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Press release:
Prague, Czech Republic – November 10, 2022.
The Poland-based indie games publisher 1C Entertainment and Czech Republic-based Honestly Games, are today very happy and proud to announce that the full version of their medieval-themed pixel-art colony sim “Lords and Villeins”, is now available for PC via digital stores (Steam, GOG, and EGS).

Lords and Villeins allows players to claim their title as lord or lady, ready to build a thriving township by managing and influencing peasant and noble families. Players will tend to the needs of their 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 players to craft a unique story in their settlement.

At the heart of the game lies an immersive and emotional journey, in which players can watch their villagers grow, evolve, create relationships, go through struggles and challenges which shape their lives and stories in compelling ways.

Lords and Villeins is a relaxing city builder with a beautiful atmosphere, capturing the authentic life of medieval feudalism. With heavily customizable gameplay, approachable design and a detailed tutorial it remains accessible to new players, yet still offers many complex and rich systems that players can discover as they delve deeper and deeper into their ruling journey.

At 1.0 launch Lords and Villeins will receive a hearty content update which includes:

Assembling The High Council and holding Town Hall hearings

New public celebration event

New ability to perform risky tax evasions

New Opposition Group system that can result in noble coups and peasant uprisings

Personal spy with abilities to gather intelligence and assassinate rivals

Gameplay modules to heavily customise game experience

Overhauled trading system that significantly improves interaction with markets

New underground resources with mineshafts to mine them

Ability to manage storage priorities and new tools to optimise logistics

Full localisation to German, French, Russian, Czech, and Simplified Chinese

Steam Achievements

Performance optimization and fully overhauled user interface and balancing

Key Features of Lords and Villeins:

Unique family-management mechanic where the player assigns plots of land to autonomous families and manages 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!

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.

Number of domesticated animals and pets and a 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 launches today for PC via Steam, GOG.com and Epic Game Store.

For more information, visit the official Fulqrum Publishing website or follow on Facebook, Twitter and/or Steam, or follow Lords and Villeins on Twitter.

About Fulqrum Publishing
Fulqrum Publishing is a global games publisher with a diverse portfolio of titles, that includes both in-house and independent productions. Fulqrum Publishing has successfully launched over 100 game titles including the critically acclaimed series – King’s Bounty, Men of War and Space Rangers. Recent releases include such games as Ancestors Legacy, Deep Sky Derelicts, Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark, Forgive Me Father, & more.

About Honestly Games
Honestly Games is a studio from the Czech Republic. We are a small team of passionate developers striving to make immersive games and build communities that love to create, share, and express themselves through gaming. Founded in 2019 around our first title Lords and Villeins, we are dedicated to bringing amazing and memorable games directed by our honest vision strengthened through player feedback and active interaction with our community.