Why Manorlords Will Explode In 2025

[@ResonantRTS]

I am working with the Developers For Manor lords to do a "Future Q+A" so any questions about the game for the future please reply to this comment and I will send them to Slavic Magic!

[@cartercazenave6352]

Do they plan on doing multiplayer and if so how long can we expect to wait?

[@chuttitboy3322]

1. Will the game feature additional AI Lords in the future, and if so, what is the anticipated timeframe for their introduction? 2. Are there plans to expand the in-game food and commodity systems? Specifically, are there any intentions to: * Introduce new food processing mechanics, such as transforming apples into cider as an alternative to ale, thereby introducing a new entertainment option? * Incorporate a system for preserving fish, such as salting, to significantly reduce the spoilage rate? 3. Will the game feature castles as playable structures, and if so, will this include a robust siege warfare system? Specifically, are there plans to implement various siege engines such as battering rams, trebuchets, siege towers, ballistas, catapults, and other historically accurate siege weaponry? 4. Are there any plans to introduce new campaign maps to the game in the future?

[@smthsmth]

In 2025 needs: more advanced dipomacy with rivals, AI towns, more nuanced battles and war system, castle building and sieges. + diseases, disasters, random events would be nice, like peasants petitioning their lord for something.

[@mh7711]

will there be more than 3 house types to develop with more needs and more experience-points?

[@EliasGellman]

What will the future fortification system and or stronghold system be like?

[@christianguerrero9239]

We need legit stone castles

[@cia5649]

ultimate late game goal

[@henkkayltiopainen1462]

sieges, and chivalry ? monks to wololo raiders too

[@hundvd_7]

This game isn't called Castle Lords tho

[@jvk1770]

​@@hundvd_7 Several tiers of the manor exist, they just haven't been implemented into early access yet.

[@Galloway5090]

@@hundvd_7 the cover of the game features a castle tho

[@smthsmth]

In 2025 needs: more advanced dipomacy with rivals, AI towns, more nuanced battles and war system, castle building and sieges. + diseases, disasters, random events

[@Rajesh-no8hb]

Chill

[@BorZoi_]

your expectations are too high for the small studio chill ya beans fella

[@personmuc943]

the devs will be busy playing GTA 6 this year

[@wyattwelton8599]

they are acting like you're demanding, I think they are all wonderful ideas if they can find the time to do any of them!

[@overtale4516]

Needs cavalry

[@ArrogantJaevel]

I really hope the next thing will be AI towns. The developers have already stated if people stop asking for changes on core mechanics like trade etc they will start to implement new features. Adding two additional maps did not bring anything really new to the game besides letting you build a new town for the 100 time in a beautiful location.

[@RobEurope]

I love the game, but scattered small improvements that would amount to maybe 1 real update in a year is not exactly growing fast.

[@sheri3229]

its almost as if its being made by one developer, insane right?

[@ariton2990]

@@sheri3229 doesnt change the fact that the title is false.

[@skrillah6259]

@@sheri3229 not anymore

[@yourvault1612]

@@sheri3229 there’s no reason for that to still be the case

[@Losowy]

@@sheri3229 with 2.5 million copies soold he already has the money to get someone to help him

[@Imperial_Legacy]

I hope 2025 will be great for Manor Lords! We need: Cavalry, children (all people in the village are adults) and city walls or castles would be great as well!

[@ethanwashington60]

What a nonce

[@jambononi]

You had to grow up fast in medieval times

[@Imperial_Legacy]

@ 😂😂

[@MiniBrute]

i don't think they can add children, like most action games, because of the legalities of being able to kill children in the game, during a raid or something. e.g. the same reason gta doesn't have children etc

[@Tentacl]

I bought it at the first opportunity and just wanna know this, that the game is being made. I wanted to fund it. I saw an interview with the dev saying he was anxious because there was no way he could develop fast enough to avoid frutration but I believe MOST of the customers like me know what to expect and want a game with SOUL, not something like those what faceless corps put up every year for a week of play and then be forgotten.

