Manor Lords Early Access Review - This will be amazing when finished.

This game is so good at what it does I literally think it would be near impossible to screw it up between early access and full release.
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[WorthABuyreviews]

Something I never touched on in the review, mainly because I did cover it in my last Manor lords video is the sheer immersion that you get from play the game. Things like raising an army of farmers, bakers, blacksmiths, berry pickers etc and marching in formation with them for miles to a battle. After the battle with bodies everywhere your men walk home and as they enter their province they disband and all walk back to their jobs in dribs and drabs, it looks awesome.
Then you plant a tiny settlement, a tent and some basic rations and start a brand new colony, you defend it with your main army which could be miles away from the inevitable bandit attacks. It all comes together in such a cool way it’s impossible not to be impressed, I can’t wait for the full release, if the dev reads this please take your time :)

[danj]

1 guy making a game that has more interest than a lot of Triple A games says it all. Leave it to the Indie/Double A devs to carry the industry.

[tradesbyrob]

You can really tell that this one guy had a sole idea, and he did not want anybody to ruin it. And I think it came out perfect! Pretty much what all us old RTS players wanted, yet never got, because there were too many chefs in the kitchen.

[Phaevryn]

This feels old school in scope, lack of "streamlining" and how it just takes its time. Love it.

[PrimedSnake]

This and kingdom come deliverance 2 this year we are eating good for medieval games!

[robo]

Mac, thanks for highlighting this game years ago as a demo you played. I wishlisted it ever since and now looking forward to Fridays early release.
Much love.

[hollow]

One Man…7 Years… I’m still trying to wrap my head around that.

[darken]

The city inventory goods aspect could be fixed by having your lord have his own inventory.
Like you needing to compensate the merchants for their stock of weapons before having the weapons sent out to the other town.

[MrMoogle]

I don't usually jump into early access stuff, but every single video I've watched of someone playing this makes me want it even more. From what I've seen of let's play videos, this game is more polished than a lot of official big budget releases these days. I will definitely be picking this up to show my support for what they have accomplished so far. The game just looks gorgeous!

[Kleptari]

We need to make this dev a millionaire

[cgollimusic]

8:20 I disagree, I'm very excited how the game handles the trading between settlements.

They tried to go for authenticity in how medieval settlements would function, so while gifting could be done and maybe they'll find a way to implement it later, I love the idea that by default the villages have to actually trade between eachother on what they need, even if you're their Lord. Because it doesn't put you into an almighty God of the lands and puts you into more of a managing, ruling entity instead.

[LordCalidor]

I used to be a city-builder like you, but then I took a Cities Skylines II to my SSDee.

[RandomNorwegianGuy.]

One Man…7 Years. Can anyone remind me how many people and how much time it took for Ubisoft's Skull and Bones, and Activisions MW2, both of which felt like early access games when they released as full games?

[byrdfeathers]

Only reviewer I genuinely trust. Glad he was able to play this early

[VyktorAbyss]

I feel you're a bit premature blowing your load saying this is one of the greatest games ever made.... (10:55 ish)

Sure its good, but there's CURRENTLY 1 map, tonnes of missing features that will take ages to fix/implement (like where is the AI?), stuff greyed out which as you say we don't know how it'll be implemented yet and some issues with existing features.

My hope is ii all gets resolved, fixed and completed to the same standard which may then be the best of the genre ever but to blow your wad this early on it Mac... it's like you've not had good one in a while and are overcompensating hehe

[snakeboy]

It’s more still a demo mate, will take years before its even close to 1.0

[gridleaf]

I see some ghosting behind things as they move. Is that the game, or is that from DLSS/FSR? It's particularly noticeable at 8:47 if you watch the NPC in grey closest to the player character.

[oli]

Hopefully he will hire some full time developers to work with him. 8 people could see a amazing game in 1 year. Being the most wish Listed game on steam and getting an Xbox game pass deal. This could be a incredible franchise. Something between total war, age of empires and bannerlord. Keep it small scale for now then the second one really expand on the idea

[bursztynowa]

Game developers from Poland always give good quality

[yester]

Today I learned linen is from a thing called flax