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2013PCSteam Deck playable97 % positive7.99 €

You build castles, manage food, taxes and population, and fight sieges drawn from the Crusades. The historical campaigns and over a hundred skirmish maps with sharp AI opponents are the highlights.

Building and crafting
Historical setting
Economy and management
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Best alternative overall: Stronghold 96% match – Building and crafting
Newest alternative: Age of Empires IV 95% match – released 2021

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Stronghold

96 %Match

2001PC95 % positive3.99 €

A medieval real-time strategy game where you build a castle, keep an economy of food and resources running, then defend it against sieges or storm enemy fortresses. The blend of castle design and city-builder management is what makes it special.

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Age of Empires IV

Building and crafting

Classic medieval real-time strategy with asymmetric civilizations, base building and economy management. Documentary-style campaigns about real historical battles sit alongside a competitive multiplayer scene.

Stronghold HD

Building and crafting

You design, build and destroy historical medieval castles, then wage sieges against the AI or up to eight online players. Its strength lies in detailed castle construction, economic management and the clashes over resources.

Cossacks: European Wars

Deep systems to master

A classic real-time strategy game set in 17th and 18th century Europe, famous for commanding huge armies of thousands of units while managing an economy. Sixteen nations with their own units and technologies add variety.

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition

Building and crafting

A modernized remake of the classic real-time strategy game: build up a settlement, advance through the ages and lead historical civilizations to victory in campaigns and online skirmishes.

Age of Empires II: HD Edition

Building and crafting

This classic real-time strategy game has you build a medieval civilization, gather resources and fight large battles. With 18 civilizations, historical campaigns and online matches, it offers huge replayability.

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

Historical setting

The classic real-time strategy game in a polished 4K remaster: build an economy, advance through the ages and lead medieval civilizations to victory in campaigns or competitive multiplayer matches.

Rise of Nations

Historical setting

A real-time strategy game that blends civilization building across thousands of years, from ancient times to the modern age, with fast-paced warfare. Resource management, city growth and conquest interlock, with 18 playable nations.

Age of Empires

Historical setting

A landmark real-time strategy game where you guide an ancient civilization from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, gathering resources, building settlements and commanding armies. Historical campaigns and competitive multiplayer made it a genre classic.

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World

Historical setting

In Empires: Dawn of the Modern World you grow a civilization from the Medieval Age to World War II and guide one of nine nations through five eras. Resource management and real-time battles mix with strong multiplayer duels against other players.