[@gabrielc4136]

this game has so much potential, i hope it will get developed at a faster pace with more people working on it, so it doesn t die off. people would absolutely buy it if they heard that big improvements were done

[@Imperator666]

I loved it, but i’m waiting for stone castles and knights

[@trolltalwar]

There are knights

[@Imperator666]

@ mounted and fully armoured knights? If so i haven’t seen any mention of them yet

[@trolltalwar]

@@Imperator666 mounted units are not in the game yet. Retainers are knights

[@hatnanjo]

Not necessarily knights, but you can use the blacksmith to produce additional armour for your Retainers. You need to unlock the skill in the tech tree to do that first, though.

[@trolltalwar]

@@hatnanjo historically, retainers were not ALWAYS knights, but could be knights. This games just as much a role playing game as it is a city builder/rts in my eyes so if you want your retainers to be knights they can

[@vrdog9660]

It needs to be a little more like Stronghold, in the sense that we need other Lords to have land. They can either be friendly or hostile, courtesy of their traits plus our actions.

[@nathanspiegel7912]

I think multiplayer and the capacity for larger scale gameplay would definitely make this game a bigger draw

[@monarchtherapsidsinostran9125]

Gonna be honest i would like much bigger maps with more regions down the line. If they are going to add castles, and city walls that implies siegeworks of even a small degree. So i would request bigger maps to have the big walled city be supported by neighboring regions. This wouldn't be a big bad hard thing to do in my opinion. Especially with how good the game runs as of now. Like its literally seemless, and extremely solid to run. You could allow for bigger maps with bigger battles, and everything. Simple.

[@madsharlev2581]

Agreed, but there would have to be free trade between owned regions. That or just merging of owned regions

[@madsharlev2581]

Its like, hey my new mates over there on the other side of the red line are still in the fucking stone-age !

[@Viperspider1]

Manor Lords is my GOTY. Played the shit out of the first build, now I'm just happy to wait for 1.0 before I jump back in.

[@Viperspider1]

Also, when you showed us the peaks from the ground level I literally said "Wooaaah..". Looks awesome!

[@ThaGamingMisfit]

When a game is tremendously overhyped because of its graphics only, I think it will never live up to expectations.

[@ShakurTheAshier]

ehh, i think it's a fun game personally, id just like some pvp and for it to just be finished really. I stopped playing because it felt like you weren't really going anywhere and also the tutorials weren't great it felt like, I'm kind of a novice when it comes to games like this though.

[@sammy_117]

Only thing that sucks right now will probably be fixed soon in the river map just isn't playable rn cause of bugs

[@TFAric]

When I have some disposible income I will get this, I was hyped for a long time but never pulled the trigger, it is sometimes better to wait for a game to be more finished :)

[@erkam5747]

yeah just wait some more i bought it the day it released and only played it for a week its still to empty and to less buildings and nearly no diplomacy dont get me wrong its beautiful but still needs 1 year at least to be playable for a long time

[@martinbambeano6520]

Proper settlement fortifications, ability to customise your manor house and upgrade in different ways/directions, being able to name streets and the tavern and edit the sign post would be really good too

[@hatnanjo]

When pressing claims for a new region, I believe you should be able to choose whether you want to settle a new village there, or combine it with your current region. Also on map AI would be great.

[@Seanzie8888]

I'd like to see them fill out the tech tree more, including the policies. And more development stages beyond whatever the top one is now. If the AI lord starts to have populated villages, is like to be able to make siege equipment to attack their manors! That'd be sweet!

[@jonathanvanstensel6564]

I agree that the economy is pretty solid. Better management of town to town trading and some bug fixes and it will be excellent.

[@haydenbsiegel]

I want a coastal and a desert map as well as the ability to create culture by hiring musicians or sponsoring composers to live in my village as their patron. It could provide an economic and happiness boost for residents. Maybe even add in some tourism to go with the artist patronage to really flesh it out.

[@gamerboy-gm2gh]

We need more town stages for more development points & We also need more building levels, I'd love to see more medieval downtown buildings to have 1. more people 2. give us access to more detailed and varied town/villages.

[@cryptic-s7o]

All these updates are worthless without on map ai, need to focus on that first

[@Agent.Orange.]

