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Reverie World Studios · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 70 % positive of 167 reviews, as of Oct 28

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!

24 games that play like Knights of the Crusades and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Crusader Kings II, Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) and Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition.

Player tags

  • Sandbox
  • Grand Strategy
  • RTS
  • City Builder
  • Strategy
  • Simulation
  • Wargame
  • Action RTS
Map region: Historical Strategy
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Knights of the Crusades

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Knights of the Crusades

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition94 % positive of 160,100Shared: RTS · City Builder · Strategy
  2. Stronghold: Definitive Edition86 % positive of 9,859Shared: Sandbox · RTS · City Builder
  3. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord86 % positive of 232,430Shared: Sandbox · Strategy · Simulation
  4. Cossacks 382 % positive of 12,478Shared: RTS · City Builder · Strategy
  5. Norland81 % positive of 9,043Shared: Sandbox · Grand Strategy · RTS
  6. Knights and Merchants87 % positive of 2,802Shared: RTS · City Builder · Strategy
  7. Going Medieval87 % positive of 17,138Shared: Sandbox · RTS · City Builder
  8. Rise of Nations: Extended Edition93 % positive of 13,459Shared: RTS · City Builder · Strategy
  9. Kingdoms Reborn89 % positive of 8,887Shared: RTS · City Builder · Strategy
  10. Plebby Quest: The Crusades85 % positive of 2,627Shared: Grand Strategy · Strategy · Simulation
  11. Ancestors Legacy80 % positive of 5,815Shared: RTS · City Builder · Strategy
  12. Empires and Tribes66 % positive of 392Shared: RTS · City Builder · Strategy

By look

Looks like Knights of the Crusades

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition94 % positive of 160,100
  2. Battle Brothers86 % positive of 26,382
  3. Cossacks 382 % positive of 12,478
  4. Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI86 % positive of 277,296
  5. Europa Universalis V63 % positive of 25,332
  6. Stronghold HD (2012)95 % positive of 8,684
  7. Stronghold 2: Steam Edition87 % positive of 4,933
  8. War Selection84 % positive of 23,793
  9. Europa Universalis IV86 % positive of 92,081
  10. Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)97 % positive of 17,639
  11. Dawn of Discovery™88 % positive of 441
  12. Stronghold: Definitive Edition86 % positive of 9,859

At a glance

What games like Knights of the Crusades have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Knights of the Crusades: RTS (22 of 24), Sandbox (14) and City Builder (14).
  • They came out between 2006 and 2026, one of them after Knights of the Crusades (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) (97 % positive of 17,639).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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