- #1 Medieval Dynasty
97% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Medieval 10.5%, Survival 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is the direct sibling to Sengoku Dynasty, sharing the same core loop of survival, village management, and medieval life simulation.
- #2 Bellwright
96% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 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: City Builder 18.7%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.6%, Medieval 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features a similar progression from a lone survivor to a leader of a growing village, complete with combat and resource management.
- #3 ASKA
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,320 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on tribal management and survival, requiring you to lead villagers in a harsh, open-world environment.
- #4 Manor Lords
95% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 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: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Historical 10.9%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly balances deep city-building mechanics with tactical medieval combat and realistic village growth.
- #5 Going Medieval
94% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Historical 12.2%, Survival 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim emphasizes vertical building and survival against environmental threats in a medieval setting.
- #6 Kenshi
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 21.8%, Survival 16.3%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox RPG offers unparalleled freedom to build a base and manage a faction in a brutal, unforgiving world.
- #7 Soulmask
93% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.1%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 11%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep tribe management and survival mechanics where you recruit NPCs to help automate your base-building efforts.
- #8 Enshrouded
92% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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: Base Building 19.2%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 14.8%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game features excellent building mechanics and a strong focus on exploration and RPG progression.
- #9 Myth of Empires
91% matchMixed67% of 17,261 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 230.5 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: Base Building 16.4%, Building 14.5%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Medieval 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world survival game that emphasizes building, crafting, and large-scale warfare in a historical setting.
- #10 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
91% matchVery Positive88% of 286,599 reviews2022
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 61.2 hrsMean: 152.2 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 32.3%, Open World 24.3%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Historical 10.9%, RPG 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the feudal warfare and RPG elements of the era, allowing you to rise from a wanderer to a lord.
- #11 Farthest Frontier
90% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 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: City Builder 20.3%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Building 12.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Historical 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This city-builder focuses heavily on the survival aspects of managing a medieval settlement through harsh seasons.
- #12 Foundation
89% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 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: City Builder 37.9%, Medieval 13.4%, Colony Sim 9.2% ★, Building 7.9%, Base Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more organic approach to medieval city-building, focusing on community growth and resource chains.
- #13 Norland
89% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 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: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 16% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Historical 10.8%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A complex kingdom management sim that focuses on the lives and social dynamics of your noble family and subjects.
- #14 Valheim
87% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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: Base Building 14.2%, Survival 13.6%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Open World 12.6%, Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a compelling mix of exploration, survival, and base-building in a world inspired by Norse mythology.
- #15 Dawn of Man
88% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 41.5%, Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Survival 12.7%, Historical 8.4%, Open World 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that challenges you to guide your people through the ages of human development.
- #16 Blacksmith Master
85% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Building 10.2%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the crafting and economic management side of medieval life, letting you build a business empire.
- #17 The Guild 3
86% matchMixed61% of 7,840 reviews2022
Dev: Purple LampPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Life Sim 27.3%, Medieval 21.8%, Open World 9.7%, Building 8.7%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the life-sim and economic management aspects of medieval society, allowing you to build a dynasty.
- #18 Kingdoms Reborn
86% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 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: City Builder 28.3%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Medieval 6.8%, Management 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-compatible city-builder that allows you to manage a settlement while interacting with others in an open world.
- #19 Settlements Rising
82% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Medieval 9.7%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed city-builder that emphasizes resource management and the survival of your villagers.
- #20 Patron
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Medieval 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that incorporates social dynamics and political decisions into your town management.
- #21 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
84% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 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: City Builder 32.1%, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Medieval 8.8%, Resource Management 8.3%, Survival 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that focuses on the survival of your villagers through farming and resource gathering.
- #22 Wild West Legacy
83% matchMostly Negative37% of 2,108 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Punch StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Conquer the Wild West. Explore the open world of a fictitious American Midwest and survive the harsh environment. Convince other settlers to join you and manage your ever-growing settlements. Build a home, take care of your farm and become a legend in Wild West Legacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Life Sim 13.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 11%
Why You'll Like It: Built on a similar engine, this game translates the survival and building mechanics into a frontier western setting.
- #23 Timberborn
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Building 11.6%, Survival 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder that focuses on water management and survival in a world where you must adapt to droughts.
- #24 Frozenheim
82% matchMixed70% of 3,855 reviews2022
Dev: Paranoid InteractivePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Medieval 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A Viking-themed city-builder that blends resource management with tactical combat and base defense.
- #25 Clanfolk
81% matchVery Positive92% of 3,737 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Life Sim 21.4%, Crafting 15.9%, Building 14.9%, Open World 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that prioritizes survival and family management in the harsh Scottish Highlands.
- #26 V Rising
79% matchVery Positive89% of 132,034 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Base Building 19.9%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features top-tier base-building and survival mechanics with a strong focus on combat and progression.
- #27 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
79% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 12.1%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game offers unique base-building mechanics and exploration from a perspective that changes how you interact with the environment.
