Is it really underdeveloped?

[MarkoMKD]

So i saw a several comments about the game being underdeveloped and missing a several stuff.
My question is, is that to the point where the game is stupidly unplayable or just normal early access version of a game?
Cos i dont wanna throw a money on something that i won't be able to play till official release.

PS I know how games look in early access, but what i've read is some serious accusations about essential items/features missing here

[morph113]

In my opinion, it's one of the better early access games. It's far from unplayable or else the game wouldn't have that many players and almost 90% score. There are a few balancing issues (e.g. archers being completely useless) and a few bugs and missing features, but that's completely normal for an early access game and the game is perfectly playable in it's current state in my opinion.

[The Manager]

its playable and i would say 'complete'. most of the un complete stuf is actually pretty advance fir begginner, so you still could play for countless hours and go to wars with no problem. the game is complete and playabl if you ask me

[DC]

i have many EA, Manor Lords is among the better ones. but it also depends how quickly he will progress now.

[Percy Jackson]

Originally posted by MarkoMKD:

So i saw a several comments about the game being underdeveloped and missing a several stuff.
My question is, is that to the point where the game is stupidly unplayable or just normal early access version of a game?
Cos i dont wanna throw a money on something that i won't be able to play till official release.

PS I know how games look in early access, but what i've read is some serious accusations about essential items/features missing here

Watch some youtube videoes and decide for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZiFcVTXSNo

[Magnus Aurelius, Bright Lord]

No. Of course it depends what you want from a city builder. If you want to just build a city in peace, then youv got all you need.

[Nats]

There is a load of stuff missing and many things don't work properly. I would say there is maybe 30-40hrs of decent fun gameplay here before you get fed up. Watch some videos.

[Ravon[17]]

Definitely needs some more UI improvements, and some better features. However, it has a solid game play loop already. I'd like to think of it as, the house is there it just needs furnishings.

[Dietre]

The game is a half mess,Yes its playable but its bare bones and a bunch of stuff is broken, but that is why its EA and once some of the issues get worked on , which i am sure it will be, it will only get better. Dont waste your money if you cant afford $30 on a game that is semi playable but will be great as its developed.

I am NOT bashing the game, I really like the concept and cant wait for more updates to iron out some of the minor issues and then add new features. I am happy to have bought the game and support the dude, but lets not call this finished or anything, its very much EA and work in progress.

[jdpvagabond]

It's a playable EA that you'll get ~10 hours or so of solid game play out of but yes, it's an unbalanced incomplete game with a great framework, gorgeous graphics, a solid design and very little else.

Don't buy this game if you're hoping for something that'll keep you busy for an entire weekend, do it because you want to support this dev and hope that eventually it'll turn into what it's promising to be.

[EJR]

IMO it is just typical EA: it delivers what you ultimately want so you can play that while the devs (Or dev, in this case) focuses on developing the game further on the foundation available to you now.

Now I will be lying if I said that Manor Lords is flawless and without faults. There are some parts of the UI that are a bit jarring when you start learning how to read it, and some mechanics are bugged or unfinished (You will see things in-game actually saying "WIP" or in the case of the manor's tax office, "Cosmetic only - undergoing rework"). But other than that, the game definitely works and you can get at least 10-20 hours of playtime before you get bored and play something else.

When it comes to the EA label, Manor Lords is honestly one of the better ones out there. There is definitely more room to grow and I can see this game finally being finished in 1-2 years at most; whether you take that as a good or bad thing is up to you. At least, the way I see it, it won't be like 7 Days to Die where it was in EA for a decade and pretty much nothing major was changed or added.

[TheLostPenguin]

There's quite a lot here that mostly works, most of the time, and also a bunch of stuff either literally labelled NOT AVAILABLE IN EARLY ACCESS or clearly unfinished.
And whilst I would say that it's entirely playable as is even with a lot of stuff clearly missing, pretty much everything is buggy and can be anything from working fine to kind of gamebreaking depending on luck. It seems very much early access in the style of an unstable dev build, not the pretty stable drip feed of content that a lot of games do these days in EA. Maybe the next few versions will fix a lot of that quickly, maybe the next update is a year away with 1.0, at this point we have nothing to go on for that aspect.

[Senjuclan187]

bro this game will piss you off with how broken it is right now dont get me wrong tho I feel like this game when finally developed will be really good i enjoy playing it I dont care what anyone says this is the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ early access game on the market it took a long time to launch this according to the devs but please bro dont do it

[Berserk Belta]

It's 20% of one of the best games in the genre.

We wil have to see whether the rest of it materializes without major disturbances to the playability.

[Steffan D]

I think it is great, loving it in every way. Yes there are lots of things that don't work/ kind of work, or not present in the game but this game is in a far better shape than most triple A games made by large studio's. So is it bad no? No, the opposite. The foundation is great and it needs some tweaking to get it right. And with more content this game will be amazing. Bought it and i think it is worth it. Since this is made mostly by one person this is in a far better shape than you can expect at this stage.

[returrn fire]

many people are very hyped and are very easy to please (good for them i guess ) , manor lords is a very promissing game , extremely so , but yea i'd say the game is 50% finished.
Buy this game if you want to support this proof of concept basically. ( i do not regret doing so .... even for 24 buck i've paid ) (kinda)