Games Like SAELIG

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 22.7%, Medieval 15.6%, Life Sim 11.6%, Trading 8.5%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is the direct spiritual successor to the gameplay loop of managing a family business and rising through the ranks of a medieval city.

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 16.2%, Crafting 15.5%, Medieval 15.5%, Open World 10.7%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, crafting, and village management with a strong focus on building a legacy for your family over time.

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: Economy 17.9%, Medieval 14.5%, Management 12%, Building 10.8%, Open World 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A complex simulation of noble families that focuses on social dynamics, intrigue, and management within a medieval setting.

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: Management 16.2%, Crafting 15.2%, Life Sim 14.3%, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on family lineage, aging, and generational progression, mirroring the core life-sim elements of SÆLIG.

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: Economy 15.3%, Medieval 14.4%, Management 13%, Building 10.4%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep management of medieval social structures and family-based production chains within a growing settlement.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Medieval 17.9%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Life Sim 12.5%, Open World 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes family survival and generational growth in a harsh, realistic medieval environment.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: Medieval 19.9%, Economy 16.8%, Management 11.8%, Building 10.2%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless city-builder that captures the organic growth and management of a medieval settlement with a focus on individual villager needs.

For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.

Why similar: Economy 21.2%, Trading 20.6%, Medieval 15.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: The classic benchmark for dynasty-based medieval life simulation, political maneuvering, and economic competition.

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: Economy 23.3%, Management 15%, Historical 12%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed colony-management experience with a focus on building, defense, and surviving in a medieval world.

Keep your stores afloat against unique threats like royal laws, wars and crazy fantasy events. Discover new items, craft, sell them, and create your Merchant Empire in the kingdom! - All in a hybrid 2D-3D style.

Why similar: Trading 32%, Medieval 15.2%, Management 13.6%, Open World 10.9%, RPG 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the retail and trading aspect of medieval life, similar to the merchant gameplay found in the seed game.

Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

Why similar: Economy 32.2%, Management 25.8%, Life Sim 12.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a modern era, it shares the deep economic management and business-building DNA that drives the merchant gameplay of SÆLIG.

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: Medieval 25.5%, Building 17.1%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Open World 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging colony-sim that requires careful resource management and survival planning in a medieval landscape.

Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.

Why similar: Economy 16.1%, Medieval 14.8%, Management 14.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A management RPG that centers on running a medieval blacksmith business with character-driven events and narrative choices.

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: Economy 20.3%, Medieval 16.2%, Management 13.2%, Building 12.3%, Open World 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the production and economic cycle of running a medieval workshop, from raw materials to final sales.

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

Why similar: Trading 29.5%, Economy 16.3%, Medieval 15.9%, Strategy 11%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the macro-economic and trading aspects of medieval strategy, emphasizing trade routes and market fluctuations.

Run an adventurers shop – a serious business in a fantasy environment. Stock your store with dangerous weapons, fancy hats, sturdy armour and magical potions.

Why similar: Management 24%, Simulation 19.2%, Economy 16.1%, RPG 15.3%, Trading 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic shop-management game that captures the trading and inventory aspects of the seed game in a fantasy 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: Medieval 22.1%, Open World 19%, Crafting 15.9%, Building 13.5%, Life Sim 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends RPG elements with village management and survival, allowing you to lead a growing community from the ground up.

Under The Yoke is a 2D medieval peasant life-sim. Make your mark in the Domesday book as you control a family of serfs through 250 years of English history. Cultivate your lands, craft goods and hone your reputation as you navigate the tumultuous Middle Ages. Your family’s future is yours to shape!

Why similar: Medieval 15.4%, Management 12.4%, Trading 12.1%, Economy 10.6%, Historical 10%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy simulation that captures the historical and economic struggles of medieval life.

This Merchant Life is a trading strategy game set in the troubled medieval kingdom of Peregrine. Turn a rickety wooden cart, two horses and a few coins into a thriving entrepreneurial triumph!

Why similar: Trading 28.1%, Medieval 14.8%, RPG 14.6%, Strategy 14%, Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused game centered on the trials and tribulations of medieval trade routes and economic survival.

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: Medieval 16.9%, Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Management 12%, Economy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down colony-sim that emphasizes the transition from a single person to a thriving medieval settlement through resource management.

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: Economy 18.8%, Management 14.1%, Building 12.8%, Historical 12.5%, Medieval 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed simulation of medieval village life with a focus on realistic economic and social interactions.

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: Economy 24.4%, Building 20.7%, Medieval 18.8%, Management 14.4%, Historical 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A deep survival-focused city-builder that requires intense resource management and planning to keep your population alive.

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: Economy 19.7%, Medieval 15.9%, Management 11.9%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Adds social and political management layers to the traditional medieval city-builder formula, requiring careful attention to citizen needs.

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: Medieval 22%, Management 18.9%, Building 16.9%, Sandbox 16.7%, Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: An RPG-colony hybrid where you manage a kingdom and the individual lives, personalities, and relationships of your subjects.

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: Medieval 17%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 15.2%, Economy 12.1%, Sandbox 12%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive survival-management game that challenges you to manage a community through harsh medieval winters.

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: Medieval 18.6%, Management 15.3%, Economy 13.1%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A more accessible approach to medieval management and defense that focuses on balancing growth with external threats.

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 23.1%, Open World 17%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a grounded, gritty RPG experience focused on building a life and interacting with others in a medieval world.

Medieval StartUp is a unique mix of tavern management, crafting, and exploration set in a rich medieval world. Manage your tavern, craft unique items, recruit staff, and explore a mysterious marsh full of hidden secrets and rare resources.

Why similar: Trading 23.3%, Economy 15.6%, Medieval 11.2%, Management 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%

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

Why similar: Economy 29.5%, Medieval 24.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines grand strategy with real-time management, emphasizing the struggle for power and resources in the medieval era.

