Manor Lords’ single dev has so much deliberate for the sport, with one extremely requested characteristic set to make its method into the city-builder quickly—fishing ponds. It will present gamers with further worth of their villages early on, in addition to assist guarantee their villagers don’t croak come winter.
The upcoming addition of fishing ponds was confirmed yesterday by Greg Styczeń, the mastermind behind Steam’s most-wishlisted recreation, on X (previously Twitter). He mentioned he’s presently “engaged on fishing ponds for the subsequent replace” for the reason that characteristic was “requested so much.” He didn’t present quite a lot of particulars on how fishing ponds or fishing itself will probably be carried out however included a good looking and serene image of a work-in-progress pond. Styczeń additionally responded to gamers’ questions on Twitter/X, each relating to the characteristic and off-topic inquiries.
When requested concerning the estimated launch date of those fishing ponds, Styczeń responded by saying he presently plans to launch them in “just a few weeks.” Fishing ponds are additionally going to be shipped along with the Unreal Engine 5 port of the sport, the developer mentioned.
The Manor Lords developer has different options “on the precedence checklist:” butchers and cattle, which will probably be yet one more supply of meals and commerce items for gamers. One other addition, mushroom selecting, was additionally deliberate after which scrapped since “it didn’t change up the gameplay sufficient to justify their existence.” Styczeń added how too many sources “doing the identical precise factor” solely clutters up the sport and doesn’t present worth to the expertise. Even so, he mentioned he “would possibly rethink” sooner or later.
Manor Lords has been bleeding gamers over the previous few months, dropping from a 173,000 peak (based on Steam Charts) to round 6,000 day by day. Updates comparable to these are doubtless being expedited by the developer in an try to win again a few of the participant base, although that’s simply hypothesis. Even so, Manor Lords is among the greatest city-building video games on the market, with 88 % of gamers prepared to advocate the sport on Steam.
