Lords and Villeins: The Great Houses Edition

• Lords and Villeins base game
• Lords and Villeins: The Great Houses Edition DLC

Lords and Villeins

Grow dynasties of medieval families and see them evolve and interact as you build their homes, farms and workshops and assign them different tasks, duties and taxes.

Lords and Villeins is a very lighthearted, approachable, yet complex city-building strategy simulation of medieval society where you shape the dynasty of the ruling family. In this game, you don't manage the daily life of every villager; instead, you deal with whole families and their descendants.

In Lords and Villeins, you claim your title as Lord or Lady, ready to build a thriving township by managing and influencing peasant and noble families. You will tend to the needs of your villagers by building homes, farms and workshops and managing tasks, duties and taxes of families in the hopes of creating a flourishing town. Managing the economy, expanding production chains and influencing the daily lives of villagers allows you to craft a unique story of your own settlement.

At the heart of its design is an emotional journey - seeing your villagers grow, evolve, create relationships, go through struggles and challenges to shape their lives and stories in interesting ways.

FEATURES

• Unique family-management mechanic where you assign plots of land to autonomous families and manage taxation policies, production priorities and logistics.
• In-depth simulation of personal ownership and a market economy. Villagers manage storefronts to sell surplus goods and purchase food and material from others in a cooperative chain of production. Prices of goods fluctuate based on supply and demand and trading caravans facilitate import and export.
• Fully simulated procedurally generated environment with a complex AI that can develop relationships, satisfy their needs, daily routines and personal ambitions.
• Immersive simulation of society bringing social classes, clergy, criminals, high council, politics, servants, military and more!
• Highly customizable difficulty settings, it is completely up to you how complex or laid-back your playthrough will be!
• Character designer lets you fully customize and name everyone in your ruling family.
• 160+ objects at your disposal to build, decorate and improve your settlement.
• 53 different zones and 40 professions that can be performed by the villagers.
• 130+ resources to be used in a fully functional production chain.
• A number of domesticated animals and pets and thriving nature with wildlife.
• Visually distinct seasons with soundtrack of seasonal themes.
• Fully simulated and dynamic world with changing temperature and weather effects.

Lords and Villeins: The Great Houses Edition

The Great Houses DLC expands the unique feudal economy simulation of Lords and Villeins allowing you to leave your mark on the world at large with a host of new, intricate gameplay mechanics. You can now truly live out the fantasy of building up a great noble house by growing your influence, purchasing land titles and sending peasant families to exploit the new territories to achieve unprecedented levels of wealth and prosperity. You are not alone in this world however - engage in diplomacy and trade with other, AI-controlled, Noble Houses, including the Royal family and their royal city itself; or choose to reach your goals by military means and subdue your competition. It is up to you to decide what the legacy of your House will be.

Start by designing a sigil and a house motto for your family in a new noble house creator. Once your settlement grows and you are ready to expand, spend resources to acquire more territories, assign families to develop them and send military regiments to protect your new lands. Build trade routes to connect with other settlements on the map, complete quests to strengthen your relationships with other Noble Houses and strike lucrative trade deals with them to bring a new type of caravans to your settlement. On the other hand, if you like the taste of battle and believe in the strength of your armies, you can send them out to raid the territories of other houses and reap the rewards of their labor, or invade them outright, to take control of their lands by force - all thanks to a new turn-based combat system. 

Key Features

• Explore a brand-new world map view spanning the nation, including other AI-controlled Great Houses and the Royal City.
• Customize your Great House with a new sigil editor.
• Assign families to territories on the world map, develop them and exploit their production.
• Manage diplomatic relationships with other Great Houses and their settlements.
• Build trade routes to connect cities and enter trade deals to generate new impactful caravans for your settlement.
• New (optional) turn-based combat system to execute strategic battles.
• Deploy regiments to protect territories from hostile attacks.
• Raid other houses to acquire their resources, or invade and take control of their territory.

To activate the game, you need a Steam Account

• Login or register at the official
  Steam Website and download Steam client
• Install and start application, login with your Account name and Password
• Click the Games Menu.
• Choose Activate a Product on Steam...
• Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the process
• After the successful code verification, go to the "MY GAMES" tab and start downloading.