Reason to celebrate: Manor Lords hits Steam like a trebuchet bullet.
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After many years of waiting and uncertainty, Manor Lords is now available in Early Access. And it immediately becomes clear on the opening weekend: This building game may not be finished yet, but it is already a tremendous success.
Let's take a closer look at the currently most important numbers and metrics for the medieval hopeful!
The sales figures
Manor Lords has already sold a million copies on Steam in just over 24 hours. The reports the manufacturer Hooded Horse via Reddit. For an indie title without a big publisher's wallet and with only minimal marketing measures, this value is absolutely exceptional.
For comparison: The massive blockbuster game Spider-Man 2 sold 2.5 million copies in the same period, setting a new record for Sony's PlayStation Studios in October 2023.
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The player numbers
At the same time, the number of players also took off Look at SteamDB reveals. This doesn't even include the stats from Game Pass, where Manor Lords is also available!
The peak was on April 27th 170,000 Steam users at the same time in Manor Lords online, which catapults the game to number 7 among the most played Steam games. The title even overtook long-running favorites such as Helldivers 2, GTA Online and Fallout 4, which was rekindled in the wake of the Amazon series.
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According to Hooded Horse, this is a record and “the highest value for a city building simulation” of all time. Even genre greats like Civilization and Cities Skylines have never been able to achieve such player numbers on Steam.
The Steam reviews
Manor Lords is pretty, atmospheric, fascinating and yet still very unfinished in every corner – that was our very hopeful conclusion in the extensive early access test
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Manor Lords is a medieval dream that isn't over yet – with stone walls
The fact that there is still a lack of strategic depth, the tech tree is unfinished and the late game leaves a lot to be desired does not dampen the enthusiasm of the players in any way: Manor Lords is on the opening weekend with an extremely comfortable 89 percent positive votes.
Here are a few examples from the community area:
It's crazy what the game offers everything a developer can achieve. Companies with more than 100 developers among them don't have nearly as much to offer as this game. 30€ is almost too little for a revolutionary real-time strategy game.
Steam user Lord Skeggson IV
We have arrived in the year of “small indie developer makes masterpiece that beats big triple-A productions”.
Steam user Charlie le Dickens
If this game gets a real enemy AI (is in development), which can build villages or even multiplayer should come – this will really be the perfect medieval strategy building game!
Steam user Mars
Despite the many construction sites, the tenor is very positive and many players praise the performance of such a small team, which for long stretches of development consisted of just one person: the Polish developer Grzegorz “Greg” Styczen.
Despite all this success, he now has a lot of work ahead of him, because a lot still has to happen for Manor Lords to reach its full medieval potential. The feedback from the players is crucial, says Styczen: “My principle for the future is: listen, check, implement.”