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Ten new medieval titles anchor gameranx’s 2020 countdown, running from grand strategy to a Viking-themed battle royale.
On February 4, 2020, gameranx published “Top 10 NEW Medieval Games of 2020,” a countdown built around one simple filter: period melee combat, armor, and settings that are either historically grounded or fantasy-adjacent. The list mixes AAA firepower with smaller indie projects, and it closes with four bonus titles that were either already out or landing within weeks of the video’s release.
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord tops the countdown at #1, with TaleWorlds Entertainment scheduled to launch the PC sandbox combat RPG into early access at the end of March 2020.
- Ghost of Tsushima lands at #2, Sucker Punch Productions’ open-world samurai adventure set during the 13th-century Mongol invasion of Japan, aimed for a mid-2020 PS4 release.
- Elden Ring sits at #3, the action-RPG collaboration between FromSoftware, Bandai Namco, and author George R.R. Martin.
The Countdown’s Top Three
Number one on the list is Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, TaleWorlds Entertainment’s long-gestating sequel to its cult-favorite sandbox warfare series. The PC title was locked in for an early access launch at the end of March 2020, giving players command of Calradia’s armies, sieges, and political factions years after the original built its reputation on mod support and massive battle simulation.
Just behind it at #2 is Ghost of Tsushima, Sucker Punch Productions’ PS4 exclusive built around the Mongol invasion of Tsushima Island in the 13th century. The video pegged it for a mid-2020 window, positioning it as the console’s marquee samurai-action release. Readers can dig deeper into the game’s evolution in the E3 vs. retail comparison and the earlier rundown of what fans were most eager to try.
Rounding out the top three is Elden Ring, the FromSoftware and Bandai Namco project built in collaboration with novelist George R.R. Martin, slated for PC, PS4, and Xbox One with no firm date attached at the time of the video.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord finally leaves the sandbox and enters early access at the end of March 2020 — TaleWorlds’ long-promised sequel arriving just as the countdown was published.
Strategy and Combat in the Middle of the Pack
The rest of the top 10 leans heavily into strategy and tactical combat. Crusader Kings III lands at #10, with Paradox Interactive’s dynasty simulator confirmed for a 2020 release on PC and Linux. Darksburg sits at #9 as a top-down cooperative action title, while King’s Bounty II holds #8, targeting a 2020 window across PC, PS4, and Xbox One as a turn-based tactical RPG sequel.
Isles of Adalar takes #7, an open-world fantasy RPG built with single-player and co-op campaigns plus modding tools. The Settlers, Ubisoft’s reboot of its classic strategy-management series, comes in at #6 for PC — a title that fits alongside the publisher’s broader 2020 slate covered in the roundup of new Ubisoft games for 2020 and 2021.
Valhall claims #5 as a Viking-era battle royale built around melee combat, and Darkborn — originally codenamed Project Wight — sits at #4. That first-person monster-action game flips the usual medieval script, putting players in control of a creature hunting down human invaders across PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
The Bonus Round
Beyond the numbered top 10, gameranx flagged four additional titles arriving in early 2020. Knights of Light: The Prologue and the top-down medieval sandbox Rustler both carried TBA 2020 windows on PC. Team Ninja’s dark fantasy action RPG Nioh 2 had already launched on March 13, 2020, and the turn-based roguelike Stoneshard released February 7, 2020 — both already playable by the time the countdown video went live. For anyone weighing Nioh 2 against the rest of the list, the full walkthrough of the game’s opening hours is a useful reference point, and the wider 2020 release calendar is tracked in the list of new PS4 games for the year.
Two of the ten numbered entries — Bannerlord and Ghost of Tsushima — were already carrying release windows tight enough to matter: Bannerlord’s early access drop was days away when the video posted, and Ghost of Tsushima’s mid-2020 target meant the next real update would likely come from Sucker Punch itself, not another countdown.
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