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Manor Lords has been wishlisted two million times on Steam now

Only four more months until release

Marco Wutz

Manor Lords has been wishlisted two million times on Steam now
Manor Lords has been wishlisted two million times on Steam now /

Developers can’t buy anything from their games being wishlisted by users on Steam, but it’s a solid metric for the amount of excitement surrounding a title – and people are definitely excited for Manor Lords, a strategic city-builder set to be released on April 26, 2024, on PC. Publisher Hooded Horse announced on January 18, 2024, that solo developer Slavic Magic’s upcoming game has found its way onto two million wishlists, which bodes well for the launch later this year.

Manor Lords is the second-most wishlisted title on PC gaming’s most important platform – only Hades 2 has more people interested in it. This puts the strategy game ahead of Hollow Knight: Silksong, Palworld (which is going to leave the list tomorrow anyways due to being released), Black Myth: Wukong, and Frostpunk 2.

Manor Lords screenshot showing an army forming up for battle.
Manor Lords will combine city-building with real-time strategy battles :: Slavic Magic / Hooded Horse

“When we first launched the announcement trailer in 2020, my girlfriend said she expected me to get 7,000 wishlists,” commented Greg Styczeń, the man behind Manor Lords developer Slavic Magic, in a press release. “I was more optimistic and said it would be more like 14,000 and that would be awesome. Suffice to say, I did not expect the game to pick up so much interest and hit over two million.”

He continued: “I hope this is encouraging for other devs who struggle to get their games out there. I had no idea how the game would be received or if I'd be bad at marketing, but luckily I wasn't discouraged and kept going.”

In addition to Steam and GOG, Manor Lords will be released on PC Game Pass on Day 1. A Xbox Series X|S port with Xbox Game Pass inclusion will follow at a later date.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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