THE TRUTH ABOUT: Greg styczen - The Untold Story

Manor Lords gets its first update since January, and its creator says he is 'rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again'

"I focussed on expanding the team and tackled way too many issues at once".

PC Gamer · Oct 5, 2025

Runaway city-building success Manor Lords is getting a major overhaul to its systems: 'It's not just a new feature or two. It's a full rework'

"Because we're working on all these big changes, we haven't been able to put out smaller patches."

PC Gamer · Jul 5, 2025

Manor Lords' new update is "overhauling a lot of systems at once," and it should be worth the 6-month wait as "we'll be able to shift to smaller, more frequent updates going forward"

The new update adds an affinity system "so if you value forest-based industries, you may want to take care of your forests more"

GamesRadar · Jul 3, 2025

Don't worry, the Manor Lords dev is still working on the city builder RTS despite silence as of late: "Nothing 'cool' sadly but still it's hard work that's needed"

Manor Lords' market rework is taking more time than expected because "players were still messaging me that it's bad"

GamesRadar · Oct 25, 2024

Hit city builder Manor Lords is getting a new feature players have been begging for: "One quality of life feature a day keeps the negative review away"

Managing production is about to get way easier

GamesRadar · Jul 30, 2024

Manor Lords dev says Unreal Engine 5 upgrade looks like a "smoother overall experience" so far, but here are some new coats of arms that "medieval games for some reason never add" while you wait

The hit city-builder is set to get even better

GamesRadar · Jul 26, 2024

Manor Lords is still "moving forward," even as the city builder's creator takes a well-deserved minibreak amid its Unreal Engine 5 move

Early access progress

GamesRadar · Jun 27, 2024

Manor Lords creator is sorry about bugs leftover from the city builder's latest patch, but promises the move to Unreal Engine 5 will sort out other "annoying" issues

"Annoying engine things" are getting smoothed out

GamesRadar · Jun 20, 2024

Manor Lords isn't getting the much-requested bubonic plague as the medieval city builder's creator thinks "plague and disease are not real game mechanics"

He's not ruled out adding a sanitization level mechanic, though

GamesRadar · Jun 18, 2024

Manor Lords creator wants to return to the "dev cave" to push the city builder forward and "finally add some new features"

The dev wants to do "some more fun experiments" with the Steam hit

GamesRadar · Jun 12, 2024