Manor Lords

发售2年内容几乎无更新，这种赛博诈骗一定要制裁

This game is charming, addictive, and looks amazing. I have played through various updates and I believe the game is moving just as advertised. It was said from the beginning that this is a passion project. I read complaints about the RNG resources, dead end features, and features not available yet. I don't agree with these complains. The RNG resources allows each game I play to feel unique as if I were settling the unknown. It is okay for one playthrough to have an easier time than another. The dead end features are a thing, but the game is early access and there is more than enough content now to be worth the $40 tag. To summarize, you have to understand this game is early access and is constantly changing. The features that are present are worth the price tag. I have had no issues with currently available gameplay elements like battles, farming, building, or anything. I think once you get the learning curve, it is an enjoyable experience that rewards you for coming back and trying a new playthrough. I look forward to see what Manor Lords becomes as time goes on

It's been around a year now with no real meaningful content being added. Instead, we've had minor balancing patches spread apart in 4 updates every 3 months that go "X building now consumes Y amount of resources" or "Citizens no longer consume Y amount of resources". Game is deservedly getting grilled for being stuck in this state despite the massive financial influx ever since it released in early access. Odds are, the developer is going to do one more balancing patch for 0.9 and an unceremonious 1.0 launch that won't look very different from what's in the game now.

更新的太慢了，画的饼挺大但是实现不了有社么有?

Man, i tried. Game is just too raw and underdeveloped. I mean it feels awesome, but overall disbalance, dead trade, lack of depth just ruins the mood. I work 12 hour shifts, and have some rest on spare days, that i can somewhat invest in some positive gaming experience. And i've spent all my free time i had on me in last two weeks trying this game, while also learning mechanics from the youtube tutorials. Random generation of fertility, random generation of resources kinda make sence, yes. But when you spawn having- dead land without fish, and remote berry bush with 50 berries... Bro. How am i supposed to prepare enough standing army to counter baron, when 20% tax grants you 6 coin a month?... While you also need 250 effing money to settle claimed land. I want to establish a tavern and do things, but why in the world i need to sell 5 tiles/tools to buy a single sack of barley?... Why does the surplus never change? I guess that i at least should say thanks that base coast of things never drops. I've spent roughly 5 000 hours playing paradox games, i can easily learn complex games with massive mechanics, but not this one. I dunno, game just simply doesn't work. And if you're playing on a building mode w/o the enemies, it's just not really much to do after securing a safe working town. It's been s e v e n y e a r s and game still doesn't work. I'm not sure if it will work any day soon. I was hoping the game could be a singleplayer Lands of Lords replacement for me, but boy oh boy, i was wrong. Game is definitely dead. NPCs lively, pop system is great, building system - chef's kiss. Graphic - muah, awesome. But economy is dead, politics dead, most of mechanics are still in "coming soon" stage. Like the leveling tree is literally blocked to be announced L M A O. I will come back in 3-4 years and try again, thanks. But you guys can notify me if some big-ahh update come and change everything drastically, it will be of much help. oh, and why did polish devs made game centered around germanic aesthetics? there's already enough of german-themed games and other products of mass-culture. i would love to play game about medieval poland or other/general slavic society.

