The building and crafting mechanics of Manor Lords, as seen in pre-alpha footage, go the opposite route, with elaborate construction trees that authentically depict the real-life sophistication of lower-class work in the Middles Ages. Single-player roleplaying games with pre-modern settings like Skyrim also tend to greatly abstract the process of crafting food and items: Forging a sword or baking a loaf of bread is portrayed simply as a matter of gathering all the necessary ingredients and smashing them together in crafting menus. A player sends out peasant units to harvest gold, crops, or wood from spots on the map, then orders them to build castles, soldier barracks, and trebuchets with those gathered resources.
In Warcraft, Age of Empires II, and other real-time strategy games with medieval settings, the process of construction and wealth creation is often very abstracted. Manor Lords Doesn't Gloss Over the Sophisticated Economics of Medieval Life In its current form, Manor Lords achieves this realism through two core design principles. The ambitious goal of Manor Lords' single developer is to create a realistic-yet-fun medieval strategy game - one that authentically depicts the lives and responsibilities of serfs, crafters, and other working folk during the Middle Ages, as they labored and fought for their lords and ladies. Related: All 337 Skyrim Books Explained: What Elder Scrolls Literature Is About Most history books write off peasants as poor serfs who lived short, hard, miserable lives, while the feudal aristocrats got to joust in tournaments, play the "game of thrones," listen to minstrels, go on crusades, and otherwise do all the "fun stuff." When nearly every single medieval history and medieval fantasy book focuses on the nobles, its easy for readers to imagine themselves in the shoes of these feudal lords and ladies, even though they've likely got much more in common with the people who plowed the fields and wove the textiles. The nitty-gritty details of life as a peasant in the Middle Ages are rarely talked about in medieval movies, shows, or video games. The real-time strategy/kingdom simulator Manor Lords, in contrast, embraces historical realism through intricate tech trees, construction options, and tasks that faithfully recreate the lifestyles and labor of working-class peasants and crafters from the Middle Ages, from sewing fields to thatching roofs.
In most medieval strategy games, the process of building a kingdom through the labor of peasants is abstracted, as in Warcraft and Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord.
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