Games like Shire Kings
If Shire Kings is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition, The Wuslers and Medieval Lord Tycoon — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Shire Kings: Build a medieval kingdom across a living tabletop realm. Grow villages, house and feed your people, gather resources, raise buildings piece by piece, and command companies through forests, hills and sieges. Capture rival settlements to claim their lands and wealth.
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Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
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Top pick for Shire Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shire Kings.
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
The Wuslers
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Second-strongest match for Shire Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shire Kings.
Build a cozy settlement and economy where little Wuslers carry every single good on foot along the roads you lay out. Feed your mines, expand your territory with barracks and play solo, against the AI or with up to eight players on PC and Android.
Medieval Lord Tycoon
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Third-strongest match for Shire Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shire Kings.
A pixel art medieval lord simulator! Farm, chop wood, hunt yourself—or delegate to townsfolk. No meddling in daily lives; govern via taxes & laws. When enemies attack, higher prestige means more peasants rally to fight. Balance survival & strategic rule—build your medieval realm, forge your legacy!
LouLan Kingdom
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Ranked #4 for Shire Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shire Kings.
Loulan Kingdom is a city-building survival and real-time strategy game. As the ruler of Loulan, you must build your city amid a perilous desert oasis, grow your power through the Silk Road, and fight to protect your kingdom—until the very end.
City of Elves
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Ranked #5 for Shire Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shire Kings.
City of Elves is a fairytale strategy game in which you take a role of a ruler of an elven empire. Build a tree fortress and defend your territory. Develop technology, upgrade your armies, play turn-based scenarios, and expand your territory in this fantasy world of magic!
The Diner at the End of the Galaxy
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Ranked #6 for Shire Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shire Kings.
Influence the fate of the Nusa star system through your clientele’s stomachs. Grow exotic ingredients, create a menu that appeals to intergalactic palates, and discover treasures in the outer worlds. Come on in! The Diner is always open for business.
Stronghold: Warlords
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Ranked #7 for Shire Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shire Kings.
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!
Offworld Trading Company
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Ranked #8 for Shire Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shire Kings.
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shire Kings.
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.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shire Kings.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shire Kings.
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!
Nazi Zombies
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shire Kings.
Nazi Zombies is a cooperative survival game where players fend off escalating waves of Nazi zombies, earning points by killing zombies and repairing barriers to buy weapons, upgrades, perks, and unlock new map areas to maximize their survival.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shire Kings.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
Crusader Kings II
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shire Kings.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Supermarket Together
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shire Kings.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
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Frequently asked about Shire Kings
- Does Shire Kings have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Shire Kings supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Shire Kings?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shire Kings are Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition, The Wuslers, Medieval Lord Tycoon.
- Who developed Shire Kings?
- Shire Kings was developed by Julien Nicolas and published by Hot Load Studio.
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 Shire Kings.
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