
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.
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Manor Lords is a strategy game that allows you to experience the life of a medieval lord. Grow your starting village into a bustling city, manage resources and production chains, and expand your lands through conquest.
Inspired by the art and architecture of late 14th century Franconia, Manor Lords prioritizes historical accuracy wherever possible, using it to inform gameplay mechanics and visuals alike. Common medieval tropes are avoided in favor of historical accuracy in order to make the world feel more authentic, colorful, and believable.

Manor Lords provides a gridless city-building experience with full freedom of placement and rotation. Building mechanics are inspired by the growth of real medieval towns and villages, where major trade routes and the landscape influenced how settlements formed and developed.
Spreading outward from a central marketplace, build your residential, commercial, and industrial districts following the natural lay of the land. Establish farms based on soil fertility, position hunting grounds according to animal populations, and ensure access to adequate resource deposits and forests to provide the raw materials needed for growth.
Assign areas for housing and watch your residents build their homes in accordance with the historical burgage plot system. Each area will be subdivided based on your roads and the allotted space, and homes will scale accordingly.
Build extensions behind larger homes to generate resources that would not otherwise be available. Homeowners don't just pay taxes – they grow vegetables, raise chickens and goats, and otherwise supply themselves and other townsfolk with essential needs beyond what your managed farms, pastures, and industries can provide.
Guide your settlements through the unique demands and opportunities of each season, enjoying the bounty brought by spring rains and preparing for the harsh snows of winter.

From boots to barley and hides to honey, Manor Lords features a great variety of goods fitting of the era. Materials need to be transported and processed into finished products through production chains, and you must balance the basic needs of your people against the desire to produce luxury items to ensure happiness, manufacture trade goods for export, or forge arms and armor to aid in your conquests.
Resources are littered across the map, encouraging you to expand and establish multiple specialized settlements. Extract valuable ores from your mining colonies, while villages devoted to agriculture, herding, or hunting supply the grains and meats needed to feed your growing populations. Will you spend your hard-earned influence to first acquire a rich source of iron for your smiths, or will you prioritize regions with fertile soil to serve as your breadbasket?
Unchecked expansion will have a direct effect on the environment. Herds of deer will migrate away from encroaching civilization, lack of crop rotation will worsen soil fertility, and cutting down too many trees will result in deforestation.
Establish trade routes and sell surplus goods to traveling merchants to enrich your population. Manufacturing and exporting a variety of goods will provide wealth with which to upgrade your peoples’ homes, import goods you can’t produce yourself, and through taxes on said wealth, fill your own coffers.

Yours is but a small parcel of land in a vast territory, and the competing ambitions between you and rival lords will inevitably lead to conflict. Lead your people into battle, not as expendable units to be easily replenished, but as your beloved loyal subjects where every death is a cost worth considering.
Neighboring lords will build their own towns and grow their holdings to compete with yours, at times forcing you into action. Build castles and protect your domain from harm as you seek out opportunities to strike at these rival lords with warriors of your own.
Train a retinue of skilled warriors to fight battles alongside the levies you raise from the town militia. At times these soldiers will be needed to suppress banditry, and at other times you will lead your men into battle to conquer or defend territory. When needed, mercenaries are a costly option to bolster your ranks. Will you raise the militia at the first sign of trouble, bringing your economy to a stand-still as your peasants pick up arms and rush to form ranks, or will you spend your personal wealth to hire bands of sellswords instead?
Command real-time tactical battles, taking into consideration fatigue, weather conditions, and equipment. Position your troops wisely – a smaller force can defeat a larger enemy, if commanded well.
Feel the cost of battle, even in victory, as each fallen soldier represents a lost person from your city.

This game is a passion project started by a solo developer, grown through player support into a full team of passionate individuals ranging from programmers and 2D artists to Game and Map Designers. You can reach out to us and share your opinions, ideas, and criticisms – we listen to your feedback.