So if someone quit 6 months ago, the recommendation is to wait for more content.

[@SamwiseIWStan]

I brought this game when it came out, played a bit but decided I wanted to wait. The wait was worth it.

[@nateadkins2459]

Have they optimized villager pathing and depositing yet? My biggest gripe was that my villagers would walk entirely across town to deposit a resource, even if I placed a storehouse or granary (with resource restrictions) right next to their garden or workplace. It was really frustrating to pre-plan districts, only for the ai villagers to waste a whole day transporting goods. I would also really like the ability to limit marketplaces to specific goods, that way each district’s market stalls can be limited to the goods most immediately available.

[@bay0r]

would be nice to have more individual buildings and maybe buildings without a garden. focus on the town / city building capabilities for more individual playthroughs

[@paulgleitsmann6816]

I think what the game needs the most is optimization in the late game. I have 3 regions with over 800 population and 50% of workers are just standing around and lagging. I really wanna get all regions to 1000 population but its nearly impossible.

[@kgeo2686]

SURELY there are some disgruntled CA devs that would love to join the Manorlord team!

[@bainbridgif]

4:54 you became a chicken

[@jprtm7h]

Stone Castels and building stone walled citys would be awesome!

[@yabs9642]

id LOVE a Lord perspective update, once you build the lords residence you can now start operating the game from a 3rd person perspective, you can deal menus inside your residence and deal with politics (this will be WAY DOWN the line) can actually help with work, or fight with your citizens. be a proper ruler ya know? it just adds a level of immersion that no other game really has. and its not really something game breakingly hard to add into the game. id say the hardest part would be politics because it relies on having a bunch of different AI villages interacting with you that arent even implemented yet. and the scope would become much larger because now you have to build larger towns for defenses to deal with such ai when politics go down (like take over 2 territories and plan ahead enough to treat 2 territory towns as one city and build defenses for them)

[@Gotoemole]

Anyone that like the medieval settings, I strongly recommend trying kingdom come deliverance, bannerlord and wartales

[@GruntGP]

Battle Brothers and Medieval Dynasty also comes to mind

[@jannikschmidt6390]

Castles, Ai enemy towns, bandit towns, playable King Charakter in Combat, Horses. 10 /10 game

[@SirWarkwark]

Makeing a functional AI, understandably, might be too complex at the moment, but multiplayer? Build neigbouring towns with your frinds? Could be fun. End goal is to take over the lands of each other or Hildbrand's army must be stoped by a joint venture? Just balling spit here

[@dougm3037]

Less aggressive King's tax and more information on map topography so your troops can acquire high ground.

[@chuttitboy3322]

1. Will the game feature additional AI Lords in the future, and if so, what is the anticipated timeframe for their introduction? 2. Are there plans to expand the in-game food and commodity systems? Specifically, are there any intentions to: * Introduce new food processing mechanics, such as transforming apples into cider as an alternative to ale, thereby introducing a new entertainment option? * Incorporate a system for preserving fish, such as salting, to significantly reduce the spoilage rate? 3. Will the game feature castles as playable structures, and if so, will this include a robust siege warfare system? Specifically, are there plans to implement various siege engines such as battering rams, trebuchets, siege towers, ballistas, catapults, and other historically accurate siege weaponry? 4. Are there any plans to introduce new campaign maps to the game in the future?

[@jet-fury]

Havent played since release. I knew it would keep getting better. Ill come back soon

[@andreimdv661]

I used bridges as a bottleneck, for me they work perfectly with troops or villagers

[@Lowkeyhi]

I accidentally played it for 8 hours straight yesterday.

[@dumbyboi-c1d]

hey so I found the winding rivers map to be suuuuper buggy in terms of units and movement. I found my units stopping for no reason, not moving when told, and getting stuck on or near bridges. Obviously that's in the unstable beta build, but it's something to note

[@rezkydonnyputranto4232]

i feel like it need some sort of progression starting from the village to small town with proper military. It kinda defeat the purpose of the manor lord, but idk what else

[@VermillionCrocodilian]

it all ready has that from day one essentially. and combat is not the main focus of the game last i checked.

