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Is Manor Lords Steam Deck compatible?

Is Manor Lords Steam Deck compatible? Performance isn't the problem when it comes to getting the best out of Manor Lords on Steam Deck, even when the game is still in early access. A simple settings tweak will achieve an admirable frame rate, but the lack of controller support might be too much for some to overcome.

Tested on our Steam Deck OLED, a console we consider to be the best handheld gaming PC, Manor Lords proved a simple task on the graphical front. While this may seem obvious, we've had issues with city-builders in the past, so it's no small feat to have the game running so smoothly on a portable device.

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Manor Lords dev asks press and YouTubers to stop breaking the game: 'please restrain yourself'

Manor Lords' sole developer, Greg "Slavic Magic" Styczeń, has made a plea to everyone with a review copy of the soon-to-be-released city builder: please stop messing around with the castle planner and breaking the game...
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Manor Lords won't let me get away with my usual survival city builder cheese strats, so I guess I'm actually gonna have to become a competent mayor

Playing a survival city builder is like a juggling act, except when you drop a ball 75 people starve to death. Everything needs to be carefully balanced. The population needs to steadily grow to provide more bodies for labor—but not grow so quickly that you wind up with too many mouths to feed. When citizens ascend to a higher status they can be taxed more, but they also require more amenities to be kept happy...
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Manor Lords' publisher explains why there's no price attached yet: 'We don’t want players to get scammed or cheated'

Medieval city-builder Manor Lords is Steam's most wishlisted game and is a mere day away from release, but no one is actually sure how much it's going to cost...
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Don't neglect Manor Lords' most important building—the humble burgage plot

Manor Lords isn't your typical city-builder—the first time I realised that was when I started building burgage plots. At first, these humble peasant abodes look like your standard dwelling, and so in typical city-builder fashion I created them as compact as possible—that good ol' trick to maximise space and population. What I didn't count on was burgage plots aren't just your average house; they're the foundation of Manor Lords' economy...
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