Games like Mount & Blade
If Mount & Blade is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, Mount & Blade: Warband and Han Xiongnu Wars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. 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 →Mount & Blade is an open-world medieval sandbox RPG released in 2008 by TaleWorlds Entertainment. The game takes place in the war-torn land of Calradia, where players pursue fortune and power as wandering adventurers. It combines role-playing progression with faction politics and real-time tactical combat, where strategic positioning influences battle outcomes. Players describe the experience as immersive and challenging, with a massive scope that rewards sustained investment. The game is playable on Steam Deck and currently retails for $9.99. Holding a 91% positive rating from over 2,000 Steam reviews, it supports solo play only with a challenging difficulty curve and substantial playtime potential.
About Mount & Blade: Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
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Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Top pick for Mount & Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mount & Blade.
The standalone expansion for Mount & Blade! With Fire & Sword builds and expands upon the highly regarded combat system from Mount & Blade: Warband. Firearms have been introduced to the battlefield.
Mount & Blade: Warband
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Second-strongest match for Mount & Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mount & Blade.
In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!
Han Xiongnu Wars
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Third-strongest match for Mount & Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
Welcome to Han Xiongnu Wars. A stand-along game and synergy of historical Far East and multiple features in role-playing, real-time strategy and action gameplay. This game brings you to the eventful years of the early Han Dynasty, and faithfully presents the ancient eastern culture with many objects and scenes faithfully reconstructed...
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Ranked #4 for Mount & Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
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.
Viking Frontiers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mount & Blade.
Ranked #5 for Mount & Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
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.
Dragon's Dogma 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Ranked #6 for Mount & Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mount & Blade.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.
Way of the Samurai 4
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Ranked #7 for Mount & Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Way of the Samurai 4 takes place in the humble port town of Amihama during the mid 19th Century, several years after the arrival of the “black ships” from the West ended Japan’s long history of cultural isolation.
Sea Dogs: To Each His Own
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Ranked #8 for Mount & Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mount & Blade.
1654 AC. The Caribbean. A place of opportunities and mysteries.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Mount & Blade
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Bellwright
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Reviewers of Mount & Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Mount & Blade.
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.
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mount & Blade.
Reviewers of Mount & Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
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.
Mount & Blade: Warband
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Reviewers of Mount & Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Mount & Blade.
In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!
Starvector
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mount & Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
X4: Foundations
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Reviewers of Mount & Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
Chronicles: Medieval
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mount & Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Mount & Blade.
Step into a vast, dynamic medieval sandbox set in the age of the Hundred Years' War. Explore a brutal but beautiful, historically grounded Europe, command armies in massive battles, leave a mark the chroniclers can't ignore as you make your name one fight at a time. What story will you write?
Battle Brothers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Reviewers of Mount & Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Mount & Blade.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
Sands of Salzaar
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Reviewers of Mount & Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Mount & Blade.
Bringing you to an exotic desert where you’ll recruit, train, and guide your troops into battle against rival cities and factions. Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours; Customizable characters, professions, and factions. The land is filled with a variety of hidden secrets.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mount & Blade at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mount & Blade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mount & Blade on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Mount & Blade.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mount & Blade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mount & Blade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Mount & Blade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Mount & Blade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mount & Blade on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Mount & Blade.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mount & Blade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
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 with Mount & Blade.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
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 Mount & Blade.
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 Mount & Blade.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from TaleWorlds Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by TaleWorlds Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Another title from TaleWorlds Entertainment, the studio behind Mount & Blade. Shares Indie with Mount & Blade.
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.
Mount & Blade: Warband
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Another title from TaleWorlds Entertainment, the studio behind Mount & Blade. Shares RPG with Mount & Blade.
In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an immersive mood with Mount & Blade.
Another title from TaleWorlds Entertainment, the studio behind Mount & Blade. Shares RPG with Mount & Blade.
The standalone expansion for Mount & Blade! With Fire & Sword builds and expands upon the highly regarded combat system from Mount & Blade: Warband. Firearms have been introduced to the battlefield.
Frequently asked about Mount & Blade
- Does Mount & Blade run on Steam Deck?
- Mount & Blade 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 Mount & Blade cost?
- Mount & Blade is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mount & Blade?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mount & Blade are Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, Mount & Blade: Warband, Han Xiongnu Wars.
- Who developed Mount & Blade?
- Mount & Blade was developed by TaleWorlds Entertainment.
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