Games like Lords and Villeins
If Lords and Villeins is your kind of game, the closest matches are Founders' Fortune, Banished and First Feudal — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and relaxing. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Lords and Villeins: 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!
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Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Lords and Villeins.
Top pick for Lords and Villeins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords and Villeins.
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.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Lords and Villeins.
Second-strongest match for Lords and Villeins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords and Villeins.
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.
First Feudal
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Lords and Villeins.
Third-strongest match for Lords and Villeins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords and Villeins.
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.
Clanfolk
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Lords and Villeins.
Ranked #4 for Lords and Villeins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lords and Villeins.
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.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Lords and Villeins.
Ranked #5 for Lords and Villeins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords and Villeins.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Whiskerwood
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Lords and Villeins.
Ranked #6 for Lords and Villeins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lords and Villeins.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Songs of Syx
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Lords and Villeins.
Ranked #7 for Lords and Villeins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords and Villeins.
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.
Life is Feudal: Forest Village
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Lords and Villeins.
Ranked #8 for Lords and Villeins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords and Villeins.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Lords and Villeins
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lords and Villeins.
Reviewers of Lords and Villeins cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords and Villeins.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Lords and Villeins.
Reviewers of Lords and Villeins cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords and Villeins.
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.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lords and Villeins.
Reviewers of Lords and Villeins cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords and Villeins.
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.
Tropico 4
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Lords and Villeins.
Reviewers of Lords and Villeins cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lords and Villeins.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
Tropico 6
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Lords and Villeins cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lords and Villeins.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lords and Villeins.
Reviewers of Lords and Villeins cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords and Villeins.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Tiny Civilization
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Lords and Villeins.
Reviewers of Lords and Villeins cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Lords and Villeins.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lords and Villeins at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Lords and Villeins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lords and Villeins.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Lords and Villeins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lords and Villeins.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Lords and Villeins on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lords and Villeins.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Lords and Villeins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lords and Villeins.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Lords and Villeins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lords and Villeins.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Lords and Villeins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lords and Villeins.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lords and Villeins.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lords and Villeins.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lords and Villeins.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lords and Villeins.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lords and Villeins.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lords and Villeins.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lords and Villeins.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Lords and Villeins
- Does Lords and Villeins run on Steam Deck?
- Lords and Villeins is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Lords and Villeins cost?
- Lords and Villeins is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lords and Villeins?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lords and Villeins are Founders' Fortune, Banished, First Feudal.
- Who developed Lords and Villeins?
- Lords and Villeins was developed by Honestly Games and published by Fulqrum Publishing.
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