[@rezkydonnyputranto4232]

@VermillionCrocodilian not really, no matter how much your village progress. It would still be a village, not a town. After a couple of hour playing, there's essentially nothing more to do.

[@VermillionCrocodilian]

@@rezkydonnyputranto4232 you are playing a different game from me then, ive usualy got one region i funnel every thing too and its got over 500 or so people liveing in it, back in the day that would of been considered a pretty sizeable town

[@christonchev9762]

i bought it on Steam and i like it but for now am waiting for them to add some new futures like more skills cause 80% of them are still locked for dev

[@Welther47]

April 26- 2024 was NOT the release date, as it has not been finished yet! It could stay in this half finished state for a decade more.

[@Govt.is.corrupt]

Growing like a snail moves.

[@FeralMess]

Few more years of active development and "Manor Lords" will be able to compete somehow with "Stronghold Crusader" from year 2002.

[@underofficerbrandonjoseph6512]

Anyone else experiences characters freezing in position?

[@buttnuttz6119]

Tried playing a couple nights ago and I had the same issue, especially with the oxen

[@Michael-M12]

nope thats all you buddy

[@buttnuttz6119]

@ and just me as well I guess?

[@irolas]

it's developing fast but not fast enough. i picked the game back up after a year of my last playthrough after seeing a bunch of quick released patches expecting a lot of changes, and the logistics are still frustrating and you hit a peak for how much you want to play the game after hitting tier 4/5 - expansion is just not desirable because the logistics of larger towns becomes so frustrating. some of the new additions feel lack lustre, fishing for example is restricted to ponds instead of the rivers of the new map, and you can't smoke the fish or do much of anything with it. i think it will need a lot more content for me to want to play through it again but it is a beautiful game - think my biggest gripe with my latest playthrough was that i was keen to try the winding river map, as i thought making a bridge style town would look cool - but the logistics of the game punished it so harshly that i hated it - if nodes arent in close proximity (which they werent, because i was building on the river) it's a nightmare - and not having fertile land just makes the game really punishing, you cant import enough ale to satisfy your towns ale needs. i had a 50% fertile barley field of 0.7 morgen producing 7-11 barley per year.. maybe ill give the mountain map a go based on your video and just reroll until i have fertile land and something else.. is premium berries meat or iron the best to go for?

[@johnjohn3668]

As a xbox player, im still waiting for it to be announced

[@are3287]

PCMR wins again

[@Urbanhandyman]

I recently purchased and played Manor Lords for a couple of days. It has "good potential" but feels incomplete. I feel it's currently a 6 out of 10 product. I'd like to see map movement improved. The controls are currently rather clunky and I keep accidentally zooming out to the large-scale "world" map. I found that after the initial rush to not run out of funds, about an hour or so, I would end up with 200 population and the desire to play the game faded away. It became too repetitious at that point. I'll play it again after a couple of major upgrades are announced. Perhaps in a year?

[@OlavSchneider]

Are these maps any good for multiplayer?

[@DantheMan-di9yq]

I BET in 2026 You're still saying the same thing

[@ex0stasis72]

I tried it on PC Game Pass, and as a non-fan of this genre, it still felt meh to me. It felt like an extremely paired down version of Anno 1800 but with some novel new ideas that felt unfinished, which, of course, it was unfinished.

[@antalito3047]

I bought this as soon as it came out which I never do. I did it because I wanted to support this game and its developer and I was fully aware that initially the game will be pretty basic. Having sad that, I was expecting the game to be in a more complete state by this time. They made a ton of money after release so I was expecting development to pick up but not much has been really added. Hopefully 2025 they’ll do better.

[@marcusvalerius7663]

Maps with rivers sould have have no fish ponds and be able to fish on the rivers maybe add a upgrade where they fish with nets maybe even on boats!. And maps with no rivers sould have the fishponds!.

[@josejaimes420]

Full map editor like Age of empires had ... please pass the word around

[@jojomanstyle]

they must add other villages and interactions or otherwise it will remain unrealistic

[@BIGECH]

i played this game when it came out up till my first combat experience, then refunded it... looking forward to updates to rebuy

[@stevenwest0]

Should buy it now i mean they have bridges and fishing 😮😮😮 amazing

[@True_Grind]

I dont think you can call it an indie game, game with the quality of an A++ game... edit: this valley map or sum look amazing, i wanna see my people fallin down the cliffsides...

