Even if it was highly anticipated Manor Lords At first glance, it may look similar to some existing games that are similar, but according to its developer, it should not be compared to them as a competitor.
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For this reason, the creator behind the medieval city building now explains in detail, what we shouldn't imagine his game to be. A title with which Manor Lords seems to have been compared time and again in the past is particularly explicitly mentioned.
Manor Lords is not intended to be a Total War competitor
In one statement on Steam Manor Lords developer piped up Greg recently spoken out. Here we find a list of points with which the game stands out from the ranks Slavic Magic don't want to identify. The first bullet point makes it clear once and for all: Manor Lords is not Total War-Competitor.
Rather, it should be one “City Builder with Battles” act as it goes on. “Yes, there are battles, but they are not as big or as frequent as some of you might expect” – instead, the majority of the gameplay is said to focus “on building and managing cities.” It is also said to be Manor Lords neither It is not a “big strategy game in the style of Empire Management”, nor is it a role-playing game a la Mount and Blade or a more “competitive, fast-paced RTS like Age of Empires or Starcraft“.
Especially with regard to the last-mentioned argument, the developer explains that for a ““more relaxed experience” for players Manor Lords should be taken care of, while the “high-intensity moments” of the game only have one Portion of action should garnish. Slavic Magic also announced that no roadmap for Manor Lords: “I've made the mistake once or twice of promising a feature and working on it, only to find out that it isn't Testers weren't that interested in it“like me and that they actually want something different,” read on on Steam.
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“So even if I have a plan, I want it philosophy Apply 'listen, check, implement'. That way, I expect the first month of patches to be just bug fixes and polish. During this time, we will work with Hooded Horse to collect your feedback and then based on what we hear, Priorities for work,” Greg explains again quite specifically. Everything we know about Manor Lords, the building strategy game from a solo developerwe will tell you again in detail elsewhere.