Life is Feudal: Forest Village vs Salem
Life is Feudal: Forest Village
Life is Feudal: Forest Village offers a realistic town-building experience set in a detailed medieval setting as you manage your expanding borders and increasing population.The game brings a huge variety of buildings and resources for you to manage. You also get to enjoy the ultimate farming experience as you grow and harvest crops on time and pet the farm animals. The game offers both a bird’s eye view as well as a first-person experience to the players. You can expand your territory through terraforming while keeping a balance in the ecosystem. The goal of the game is to keep the morale of your villagers high by ensuring the best living standards for them.
If you are for a detailed town management experience, Life is Feudal: Forest Village is the perfect game for you.
Salem
Salem is an old-school and somewhat obscure (but fun) sandbox MMORPG that unlike Wurm Online has a stronger emphasis on its in-depth crafting system and survival aspect rather than building.Similar to Wurm Online though, Salem is not a voxel-based game, but you are still able to mold the game environment through resource gathering, mining and digging in a way that reminds me of the currently-shelved MMORPG, EverQuest Next: Landmark. Of course, although not exactly the focus of the game, you can still build your homestead and the process is quite similar to Wurm Online except that it occurs at a much higher speed.
Not to mention, the game world in Salem is simply humongous to the point where it feels like an actual world. Salem also borrowed some features from ArcheAge where open-world PvP is the norm, so you'll need to be vigilant at all times, but players who kill and steal for no reason will be labelled as criminals and can be punished.
However, as good as it is despite being an indie MMO and all, Salem does have its fair share of flaws due to its low development budget. So, we'd recommend you to take a look at Salem without carrying along any high expectations. It's a pretty good MMORPG like Minecraft, but if you're expecting a Minecraft clone, you may end up disappointing yourself.