Lords and Villeins
Honestly Games · 2022 · Colony Sim, Strategy, City Builder, Pixel Graphics, Management
PC
Mostly Positive75% · 732
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About Lords and Villeins
Experience a highly complex simulation of markets within a sophisticated feudal city-builder. The royals entrusted you to settle and govern a new land, and it is your duty to exploit its riches for the benefit of the realm, your own wealth, and if you feel generous, the villagers alike! In order to do this, you will zone out plots, build houses, determine taxation policies, set priorities, and grow the supply chain alongside your population.
Families are the centrepiece of Lords and Villeins. Their profession dictates their occupation in the economy and the kind of businesses they can run. Once you assign them a plot of land and build their house, they will do so almost completely autonomously, all the while managing their stock, setting aside produce to pay taxes, and trading with other families and caravans for supplies and to maximise their profit.
Your role is to direct and regulate the economy. Balance the supply and demand, secure critical resources, and maintain stable growth. Lords and Villeins offers you a sandbox with an in-depth simulation and a great variety of strategies to manage it! Ranging from a fully communist economy where all produce is taxed and redistributed from your warehouse to a free marketplace with little to no intervention.
Logistics will challenge your management skills. As your settlement grows, you need to keep in mind the travelling distances, storage placements, private markets, and housing while reflecting on the terrain and its natural resources in order to fully optimise the productivity of each villager.
Highly customizable gameplay lets you craft the exact kind of game that fits your taste! Between a great variety of game modules and difficulty sliders, you can tweak the experience and focus on the elements of the game that you enjoy the most. While Lords and Villeins is primarily an economically driven game and military conflict plays only a small role, there are tons of options to explore and play with!
- Unique family-management mechanic where you assign plots of land to autonomous families and manage taxation policies, production priorities and logistics
- In-depth simulation of personal ownership and a market economy. Villagers manage storefronts to sell surplus goods and purchase food and material from others in a cooperative production chain. Prices of goods fluctuate based on supply and demand, and trading caravans facilitate import and export.
- Fully simulated procedurally generated environment with a complex AI that can develop relationships, satisfy their needs, daily routines and personal ambitions.
- Highly customizable difficulty settings, it is completely up to you how complex or laid-back your playthrough will be!
- Campaign mode with 15 distinct levels that introduce game mechanics and teach players about the game.
- Noble houses that visit your settlement, request resources and send gifts as you engage in diplomatic relations.
- Ability to build a sprawling monastery with monks, churches and chapels that host the Sunday Mass, produce unique resources and treat villagers in an outburst of a sickness.
- Villagers can be recruited as your personal servants or guards that protect villagers from crime.
- Character designer lets you fully customise and name everyone in your ruling family.
- 160+ objects at your disposal to build, decorate and improve your settlement.
- 53 different zones and 40 professions that can be performed by the villagers.
- 130+ resources to be used in a fully functional production chain.
- A number of domesticated animals and pets and thriving nature with wildlife.
- Visually distinct seasons with a soundtrack of seasonal themes.
- Fully simulated and dynamic world with changing temperature and weather effects.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
There is an issue with this game that causes it to only use 2 of the CPU cores. In my case, I'll have 2 cores maxed and 6 idle by midgame. At midgame the game lags so hard the framerate drops to 10fps. looking at the forums, it seems the game is abandoned. I really like this game and its a shame, the Dev's have a great concept and did a good job executing. At this point in time I can't recommend this game. FYI I have over 650 hours of game play.2 found this helpful
I paid 80 cents for this slop, and I'd rather have my 80 cents back. I cannot believe some people have hundreds of hours in this slop game. What the hell is wrong with people? It looks like trash, plays about as interesting as me working on a spreadsheet at work, and runs about as good as a web based game. I couldn't even get past the first scenario. The whole time I was thinking - this is garbage, the onboarding is garbage, the graphics are garbage, the premise of the game is garbage. I was bored in 15 minutes. Every single colony sim I have ever played is better than this slop.2 found this helpful
I really love what this game does. Having a little economy where every family has to stay afloat and interact with the others makes for a very nice village simultion. There are not that many games in that genre that attempt to simulate markets and small economies (Ratopia is another but very different one) It has it's issues, apparently the game grinds to a halt after a specific pop size and performance is never impressive compared to similar games like Songs of Syx. My main problem that made me bounce of multiple times at the start is the endless and boring list of tutorials at the beginning. It takes a while until you reach a point where it starts clicking together. Some UI aspects could have been less convoluted and it might have required less tutorialization. But despite that, I enjoy it.1 found this helpful
Good concept, buggy as crap. Once you get to about half the map the game lags out to the point it's unplayable. What I've noticed: 1. Soldiers don't train 2. Economy seems slightly broken due to price of wood (i.e. unless you are familiar with how economics work, and you are prepared to tweak it, this game is going to be impossible for most players) 3. Random crashes due to the Unity engine (this isn't the devs fault, this is modern game engines being trash) 4. AI on pathing jams up and citizens/animals will starve themselves to death 5. Game freezes on decent population 6. Last update was 2024 and with the number of bugs/issues it is abandonware 7. The devs have the audacity to call the latest patch 1.6 and with the number of bugs it should still be 0.x (fix bugs in your game, steam really needs to hammer studios that let this slide)1 found this helpful
Unfortunately its as many people have reviewed, the game is a buggy mess and the dev has abandoned the game. I like the early game, but the bugs with middle to late game make it unplayable.
There's a really interesting mechanic here which evolves in the Rimworld-Kinda formula of the game: families earn money which they then spend on buying production resources and resources for the buildings assigned to their zone. Your own Royal Family counts as their own family and relies on income. However, beyond that there's nothing really amazing here beyond the "huh, that's cool" factor. As well as this, game has been abandoned for two years now after a cash-grab DLC. Not worth the time, I recommend pirating it if you're curious.
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