‘Manor Lords’ is a medieval city-building and strategy game taking players back in time to the Middle Ages.

Starting a small village near a main trade route. Image by 'Manor Lords.'

‘Manor Lords’ gives you complete freedom to design and build your medieval settlements however you prefer. It allows free rotation and placement of buildings and constructions, but does include snapping features to make it easier for you to lay your city out!

Building your settlement near a trade route might be a good idea, especially since the game’s developers have taken care to ensure that the game will flow as realistically as possible, based on how things worked historically.

There are seasons, as well as weather cycles, and any town can be impacted by factors such as natural disasters, plagues, and wars.

A small village with a large sheep pasture and small fields. Image by 'Manor Lords.'

Besides the city-building aspect of the game, there is also a strong large-scale strategic conquest element. You will need to build your town’s defenses, train soldiers, and command them in battle.

You will need to take a range of factors into consideration during battle, including the terrain, real-time events on the battlefield, as well as the morale and condition of your soldiers.

According to the developers, they have made the game as historically accurate as possible, but they also haven’t set the game in any specific time or place during the Middle Ages, to allow players to live out a completely unique sequence of events.

‘Manor Lords’ is developed by ‘Slavic Magic.’ The release date for the game is still to be announced. The developer is developing the game as a solo project.