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Manor Lords early access review - beautiful foundations but missing important pieces
There's a confidence to Manor Lords that belies its one-person development, and what's there can be spellbinding, but i…
I did manage to have a tense battle with some bandits who rushed my settlement, and we ended up facing off outside my church, fittingly, and there were archers firing arrows and spear users protecting their frontlines - and there are glimpses of formations and unit orders and such - but there's no real appreciable sophistication there yet. There's a map screen where you survey the nearby land, for example, and engage in relations with other rulers, and it has an imaginative letter-writing feature whereby you can pull pre-written paragraphs onto a piece of parchment to represent your whims. Image credit: Eurogamer / Slavic Magic The more I play Manor Lords, the more I see its current limitations: the locked parts of menus and the lack of a sense of purpose past a certain point.
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