Lord of the Manor

Lord of the Manor is a retro city building game that builds on some of the classics from the 90s to provide a fun Medieval simulation experience.

You have been granted a lordship by the Crown, and a piece of land on which to found a Manor. Harvest resources, grow food and produce goods to transform a humble farmstead into a flourishing city!

Play for free at http://www.lordofthemanor.io/

Lord of the Manor is no longer coming to Steam (for the time being at least), however a new related project is in the works and more about this will be announced when appropriate.

From farmstead to major city

Cut down trees, plant crops, breed animals, dig out clay and quarry stone to obtain the building blocks for a great city. You'll then need to process many of those raw resources into goods that can be consumed by your citizens, or processed into other goods. Build mills and bakeries to transform grain into tasty bread, construct kilns to fire clay into tiles. If you want your people to be fulfilled, they will also need access to religion. As your inhabitants' status evolves, so do their demands: alcohol, better quality of food, education and luxury goods are some of the needs you'll have to cover if you want to grow your settlement.

Build it and they will come

Unlike other games in the genre, you don't have much control over immigration. If your city is doing well and has jobs to offer, more people will show up, and inversely if it's doing badly, they will seek better fortune elsewhere. You can become a victim of your own success by suddenly finding yourself with too many mouths to feed.
If you provide the right conditions your citizens will rise through the social ranks giving your city access to more advanced industries, but they will also become more demanding.

Classic gameplay, modern controls

While the gameplay and graphical style are reminiscent of many classic games from the 90s, which some might say was the golden age of simulation games, many of these games were quite unintuitive and had clunky controls. Lord of the Manor aims to address this through a simple but detailed interface and smooth controls. It's easy to pick up, but you can drill down into the details if you want to optimise your city.