- Lords and Villeins is on a Winter Sale! - 2 January 2026
It’s Steam Winter Sale time! Perfect time for some village building!That’s why Lords and Villeins is at an 75% discount until the 5th of January!And if you want to get full experience, get the The Great Houses Edition, which adds The Great Houses DLC into the mix with the same 75% price reduction. Happy holidays, and a happy new year!
- Spelkollektivet MEGA Bundle – Save Big on Lords and Villeins! - 23 September 2025
Greetings, Lords and Ladies! Did you know that Sweden is home to the world’s largest co-living and co-working space for game developers, Spelkollektivet? Since 2017, over 500 developers have joined this community, bringing more than 200 games to life – including Lords and Villeins. To celebrate their 8th anniversary, Spelkollektivet has teamed up with developers to bring you the MEGA Bundle packed with 28 indie gems. The entire bundle is available at 50% off, so it’s the perfect opportunity to discover new favorites and support independent developers. And here’s the best part: Lords and Villeins is not only included in the bundle, but it’s also 75% off on its own. That means if you buy it as part of the bundle, you save even more – half off the already discounted price. Don’t miss out on this great offer! However, if you’d prefer to get the game separately, you can still grab the discou…
- Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond is Leaves Early Access! - 24 April 2025
Greetings, Lords and Ladies! It's time to put your ruling abilities to use again! Allow us to announce that Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond, a grand-strategy published by Fulqrum Publishing, is leaving Early Access today, being 20% off at launch. Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond invites you to prove your political brilliance – pick from a range of 195 countries, set up your government and navigate the pitfalls of domestic and international politics. A glorious destiny awaits - the domination of not just the Earth, but the whole Solar system! To achieve this ultimate goal, you will have to carefully consider a myriad of decisions, starting with the choice of a country you wish to lead. Taking control of any contemporary nation to fulfil your ambitions: from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and everything in between. You will also need to select your optimal form of government, build your cabinet…
- Hotfix for Patch 1.6.14 (Issue with Saves and Achievements) - 24 September 2024
Greetings, Lords and Ladies, A nasty bug snuck into the patch we published yesterday, and caused problems in communication with the Steam platform. As a result, your achievements were not logged and your save files were stored in a different location (the "Shared" folder instead of the folder dedicated to your specific Steam account, marked by a numeric ID). We have now fixed this issue via a hotfix. If you have created new saves since yesterday’s patch, and/or moved your save files to the “Shared” folder to patch this issue on your end, we kindly ask you to move them back to their original folder to be able to access them again. Default save folder location: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow\Honestly Games\Lords and Villeins\SaveData Thank you very much for understanding and we apologize for the inconvenience! Change Log: Fixed pre-existing saves not loading properly Fixed Steam ach…
- Patch 1.6.14 Is Out Now! - 23 September 2024
Greetings, Lords and Ladies, We have another bugfixing update for you! Thanks to your reports on Steam and on our Discord, we were able to locate and fix several annoying bugs! For that, we owe you our greatest thanks, we much appreciate that you care about the game. Please, keep that feedback coming. It's you, our awesome community, that made Lords and Villeins what it is - so if you're not a part of it yet, join our Discord server so you can hang out with other players and chat about the game. Change Log: Fixed issue with Chinese language not displaying all characters correctly Fixed issue with the reaching bonus not being given to a regiment with all spears equipped Fixed an empty mouse over tooltip when hovering over a horse icon in the population book of a soldier Fixed pie ingredients not being purchased Fixed ruling family titles not being initialized properly Fixed noble familie…
- Bugfixing Patch v1.6.12 Is Yours To Play! - 31 July 2024
Behold, Lords and Ladies! We are ready to serve you a brand new patch and it's not a small one! You already had a chance to check out many of the changes in the public beta, you can read more details about it here - we are now publishing that update to everyone with an extra dose of fixes to it. You can find the full change log at the end of this article. Lords and Villeins is a complex system driven game with endless potential for interactions and situations that are very difficult to detect during our internal testing. We failed to do better and many of you had a troubling experience with the game after the release of our new DLC. These issues were not discovered even during our lengthy closed beta that was running prior to its release and we regret that we did not stop them from getting into the live release. We are sorry to anyone we let down by the technical state of the game. This…
- Community Translations and v1.6.11 Open Beta Launch! - 19 July 2024
Greetings, Lords and Ladies! A brand new update has arrived in the Public Beta. There is a long list of bug fixes that were hindering your enjoyment of the game and the recently released DLC - check the full list of changes below! You can expect this patch to arrive to the main game during the upcoming weeks. If you wish to help with the Beta testing, all you have to do to access the Beta branch is right-click on the game in your Steam library, select Properties -> Betas and choose the openbeta in the Beta Participation dropdown. After you confirm the dialogue, let the game update and you are ready to play! If you do so, please make sure to start a new save file as there was a number of bugs that may have corrupted your existing saves and could continue generating issues during your game that have already been addressed. We greatly appreciate your reports of any bugs or issues either he…
