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Recently, a new hit game appeared on the Steam store: Manor Lords.
Manor Lords is a strategy game set in the European Middle Ages, developed over a seven-year period by Polish indie developer Greg Styczeń, with an Early Access version released on April 26 on Steam, the Epic Games Store, GOG, and Game Pass. Combining urban construction, large-scale battles, and complex economic and social simulations, players can manage resources to develop settlements, keep residents happy and healthy, and raise armies to engage other cities and expand their territory.
On the Steam store, the total number of times that "Manor Lords" was put into the player's wishlist before the early access version was released reached 3.2 million, surpassing other upcoming games such as "Hades 2" and "Black Myth: Wukong", becoming the most anticipated new product by players. According to publisher Hooded Horse on social platforms, the EA version of "Lords of the Manor" has sold more than 1 million copies in just one day after it was released, and the peak number of simultaneous online players (CCU) on Steam alone exceeded 170,000, creating a new record for urban construction, grand strategy/4X/colonial simulation and other categories of games.
At present, "Manor Lords" has accumulated more than 17,000 player reviews on Steam, and the overall praise rate is as high as 89%.
If CCU is the yardstick, Manor Lords ranks first among all games released by Hooded Horse, far ahead of Storm City (12,800), Terra Invicta (9,800), Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic (4,000) and Old World (3,500).
Of all the new Steam games coming out in 2024, Lords of the Manor also ranks 6th in the CCU. The following is a list of the top 10 new Steam games with the peak number of concurrent online players on Steam since January this year.
"Phantom Beast Palu": 2.1 million
"Hell Diver 2": 458,700
"The Last Era": 264,700
"Dragon's Dogma 2": 228,500
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"Lord of the Manor": 170,000
"Fog Lock Kingdom": 160,400
Relink: 114,000
"Deep Rock Galaxy: Survivor": 56,900
"Supermarket Simulator": 51,300
It is worth mentioning that as the personal developer of Lords of the Manor, Styczeń has reminded players to lower their expectations for the game. According to him, Lords of the Manor will not compete with big strategy games like the Total War series, or fast-paced RTSs like Age of Empires, but will instead offer players a "high-intensity moment, but an overall more relaxing experience." Styczeń also admits that many elements of the game still have room for improvement.
During the Early Access phase of Manor Lords, Styczeń plans to gather player feedback and continue to refine and expand the game's content. "I think in the first month, the game's patches were only for the main purpose of fixing bugs and optimizations. "In the meantime, I'll be working with Hooded Horse to gather feedback from players and prioritize what to do next." ”