How to play:
In Manor Lords, you take on the role of a medieval lord tasked with building and managing a settlement. Your goal is to develop a thriving town while maintaining its economy, defense, and social structure. Here’s how you can get started:
City Building: Begin by establishing basic structures such as homes, farms, and markets. Place them strategically to ensure resources like food and goods are efficiently distributed. Use the gridless placement system to design a settlement that suits your strategic needs.
Managing Resources: As your settlement grows, you’ll need to manage resources like food, wood, and metal. Balance these resources carefully to avoid shortages or economic collapse. Use oxen to plow fields, and develop industries like mining and blacksmithing.
Defend Your Territory: As your village becomes prosperous, enemies may attempt to conquer it. You will need to recruit soldiers, build fortifications, and engage in large-scale battles. Organize your troops into formations, considering factors like terrain and morale.
Navigate Social Dynamics: Ensure the wellbeing of your population by managing taxes, food, and public services. You’ll need to manage relationships with other factions, whether by diplomacy or warfare. Keep your people happy to avoid rebellions and uprisings.
Engage in Warfare: Use tactical decision-making in large-scale battles, where you can deploy various units, including archers, cavalry, and siege weapons. Watch for factors like fatigue and weather, which can shift the tide of battle. Victory in battle can expand your territory and bring prosperity to your rule.
Description:
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game that immerses players in the world of city-building and large-scale tactical battles. Developed by solo developer Greg Styczeń and set to release in 2024, the game offers an organic, gridless approach to building cities, with a focus on historical realism and an immersive medieval experience. Using the power of Unreal Engine 5, Manor Lords combines detailed economic and social simulations with intense tactical combat.
Game Features:
Organic City Building: Unlike traditional grid-based games, Manor Lords allows players to place buildings freely with the help of snapping tools, offering full creative control over city layouts. The cities are designed to grow naturally, influenced by major trade routes and landscapes, just like real medieval towns.
Historical Realism: Set in a fictional medieval period, the game draws inspiration from historical buildings and mechanics from the XI-XV centuries. Activities like plowing fields with oxen, forging iron in bloomery furnaces, and herding sheep in open pastures add to the authenticity.
Seasons and Environment: The game includes dynamic seasonal changes and weather effects, which influence gameplay. Your settlement will experience the cycles of harvests, plagues, wars, and other challenges, making for a living, breathing world.
Large-Scale Tactical Battles: In addition to managing a growing town, you must lead armies into battle. The game simulates realistic combat, including morale, fatigue, and weather effects, with large-scale unit formations. Siege weapons, cavalry, and fortifications can all be utilized in these dynamic conflicts.
Realistic Combat and Destruction: The battles feature high-level detail, including realistic destruction simulations powered by cutting-edge physics, including the potential for real-time destructible environments.
