Manor Lords dev promises future discounts for players missing Early Access

The latest game to take the industry by storm is Manor Lords, racing to the top of the charts the second it became available. It’s truly captured the minds and hearts of players, and no small part of that is the Early Access discount and Game Pass availability.

In a post on the Manor Lords Steam page, Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender took the time to not only express his gratitude but to assure players suffering from FOMO that the game and its discounted price point weren’t going anywhere.

“You have all been incredibly supportive of Manor Lords, this city builder started by a solo-developer, and taken it to 3.2 million player wishlists,” Bender said. “Your support of developer Greg and his game has already been huge, and so I want to say: please, don’t feel any pressure to buy the game if waiting is better for you. If money is tight right now or you’re still uncertain, we’ll run those 25% discounts often and give you plenty of opportunities to get the game later as well, no one should feel any fear of missing out or any kind of pressure.”

First announced in 2020, Manor Lords is a medieval RTS/city-builder game in which players grow their kingdom. Prior to its release, the game was the most wishlisted on Steam.

The game has blown up since release. At the time of this writing, Manor Lords has a comfortable 170,000 concurrent players on Steam, meaning more people are playing it than even the revitalized Fallout franchise. And that’s just on Steam; considering the game is also on Game Pass, there are likely thousands more playing it right now.