Is the Consensus That This Game Is the Best Builder-Style Game Ever?

[((Satan Chosen))=((Endless War))]

From what I have read and seen, it appears that this is the case, but I do want to know what YOU people feel, as you are actively-playing the game right-now, and many-of-you for a long time.

Thank you, in-advance, for your responses!

[Clovis Sangrail]

It's pretty good, but it's Early Access, so if you are not good with all EA entails, you should wait.

[Twelvefield]

As EA games go, Manor Lords is playable and fun, but it's also a bit buggy and definitely lacking in features.

[Anthracite]

I don't think Ostriv can be beat tbh, though ML is already a nice builder in itself (though nowhere near as in depth as Ostriv and many others atm).

[Ne0nZ3bra]

oooh, Ostriv, i wish the ML dev and Ostrivs dev would have a game love child, cause if they did it would be such a good game

[CircuitOverlord]

No it's not the best, it's the best for SOME people.

Those like me that like relatively deep combat, and some unique building features.

Farthest Frontier is a better medieval city builder, but it's combat is sorely lacking, and it also has years of dev time under its belt. Manor Lords could catch up on the purely city building aspect, but we don't know for sure yet.

[Twelvefield]

Why am I not playing Ostriv? It's been on my wishlist for a while. I was even thinking how much better Manor Lords would be if it was relocated to Ukraine. I do like the Manor Lords soundtrack, but I'd probably like Ostriv's even more.

Good thing it's not a contest. I'll finish my Manor Lords run and get Ostriv.

[CyberDildonics]

Ostriv, Farthest Frontier, Settlement Survival, and Manor Lords (so far) all ended up feeling like paler imitations of Banished to me (specifically, Banished: Colonial Charter). I'm definitely not saying those other games are bad, I just haven't found a medieval city-builder with Banished: CC's full challenge and depth yet.

I do think there's a lot of potential in Manor Lords' regional aspect, but it's hard to know how it'll actually compare at this point!

[Pico 22]

As for historical ones, Ostriv (EA) is much better and Foundation (also EA) is better. Overall, C:S is better and Soviet Republic (that just came out of EA and could also be considered sort of historical) is the best of them all. Banished is a classic by now and certainly better, but its age is beginning to show.

[GordonDry]

Even Banished: Colonial Charter made me stop playing it because it always got the same endgame.
Everything done, everything built, tons of resources, no challenge anymore besides the occasional tornado which was fixed quickly because tons of resources.
And making the whole map to a walled fortress and fight any attempt of being attacked gets boring as well. Besides, why so many people are focussed on warfare? They want town walls, but no butchers and make funny memes about it? Pfft. Pappnasen as we Germans say. Not enough war in real life?

[CyberDildonics]

Originally posted by GordonDry:

Even Banished: Colonial Charter made me stop playing it because it always got the same endgame.

Yeah, in my experience, that's true of every game that doesn't have a win condition. Gotta set your own goals!

[loerelau]

Nah, not yet, but the potential is there. I think:

1) Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
2) Simcity 4
3) Pharaoh
4) Manor Lords

[Dazzy_D]

It is the greatest city building game called Manor Lords that has ever been released in the history of gaming.

If you're looking for a city building game called Manor Lords, you'll be an idiot not to buy this.

[George Costanza]

it's pretty meh at the moment

[((Satan Chosen))=((Endless War))]

Thank you, All, for your honest views, and I do look-forward to reading more and more!

There is, already, much-to-ponder from what you have written about other games, and it is important to me that this game has just-released.

[Twelvefield]

Originally posted by Pico 22:

Banished is a classic by now and certainly better, but its age is beginning to show.

Banished is a terrific game. It's always been slightly clunky, in my view. Also, I admit for me personally, I get paralyzed trying to decide if the game takes place in a fictionalized, romanticized anonymous medieval past, or if it takes place in a realistic far-off post apocalyptic future.

One thing about games like Soviet Republic and Ostriv is that they are grounded in a specific time and place. Manor Lords... kind of... but it's weird that the medieval Franconian/German people all sound like players from My Fair Lady.