The most-wishlisted city builder on Steam finally has a release date, and it's coming to console and Xbox Game Pass too
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Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game about building cities and defending them through large-scale battles. It’s a proudly historical game, entrenched in social challenges, resource management, political disputes, and all-out warfare. It’s not enough to build navigable roads and houses that don’t fall over. As a medieval lord fending off a traitorous baron, you’ll also need to manage crops, raise armies, assign homes to residents, prevent plagues and natural disasters, and take charge in real-time battles while minimizing losses to reduce the impact on your workforce.
It’s an incredibly dense game, in other words, which makes it all the more impressive that it started as a solo dev’s passion project. It certainly looks the part in the latest trailer. Building and residential zoning looks slick, and from the music to the early Renaissance art, the medieval vibes are immaculate. As evidenced by those wishlists, the extremely nitty-gritty granularity of Manor Lords has been catnip to city builder, management sim, and strategy fans alike, propelling it to almost unheard-of popularity for a debut game.
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