Start as a humble commoner and guide your family through generations in this family sim meets city builder. Climb the ranks of society to become the most influential family in the land. With wit, strategy, and a bit of luck, build your legacy - just try not to trip over your ambition!

Why similar: Economy 20.3%, Medieval 15.3%, Management 12.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Life Sim 10%

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 19.2%, Open World 15.8%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 8.9%

Run your own magic business! In Alchemist Shop Simulator you can trade magical wares, brew potions and take on special orders, meet many quirky clients, grow your ingredients in your garden, restock your shelves and manage prices. Keep expanding your business as you gain experience and wealth!

Why similar: Trading 29%, Economy 20.3%, Management 12.6%, Medieval 10.9%, Crafting 10%

Island Market Simulator – In this strategy and economy simulation game set in an island town, build your trade empire by starting with a small market. Produce your goods through farming, livestock, and supply chain management, and expand your business with seasonal dynamics and festivals!

Why similar: Trading 24.6%, Economy 16.5%, Management 10.4%, Building 8.9%, Life Sim 8.1%

The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history and can even change it in real-time. Go back to the dark middle ages and found a new dynasty!

Why similar: Trading 20.4%, Medieval 13.4%, Life Sim 13.3%, Economy 12.3%, Simulation 11%

Having inherited an old forge, it is now up to you to run the shop. Gain riches and fame, upgrade your forge and gain access to new resources to expand your product selection. One day, word of your skill may reach the ears of more than just commoners.

Why similar: Trading 20.3%, Economy 16.3%, Medieval 14.1%, Management 11.7%, Historical 9.7%

Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!

Why similar: Economy 15.9%, Management 13.4%, Trading 13.3%, Medical Sim 12.3% ★, Building 10.4%

Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?

Why similar: Economy 25.5%, Open World 16.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 14.5%, RPG 11.8%

Banker Simulator is a single-player game where you revive a bankrupt bank. With active and passive (idle) gameplay, make strategic decisions to grow your bank, satisfy customers, and tackle financial crises.

Why similar: Economy 21.6%, Management 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%

Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.

Why similar: Management 19.5%, Life Sim 18.3%, Strategy RPG 15.5%, Building 14.8%, RPG 13%

Team up with your friends and build a thriving trade empire in this CO-OP strategy and economy simulation set on a lively island. Begin with a small market, share tasks, manage production chains, raise livestock, and dominate the economy together through changing seasons and dynamic festivals!

Why similar: Economy 18.7%, Management 13%, Medieval 12.2%, Building 10.7%, Life Sim 10.5%

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: Management 19.9%, Life Sim 18.8%, Medieval 16.4%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%

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: Economy 15.5%, Medieval 14.9%, Management 13%, Building 11.5%, Historical 9.5%

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: Medieval 22.4%, Historical 15.8%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 10.2%

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: Management 26.1%, Building 19.2%, Medieval 19.1%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 6.9%

Live your medieval trader life! Buy low, sell high and explore the world! Buy ships, build businesses, find or train captains. Deal with pirates, manipulate mayors and challenge traders. React to hundreds of events that shape your very own procedurally-generated world!

Why similar: Trading 32.2%, Economy 19.9%, Medieval 12.5%, Management 11.4%, Building 11.1%

You will become the shopkeeper of grocery shop in Squirrel Town to run your own shop, replenish your stock, sell, make a profit, kill monsters, manufacture outfits, engage in agriculture, angle, cook delicious food, feed monsters and save Monster Forest controlled by the evil crystal.

Why similar: Trading 24.4%, Economy 16%, Medieval 10.2%, Management 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%

Ready to take on the management of a fantasy shop? Faire Trade allows you to do just that! From farming, to crafting, to selling, to hiring, to expanding, to pricing, to decorating to….. Well, the world's your oyster! Stay curious, adapt, and let your blossoming shop shine!

Why similar: Trading 25.8%, Economy 14.7%, Medieval 14.1%, Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%

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: Medieval 16.4%, Economy 13.2%, Management 12.3%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.8%

Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.

Why similar: Trading 20.2%, Crafting 15.6%, Medieval 14.9%, Management 11.4%, Life Sim 7.5%

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 16.3%, Open World 13.9%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%

Alek, the young man who will change Zarabon's World forever. In this adventure, you must rebuild the world of Zarabon in your image. Build villages and manage your production lines with the help of your villagers.

Why similar: Trading 17.9%, Economy 15.6%, Management 10.4%, Medieval 10.1%, Building 9.8%

Winkeltje: The Little Shop is all about building, decorating, and running your own old-world fantasy shop. Buy low, sell high - from nails and apples to swords and alchemic love potions. Impress your customers, craft items, and be the master of your very own shop.

Why similar: Trading 25.6%, Economy 17.3%, Management 11.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.8%

Your father's life depends on your success. Run a medieval shop, craft goods, set prices, and build your reputation - because the King's debt collectors are coming. Farm, hunt, explore, and trade your way to freedom in this cozy but consequential shop simulation.

Why similar: Trading 25.2%, Economy 19.3%, Medieval 15.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Life Sim 9.4%

Become a fellow of the famous medieval Hanse trading association in the 13th century. Manage the politics, prestige and economic success in your city and the known parts of Europe!

Why similar: Trading 34.6%, Economy 21.2%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8.8%

You’re a humble shopkeeper trying to live a peaceful new life, finding yourself surrounded by warring factions and dangerous creatures. Will you be able to carve out a new home for yourself and your customers in this open-world survival shopkeeping simulator?

Why similar: Economy 36.2%, Open World 20.4%, Crafting 20.2%, Simulation 12.8%, Atmospheric 10.3%