Rising Lords

Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!

Rising Lords is a medieval, turn-based tactics and strategy game developed by Argonwood and published by Deck13 and WhisperGames.
Released on January 18th 2024 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, French, German, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil and Turkish.

It has received 907 reviews of which 657 were positive and 250 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.0 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Rising Lords into these genres:

Medieval Turn-Based Tactics Strategy Turn-Based Strategy Indie Multiplayer Tactical Turn-Based Turn-Based Combat Base-Building Hex Grid 2D City Builder Simulation Early Access Singleplayer Sandbox Hand-drawn Co-op Replay Value

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Requirements

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Windows

OS: WIndows 64bit
Processor: 2,27 GHz Dual Core
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Dedicated Graphics Card with min. 2GB shared RAM
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: Any

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

This game is great. I love the art style, the mechanics, how you manage your workers and resources. The army recruiting/management. Everything fits nicely together. However I have one big problem with the campaign. It is always: "Do X, Y and Z before round N ended." Yes, I get it that this needed to balance the mission. A mission without a time-limit would allow the player to build as much as he wants and this will - in many cases - affect the next missions as you are often starting with your previously build towns. But still I don't like it. It's far too often that you realize 5 rounds before that you have lost. "Can't make it there in time" equals "Automatic loose". This is a bit too harsh in my eyes. As it gives me the impression I am not allowed to play at all. I literally have no choice, no time to prepare, no nothing. It feels like a mathematical equation. There is only one way to solve this mission... "Oh, you moved your army into another of your regions to recruit and not directly to the region you should be conquering? How dare you." - You've lost. It just takes away too much freedom for me. Give me penalties. Give me disadvantages. But why do I have to reload every mission 6-10 times until I figured out the optimum way to do stuff? Just because it's an automatic loose? And still I keep reloading as the story is great! And the game IS fun! If it wasn't just for the automatic loose each time.. I really would like to give you a neutral rating because of this.. But Steam doesn't allow that and a negative one wouldn't be fair... Oh and please, PLEASE! Make "Mission selection"-menu for the campaign or, at least, create an automatic save at the start of each mission named "Mission X" or the like. It is really annoying when your last 3 automatic saves don't help at all, as you literally can't make it to the target in time and therefore automatically loose. (15 or 20 automatic saves would be needed in order to be able to fix things before you have ultimatively lost..)

Sept. 2024

Solid game with simple yet pleasant economy and combat mechanics. After playing through the story (until mission 5 where I hit a gamebreaking bug and got stuck), and then playing through a custom scenario, I'd say it was worth the $20 to me. I do wish there was a bit more depth (ie. more overworld mechanics, more unit types for combat), which would probably keep me playing longer, but it was still fun overall.

April 2024

The game might seem a little rough around the edges on the first and maybe also the second glance, but make no mistake, it is a small gem with a really solid and fun game loop. The game mechanics are immersive and remind me of what might happen if Stronghold and Battle Brothers had a little love child. Are there bugs? Sure, I encountered a few, but most importantly the devs contacted me literally immediately (!) and after half a day produced a hotfix. If you crave medieval town development and cannot wait for Manor Lords, do give this one a try.

April 2024

Very fun, devs have had great love and dedication to the project for quite some time. Scratches that Civ VI itch with faster campaigns and less micromanagement while still leaving you feeling in control and adding more depth to battles.

April 2024

I'm getting Lords of the Realm vibes with a story-line. While it's been over twenty years since playing Lords and my memory can be off, I think it has many of the same positives and negatives. The Positives - It's well produced. They team did a fairly good job. I love the artwork. Management is very Lords-like, combat is comparable to the Heroes, Might and Magic style. The use of cards is an interesting touch and adds another level to combat. The team certainly put effort into the story-line. The Negatives - The scope (my problem with Lords of the Realm). Diplomacy between 3-4 players is not diplomacy, it's game of Risk. The player limit in single player make it feel too much like a board game. It could use procedurally generated maps. I'm more of a EU scale diplomacy/management and Total War combat style kind of guy. So, I couldn't get too into it. Nonetheless, I'm keeping it in the rotation. I give it a 7/10, but I'm positive other people will enjoy this way more than me. ..,And unlike some other games (looking at you Starfield) it's worth the money.

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19.99€

7.0

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Developer

Argonwood

Publisher

Deck13, WhisperGames

Release 18 Jan 2024

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