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.
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.
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.
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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Posted on: May 21, 2024
Early Access review
preheat
Verified ownerGames: 30 Reviews: 1
Great Game! But no patch release on GOG
Great game but the beta patch is not released on gog causing a bad user experience compared to steam. Next time the decision where to buy new releases should be pretty simple. Very sad.
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Posted on: October 7, 2025
Early Access review
NexDev
Verified ownerGames: 90 Reviews: 1
No access to Beta Patches on GOG
The game is in early access but the experimental patches are only accessible for people who buy on Steam, so if you want to try the latest update you have to wait far longer.
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Posted on: October 13, 2025
Early Access review
dewodau
Verified ownerGames: 208 Reviews: 1
Immense potential clouded by GOG updates
Let me be clear: Manor Lords has the makings of a truly great game, which is the main reason I feel compelled to write this review. The potential is clearly there. Unfortunately, that potential is being squandered for GOG players. While the game is in Early Access, consistent updates are essential for progress. The Steam version receives regular patches, but the GOG version is lagging behind and makes it feel like we're getting a lesser experience. Considering it could be years before a full release, this "beta of a beta" approach makes it difficult for me to currently recommend.
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Posted on: May 26, 2024
Early Access review
IzydorBlackmane
Verified ownerGames: 17 Reviews: 1
No Updates on GoG
I understand that game is in early access and that is completely fine, but GoG is not receiving updates like other platform which is quite not fair. As if game is in early access even beta patches should be distributed equally so more people can test it or atleast have a choice to update game or no.There are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed, like marketplaces, spreading the goods into the houses, farming etc. Amount of militia that player can have should be look into as Ai can have huge army 9+ groups while we can just have 5 groups and retinue. Its kinda annoying to watch other people playing this game updated and with some mechanics fixed while I cannot because I bought game on different platform.This might be a great game one day, one day.
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Edited on: October 14, 2025
Posted on: October 14, 2025
Early Access review
phaedrus2129
Verified ownerGames: 49 Reviews: 2
Early Access Scam -- do not buy on GOG
This game is in early access, but early access updates are not available to people who bought the game on GOG. Players on Steam get beta/experimental updates and feature improvements every week or two, or even daily, while GOG players get an update every few months, maybe. The latest build of Manor Lords with substantial new gameplay features has been out for weeks on Steam, while the version on GOG is literally months old. If you are going to release a game to early access you should make early access builds available to ALL customers not just customers on a particular platform. This is anti-consumer, period.
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