Instead, the focus is on building the infrastructure of the town or village so that it can support bigger and better buildings, stronger troops, better workers, etc. This is true to Knights and Merchants . Control for the game is usually in the form of a mouse, with some keyboard shortcuts thrown in. That is true for Knights and Merchants also. There are so many similarities, that it is hard to know where to begin.
Lets start with some very general features of the game.
The citizens and workers of Knights and Merchants bear more than a passing resemblance to their Settlers brethren. The types of terrain encountered are similar to the Settlers games. The movement and animations of serfs carrying baskets and loads to and fro is the spitting image of Settlers . As you can see, these are more than passing comparisons. This is direct descendancy.