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: October 16, 2025
Early Access review
craftyorb
Verified ownerGames: 295 Reviews: 1
slow or no updates on GOG
it's not fair for paying customers to be a couple of release versions behind steam. Steam is at 0.8.035 while gog is stuck at 0.8.031 for a while now.
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Posted on: May 26, 2024
Early Access review
Wywerna
Verified ownerGames: 25 Reviews: 2
No updates?
Unfortunately game is rather not fun in this state and sure new updates are improving that, but released only on Steam for whatever reason. For the first time i regret buying a game on GoG (not the platform fault).
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Posted on: September 19, 2025
Early Access review
the_warhwak
Verified ownerGames: 151 Reviews: 2
Good foundation, barely any progress
The game has great potential for a "city" builder and it is very immersive. Unfortunately I cannot recommend it just yet, especially at the given price. While I had a lot fun playing what there is right now in the build, I honestly don't think it's a worthy investment, unless you have money to burn and I'll explain why. To start off, right now it's a bare bones experience, loaded with bugs, unfinished or missing mechanics. The tech tree isn't even half implemented and some of the perks you can get don't even work, but you will only realise it after wasting a point on them, leading to a botched playthrough. Workers can bug out, get stuck, or simply not prioritize the tasks you give them. On one instance several settlers got stuck inside the church after a bandit raid, with the only solution being to demolish their houses and rebuild them so new settlers can move in(which meant one third of my houses). Households will often have supply issues despite you having the market stocked with all necesarry goods, leading to drops in approval. The way bandit camps work on the map also feels unfinished. If a bandit camp spawns on the map, the only way top get rid of it, is to muster an army and march them to the camp and raid, it but the same bandits can randomply steal goods from your village simply by existing and you cannot stop or deter them, unless you destroy the camp. Makes zero sense. The worst part is that there have been no updates to the game in more than half a year. Despite the game selling like hotcakes, at full price when it was launched in EA, it really doesn't feel like the dev made good use of the money, since progress from then until now is almost nonexistent. Mechanics are still missing, bugs still present and a lot of people are starting to fear that it was a cash grab and it will never be finished, myself included. As it stands, overpriced, severely undercooked, potentially forever EA and not recommended. Buyer beware.
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Posted on: July 4, 2024
Early Access review
Kingfisher2704
Verified ownerGames: 215 Reviews: 1
Not worth buying in current state...
I would not recommend buying this game in its current state. Many bugs, placeholders, not working perks, mechanics. It is beautiful, impresive in many ways and despite of those cons above it was fun to finish available scenario, but wait, because this beta is really in early phase. Also what is worth mentioning, if you want to be up to date with news, the beta branch is currently only available on other platform. I will come back, maybe in a year, try it again and then change my rating, but now it's a solid 3/5... Promising, but released much to early...
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Posted on: April 27, 2024
Early Access review
Eli0tsan
Verified ownerGames: 122 Reviews: 1
Super early development phase
This is like an alpha stage of the game, in my opinion you should avoid it. Most of the functions are not there, there are a lot of bugs, and if you really know these kind of games there is not really much to do after 3-4 hours you know it all and it's just repetitive. Many videos are misleading as they show functions that are not in the game ("locked in early access" is how this game should be named). There is no statistics so you really have to guess what is the state of your village. There are no priorities control apart of building priorities, so demands of highier level buildings are fulfilled first effectively locking you from upgrading. The worker placement is from the times of The Settlers, so they work when they want to work, and sometimes they just dont, i had several times when i had to demolish a building and build it again for it start to function because villagers assigned there were just in permament state of "waiting", and yes, the roads were connected. Bandit system is radiculously stupid, they will just randomly attack you stealing something, but you will not see their attack, you will just get the info you've been robbed until you dispose of the bandit camp, which are more abundant than resources on the map, like they come in dozens, so after a year you are left with a 1 source of each resource and 10 bandit camps :D And if we are at the resources, who thought that on a map with 8 regions, with HUGE forest, there will be two sources of berries ? When i go to forest i literally trip on them. ANY forest... And everybody here say that this game is so true to reality :D rotfl Yeah, like people in middleages for clothing just needed unsewed leather...or just linen cloth. I have no idea how this game can have so many positive opinions at this state. This probably be a cute little village builder like others in the future. But now ? It's alpha stage with no content. They did that in 7 years ? Ok, seems we need to wait another 7...
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