Manor Lords achieves Steam's most successful city builder launch ever
One million in sales and 170,000 concurrent players on day one, more than any other city builder on Steam
Few games have captured gamers minds and free time quite like Civilization. From its humble beginnings as a turn-based strategy game to an expansive, complex empire builder, this is how Civilization has progressed over the past 30 years.
Company of Heroes was a game for true armchair generals. There was no resource collecting, no tank rushes, none of the hallmarks of other games that look like they're about a clash of armies but are really little but mouse-driven sprint races.
Seven years is a long time between wars, though, and now that we have a sequel, people are expecting a lot from this game, the first time Company of Heroes has ditched Western Europe for the Eastern Front. So what's new?