Games like Manor Lords
If Manor Lords is your kind of game, the closest matches are Norland, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic and Whiskerwood — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 →Manor Lords is a medieval strategy and simulation game released in 2024 by Slavic Magic and published by Hooded Horse, currently available in early access for $39.99 USD. Players establish and manage settlements using eco-system-simulation, micro-economics-management, and policy-implementation alongside fortification-building and mercenary-recruitment, with military-invasion-dynamics integrated directly into city-building. The game is playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers note an 87% positive rating from over 38,000 Steam reviews. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and immersive while navigating complex systems that demand constant attention, and they highlight how medieval warfare integrates meaningfully with settlement growth, micro-economics feel deep and reactive, and settlement design feels tactile and rewarding.
About Manor Lords: 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.
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Norland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Manor Lords.
Top pick for Manor Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
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.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Manor Lords.
Second-strongest match for Manor Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Whiskerwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Manor Lords.
Third-strongest match for Manor Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
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.
Corsair Cove
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Manor Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Blacksmith Master
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Manor Lords.
Ranked #5 for Manor Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
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.
Nova Roma
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Manor Lords.
Ranked #6 for Manor Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Manor Lords.
Ranked #7 for Manor Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Crusader Kings III
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Manor Lords.
Ranked #8 for Manor Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
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Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Manor Lords.
Reviewers of Manor Lords cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Farthest Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Manor Lords.
Reviewers of Manor Lords cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
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.
Going Medieval
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Manor Lords.
Reviewers of Manor Lords cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
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.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Manor Lords.
Reviewers of Manor Lords cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
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.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Manor Lords.
Reviewers of Manor Lords cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Manor Lords.
Reviewers of Manor Lords cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Manor Lords.
Reviewers of Manor Lords cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
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.
Stranded: Alien Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Manor Lords.
Reviewers of Manor Lords cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Manor Lords at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Manor Lords on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Manor Lords.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Manor Lords on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Manor Lords.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Manor Lords on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Manor Lords.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Manor Lords on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Manor Lords.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Manor Lords on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Manor Lords.
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.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Manor Lords on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Manor Lords.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Manor Lords on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Manor Lords.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Manor Lords on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Manor Lords.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Manor Lords.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Manor Lords.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Manor Lords.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Manor Lords.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Manor Lords.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about Manor Lords
- Does Manor Lords run on Steam Deck?
- Manor Lords 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 Manor Lords cost?
- Manor Lords is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Manor Lords?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Manor Lords are Norland, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, Whiskerwood.
- Who developed Manor Lords?
- Manor Lords was developed by Slavic Magic and published by Hooded Horse.
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