The closest games to Mount and Blade II Bannerlord are Mount and Blade: Warband, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and Crusader Kings III. Below, 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Mount and Blade II Bannerlord, and what does not.
Bannerlord is two games stacked: a directional-block melee sim you fight in personally, and a strategy layer where you raise a warband, trade, marry into a faction and eventually try to hold territory. Almost nothing else lets you go from bandit to king in one continuous simulation.
Mount and Blade II Bannerlord released on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform. The list below is not restricted to that console — a recommendation is only useful if you can actually play it, so it spans generations and platforms.
The original, still deeper in some systems and with an enormous mod scene.
The best first-person medieval combat and a world that refuses to be convenient.
The strategy and dynasty half, at far greater depth.
For the campaign-map-plus-battle structure without the personal character.
Settlement building and medieval combat in one simulation.
The town-building side, and beautifully done.
If the directional melee is what you actually came for.
Campaign management with turn-based tactics.
A small warband, a hostile map, and real logistical pressure.
Mount and Blade: Warband. The original, still deeper in some systems and with an enormous mod scene.
Mount and Blade: Warband, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and Crusader Kings III are the closest. The full list of Mount and Blade II Bannerlord similar games is on this page — 9 of them, each with the reason it is here rather than a genre tag that happens to match.
The picks above span platforms rather than sticking to the PC, because the thing worth copying about Mount and Blade II Bannerlord is not a property of the hardware. The PC list further down is the place to go for more from that library.
Because the thing you liked about Mount and Blade II Bannerlord is not a property of the hardware. Restricting the list to one console would drop most of the good answers, so the picks above span platforms and eras. If you specifically want more from that library, the PC list further down is the place to start.
By hand, one game at a time, on what the source game actually does — its pacing, its movement, its difficulty, its tone. Genre tags alone put Mount and Blade II Bannerlord next to games that feel nothing like it, so they are not the basis for this list. Each pick carries the reason it is here so you can judge it yourself.
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If you already know what kind of answer you want, these are the same list cut by genre — and each one says what it leaves out as well as what it includes:
More from the PC & Modern Multi-Platform library, each with its own recommendations page: