What is Manor Lords? The medieval city-building game that sold a million copies in a single day
by The Guardian
The Guardian— Developer Slavic Magic’s feudal simulator is Steam’s latest early access sensation, but there’s a seven-year story behind its overnight successLaunched as if from a trebuchet at the end of April, Manor Lords is the latest in a string of explosively successful video games that have been released this year. Indeed, the rise of this unassuming-looking city-builder is arguably more impressive than the enormous launch of Helldivers 2, or the breakout Poker phenomenon Balatro. Developed largely by one...
VG247—Manor Lords has over 2 million people playing the historical city-builder less than three weeks after launching into Early Access. Publisher Hooded Horse has announced that , Slavic Magic’s critically acclaimed debut, has sold over two million copies across all stores.Released on April 26, on its opening weekend, the concurrent player count peaked at 173,178 on Steam alone, and the first one million sales were made by the next day.Since then, the solo developer has been hard at work processing feedback from the player base, and the first patch recently went into open testing.
VG247—Watch out Manor Lords, Medieval rebellion game Bellwright shoots past 200,000 Steam Early Access sales. It looks as thought there's a real desire for some good ol' fashioned medieval gaming. While Manor Lords took the internet by storm only a month ago, it looks like another sleeper hit is bubbling away in Steam Early Access. Bellwright managed to blow past the 200,000 sale milestone not only a month since its release on the platform. The game, which spent a number of months in closed testing prior to its release, giving eager fans only developer updates to calm their hunger. The game has also...
VG247—Helldivers 2 sold 12 million copies in 12 weeks, its players have casually killed about 100 times as many bots as that in the past few days. People like big numbers, so here are a bunch of big numbers.