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Rising Lords

2024

Should you play it?

Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!

What works

  • Unique medieval art style
  • Deep resource and army management
  • Engaging tactical combat with cards
  • Active and responsive developers
  • Map editor and user-generated content

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access bugs and crashes
  • Ai is weak and predictable
  • Some ui and performance issues
  • Limited multiplayer player base
  • Campaign time limits reduce autonomy

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Oriental Empires

  • Field of Glory: Kingdoms

  • Making History: The Great War

  • Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete

  • Panzer Corps 2

  • Making History: The Second World War

More fantastical

Games that feels like Rising Lords but with more imaginative fiction

  • Eador: Genesis

  • Hero's Hour

  • Lords of Magic: Special Edition

  • Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith

  • Amazing Cultivation Simulator

  • Oh My Gore!

Less dominating

Games that feels like Rising Lords but with less domination over others

  • The King is Watching

  • dotAGE

  • Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)

  • Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients

  • Order of Battle: World War II

  • Renowned Explorers: International Society

Less social

Games that feels like Rising Lords but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • There Are No Orcs

  • Evil Bank Manager

  • Lords of the Realm II

  • Lux Delux

  • Evolution Board Game

  • Yield! Fall of Rome

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Rising Lords: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026