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Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Manor Lords is a strategy, city builder and simulation game
developed by Slavic Magic
and published by Hooded Horse.
Released on April 26th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 19 languages: English, German, Polish, Simplified Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Turkish, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Swedish and Ukrainian.
It has received 72,120 reviews of which 62,224 were positive and 9,896 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on K4G.
The Steam community has classified Manor Lords into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670 (quad-core) / AMD® FX-Series™ FX-4350 (quad-core)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ RX-460 (4 GB) / Intel® Arc™ A380 (6 GB)
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 15 GB available space
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I don't think the reviews saying the developer has been on "radio silence" are particularly fair. They've communicated pretty well throughout as far as I'm concerned. I think some people have quite unrealistic expectations and that's led to disappointment. Personally I have enjoyed the game a lot since launch and I've felt very excited to play again each time there's been a new update. Did the last major take longer than expected? Yes. Did I put it down and play other things while I waited? Yes. Was any of that a problem? No.
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Normally don't write reviews but seeing the recent ones are mixed felt obligated to chip in. I myself have spent hundreds of hours in this game, albeit in custom difficulty modes. Customization is good here; I've crafted a difficulty scenario where I am not being mercilessly attacked nor having my territory taken, but fighting the AI Lord is still a challenge. That being said... The level of depth in the Burgage plots alone is what drew me to this game. It's Banished but with real upgrades that mean something. You can build burgage plots that are just big enough for a backyard, and plan that entire family around becoming a tailor/butcher/brewer etc. to boost your economy and resource production. The fact that at level 1 these plots can be made MASSIVE and turned into a vegetable field (Or Orchard!) while simultaneously housing up to 2 families is amazing!! It allows such a wide variety of strange and natural shapes to exist within your town, and can help keep village designs from turning into grids. The learning curve here is similar to every colony sim IMO, you just kinda have to face smash the first few colonies until you understand how to quickly setup the things necessary for a taxable village, then mercenaries and retinue can be aquired to fight the bandits and prepare for later combat with the AI Lord. The difficulty here is that if the AI Lord is "aggressive" he will be able to claim your starting territory before you can get any troops gathered, and it's kinda game over from there. Changing that setting alone will make the game much more playable. I recommend playing with just bandits for a bit to get the feel for quickly getting troops together. The graphics are amazing, and among the best I've seen in a colony sim. The villagers hammer and saw on structures and individual beams and walls get added on as the construction goes on, which is an incredible touch. Animation of the villagers is good from afar or up close. On the larger villages (50+ level three burgage plots) you can get some chugging, but that could also be my dated CPU. All in all this is one of my favorite colony sims I've ever played, and I eagerly await the updates. From the begining this has been a very small team, but they've always done great work and listened to the community. I get the feeling that some of the updates they are working on are more challenging than the last, but I have faith that this game will be carried through to it's potential!
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Alright, so I have a love/hate relationship with this game. Its a fun game and if you wanna spend alot of time developing a nice city and doing all that then this is great for you. But somethings to be aware of: - The economy is ****EXTREMELY**** broken. You could be selling swords, spears, helmets, boots, cloaks, veggies, beer, dyes, charcoal, wool, linen, wooden parts and both types of shields. But if you need Barley & grain it'll sink your regional wealth. Which in turn bankrupts you. So basically if you cant build a town that is 100% self sustaining then you may as well quit and start over. - The enemy will spawn directly into your town. Wether it be bandits or the opposing Lord. Sometimes they'll spawn other places but majority of the time they are going to spawn from off map, directly into your region. So prepare to have your town completely wiped several times a game. - When the off map Lord decides to attack, don't just assume you won because you won the first battle. Give it about 60 seconds and he will spawn a completely new and fresh army to attack you with. So you could of spent ridiculous amounts of money mainlining a standing army of your own, supplementing it with mercenaries, and it'll likely not be enough. So get ready to lose. Also understand that you will never have a retinue as large as his. He will have around 30+ and max you can get is like 24. Plus have several bands of mercenaries with him. Which again, will all re spawn fresh and ready to go. - If you have mercenaries spawned on the map be prepared for your carts/oxen to get caught in them. So keep an eye on them or it'll cause a clog. - Resource distribution is wild in this game. A house directly next to a fully stocked market might get the resources from it. Maybe. But one a few blocks down the road will definitely get them. - Keep an eye on production. If you don't set limits on what your specialists make then they're going to drain every last resource you have and its not physically possible to keep up. - Lately unassigned workers have been disappearing. Why? who knows. You'll have 10 unassigned families and they will all disappear. - The villagers are MASSIVE drunks. Your most valuable resource in the entire game is ale. Everything comes to a screeching halt without it. You cant upgrade buildings. You cant get perk points. You'll lose. But again you cant really import it because it'll bankrupt you. So good luck. - DON'T BOTHER WITH APIARIES. They are worthless and a massive waste of time. Streamers say they're great but they're lying. You get maybe 3 honey a month from them. Which is instantly gone and you don't see a benefit from it because its burnt through so fast. So do yourself a favor and pick a different perk. It doesn't matter how many you place down or how many families you assign. You re only getting a max of 3. Period. End of story. - Also don't bother getting the hunter traps or double meat perks. They don't work either. You cant physically produce enough meat to sustain a villages wants. So forget it altogether and focus on veggies, berries and apples. Maybe if you're lucky you might get good farm land and can grow some wheat and barley. But don't count on it. Farmers will consistently not plow half a field or wont plant most of it. I've found it best to make small .3 size plots for farming. But the problems still persist regardless of how many farmers, oxen and time you devote to it. For all of its flaws it is a fun game. Sometimes you'll do alright and somehow survive long enough to complete a map. But odds are you wont. Get comfortable with the idea of spending hours, even days, working on one really awesome town. Then it's going to be levels by bandits and the rival lord will take it over and then you'll have to start all over. For a single developer its a very beautiful game and has some seriously solid bones. But obvious being in early access its gonna have issues. Apparently there's a complete rework being made so maybe soon all of these issues wont even be a thing anymore. Fingers crossed cause I do enjoy it.
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To the devs. If you're reading this, do NOT give up on this game. Bought it for myself as a Christmas gift and now I can't put it down. It feels like a real game, it feels fun, and you can feel the passion that went into it.
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as of 24/12/2024, i have seen some adverts from a game called "king of Avalon," on youtube using footage of this game. however i cannot report it and i suspect that the footage is being used without consent. i do not know how to contact the devs about this.
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Manor Lords is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
Manor Lords is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.
Manor Lords received 62,224 positive votes out of a total of 72,120 achieving a rating of 8.50.
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Manor Lords was developed by Slavic Magic and published by Hooded Horse.
Manor Lords is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Manor Lords is not playable on MacOS.
Manor Lords is not playable on Linux.
Manor Lords is a single-player game.
Manor Lords does not currently offer any DLC.
Manor Lords does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Manor Lords does not support Steam Remote Play.
Manor Lords is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Slavic Magic
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Hooded Horse
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26 Apr 2024
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