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刚买的时候:哇,题材好新,游戏框架yyds!牛博一! 玩了7小时:这游戏除了题材框架,就是个半成品么,过了那么久,有实质性更新否? 最后,我很少给游戏打差评,除非我真的绷不住了!
Still just as empty as when it released. The game was only ever about visual appeal to draw in the crowd. Further more i was banned from all social platforms just because i voiced my opinion about how this was a number 1 wishlisted for a while only because it looked good. The game at best is a pre - release beta. You can get maybe a good 25-50hrs out of this before its just redundant and repetitive. The game was done way before launch, just so they could hype sales, and yet here we are. Still poking a dead animal with a stick waiting for it to do something. Waste of money, the gaming industry really is just dying.
It is a pretty fun premise. It is worth poking around and the beginning of the game is quite fun. Bonus points for being unique. The not recommended status is because this early release game seems unlikely to ever graduate to a proper game. I did not play for a year and almost nothing improved in game. The balance of the game (money and time) is not well calibrated and I suppose will never be.
Manor Lords — игра с огромным потенциалом, который уже два года так и остаётся потенциалом Впервые играл в Manor Lords где-то в августе 2025 года. На момент того времени игра показалось мне интересной, по началу... В ходе игры я выяснил, что торговля работает не так, как это обычно в играх. Обычно, что бы купить предмет тебе нужно заплатить пошлину в виде 10 серебряных, но в таком случае, что либо покупать становится слишком дорого. Я подумал, что всё дело в том, что я торгую с "чужеземцами" и в окне торговли отключил торговлю с ними. Но торговля остановилось. В окне я увидел уведомление, что торговля прекращена. Без объяснения причины. Пошевелив своими извилинами я смекнул, что вероятнее всего дело в политике, что мне нужно дружить с соседями, дабы те начали со мной торговать. И опять НО. Они вообще не хотят со мной дружить(( На сколько я понял, эта механика ещё не была доработана, ведь в строке отображения отношений у меня ничего не было. Просто пустое поле. "Ну, игра не так давно вышла, тем более студия маленькая, скоро доработают :3" подумал я, но нет... Прошло 2 года с релиза, а так таковой политики в игре нет. Я соглашусь с мнением о том, что возможно я не до конца понял всю проработанность торговли в этой игре, но политика... Невозможно создавать союзы, нельзя составлять торговые соглашения, невозможно при ВОЙНЕ навязать требования в виде вассалитета или же аннексии территории. Кста, анексить территорию можно только за 2к очков влияния, что абсолютно убивает смысл в войне за 500 очков, ведь кроме монет и "отказа на какие-то территории" (я так и не понял, на какие именно...) ты больше ничего не можешь сделать. Самой по себе политики так таковой в игре нет, ты можешь только объявить войну, которая идёт в пакете "бомж война" за 500 и "лакшери война" за 2000. Кто-то скажет, что бы начать нормально торговать нужно завассалить территорию, но какой смысл, если дойдя до первой войны ты можешь сразу начинать другую, но нееееееет, тебе ведь нужна "лакшери война", так что сиди и копи 2000 очков в это время развиваясь, что бы просто город был красивый. Кстати, по сути, кроме красивого города в один момент отпадает смысл в так таковом развитии, ведь ты всё равно можешь нанять ополчение, а в остальном ничего прям полезного ты не получаешь, кроме денег, куда их только деть ?.... На месяц войны, что бы просто разбить армию противника, тебе нужно условно 300 серебра, которые не сложно накопить без супер-пупер мегаполиса. Мб в этом и смысл игры, что бы построить москов сити в средневековье, но бляяя, всё это так душно, что желания особого нет. В остальном, играть смысла нет. Если кто хочет, просто позалипать на красивые домики и на "огромную армию" (которую по сути задействовать некуда), то наверное вам зайдёт. Лично для меня, без политики и нормальной торговли, я могу и в Cities: Skylines поиграть. Очень бы хотелось, что бы они допили игру, но если честно, вряд ли всё, что я хочу и хотят иные игроки, вообще будет в игре когда либо.
