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Games like Kingdom Wars

If Kingdom Wars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stronghold Kingdoms, Lords of Kingdoms and Kingdom Wars 2: Battles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and nostalgic. 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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Kingdom Wars is a free-to-play persistent-world strategy game released in 2013, blending real-time siege combat with city-building and RPG elements. Players manage expanding kingdoms across a medieval fantasy setting, directing citizens, differentiating between various factions, and progressing through quest-based journeys. Reviewers note the game's writing blends fantasy language for immersive worldbuilding. Players describe the city-building as rewarding and low-pressure, while faction variety enables diverse strategic approaches. The unusual mechanic of ogre-ranching provides a unique late-game activity. The persistent world offers long-term progression, with players describing the overall experience as chill, cozy, and relaxing. The game holds a 67% positive rating from 1796 Steam reviews and is not currently supported on Steam Deck.

About Kingdom Wars: 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.

2013StrategyIndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerRPGFree To PlayFree to playWindowsby Reverie World Studios
Kingdom Wars — Steam game cover
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City building feels rewarding and low pressureFaction variety enables diverse strategiesOgre ranching as a unique late game activityChillCozyNostalgic

Players who liked Kingdom Wars also play

Steam players who put hours into Kingdom Wars also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Stronghold Kingdoms

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Kingdom Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Kingdom Wars.

    A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!

    2012StrategyMassively MultiplayerFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Lords of Kingdoms

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Kingdom Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars.

    Lords of Kingdoms is a multiplayer online war game. Turn your small castle into a mighty fortress and become ruler of the greatest realm.

    2018StrategyIndieMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  3. Kingdom Wars 2: Battles

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. 王于兴师/Order of Kings

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource gathering with Kingdom Wars.

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

    Jump into a true real-time strategy, and fully 3D battles! Order of Kings is an MMO game mixing RTS and SLG. You can control massive troops, plan combining 3D terrain and physical collision effects, join in alliances with friends, compete with other server players, and build your own legend!

    2026StrategySimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Kingdom Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars.

    Build a city, Create an Empire! Research 400+ technologies, and Build 70+ buildings, Craft and Trade 380+ items in an entirely player driven market. Fight Wars and Forge Alliances with thousands of players and create your own Empire in this award-winning, critically-acclaimed MMO.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  6. Game of Thrones Winter is Coming

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Kingdom Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdom Wars.

    Game of Thrones Winter is Coming is a PC strategy game based on the HBO drama television series, officially licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment under HBO, and developed and published by YOOZOO Games. Interactive Entertainment and HBO.

    2019StrategySimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Kingdom Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars.

    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 USDSteam ↗
  8. Folk Tale

    WHY THIS

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

    Folk Tale is a single-player fantasy village builder RPG game. Grow your village from nothing, recruit heroes, explore dungeons, battle bosses, and take home a big bag of sweet loot.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulationDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Kingdom Wars

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Kingdom Wars.

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

    Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.

    2006Strategy24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Kingdom Wars.

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

    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 ↗
  3. Mount & Blade: Warband

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Kingdom Wars.

    Reviewers of Kingdom Wars cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Kingdom Wars.

    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!

    2010ActionRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Total War: WARHAMMER II

    WHY THIS

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

    Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.

    2017ActionStrategy59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdom Wars cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Kingdom Wars.

    A companion app for The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth board game from Fantasy Flight Games, a fully-cooperative board game for one to five players! This companion app dictates the setup of each encounter, tracks your party’s inventory and skills, and resolves combat while you brave the looming forests, quiet clearings, and...

    2019StrategyAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

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

    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 USDSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdom Wars cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Be the hero in the ultimate STAR WARS™ battle fantasy with STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II: Celebration Edition!

    2020ActionAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Toe-tal War

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdom Wars cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Kingdom Wars.

    Toe-tal War is a platformer where you kill people with your foot smell. Run and jump to make your feet smelly, change your shoes and socks to control the smell — then get close to enemies and stink them to death.

    IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗

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

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

    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

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

    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 2: Battles

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

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

    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 USDSteam ↗
  5. Kingdom Wars 4

    WHY THIS

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

    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 real time combat with Kingdom Wars.

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

    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 real time combat with Kingdom Wars.

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

    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. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Wars.

    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

Does Kingdom Wars work on Steam Deck?
Kingdom Wars is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
Is Kingdom Wars free to play?
Yes — Kingdom Wars is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
Does Kingdom Wars have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Kingdom Wars supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Kingdom Wars?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kingdom Wars are Stronghold Kingdoms, Lords of Kingdoms, Kingdom Wars 2: Battles.
Who developed Kingdom Wars?
Kingdom Wars was developed by Reverie World Studios.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Kingdom Wars.

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