Medieval Dynasty

While I'd rate it 4 stars usually, I've had such a good time that I'm bringing it to 5. To begin with, Medieval Dynasty is a survival game. You can die of starvation, thirst, and the local wildlife will gladly feast on your entrails. Bandits won't bother asking for your purse, they go straight for your throat. Despite the dangers on the open, it's mostly peaceful; you won't get sudden, random spawns. They're only renewed (and change locations for bandits) with each new season, and with a bit of exploration you'll learn to make your own safe path to your favorite locations - mainly your village. The village building feature is rather complete; while you cannot fully edit in 3D a building, you can accomodate it with decorations, and the interaction of the many buildings with one another (miners for the smithy, hunters for the cook, etc) requires some planning. You'll have to manage the availability of food, water and firewood for your people so they survive (or at least don't leave your village), but also the tools for your workers and repair buildings. If you don't focus your eye on every graphic detail, it's a beautiful world. I built my village near a lake surrounded by woods, found a way to clip buildings in-between trees, cut a few to fit in fields & orchards. Also added a few pigs, chicken & geese on one end. Now, while it may be called Medieval Dynasty, I didn't explore this feature - there's nearly nothing to be done with your family. Besides, the development of your skills (and buildings availability) is based on whatever you're doing, so your time is spent elsewhere and it's very consuming. Some tasks will feel repetitive but that often happens with survival games, and while you can set anything up to be automated by your workers, your output is far superior to theirs (though they progress in skill over time). Overall, don't expect an intense action (unless trying to outrun a bear), but I've really enjoyed taking some time off in that peaceful valley!

I don't own a beefy PC, and even those I don't think would be able to run this game properly. The optimization is absolutely atrocious, and that's coming from someone that can play Witcher 3 no problem! So I can definitely handle some of the powerful games, but this is just absurd. Try it only if you have a heavy PC, or if they ever optimize the game. Otherwise stay away.

Played this 71.2 hours on the Steam version, and I'm hooked! Sure it's an alpha but already there's tons of content with more on the way next year (bandits and horses!), Also check out the Reddit page, the screenshots and funny bugs that players post there speak for itself on how much people are enjoying the game. I also can't stop thinking about how I want to restart the game and pick a 'better' location than the last for my new settlement. I came here mainly to point out that Medieval Dynasty is developed by Render Cube, not the same people who made Farmers Dynasty or Lumberjack Dynasty. It's not a reskin, and Render Cube has been fairly responsive with an update nearly every week. Anyone who's wondering, give it a try, or watch ESO's youtube playthroughs!

It's a really fun game but in GoG is not updated since 2022, I suggest to buy it on Steam instead I regret buying this game here

... but for a few weeks the game officially has release-status ... matter of factly it is still a bug-riddled work in progress ... graphic is somewhat ok but even at low seetings everything behaves very slow and bucking even with a high-end-system ... every conversation is eerily silent, since there are absolutly no voices ingame not even for a greeting ... obviously there's quite some content missing ... combat system feels very ramshackle ... game concept still needs a lot of polishing and suffers from many technical issues - starting the game and loading takes forever even with SSD Game concept, ideas and stories are good nonetheless and the game has much potential if brought to a decent state of development. Currently the game suffers from a lot of glitches and bugs, severe technical issues, and many important missing features.