Manor Lords

Item: Manor Lords
Rating: 77
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-04-16

Summary

Flexible city-building system allows organic growth.
Visually stunning, authentic medieval world.
Fun and engaging gameplay with high replayability.
Game feels incomplete and lacks content.
Buggy, unpolished, and unstable experience.
Inadequate tutorials and unclear explanations.

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 89%
Unhelpful reviews: 10%
Protest reviews: 1%

77%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
23%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 3471
Negative points: 3404
Gameplay points: 826
Perf. points: 179
Rec. points: 1424
Misc points: 325

Point	Description	Importance
Flexible, organic city-building system Description The game offers a flexible and organic city-building system, allowing for unique and realistic settlement layouts. Players can freely design roads and buildings, unconstrained by rigid grids, leading to diverse and personalized towns. This freedom extends to building upgrades and customization options, enhancing the sense of ownership and creativity. Importance 96%	The game offers a flexible and organic city-building system, allowing for unique and realistic settlement layouts. Players can freely design roads and buildings, unconstrained by rigid grids, leading to diverse and personalized towns. This freedom extends to building upgrades and customization options, enhancing the sense of ownership and creativity.	96%
Stunning visuals, authentic medieval setting Description The game features stunning, detailed graphics and a historically accurate medieval setting. Players are immersed in a living, breathing world with realistic environments, architecture, and character animations. The visuals avoid the typical drabness of medieval depictions, offering a refreshing and beautiful aesthetic. Importance 89%	The game features stunning, detailed graphics and a historically accurate medieval setting. Players are immersed in a living, breathing world with realistic environments, architecture, and character animations. The visuals avoid the typical drabness of medieval depictions, offering a refreshing and beautiful aesthetic.	89%
Fun, engaging, high replay value Description The game is fun, engaging, and has high replay value. The game offers a unique blend of mechanics that no other game has done so far. The game is also challenging in all the right ways for the most part. Importance 62%	The game is fun, engaging, and has high replay value. The game offers a unique blend of mechanics that no other game has done so far. The game is also challenging in all the right ways for the most part.	62%
Realistic, strategic resource management Description The game emphasizes realism in its mechanics, requiring strategic resource management, economic planning, and attention to seasonal changes. Players must balance the needs of their population with the available resources, creating a challenging and rewarding experience. This focus on realism extends to the game's economic systems and population behavior. Importance 23%	The game emphasizes realism in its mechanics, requiring strategic resource management, economic planning, and attention to seasonal changes. Players must balance the needs of their population with the available resources, creating a challenging and rewarding experience. This focus on realism extends to the game's economic systems and population behavior.	23%
Active developer, community-focused updates Description The developer is passionate, communicative, and actively incorporates community feedback into the game's development. Regular updates, bug fixes, and new features demonstrate a commitment to improving the player experience. This responsiveness fosters a strong sense of community and ensures the game continues to evolve in a positive direction. Importance 16%	The developer is passionate, communicative, and actively incorporates community feedback into the game's development. Regular updates, bug fixes, and new features demonstrate a commitment to improving the player experience. This responsiveness fosters a strong sense of community and ensures the game continues to evolve in a positive direction.	16%
Engaging, strategic combat system Description The game features engaging and strategic combat, drawing inspiration from titles like Total War and Mount & Blade. Players can command troops in real-time battles, utilizing tactics such as flanking and considering factors like terrain and morale. The battles are visually impressive and add a layer of depth beyond city-building. Importance 10%	The game features engaging and strategic combat, drawing inspiration from titles like Total War and Mount & Blade. Players can command troops in real-time battles, utilizing tactics such as flanking and considering factors like terrain and morale. The battles are visually impressive and add a layer of depth beyond city-building.	10%
Immersive and fitting soundtrack Description The game features a lovely and immersive soundtrack that enhances the medieval atmosphere. The music is well-fitting, unobtrusive, and contributes to a relaxing and enjoyable experience. While more variety would be welcome, the existing music is of high quality and complements the game's visuals and gameplay. Importance 7%	The game features a lovely and immersive soundtrack that enhances the medieval atmosphere. The music is well-fitting, unobtrusive, and contributes to a relaxing and enjoyable experience. While more variety would be welcome, the existing music is of high quality and complements the game's visuals and gameplay.	7%
Customizable difficulty, varied scenarios Description The game offers adjustable difficulty levels and scenarios, catering to both casual and hardcore players. Players can choose to focus on peaceful city-building or engage in challenging combat scenarios with bandits and aggressive enemies. This modularity allows for a customized experience that suits individual playstyles and preferences. Importance 5%	The game offers adjustable difficulty levels and scenarios, catering to both casual and hardcore players. Players can choose to focus on peaceful city-building or engage in challenging combat scenarios with bandits and aggressive enemies. This modularity allows for a customized experience that suits individual playstyles and preferences.	5%
Great potential and good concept Description The game has great potential and a good concept. The reviewer is also willing to wait 5-10 more years for the game to be finished rather than have a rushed or forced release. The reviewer is also the target audience for the game. Importance 4%	The game has great potential and a good concept. The reviewer is also willing to wait 5-10 more years for the game to be finished rather than have a rushed or forced release. The reviewer is also the target audience for the game.	4%
Familiar to fans of Stronghold Description The game feels familiar to fans of the old Stronghold games. The game's economy is like Stronghold on steroids, allowing for manual customization of a growing economic machine. The game is a mix of Stronghold, Total War, and Tropico. Importance 3%	The game feels familiar to fans of the old Stronghold games. The game's economy is like Stronghold on steroids, allowing for manual customization of a growing economic machine. The game is a mix of Stronghold, Total War, and Tropico.	3%