Manor Lords
Skip · Strategy · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 10.7h
- Value
- $3.74/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $25.99. That was June 2025. 25 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. On the same math Empires of the Undergrowth ($29.99, scores 76) and Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic ($39.99, scores 85) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 4,528 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
10.7 hours to finish it, 28 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
99% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1,977 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Yesterday I played first time in 2 years. I must say I am a little disappointed with how much game progressed since then.. Lots of QOL stuff that was discussed here back in the day is still not present, game feels off and bugs are still prevalent. I honestly can't remember what changed since then but I can't see much to be honest. Things are still not obvious (like farming), 'documentation' still misses things like...
The Sad but True Review For Manor Lords The first time I heard about Manor Lords, I was thrilled, A medevial city builder with total war style combat. So, I waited.... and waited some more for this game, over 3-5 years past and it finally released. It was rocky and glitchy at first, like sometimes you couldn't even finish the game due to game breaking bugs. But, I gave it time and waited patiently as updates were...
been playing this game for some years now, and it has been quite the jurney. It keeps getting better and better, the graphics are amazing, the desing, the combat system, the city manager and builder aspects are also beautiful! thank you for keep working on the game, many studios would´ve just launched and collected their money. Thank you for this game, I love it! I hope to se more of it!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Manor Lords scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1363080/manor-lordsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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