这更新更个寂寞,更新了什么东西 都没新玩法
Is this game great? Its awesome! Would I recommend buying it? Unfortunately, not right now. Manor Lords is truly something special. No one has ever made a game quite like this before. Its approach is completely different from anything we know from other city builders. It feels real, authentic, and organic, while offering interesting and unique mechanics. The graphics are beautiful, and the potential for the future is enormous. However, new players should stay away from it for now because this game gives you the feeling of being in a toxic relationship. It's not that the developers took the money and went on an endless vacation. Quite the opposite! The team puts a tremendous amount of effort into optimization, bug fixes, and countless small improvements that may seem insignificant at first glance but make a huge difference when combined. But how good are 1000 bug fixes if we've received almost no new content in the last two years? We've only had 2.5 truly good content updates: the Manor update, the AI villages (which, in my opinion, work terribly, but it's still nice to see something "alive" on the map that wasn't created by the player), and the Tier 3 houses. And that's about it. Yes, we've also received new maps, but that's not what we're waiting for. And that's exactly the problem: the patient has been in a coma for two years now. His condition is stable, but he's still in a coma. If you look at the cover art of Manor Lords, you'll see a beautiful medieval city in the background. But at the current pace of development, we might not get there for another ten years. There is still so much content missing from this game. I think we've only received about 30% of what we should have by now. And I'm not even talking about all the missing mechanics. I wish I could build a large, beautiful stone city. I wish we would get more story in the game, engage in meaningful politics on both a regional and local level, and be forced to make decisions with both positive and terrible consequences. Who knows, maybe even have the opportunity to become king and turn our region into the capital. I wish we had mounted military units, barracks, and so much more, along with a more complex economy. And I know this studio is capable of delivering all of that. But at the current pace, GTA 7 will probably be released first, and that's a really big problem. Until more starts happening, until we begin receiving new content on a regular basis, I simply cannot recommend this game to anyone. We're already on version 0.8.9, almost at a full release, yet it still feels more like version 0.5.
2024年买的,后续更新极其糟糕,制作组根本就没好好工作。烽沙试玩版都比这个强。
I purchased this over a year ago and initially loved the game. The graphics are amazing and gameplay feels different than others set in this era. That said, once you learn the basics and play through a few times you end up getting stuck due to the lack of late game content and unfinished perk trees. Update after update over the past year have primarily fixed elements of this same short playthrough experience vs. completing major features that are greyed out and "coming soon". Still following the updates as it is a great game conceptually, but it's currently shelved on my playlist until it's closer to a 1.0 state.
This game is charming, addictive, and looks amazing. I have played through various updates and I believe the game is moving just as advertised. It was said from the beginning that this is a passion project. I read complaints about the RNG resources, dead end features, and features not available yet. I don't agree with these complains. The RNG resources allows each game I play to feel unique as if I were settling the unknown. It is okay for one playthrough to have an easier time than another. The dead end features are a thing, but the game is early access and there is more than enough content now to be worth the $40 tag. To summarize, you have to understand this game is early access and is constantly changing. The features that are present are worth the price tag. I have had no issues with currently available gameplay elements like battles, farming, building, or anything. I think once you get the learning curve, it is an enjoyable experience that rewards you for coming back and trying a new playthrough. I look forward to see what Manor Lords becomes as time goes on
It's been around a year now with no real meaningful content being added. Instead, we've had minor balancing patches spread apart in 4 updates every 3 months that go "X building now consumes Y amount of resources" or "Citizens no longer consume Y amount of resources". Game is deservedly getting grilled for being stuck in this state despite the massive financial influx ever since it released in early access. Odds are, the developer is going to do one more balancing patch for 0.9 and an unceremonious 1.0 launch that won't look very different from what's in the game now.
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