- #28 Banished
81% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 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: City Builder 37.1%, Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Survival 10.8%, Medieval 7.2%, Resource Management 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city-builder that forces you to manage resources carefully to keep your population alive through winter.
- #29 Noble Fates
80% matchVery Positive83% of 1,455 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Medieval 10.8%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that gives you direct control over a ruler, blending RPG elements with base-building and management.
- #30 Chinese Frontiers
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 485 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: City Builder 13.8%, Historical 11.6%, Medieval 11%, Crafting 10.3%, Life Sim 10.2%
- #31 Noble Legacy
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 640 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: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Life Sim 11.7%, Medieval 10.7%, Base Building 9.7%
- #32 Nested Lands
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 344 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Medieval 8.8%, Crafting 8%, Survival 7.6%
- #33 Nightingale
75% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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: Base Building 14.3%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 11%
- #34 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
73% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #35 ContractVille
72% matchVery Positive81% of 5,683 reviews2025
Dev: MYM Games StudiosPub: FiftyEight Studios
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Plan, design, build, and decorate your dream house in an open-world. Smash walls, sketch your layout, then build and decorate every inch—inside and garden. In an open world, tackle each renovation solo or with up to 4 friends. Pick up that hammer and start creating - Your dream house is waiting!
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 13%, Life Sim 11.6%, Building 10.8%, Open World 10%
- #36 Life is Feudal: Your Own
76% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 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: Medieval 19.2%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 12.9%
- #37 Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders
74% matchMixed69% of 1,050 reviews2024
Dev: MeanAstronautsPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 22.9 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: Base Building 16.3%, Medieval 16.1%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10.6%
- #38 Life is Feudal: MMO
77% matchMixed40% of 7,330 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.7 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: Base Building 17.5%, Historical 14.9%, Medieval 14.8%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.1%
- #39 Korea Dynasty (조선메타실록)
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 264 reviews2023
Dev: Happy Daram Inc.
Windows
This game is a 3D open world survival exploration game that survives in the Korea Dynasty. Players Begin with slaves, change their status in Joseon, survive, and escape. Once free, travel around the country, explore hundreds of ruins, hunt, and collect what you need to survive.
Why similar: City Builder 16%, Base Building 12.5%, Life Sim 11.2%, Historical 9.9%, Medieval 9.4%
- #40 KINGDOMS
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 4,079 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: Medieval 19%, Open World 18.3%, Building 16.4%, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 12.6%
- #41 Pioneers of Pagonia
70% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Medieval 9.7%, Building 8.8%
- #42 Founders' Fortune
73% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 9.2%, Survival 7.6%
- #43 Land of the Vikings
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: City Builder 24.4%, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 9.9%, Historical 9.5%
- #44 Settlement Survival
71% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Medieval 12.1%, Building 10.8%, Survival 9.6%
- #45 First Feudal
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Colony Sim 17.5% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Medieval 10.2%, Building 9.4%
- #46 Sapiens
71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Life Sim 9.6%, Building 8.4%
- #47 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
70% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Colony Sim 14% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Medieval 10.1%, Building 8.9%
- #48 Life is Feudal: Arden
71% matchMixed42% of 817 reviews2025
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 25.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Life is Feudal: Arden is a new free-to-play open-world MMORPG set in the Middle Ages, built on the foundation of Life is Feudal: MMO. Engage in thrilling PvP combat, navigate political intrigue, master a variety of professions and craft unique items. Forge your own path to power and greatness!
Why similar: Building 13.2%, Historical 13.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Medieval 11.5%
- #49 No One Survived
69% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 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: Survival 19.5%, Open World 16.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #50 Humanica
68% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 13.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Historical 9.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #51 Pax Dei
69% matchMixed57% of 10,783 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 69.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Base Building 21.6%, Medieval 17.5%, Crafting 16%, Open World 15.2%, Multiplayer 9%
- #52 Of Life and Land
68% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Medieval 9%, Historical 8.8%
- #53 Viking Frontiers
70% matchMixed54% of 499 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: City Builder 20.7%, Medieval 19.6%, Open World 18.1%, Historical 13.6%, Life Sim 12.7%
- #54 Occupy Mars: The Game
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.7%, Building 8.8%
- #55 Everwind
66% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Open World 14%, Survival 13.9%, Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Co-op 12.2%
- #56 Eden Crafters
67% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, Open World 10.8%, Building 10.2%
- #57 Mirthwood
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,326 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Ridge GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 17.5%, Life Sim 16.7%, Crafting 15.8%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 11%
- #58 Vampires: Bloodlord Rising
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,441 reviews2026
Dev: Mehuman GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 13%, Survival 12.7%, Online Co-Op 12%
- #59 Craftopia
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World 21.8%, Crafting 19.9%, Survival 17.4%, Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #60 Airborne Empire
65% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Medieval 10.5%, Building 10.1%