Manor Lords
Skip · Strategy · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$39.99Skip
On its price record
$26.49Fair
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.74/hr
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 93,327
- Genre rank
- Top 23% Strategy
Holding it back: Early access, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $26.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.7h
- To 100%
- 30.5h 2.9x the story
- Achievements
- 11
Price and sales
- Sales
- 27 on record
- Typical cut
- 35% off
- Steam low
- $25.99 June 2025
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4,291 now
- Recent reviews
- 81% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 87% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
99% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
27 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ostriv ($24.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Patron ($19.99, scores 29).
More about Manor Lords
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 4,536 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, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 14 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Unfortunately this game that seems really good on the outside is in some sort of development hell. Pros: - incredible village building, really one of most authentic looking medieval village builders you can find. - Graphics are great - UI has a cool medieval style - Perk tree for region upgrades.... but mostly still outside of development scope and that's where it ends Cons: - Unbalanced, lacking economy and...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Got the game at release and tried it out for a bit and concluded that it needed more time in the oven. Revisiting the game two and a half years later and it is still barebones. It is like nothing has changed at all, and if anything has changed I cannot seem to find it. I cannot recommend the game. Asking 40 Euros for something that is barely more than a tech demo is unheard of.
Recommended Manor Lords makes you a medieval mayor, and it's surprisingly good at it. The early game is the highlight. You start with a handful of families and a few ox carts, and before long you're watching a muddy hamlet grow into a proper farming town. There's no rigid grid, so you lay out roads and plots wherever you want, and the village ends up looking like it grew there naturally. It's easy to pick up, even...
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Manor Lords scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1363080/manor-lordsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.