Manor Lords’ single dev has rather a lot deliberate for the sport, with one extremely requested function set to make its means 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 stated he’s at the moment “engaged on fishing ponds for the following replace” because the function was “requested rather a lot.” He didn’t present loads of particulars on how fishing ponds or fishing itself will likely be carried out however included an exquisite and serene image of a work-in-progress pond. Styczeń additionally responded to gamers’ questions on Twitter/X, each concerning the function and off-topic inquiries.
When requested concerning the estimated launch date of those fishing ponds, Styczeń responded by saying he at the moment plans to launch them in “a number of weeks.” Fishing ponds are additionally going to be shipped along with the Unreal Engine 5 port of the sport, the developer stated.
The Manor Lords developer has different options “on the precedence record:” butchers and cattle, which will likely be 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 assets “doing the identical actual factor” solely clutters up the sport and doesn’t present worth to the expertise. Even so, he stated he “may rethink” in some unspecified time in the future.
Manor Lords has been bleeding gamers over the previous few months, dropping from a 173,000 peak (in response to Steam Charts) to round 6,000 day by day. Updates similar to these are probably being expedited by the developer in an try to win again a number of the participant base, although that’s simply hypothesis. Even so, Manor Lords is among the finest city-building video games on the market, with 88 p.c of gamers prepared to suggest the sport on Steam.