[@stephenkerr2917]

Beautiful game, everything done really well so far.. Just waiting on AI settlements/multiplayer to jump back in at this point.. It all bodes well for the future

[@tomj0771]

they need to add ai towns and multiplayer and the game will be perfect

[@RealGuitarXplode]

Competitors and cavalry and siege weapons and a few walls would be it for me to get obsessed 😏

[@FLYNNGFISHER]

I love this game because its such a passon project for the creator. Passon projects always are updated better and shit

[@trivixni435]

Saved? What about the other games? Manor lords is fun but 2024 wasnt that bad in terms of games, yes we could have gotten better games but still it wasnt that bad of a year

[@UncleTwoTimez]

Name one? I'll wait...

[@Bzhydack]

Against the Storm for example.

[@corn776]

@@UncleTwoTimezhelldivers and space marine

[@FordHoard]

​@@corn776trash games.

[@johnyseimah229]

cant wait for someone to make a lord of the rings mod for this,i would even pay for it

[@EchteSauerkartoffel]

We need ai towns, castles and multiplayer. While that is on the way they can keep the game alive with small updates like riverfishing, vineyards, cavalry units, cows and larger stables.

[@LukaBago]

Everything but multiplayer... This game is not meant to be a multiplayer game.

[@arturoroldan4839]

@@LukaBago Yep. people is obsessed wiht "multiplayer" in this game but.....why? Because of the combat? Who on Earth would play against someone for 24 hours straight until you get a really good city?

[@robinshood6530]

I'm sure the developer could relatively easily make this a multiplayer and single player experience. And even if it was just for the combat, make a strictly military game mode. Either way, the main theme of this game is city-building and I'm sure he probably plans on keeping it that way. But I'm all for castle building. I also think terraforming would be cool. To be able to make moats or terraform small hills to build your manor on so it's overlooking your city with winding streets and buildings, all surrounded by city walls

[@MrFaceMan]

Need massive castle siege.

[@JHattsy]

I just wish they would have combat be a bit more interactable, it feels too hands off right now imo.

[@madsharlev2581]

And proper animal husbandry. Cattle farming for meat, cheese etc. And ! The deer should be in the whole forest, that way, it's a trade off betewwn fuel and deer

[@TheMatlemon]

the Alpha patch not even ready ....

[@esh768]

and dungeon hunting like some fantasy with guilds and all

[@rodrhodes1217]

Love everything thats been done so far, cant wait for calvary, would be cool if you could go into the buildings and it look like an actualhouse inside, but if thats too much i get it

[@gwalon2089]

I think the peaks map is a little unbalanced with the current state of the game. I was able to completely beat Hildebolts armies by just trading, taxing and buying mercenaries from my money, since it only took 2 battles, before even having 1 level 3 burgage plot.

[@DB-hb1go]

I got a feeling Greg is going to do a runner and not finish the game

[@VermillionCrocodilian]

considering how the community has kinda rail roaded his passion project, i wouldnt blame him. people keep moaning and growning at him over things that arent nearly as important as actually finishing the game, lot of theupdate sive seen involed economy things, that and people seem to refuse the idea that combat in the game is not the focus.

[@jet-fury]

Then he should not listen to those people ​@@VermillionCrocodilian

[@benroberts1844]

Really need to fix the marketplace system tho.

[@nosouponhead]

I can't wait until it's on console

[@jeanfrancois5188]

man, I hope the devs do what they see fit and not cater to the whiney brats on the internet. Go play a live update game if you want a steady stream of new content.

[@infomolerat]

@@jeanfrancois5188 amen 🙏

[@trolltalwar]

Thank you for this statement. Im tired of insufferable zoomer gamers.

[@SuperRaceCarBoy]

I just wanna build with stone moreeeee

[@wiesawpyc7370]

This only ver. 0.8, so there is A LOT to come in future. We must be patient, that's it. So far, all is going in great direction.