- The Great Houses DLC is Out Now - Ready to Expand Your Rule? - 25 June 2024
Greetings, Lords & Ladies! Today we have glorious news! An opportunity calls to all esteemed nobles. After leaving early access in 2022 and the following year of free post-release updates, we are expanding the realm of Lords and Villeins with a brand new DLC dubbed "The Great Houses"! The DLC shatters the boundaries of your previous domain, inviting you to shape the fate of a nation and etch your legacy onto the world stage. The Great Houses takes the feudal economy simulation experience to a whole new level, allowing you to transcend the confines of your settlement and establish yourself as the head of a powerful dynasty. With a brand-new world map and intricate gameplay mechanics, this DLC enables you to engage in diplomacy and trade across the cities of other AI-controlled Noble Houses and even the Royal Family, or to subdue your enemies with military forces as you vie for influence,…
- Ease of Ruling Update Has Just Arrived! - 22 February 2024
Greetings, Lords & Ladies! The Ease of Ruling Update has been in a Public Beta for two months now, and today it is our absolute pleasure to announce that after plenty of testing and patching, we are finally ready to publish the update officially to everyone! Learn more about the update and check out the Change Log by following this link. Thank you all for being so helpful and for sharing your feedback! Don't forget, you are always welcome to join our Discord channel where you can chat with fellow players and with the dev team as well! Also, if you have not done so yet, a review of the game here on Steam would be much appreciated! Huge thanks to you, until next time! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1287530/Lords_and_Villeins/
- The Public Beta Is Being Updated Again, Patch v1.5.12 Has Arrived! - 14 February 2024
Good day, Lords and Ladies! Another update has landed in the Public Beta, this time we've managed to fix the issues with inventory, caravans and most importantly the farmers struggling with planting - check the full Change Log below. If the public beta will prove successful we would seek to release this build on the Main branch relatively soon! If you wish to help with the Beta testing, all you have to do to access the Beta branch is right-click on the game in your Steam library, select Properties -> Betas and choose the openbeta in the Beta Participation dropdown. After you confirm the dialogue, let the game update and you are ready to play! We greatly appreciate your reports of any bugs or issues either here on the Steam forums, in the comments of this article or better yet - in our Discord community! Thank you very much for your support, we are incredibly happy to have such a... Nobl…
- Patch v1.5.9 Has Landed In Open Beta! - 9 February 2024
Good day, Lords and Ladies! New update has just found its way to the Public Beta and it's waiting for you to try it out! This one focuses on fixing some of the most important issues you've reported; to name a few, the problem with time freezing is now mitigated and many problems with resource demand and villagers not producing when they are meant to have been fixed. If you wish to participate in the Beta testing, all you have to do to access the Beta branch is right-click on the game in your Steam library, select Properties -> Betas and choose the openbeta in the Beta Participation dropdown. After you confirm the dialogue, let the game update and you are ready to play! We greatly appreciate if you report any bugs and issues either here on the Steam forums, in the comments of this article or better yet - in our Discord community! Thank you for your continuous support, we would not be abl…
- Ease of Ruling Update is Heading Into Open Beta! - 23 January 2024
Great news lords and ladies! after several months of hard work, our newest free update v1.5.6 is ready to enter the open beta! This one is all about the Ease of Ruling! In previous free updates we were focusing on adding gameplay systems, polishing the game design, improving features and then also enhancing the performance. In this update, we wanted to focus more on the UI experience and give more care to the balancing. You can access the build right now in the openbeta branch! Simply right-click on the game in your library, select Properties -> Betas and choose the openbeta in the Beta Participation dropdown. After you confirm the dialogue, let the game update and you are ready to play! We strongly recommend backing up your save files before switching to open beta as there can be unforeseen issues that can corrupt them! However, due to the scope of changes introduced as part of our re-…
- Patch 1.3.28 Is Out Now! - 13 December 2023
Hello everyone! Just before Christmas hits, we have a small patch for Lords and Villeins so you can all enjoy the game during the winter break just a little smoother! We have fixed a small number of issues and improved the flow of the campaign. This patch comes as a small update as we work on bigger things in the background. We are preparing a major free update that will allow you to set different taxation rates for each produced resource, improved family selection UI and a brand new UI to view powerful and robust statistics about your settlement so stay tuned! The update is currently in the testing stage and might drop relatively soon. If you would like to help us with testing during the closed beta (which we hope to launch next week) please join our Discord so you don't miss the opportunity! v1.3.28 Change Log: A number of campaign missions now start with carpenters and architects in…
- The Autumn Sale Is Here, Lords and Villeins is at a Whopping 50% OFF! - 23 November 2023
