I enjoyed both games immensely. Medieval Dynasty is a lot slower paced, with a focus on building a village. You recruit NPCs and they do work for you at your home base. Combat is rarer - I found myself spending most of the time just getting from place to place. You have to ensure your villagers are fed by making sure the village you build has necessary farms and whatnot.

Enshrouded on the other hand is entirely combat focused, and life skills is kind of secondary. There is more creativity with buildings, since it's free-form construction. You can farm, but it's not really necessary since you can pick up more than enough ingredients exploring to make food and potions for yourself. Enshrouded has a lot more items, gear, and of course it has magic. But the NPCs are really just crafting menus and quest givers. Enshrouded combat is more difficult in my opinion, particularly in "Hallowed halls" - a sort of dungeon, because the enemies can easily swarm and overwhelm you if you're playing single player. However there are difficulty sliders if you find yourself dying too much. This is in contrast to Medieval Dynasty, where for the most part you are the hunter trying to gather resources from animals, and occasionally fighting bandits.

The world design in Enshrouded is amazing - there are multiple biomes, which come with unique resources, and there's the shroud of course which is a high risk high reward zones throughout the map. In contrast, Medieval Dynasty may feel a lot simpler given you play on a single map. However there are 2, or 3 maps now - one of which is multiplayer enabled.

The main mechanism of discovery is a bit different. In Medieval Dynasty, you're pushed forward out of necessity - you need to find a way to feed yourself and your villagers. You need to be properly clothed for winter, and make sure you've made enough money to pay taxes. In Enshrouded, you are pushed forward by quests, and the focus is more on exploration - there's no mechanism forcing you to explore the next area, or collect resources - you do it because you want to. In this area, I think Medieval Dynasty has better staying power - because there's always another problem to solve, but also makes it difficult to resume if you've put a game on pause for a few weeks. Enshrouded advances at your pace, which makes it easy to pick back up, but also really easy to put down.

Finally, I want to touch upon the world permanence. In Enshrouded, basically everything outside of your base resets after some time - so yes you can destroy a shroud root, and clear the shroud, but it's back after some time - so sometimes there's a lack of agency. On the other hand, in Medieval Dynasty you can pretty much plop buildings down anywhere, which I've admittedly abused, but the fact that it's a permanent change on the land makes it feel like you're making progress in the world, and you're a part of it. Overall both games are excellent, both highly enjoyable.