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Games like Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition

If Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Medieval Kingdom Wars, Stronghold: Warlords and Kingdom Wars 4 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its persistent progression across playthroughs, challenging and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition: An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.

2019StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDWindowsby Reverie World Studios
Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition — Steam game cover
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  1. Medieval Kingdom Wars

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Top pick for Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    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…

    2019ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Stronghold: Warlords

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Second-strongest match for Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

    2021StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Kingdom Wars 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Third-strongest match for Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Solar Kingdoms is a real-time strategy game where you command forces across solar systems, engaging in large battles both in space and on the surfaces planets. Establish colonies, find resources and artifacts, and fight up to 8 factions in skirmish, large campaign, missions, and multiplayer.

    2024ActionStrategySimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Stronghold HD (2012)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Ranked #5 for Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

    2013StrategySimulation5.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Northgard: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Ranked #6 for Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Ranked #7 for Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.

    2021Strategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Kingdom Two Crowns

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Ranked #8 for Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition

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  1. Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Reviewers of Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.

    2013StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Medieval Kingdom Wars

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Reviewers of Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    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…

    2019ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Age of Empires: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Reviewers of Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.

    2019Strategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Aircraft War

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Fight against enemy planes with the fun Aircraft War! Challenge your friends with single and double player modes. Conquer the sky, enjoy the victory!

    2019ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. 守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Stronghold’s Dungeon

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Stronghold's Dungeon is a Deck Building Dungeon Crawler game with Rogue-lite mechanics. You will get to craft a deck to fight and try to overcome this dungeon and its terrible master.

    2022StrategyIndieEarly Access7.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Stronghold 4

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.

    2026StrategySimulationEarly AccessSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  2. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dota 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.

    2013ActionStrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Muck

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. SCP: Secret Laboratory

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

    2017ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Crusader Kings II

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

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

    2012StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Reverie World Studios

Other recommendable Steam games by Reverie World Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Medieval Kingdom Wars

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Another title from Reverie World Studios, the studio behind Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    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…

    2019ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Stars End

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Another title from Reverie World Studios, the studio behind Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Kingdom Wars

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Reverie World Studios, the studio behind Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    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.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  4. Kingdom Wars 2: Battles

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Another title from Reverie World Studios, the studio behind Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Battle to survive through brutal siege combat, fighting each other, and hordes of Zombies. Engage in complex crafting, castle construction and city building. Fight on beautiful, yet gory, battlefields in the epic story campaign, multiplayer skirmish and coop modes.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Kingdom Wars 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Another title from Reverie World Studios, the studio behind Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Knights of the Crusades

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Another title from Reverie World Studios, the studio behind Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Renaissance Kingdom Wars

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    Another title from Reverie World Studios, the studio behind Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    The year is 1510. As wars rage across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, it is the age of gunpowder and mercenaries - that changed the course of history. You can do it as well, going from a leader of men to the ruler of an empire in this unique mix of RTS and grand strategy.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Renaissance Kingdom Wars - Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Reverie World Studios, the studio behind Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition.

    The year is 1510. In this grand strategy & RTS hybrid you play as one of a dozen characters across medieval Europe, Africa and Middle East. Start as a landless mercenary captain. Fight your way to become a minor lord. Rise up through Kingdoms hierarchy and be crowned, then expand your Kingdom.

    ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition

Does Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition work on Steam Deck?
Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition cost?
Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition are Medieval Kingdom Wars, Stronghold: Warlords, Kingdom Wars 4.
Who developed Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition?
Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition was developed by Reverie World Studios and published by indie.io.

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