Playing a survival city builder is like a juggling act, except when you drop a ball 75 people starve to death. Everything needs to be carefully balanced. The population needs to steadily grow to provide more bodies for labor—but not grow so quickly that you wind up with too many mouths to feed. When citizens […]
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Medieval city-builder Manor Lords is Steam’s most wishlisted game and is a mere day away from release, but no one is actually sure how much it’s going to cost. Apparently, that’s on purpose. Tim Bender, the CEO of Hooded Horse, Manor Lords’ publisher, took to Reddit to explain the collective decision not to disclose the […]
Read MoreManor Lords isn’t your typical city-builder—the first time I realised that was when I started building burgage plots. At first, these humble peasant abodes look like your standard dwelling, and so in typical city-builder fashion I created them as compact as possible—that good ol’ trick to maximise space and population. What I didn’t count on […]
Read MoreWorking out how the tavern functions in Manor Lords is an important step in caring for your villagers. Tavern supply is one of the listed amenities alongside church access and water supply, so it’s a necessary provision if you want to upgrade your burgage plots to level three. This will let you collect more regional […]
Read MoreIf you’ve already established your first town in Manor Lords, you’re likely looking to claim a new region and are eyeing that hefty influence price tag it’ll cost to get one. Claiming new regions lets you build more villages that’ll operate independently of your first. They’ll have their own manor, their own church, and even […]
Read MoreThe marketplace in Manor Lords is one of the game’s trickier mechanics. You’ll likely first encounter this building when you receive a message from one of your families asking for space to set up a market stall where they can distribute their goods. If you want your populace to have plenty of fuel and food […]
Read MoreTrying to get new families in Manor Lords is a bit of a puzzling process. Usually in a game like this, you just let nature take its course and watch as your new town expands on its own. Manor Lords’ population mechanics are a bit trickier, however; perhaps because the number of available workers and […]
Read MoreEarning regional wealth in Manor Lords is important if you want to purchase livestock, build workshops in burgage plots, or provide fancy treats for your peasant populace so they won’t notice you’re taxing them into the dirt. While your treasury is filled with tax income which you use to hire mercenaries or build settler camps, […]
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Medieval city-builder Manor Lords continues to gather steam ahead of its Early Access release, which is doubly impressive considering its set in a preindustrial society. The game surpassed three million wishlists on Steam over the weekend, adding another 500,000 to the total in the span of seven days. Created by solo developer Greg Styczeń, also […]
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April is a monster month for city builders, with the Frostpunk 2 beta having arrived this week, top wishlist pick Manor Lords launching next week, and the arrival of several other city building games like Vertical Kingdom, Laysara: Summit Kingdom, and Of Life And Land. But keep your eyes peeled because when it comes to […]
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April is a monster month for city builders, with the Frostpunk 2 beta having arrived this week, top wishlist pick Manor Lords launching next week, and the arrival of several other city building games like Vertical Kingdom, Laysara: Summit Kingdom, and Of Life And Land. But keep your eyes peeled because when it comes to […]
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April is a monster month for city builders, with the Frostpunk 2 beta having arrived this week, top wishlist pick Manor Lords launching next week, and the arrival of several other city building games like Vertical Kingdom, Laysara: Summit Kingdom, and Of Life And Land. But keep your eyes peeled because when it comes to […]
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Manor Lords isn’t open for Early Access yet (that’s scheduled for next week, April 26), but some lucky players have gotten a first look at the city-building and management game through early playtests, and some have already figured out one way to break the game. The primary aim of Manor Lords is to raise a […]
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Ahead of Manor Lords‘ early access launch on April 26, developer Greg Styczeń aka Slavic Magic wants to clarify what the city builder actually is and manage the expectations of prospective players. The game is currently the most-wishlisted title on Steam and, while this is a nice problem for any developer to have, it does […]
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Once again someone has been stupid enough to put me in charge of a city, and once again my tenure as mayor has resulted in nothing but bloodshed, crime, misery, and death. And that’s just the kids I’m talking about. The adults in my city aren’t doing so great, either. The beta for Frostpunk 2 […]
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There hasn’t been a better time to be obsessed with city builders, and it looks like our appetite for plotting out road networks and crafting bustling towns is as strong as ever, with Slavic Magic’s Manor Lords now topping the Steam wishlist charts. As clocked by GamesRadar, the medieval city builder has risen to the […]
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April is already a monster month for city builders and colony sims, and yet another city building game has just been announced, this one with a bit of a Civilization theme. The cities you grow and manage in most city builders can last for years, sometimes decades, and occasionally hundreds of years… but what about […]
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There are some advantages to being a medieval peasant. Twitter hasn’t been invented yet, for instance, so your exposure to the worst opinions in the world is pretty limited. But there are, on balance, a lot more downsides. Healthcare is a tad iffy. You haven’t got any central heating. Back-breaking labour is the norm. And, […]
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I’m not much of a city-builder girl—too many moving parts for my brain to handle—but I have been rather excited for the release of Laysara: Summit Kingdom. Trying to build an entire city up craggy cliffs and steep mountains all while trying to prevent your settlements being crushed by a giant ice ball sounds deliciously […]
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Frostpunk 2’s beta will release in the next couple weeks, available from April 15-22 for people who’ve pre-ordered the Digital Delxue Edition of the upcoming survival city-builder. “Return to the unforgiving Frostlands and experience a glimpse of our ambitious sequel in which, among the need to survive, you’ll face a new and deadly threat: human […]
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Hope you’ve got your toolbox handy, because you’re going to need it in the weeks ahead: April is quickly shaping up to be a killer month for city builders, settlement builders, and colony sims. If you like surviving the apocalypse, practicing medieval diplomacy, or building cities on the back of a giant flying turtle, April […]
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Typically when you’re playing a city builder, the metropolis you’re constructing is meant to last a long time. In fact, making your city last the whole game is usually the entire point of the game. That’s one of the reasons why Against the Storm stands out from the crowd. The cities you build won’t last […]
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