Nested Lands artwork$14.9973%
Co-op pick

Nested Lands Keep Your Village Alive

Nested Lands is a dark medieval settlement RPG where you raise a village in plague country alone or with co-op friends. You recruit peasants, assign jobs, build and craft, then hold the walls against bandits, weather and sickness. Grim, busy and best shared.

Is Nested Lands worth it?

Nested Lands is worth it if…

  • you like building and managing a settlement as a team
  • you want survival with plague, winter and hard choices
  • you like recruiting villagers and growing from nothing

Screenshots

Raise a village with friends

You start with nothing and shape a settlement as you see fit, with dozens of upgradable buildings and hundreds of items to craft and customize. Give each peasant a role and send them to build, gather or craft while you handle farms, animals and defenses.

In co-op mode you split that work. You drop a blueprint for a farm while a friend hauls timber and someone else keeps the craft benches fed. It is management with muddy boots, and the village only grows if everyone pulls.

Keep everyone alive through plague and winter

This world is cold, sick and badly behaved. Plague, harsh weather and the coming winter press on your stores, and a lack of medicine can wipe out a village faster than any raid. Random events keep interrupting your plans.

You decide where medicine, food and labor go, and every choice has consequences for prosperity or collapse. You watch the sky, ration supplies and order peasants inside when the wind turns. Survival here is less heroic charge, more careful arithmetic with coughing.

Recruit, explore and fight back

Beyond the palisade, twisted madmen and bandits roam a detailed open world. You travel across it to save and recruit peasants, loot resources and bring people home under your protection.

Combat, crafting and skills grow as you endure, and your reputation spreads with your decisions. You return with two new survivors and a sack of supplies, then find the village needs walls before nightfall. Praise or fear, the locals will remember which you chose.

Good to know?

Can you play it solo or with co-op friends?

Both work. You can explore and build alone, or share the same settlement horrors with friends in online co-op, splitting gathering, crafting and defense.

How do villagers actually help you?

Peasants gather resources, craft items and build defenses once you assign them roles. You lead them through danger and privation, so protection is part of the job.

What threatens your settlement besides enemies?

Plague, lack of medicine, brutal weather and winter, plus random events across the world. Hostile forces are only one way a village fails.

Medieval Dynasty

Medieval Dynasty

Build a medieval village with up to four co-op friends, sharing the chopping, hunting, farming, and trading across seasons.

90% of 43,615 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,318$34.99
First Feudal

First Feudal

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle.

75% of 594 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Bellwright

Bellwright

Bellwright is a medieval survival and rebellion sim where you build villages, recruit and train villagers, and lead them against the Crown.

80% of 20,477 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,181$29.99
ASKA

ASKA

ASKA is a Viking colony sim where you and up to three co-op friends raise a village from bare ground.

79% of 10,644 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,102$24.99
Necesse

Necesse

Necesse is a pixel-art survival-craft RPG in an infinite procedurally generated world where you and co-op friends build a settlement, recruit…

92% of 24,752 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 545$14.99
Romestead

Romestead

Rome has fallen and the dead walk at night, so you and up to seven co-op friends rebuild it together.

77% of 4,973 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 357$13.99
Crestfallen: Medieval Survival

Crestfallen: Medieval Survival

👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce…

58% of 433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Territory: Farming and Warfare

Territory: Farming and Warfare

Territory: Farming and Warfare grows a dozen villagers into a kingdom of thousands.

84% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$11.99
The Last Plague: Blight

The Last Plague: Blight

A grim medieval survival sim you can share with co-op friends: boil water, cook exact recipes, build a shelter off the grid, and hold back a…

88% of 1,438 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$16.99
Pathless Woods

Pathless Woods

A cozy open-world survival game set in a land inspired by ancient China, made for four friends to share.

79% of 966 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Journey Of Life

Journey Of Life

You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew.

55% of 598 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Faraway Land

The Faraway Land

The Faraway Land is an open world survival simulator. Plunge into the relaxing atmosphere of a magical world filled with cute and dangerous creatures.

81% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Spirit of the Island

Spirit of the Island

A cozy farming life sim on a tropical archipelago with two-player online co-op and crossplay.

69% of 1,199 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99