Let's not waste time, the first town you build looks great. Yes, the art is nice. I'm not spending eight paragraphs on that because at this point it's basically the only thing anyone ever says about this game and it's papering over just how little else actually works. Here's the thing that gets me. This isn't some two person passion project running on fumes. This made real money, won real awards, got real hype. And years into early access, it somehow manages to feel less finished than it did before. Not because nothing's been added, stuff gets added but because entire systems get ripped out for a "rework" and then just never come back. You'll open the development menu and see a slot sitting there labeled coming soon and it'll still say that a year later. The old policy system, the old specialisation tree, gone, replaced with basically nothing. That's not early access growing pains, that's a team that either doesn't know what it's building or isn't telling anyone. The actual simulation is worse than people give it credit for. It wants to be this deep, fussy medieval logistics game reserves, surplus sliders, family labor, granary filters, fine sure. Except none of it is robust, it's just frail. One ox has a bad day and stands in a field forever, one production chain quietly stalls with zero indication anything's wrong and suddenly your winter is ruined and you spend an hour digging through menus trying to find which link in the chain broke. You're not playing lord of anything. You're doing IT support for a village that keeps unplugging itself. And don't get me started on multiple regions, because this is where the whole "Manor Lords" title starts to feel like a joke. You'd think expanding your territory would feel like, you know, expanding. Instead every new region is its own isolated bubble that shares nothing with your main town. Got a warehouse overflowing with grain? Doesn't matter, your new settlement twenty minutes away is starving and you can't just send it food. You have to build pack stations and trading posts and barter goods back and forth like the two towns are hostile foreign powers instead of both belonging to you. Prop up the new place and you gut your own tax income. Ignore it and it collapses. There's no in between, there's just two annoying part time jobs instead of one kingdom. The economy underneath all of it barely holds together too. Prices don't move, trade routes dry up for no clear reason and you can end up spawned next to useless land with no fish and one sad little berry bush, no way to recover from that beyond restarting. For a game this focused on economic simulation, the economy is the part that feels the least alive. Combine all that with a development pace that's been glacial for years now and you get a game that's genuinely uncomfortable to recommend at full price. People keep leaving thumbs up reviews that read like complaint lists, presumably because they feel bad kicking a small dev while they're down. Except this isn't a small dev anymore, and goodwill isn't a permanent substitute for actually finishing systems you already showed people in trailers. The vision is good. I'm not denying that. But vision doesn't ship a product and right now this is a gorgeous, half wired house that's been "almost done" for years. 2/10. Don't buy this expecting a finished city builder. Buy it, if you buy it at all, expecting a tech demo with a very good art team and a very slow production line behind it.

Depsite being visually beautiful the games mechanics are mired by vagueness, bugs and confusion. Nothing is quite clear and you try to guide your people to build a nice medieval village. Crops get replanted during fall, even with crop recycling, sheep take years to gather a few pieces of wool, icons and warnings pop up saying you don't have enough of this even though you have it. You're trying to fix countless issues simply because you may not have assigned enought people or not at the right time. It's a mess. You have no idea what's really happening under the hood and it seems the game falls apart frequently under it's own complicated simulation that doesnt' handle basic commen sense taks properly and leaves you frustrated time and time again. I don't know if the dev will ever fix the game so it actaully starts to play like it makes sense but for now it's just not worth playing.

In its current state, I can't really recommend it. It needs a lot of balancing to make the game work right. I play a lot of these types of games, but this one is very unforgiving even on low difficulties. There are too many things that can go wrong and it takes too long to correct your mistakes. Ultimately, leading to failed games that can't be corrected. I tried to "get gud" but, yeah... My first save (a long time ago), I upgraded my buildings too quickly, didn't really understand how house plot sizes worked and ultimately starved to death. My second save, I went into farming too early and devoted all my resources towards that because of how involved it is; ran out of tools and firewood. My third save, the start was perfect, everything went really well until I was ready to branch out and start a new settlement. I was going to diversify my towns thinking that's the way to go and that I could comfortably trade between my settlements for the things that each town was lacking. Well, the bartering system is very lacking, to the point where one town will get a massive surplus of items and the other town will get 0. You can try to use the trading post to trade between your towns, but that costs regional money. Trading posts have their own issues, which is that they are very stingy (if you need to buy from outside merchants, the cost difference between buying and selling is 5-10 times as much to buy sometimes) and the prices are extremely in-balanced (you can sell a sword for 6 silver, but buying a sack of flour is 11). Needless to say, I ran out of everything and there was no real way to correct it. My fourth save and this is where I ended up quitting, was a save that was pretty far along, I had gotten 3 different regions going (rich iron, rich salt, rich stone), and was just about to start doing some farming in a fourth region. Well, the update now requires animals to eat food during winter and pasture sizes were reduce a lot. I didn't have animal feed nor space for all the animals (I had to quickly build another pasture, but that takes time to build... I save scummed a couple times to come up with a plan/space that worked to save them from running away). I then tried to quickly buy some animal feed, but it costs an arm and a leg to buy them from the trader (and the trader is way too slow anyway). And just like that, all my sheep died in ~one month. This one, I kind of understand, it was a good update and I was actually looking forward to this as it adds new items to game for more flexibility (cows instead of goats for milk, mead and cider instead of only ale, etc.) and it's still in EA. But, because of all the other things put together and how quickly things can go wrong without any realistic way to turn things around, made the update unfun to play for me. I'll hold off for the 1.0 release, where hopefully these balancing issues are addressed. Although, I kind of don't think they will (some of these seem to be deliberate choices by the devs).