Manor Lords publisher celebrates 500,000 wishlists for another medieval city-building strategy game with more sex, drama, and Game of Thrones-style backstabbing
Long Jaunt’s Norland looks like another big hit for Hooded Horse
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It seems indie publisher Hooded Horse knows how to pick ‘em. After theabsurdly successful launch of Manor Lords, the label is putting out another medieval strategy game with a big city-building element in the form of Norland, which has just crossed 500,000 wishlists on Steam ahead of its Early Access launch.
Norland is a “medieval colony sim” where you build a kingdom from the ground up in the style of a game like RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress. There’s a massive emphasis on showing the needs and emotions of both your ruling family and the peasants they reign over, to the point where everything from hunger to sex drive is simulated in-game. And, of course, there are other fledgling kingdoms to compete against, which means there’s lots of hands to shake and backs to stab along the way.
The game has been in the works for years at developer Long Jaunt, with regular community playtests along the way to help deepen its mechanics. Norland had previously been scheduled to hit Early Access as of May 16, but it’s just been delayed to July 18, which will allow for an extensive range of simulation and quality-of-life improvements, detailed in aSteam blog, to hit the game before it reaches a wider audience.
In a press release accompanying the delay announcement, Hooded Horse revealed that Norland had just crossed 500,000 wishlists. If you check the rankings over atSteamDB, that makes it the #41 most-wishlisted upcoming game on Steam, not far behind the likes of Deltarune, Slay the Spire 2, and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.
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