Hello everyone, Autumn is here, but if you're tired of the gloom, wind and rain and dropping temperatures, why not spend your evenings in Lords and Villeins, planning and ruling over a simulated feudal settlement? You won't be able to avoid the autumn season completely, but it's on for only a quarter of the time in the game! And to further brighten this generally bleak time of year, we bring good news - one of the most anticipated sales in the whole year – The Autumn Sale is here! Not only is Lords and Villeins at an awesome 50% off for those of you who haven't tried it yet, the game's Soundtrack is at a 50% off as well, and to save even more, you can purchase both at the same time in the Lords and Bards bundle! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/28876/Lords_and_Bards_bundle/ If you have any feedback, suggestion or question about the game, don't be shy and join the official Lords and…
- Simulating Free Markets in a Feudal City-Builder - 31 October 2023
In the early days of Lords and Villeins pre-production, I observed that most city-builders tend to simplify their economy into a few abstract numbers. The settlement just has 100 piles of wood "somewhere" and people can spend them instantly at an infinite distance. Only games like Banished, Dwarf Fortress, or Rimworld would dare to put them in a physical world, but even then all resources were universally shared and not really owned by anyone. In this, I saw a potential for a different kind of city-building game. One where resources are not only physically present in the world but also privately owned. One where people can not simply take what is not theirs without consequences - including the player. And so the defining direction of Lords and Villeins was set and our team embarked on a journey of solving what turned out to be an incredibly difficult problem. Before we start designing a…
- 1.3.27 Hotfix Is Out Now - 22 September 2023
Greetings Lords and Ladies, We'll keep it short this time, we just wanted to inform you that the 1.3.27 hotfix has just been uploaded to the main build. Check out the Change Log below to see what exactly has been fixed. Are there any more bugs that we missed and that need to be fixed? Report them here on Steam or join our Discord server! Change Log: Fixed possible error with campaign mission not getting marked as completed if a user completed the second-to-last task ahead of time Fixed missing demand for paper from the clergy Fixed a game breaking bug when a family requests to split while some of its original members are in clergy or serving as servants Updated the in-game changelog
- Patch 1.3.26. Has Just Arrived! - 14 September 2023
Behold Lords and Ladies, The Campaign update is now live! We have concluded the public beta and all of you can now enjoy a new campaign mode - 15 distinct missions that cover the game mechanics and teach you about the game in a more detailed and comprehensive way. With this campaign, we primarily aimed to improve the experience for new players as it is replacing the old tutorial mode. Returning or experienced players might find the campaign less engaging, so please keep it in mind if you decide to jump into it. Who knows, maybe you will also discover something new about the game! This update brings amazing things also for those who fell in love with Lords and Villeins a long time ago! We have completely reworked pathfinding, which dramatically improves late-game performance, added a number of quality of life features and introduced a new game module, that allows you to limit the maximum…
- The Path To Pathfinding In Lords and Villeins - 6 September 2023
The public beta for the campaign update is soon coming to an end. In fact, we expect it to go live as early as next week! Besides re-designing the tutorial experience into fifteen distinct missions, each focusing on a unique game mechanic, we are adding one more major improvement to the game - overhauled pathfinding system. It is improving performance dramatically and because we went through quite the journey of solving it over the years, maybe it would be a fun read to share it with you. So let's get into it! What is Pathfinding? If you are not sure what pathfinding is, let me first introduce it a little bit. In the world of AI, we typically refer to NPCs or other intelligent creatures - in our case the villagers - as agents. Agents can do a lot of things, but almost all of them involve getting from one place to another in the game world. So pathfinding is just that - mathematically so…
- Update 1.3.20 Has Found Its Way To The Public Beta - 31 August 2023
We greet you, Lords and Ladies, The time has come to update Lords and Villeins once again! This time, we focused on fixing as many annoying bugs as possible, along with improving some QoL features and balancing the game in general. For now, this update can be found in the Public Beta version where you can test it and if there are no issues, we will push it to the main build soon. You can find the whole change log below the article. If you're still not a part of the Public Beta and you wish to be, entering it is incredibly easy! All you have to do is right click on the game in your Steam library, select Properties, Betas and find the "artisanbeta" branch. If you encounter any bugs or have any feedback to share, we would love to hear from you! Share them here on Steam forums, or come join our dedicated Discord server. It's also worth mentioning that Lords and Villeins is a part of the cur…
- Update 1.3.17 Has Just Arrived To The Public Beta! - 9 August 2023
Greetings, Lords and Ladies, We have some really good news for you! The previously announced free Campaign update is now ready to enter Public Beta! We will keep it there for a few days just to make sure everything is how it should be and later release it on the main "branch". This patch focuses on redesigning the tutorial experience into a more in-depth and approachable campaign. We have prepared fifteen distinct scenarios, each focused on one major game mechanic of Lords and Villeins which can now be introduced in bigger detail, with video tutorials, tips and challenges along the way. As you progress through the campaign, you will unlock more features until finally reaching the full complexity of the sandbox mode. While new players are the focus of this patch, we also wanted to bring something for our existing players to play through the campaign. So for each campaign map we are addin…
