Manage a noble family that owns a city populated by dozens of characters from different classes: peasants, slaves, soldiers, and criminals. Each citizen has their own needs and complex behaviors, which will depend on their social status and individual traits. And often, their behavior can be deadly to your family.

The game generates complex stories on a new level through unpredictable interactions in a large society made of numerous, unique individuals: things like social stratification, crime, riots, religious controversies, and struggle for the throne can all play a part in the story.

They all have their own relationships, sex drive, beliefs, health systems, and backgrounds. Family members also have unique personality traits, and family traits can be passed on to their children. They joke around, gossip, insult one another, fall in love, make friends, support each other, and sometimes even kill one another out of anger.

Initiate political intrigue with other kingdoms and religious leaders on the global map. Manage events that require intervention, such as blackmail, plague-infested refugees, natural disasters, and more.

Build and upgrade buildings to create efficient production chains. Attract migrants with low prices for various goods on local markets and high wages, or use slaves to work in hazardous industries. Trade with caravans. And don't forget the ecological balance.

Make use of seven weapon types, three different types of armor, unique combat skills, the body part damage system, and the morale of each member of your army!

Survive in the non-stop competition with other kingdoms. Create complex scenarios by setting up an aggressive society built on a slave economy and a strong professional army or a wealthy society of free and happy city dwellers with high levels of technology.

Originally planned for May 16th, Hooded Horse announces that Norland will now release via Steam Early Access on July 18, 2024 so that developer Long Jaunt can include some extra features, and bask in the glory of hitting 500,000 wishlists for a bit longer.

New features coming to Norland as a result of the extra development time include:

• Enhanced World Map trading, which can only be done by negotiating contracts with neighboring rulers.
• Province ecology, where factors such as soil erosion, limited raw materials, and market saturation will force players to look beyond their immediate borders to ensure the continued prosperity of the kingdom.
• New local map mechanics such as patrolling, enhanced character reactions, and even market speculation.
• Aging - no longer will the ruling family be immortal.
• Prophecies and disasters for the mid-game.
• A whole host of other quality-of-life improvements and features, which can be read about in this Steam post.

Norland has successfully captured the imagination of players since its announcement in 2022, gaining over 50,000 wishlists alone during its Next Fest run back in June 2023. It currently has over 500,000 wishlists, placing it within the top 50 most wishlisted games on Steam.

The game will be localized from English into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

Key Features:

• Control your noble family by assigning tasks to all of its members.
• Witness how family members will build complex relationships between themselves through love, hatred, friendship, envy, jealousy, betrayal, and a lust for power.
• Punish criminals, take care of the citizens, and put down any bloody riots that may occur during your reign.
• Build your armies and defenses, then make decisions on whether to fight or ally with other kingdoms
• Oversee power struggles, plan out your intrigues and secretly assassinate dangerous enemies.
• Make ambiguous decisions during events on the global map.
• Absorb knowledge and technology from books, rewrite them, or create entirely new ones.
• Build the production chains, raise the population, pay wages, put prices on the domestic market, and trade with incoming caravans.
• Experience different starting conditions for a unique gaming experience every time you play.
• Navigate through a simple and accessible user interface.

The game was already committed to being localized from English into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. Hooded Horse is also working with the developer to translate the game into eight additional languages; Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese.

Norland is in development for PC, planning to release into Steam Early Access in May 16, 2024.