Games like Kingdoms and Castles
If Kingdoms and Castles is your kind of game, the closest matches are Foundation, Banished and Northgard: Definitive Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dragon taming update, mechanics are simple and optimize your city. 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 →Kingdoms and Castles is a medieval city-building strategy game developed by Lion Shield, LLC that tasks players with growing settlements from small hamlets into thriving cities centered on imposing castles. The game combines castle-building with resource management, diplomacy with AI-controlled neighboring kingdoms, and the unique ability to tame dragons that serve as aerial defenders. Players can send trade goods via transport ships and customize their experience through modding support. Released in 2017 at a price of $14.99 USD, the game is verified for Steam Deck play. Reviewers note that the mechanics are straightforward enough to learn quickly while still allowing room to optimize city layouts strategically. The game has received 94% positive reviews from 19,354 Steam users.
About Kingdoms and Castles: Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
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Foundation
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Shares a cozy mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
Top pick for Kingdoms and Castles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Banished
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Shares resource management and a cozy mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
Second-strongest match for Kingdoms and Castles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
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.
Northgard: Definitive Edition
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Shares resource management and a cozy mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
Third-strongest match for Kingdoms and Castles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Prison Architect
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Shares resource management with Kingdoms and Castles.
Ranked #4 for Kingdoms and Castles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
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Kingdoms Reborn
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Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
Ranked #5 for Kingdoms and Castles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Surviving Mars
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Shares a relaxing mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
Ranked #6 for Kingdoms and Castles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Settlement Survival
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Shares a stressful mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
Ranked #7 for Kingdoms and Castles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Frostpunk
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Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
Ranked #8 for Kingdoms and Castles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
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?
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Anno 2205™
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Shares a relaxing mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
Reviewers of Kingdoms and Castles cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Against the Storm
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Shares resource management with Kingdoms and Castles.
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Nova Roma
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Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
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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.
Timberborn
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Shares a relaxing mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
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Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Songs of Syx
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Reviewers of Kingdoms and Castles cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
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.
Anno 2070™
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Reviewers of Kingdoms and Castles cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kingdoms and Castles.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
Cities: Skylines
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Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
Reviewers of Kingdoms and Castles cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Villagers
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Shares a cozy mood with Kingdoms and Castles.
Reviewers of Kingdoms and Castles cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
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Priced ~58% under Kingdoms and Castles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
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Priced ~67% under Kingdoms and Castles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
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Frequently asked about Kingdoms and Castles
- Is Kingdoms and Castles verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Kingdoms and Castles is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Kingdoms and Castles cost?
- Kingdoms and Castles is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kingdoms and Castles?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kingdoms and Castles are Foundation, Banished, Northgard: Definitive Edition.
- Who developed Kingdoms and Castles?
- Kingdoms and Castles was developed by Lion Shield, LLC.
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