Manor Lords publisher reassures players struggling to buy at launch that "we'll run those 25% discounts often"

was released into Early Access as the most wishlisted game on Steam. Although it pulled in over 100,000 concurrent players, it definitely doesn't have the feeling of a fully finished game just yet. However, there are plenty of city builders available that can help fill in the time between updates for as it continues to be developed during Early Access.

Manor Lords has a quirky bug that makes dead animal corpses stay in your village and contribute to your in-menu numbers, but the game's lead developer says the bug has already been squashed and awaiting deployment.

is a city-building and real-time strategy game that allows the player to act as the ruler of a humble fief, which can expand into large swaths of territory. In, money is divided into regional wealth and treasury. Both kinds of wealth are essential, both in defending the original plot the player is allotted and in expanding to new lands.

In, the player's initial territory is a small village that can gradually turn into a sprawling town. As the town begins to grow through trade, commerce, and even invasion, the roads need to grow to match. Thankfully, roads are not permanent and can be removed just as soon as they are placed.Roads are not mandatory to place in, but the resource helps villagers with pathfinding immensely.

is extremely complex even for a city builder, and there are a few things players should know before getting started. Slavic Magic’s medieval city sim doesn’t feature much in the way of a tutorial, so you’ll have to learn as you play. However, learning a few key pointers can help you take your first steps and set up your settlement for long-term success.

Manor Lords solo developer Slavic Magic suspects some players aren't enjoying the city builder's farming element because they don't understand how it works at a fundamental level.

I should have been enjoying the beach. I was on vacation, far from my gaming PC, and close to soothing, rolling waves. But instead, my mind kept drifting to a landlocked chunk of 14th century Germany. Few games have wormed their way into my brain like Manor Lords.

Since its launch into early access, Manor Lords has taken the simulation game scene by storm, with players absolutely relishing this new city-building experience.

Between Palworld, Helldivers 2, and now Manor Lords, it’s been a year of games coming out of left field and achieving runaway success.

Medieval city builder Manor Lords was Steam's most-wishlisted game prior to release, and has now managed the feat of transmuting that anticipation into broad enthusiasm and very healthy sales. Not too shabby, considering that it's mostly the work of just one person, Grzegorz Styczeń of Slavic Magic, who has hopefully found time to sleep now and then between fielding bug reports and preparing the game's first patches.

Manor Lords, the medieval-themed strategy game released in early access last week, recently got a mod that allows it to be played with a VR headset, and it's even caught the attention of the game's developer.

I don't have a lot of interest in VR these days, but I do have an interest in the beautifully realised miniature doings of your villagers in Manor Lords, the city builder that is currently rather popular on noted purveyor of ye finest interactive entertainments Steam - and which now has unofficial VR support care of Flat2VR and Praydog's UEVR.