[@Zūchi_San]

Quickly losing faith in manor lords, especially with the latest update lying about new maps and reworks..

[@Naviss]

I want to see walls!

[@davidmorton6051]

It's not been a year yet can you not count?

[@samuelmoffat2874]

Everything you’ve said but also customised castle walls significantly higher. Also an ability to drag ditches from rivers and ponds to create defensible positions and as a Segway into boating. Furthermore catapults and tunneling under walls.

[@voidofthought]

Waiting impatiently for console port

[@ryukkd5593]

the game is so buggy right now, some cant even open the game.

[@Uzzgub]

A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm

[@frankcooke1692]

Why is this a $70 game on Steam? On the Christmas sale it was $40. But it's not even like, 20% finished? We're expected to pay full price for a game that hasn't delivered anything yet. That's supposedly developed by one guy? Is this Steam's Star Citizen? Pay $70 now for a game that wont be delivered for another 12 years

[@F33bs]

I love the game, but the early access has been kind of a mess. So much basic QoL missing, no major feature additions. I don't understand how they can fumble like this when the basics of the game are so promising.

[@GRIZEH]

The only thing that isn't fast is the game development and I want my proper castle walls for my village >:(

[@k.s.sblahblah5002]

is this game like skyrim?

[@ResonantRTS]

no really, its more a city builder

[@thiagocrazy96]

We need AI cities to fight or ally with, I love the game but that n1 for me rn

[@TheMadcat974]

I do not have the new maps

[@mikeboix3315]

¿Growing FAST? Nice bait, dude.

[@Xjag]

I feel scammed by the hype

[@keldrith1]

Honestly this game just feels like a big waste of time without multiplayer. Whole point of games like this is to build kingdoms with your friends and fight each other till the last man, like all other games in this genre.

[@spooklyshiba]

ign mentioned. Opinion discarded.

[@Madness-iwnl]

I like the game, but I still need PVP and a more medieval look environment (being able to build forts, castles), as well as having more lore and different kind of villages based on the character and colors you choose. Hopefully they add all of these soon.

[@trolltalwar]

This is arguably the most accurate medieval game ever made, especially in terms of architecture. How exactly can it have a more medieval look?

[@foamslinger2787]

good gamE!

[@toddblankenship7164]

sold well but was a very much flash in the pan game. only 7k average players and that's up due to the winter sale. For me I always wait to see if there's substance and replayablity. If i cant get 1500 hours + im not interested personally.

[@VermillionCrocodilian]

the game released as an alpha. its no where near done, and 1500 hours from a one developer game is asking for a lot.

[@toddblankenship7164]

@@VermillionCrocodilian 1500 is alot? its alot and maybe 500 to a 1000 is a more realistic goal but I have that and more in Oxygen not included, Rim world, close to 1000 in farming simulators(each), 1000 in Space engineers, total warhammer3 1500, Battlefields since 3 1500 in each. its really not that hard when you make a good game with replayability. not to mention the many games i have 500 hours in ie: cityskylines, Civ 6 etc

[@VermillionCrocodilian]

@@toddblankenship7164 those games are completyely different as far as gameplay type and focus. Oxygen not included gives you 40 different ways to cool,heat, produces energy, accidentally hurt, and destroy in your asteroid base. this game is just " build a functioning medevil settlement and do a little bit of combat that actually has consequences". those goames are all much much more complex than this one will ever be. What players should be supporting with their money on this game is a developer who clearly loves this project. help the dev improve the game, and when it is done or the develoiper decides to move on to another. show them that this type of game but grander in scope is what people want. this is not a game to buy expecting a feature rich Multi developer project but rather one persons passion project that is more of a very well developed proof of concept/genre builder. thius dev is doing a lot of fairly unique things such as bringing in the realism side.

[@yungskolking1470]

@@toddblankenship7164 Sounds like you need a life.

[@toddblankenship7164]

@@yungskolking1470 nope got one, I just manage my game time. And these are older games that had value so over time time adds up.... you know how that works right?

[@marc943]

Multiplayer will be so fun in this game. Just need to work out a faster pace for the mp so games wont take 30 hrs to complete :)