Short Review of Manor Lords & long let's play with tips and strategy

This is an Early access Review, a let’s play and a guide for the early to early mid-game all in one video for Manor Lords. Manor Lords isa survival city builder with beautiful graphics that bring some new ideas to the genre. This video starts with a short form review followed by a longer let’s play where I elaborate as well as providing strategy and gameplay tips along the way. It is almost a 40 minute video so maybe not a time saver but hopefully entertaining and for a new player the tips and strategy will most likely be very helpful to get a good start.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:23 Short-form Review
02:01 Start of the Let’s play
03:40 Town placement and the first buildings
10:32 A Small Village and improving approval
12: 59 your first army
16:31 Planning for reaching level 2 Burgage plots
19:28 Planning for farming
24:00 Upgrading the first houses, what we need to grow our army
26:14 Reaching medium village
27: 04 How do deal with early game Outlaws
31:40 More extensions and preparing for large Village
34:13 What is wrong with trading
36:13 Final thoughts
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[@maruzze]

Thank you very much for creating and sharing this very comprehensive vid. I was curious about Manor Lords and now I can see that it probably isn't for me, so you've saved me both money and aggravation. That said, some of my friends are already playing this game and really liking it, so it was fun for me to get a chance to see what's making them so happy. Thanks again!

[@Ketmo785]

Glad you found the video useful! The "total war" elements will probably become more developed down the line. I know there are plans for city walls with siege mechanics as well as cavalry and such. It is just that those parts of the game are the least developed. So right now what is very developed and is the main gameplay is the survival city building.

[@Hiyall985]

I picked this game up a bit ago and think it has a ton of potential. I am a variety gamer and cycle between survival/builders, ARPGs, and MMORPGS mostly, so enjoy getting to see content on newer games I haven't been able to sink much time into. Thank you for the video and looking forward to more.

[@Ketmo785]

I also play a bunch of different games, most of them being indie games. but I'am trying to at least niche myself somewhat here on the channel.

[@Hiyall985]

@@Ketmo785 Totally understand and respect that, and like all of your videos I have seen so far.

[@aidanm5578]

Great vid mate. I’ll come back to it when I’m at my PC and correct my save haha.

[@Ketmo785]

Thank you! This video unfortunately don't seem to get views but I'll see if I get around to making a late game guide as well in similar style regardless. I'm also right now trying to see how fast I can reach large town for the "on the edge" scenario. I am at 3.4 years now. Once I shaved a bit of that time. It should be possible below 3 years for sure. I will probably make a guide about rushing large town as well

[@Just_another_nobody.]

What do you think about upgrading the tents to a Worker's Camp as the first move? You will still have the homelessness symbol at the top but your approval won't suffer, so it will stay at 50 %. Which in turn means that you will start growing as soon as the first house is build. The only downside I have found is that the families in the camp won't move into the newly built houses automatically.

[@Ketmo785]

That is an interesting idea. I have a maximum growth strate (not the strategy shown in the video) that one is about getting clothes and church super early to get approval up. Maybe doing that would make that strategy even a tiny bit faster.