens, complete quests and eventually manage a global empire.

Why similar: Medieval 40.2%, Strategy 21.5%, RPG 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Sandbox 5%

Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.

Why similar: Military 33.7%, Strategy 28.9%, Historical 24.6%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Action 1.6%

Become a battlemage, build a city, and command your troops in this fantasy warfare simulator. Jump into the fray and use your might, magic, and wits to fight enemies in battles of up to a hundred units and fully destructible city siege combat. The fate of an empire is in your hands.

Why similar: Medieval 31.4%, Open World 19.2%, Moddable 17.9%, RPG 10.3%, Strategy 7.2%

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: Medieval 31.4%, Open World 20.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Multiplayer 9.9%, RPG 8.2%

Here is a sandbox like no other. Create massive battles with absolutely no limits. Want to see 10,000 chickens fight an army of Romans?? Sure, why not. Want to see a company of WW2 U.S soldiers fight 11,000 Medieval soldiers?? There are simply no limits to the carnage you can achieve in UEBS.

Why similar: Medieval 32.3%, Sandbox 30.6%, Open World 11.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 5.4%

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

Why similar: Medieval 39%, Open World 20.7%, Sandbox 19.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Strategy 4.3%