The best medieval games

These games are not of the fantasy kind: no dragons, no elves, no dwarves and absolutely no magic. These are all games set in medieval times. This means castles and villages, alchemy and saints, kings and queens, monks and abbeys, knights and tourneys.

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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

DOS1990 Horror Soft

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a horror-themed point-and-click adventure and RPG video game released in 1990 by Accolade for platforms including Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. It’s loosely based on the campy, gothic horror pe...

Darklands

DOSLinuxWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1992protected MicroProse Software

Darklands was a unique historical isometric RPG that mixed real historical data from medieval Germany during the 15th century with a touch of folklore and fantasy. Unfortunately it was also the only Microprose RPG o...

Lords of the Realm

DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected Impressions Games

Lords of the Realm is top-down kingdom simulation game set in medieval Europe (England and Germany), designed by Christopher J. Foster and David Lester, developed by Impressions Games and released 1994 for DOS, Windows and Amiga.

Knight Games

DOS1988 Mastertronic

Olympic games were something back in the 80s and the 90s: Winter Games, Summer Games, California Games, anything-you-can-think-of games. Some imaginative developer thought that the world needed a different kind of "multisport" act...

Betrayal

DOS1990protected

Ah, Betrayal—a game with a name that really sets the tone. Is it about backstabbing? Politics? Lost love? Not really. It’s actually a hybrid of strategy and role-playing where you move pieces around a map like a fantas...

Kaiser

DOS1992

Powermonger

DOS1992 Bullfrog

Powermonger is a real-time strategy game where the player must defeat opponents by conquering towns and tipping the balance of power in their favor. Success requires giving orders to soldiers and captains, as well as accumulating ...

Vlad Tepes Dracula

Windows XP/98/951997 ComputerHouse

The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici

DOSMac OS1996protected Blue Byte Software

Spirit of Excalibur

DOS1990 Synergistic Software

Black Crown

DOS1995

In Black Crown (1995), you play as a prince with a very punchable name, trying to reclaim his rightful throne by solving puzzles and dying a lot. It's one of those DOS-era games where half the difficulty is figuring out which pixe...

Legions

Windows 3.xMac OS1994 Mindscape

Defender of the Crown

DOS1991protected Cinemaware

Defender of the crown is a strategy game set in the middle ages, in England. You control a Saxon and must fight Normans to control the country. The player can conquest territories, lay siege to castles, join tournaments, rescue da...

Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS1989 KOEI

Rampart

DOS1992 Atari

Rampart is an abandoned mix of strategy and shooter game designed by Dave Ralston and John Salwitz, developed by Atari and released by Electronic Arts in 1992 for DOS. Rampart was converted from the original arcade version to a nu...

The Black Cauldron

DOS1986freeware Sierra On-Line

Lords of the Realm 3

Windows XP/98/952004protected Impressions Games

Iron Lord

DOS1990 UBI Soft

Battle Chess 2: Chinese Chess

DOS1990protected Interplay Productions

In Battle Chess 2: Chinese Chess (1990), the classic formula gets an eastern makeover—complete with new rules, a new board, and a fresh batch of animated fatalities. If you thought regular chess was confusing, welcome to xia...

Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio

DOS1988 Starsoft Development

Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS1988 KOEI

Bushido

DOS1983 Ebenel enterprises

Step into feudal Japan with Bushido, a game that tries to simulate samurai life on a machine barely capable of rendering a convincing circle. Still, there’s something charming in its ambition. You duel, you train, you try to...

Holy Grail

DOS1984

Knightmare

DOS1986 Konami

Kingdoms of Germany

DOS1994 Realism Entertainment

Finders Keepers

Windows 10/112007remake

Finders Keepers is an abandoned free platformer game with a medieval setting. It's a remake of the original Finders Keepers, developed by David Jones and released by Mastertronic in 1985 for a number of 8 bit platforms (C64, ZX Sp...