This GeForce NOW Thursday brings several major additions to NVIDIA's cloud gaming platform. Arguably the most important one is Manor Lords, currently the top wishlisted game on Steam by over three million users. To quell the hype, the solo developer behind Slavic Magic recently wrote a blog post to explain what the game is not:
- Manor Lords is not a Total War competitor. It's a citybuilder with battles. Yes, battles are there, but not as huge or as frequent as some of you might expect. The majority of gameplay is focused on citybuilding and management.
- It's not an Empire management-style Grand Strategy game, either. The map has regions, but you won't be able to conquer the whole Europe, nor have marriages or anything like that. The game is designed to play at a much smaller scale.
- It's not an RPG either. If you played KCD or Mount&Blade, ML is a different type of game. There is a visit mode in Manor Lords which allows you to walk around your town, but it's an experimental, cosmetic bonus feature, the game is really meant to be played from the "bird's eye" perspective, like a strategy game (almost always) should. There won't be any first person gameplay.
- It's not a competitive, fast paced RTS like Age of Empires or StarCraft. A lot of the game mechanics focus on aesthetics of your town and resources take some time to be transported around the map. This results mostly in a more of a relaxed experience, with high intensity moments spicing up atmospheric citybuilding rather than the game being at high intensity all the time.
Manor Lords also supports DLSS 2 (Super Resolution), so GeForce NOW users at the Priority and Ultimate tier will be able to activate Deep Learning Super Sampling and accelerate performance.
You can find the rest of the weekly GeForce NOW additions below, with Diablo II Resurrected, Diablo III, StarCraft Remastered, and StarCraft II easily being the highlights.
● Dead Island 2 (New release on Steam, April 22)
● Bellwright (New release on Steam, April 23)
● Phantom Fury (New release on Steam, April 23)
● Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure (New release on Steam, April 24)
● Age of Water (New release on Steam, April 25)
● Manor Lords (New release on Steam and Xbox, April 26, available on PC Game Pass)
● 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far (Steam)
● Diablo II: Resurrected (Battle.net)
● Diablo III (Battle.net)
● Dragon’s Dogma 2 Character Creator & Storage (Steam)
● Islands of Insight (Steam)
● Metaball (Steam)
● StarCraft Remastered (Battle.net)
● StarCraft II (Battle.net)
● Stargate: Timekeepers (Steam)
● Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale (Steam)
About the author: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief. In the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech's gaming section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews. Arguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications. His passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action/adventure games.
Follow Wccftech on Google to get more of our news coverage in your feeds.
