Medieval Dynasty
Europe in the early Middle Ages — Nobles and clergy rule and the trade between nations brings prosperity as well as envy, distrust, and greed. Military conflict is everywhere and entire continents are changing. You can choose to follow the main chapters, solve the questlines or just roam around and explore the vast medieval world – but be careful as wolves or bears may try to take a bite from you… Begin with the simplest things for your own survival like hunting and farming as well as building yourself a home. Found a family and have a heir – entice others to live near and work for you, erect many other buildings to transform your settlement into a vibrant village and, ultimately, a thriving dynasty that will reign for generations. A massive medieval open 3D world awaits… Be aware of harsh winters and unexpected events while honing your skills to turn from a medieval survivor into the ruler of a dynasty. Grab your axe, hammer, or hunting bow – and craft your legacy!
Steam User 413
When an update broke my savegame, one of the devs reached out and personally fixed the file for me.
They are lovely people and this is a lovely game and still receiving major updates.
Steam User 263
Medieval Dynasty puts you as a new arrived peasant in a valley. You'll need to survive, hunt, craft and build buildings to form a village that you manage and expand.
It's not so much a survival game, survival is only a thing in the first few hours and not really difficult. It becomes a village builder quickly and finally a management game.
It is a very beautiful and peaceful experience. Aside from a few bandits and aggresive animals, there's no combat.
That means it is also a very relaxing experience. You can play at your own speed, the game is highly customizable if you dislike something (e.g. unlimited carry, faster/slower leveling, no hunger/thirst/stamina, easier or harder enemies etc.)
Also, it is still in development with cooperative multiplayer around the corner.
Highly recommended.
Steam User 157
Looking back at 2020 this game in it's EA was pretty funky with berries being insanely broken and duplicating items from chests. It's 2023 now and this game has grown massively, most of the bugs have been fixed and a LOT of new features have been added to the point of us finally getting coop which has been requested since day 1 of EA. The Devs are working very close with the community and actually deliver what they promise. Would absolutely recommend this game to every city builder - survival game lover.
Steam User 365
Great foundation for a unique game.
The only thing I ask is for more threat. Add bandit raids/village wars and allow us to build defensive buildings/walls and recruit soldiers.
That'd be neat.
Steam User 298
This game is perfect for living out those unfulfilled fantasies, like owning a house and getting my husband pregnant.
Steam User 123
Few things can relax me more than Medieval Dynasty. Among the survival games, it is in the first place for me. It's like Kingdom Come had a baby with Farming Simulator.
Steam User 115
CONTROLS AND ADVICE FOR THE BEGINNER!!
Very slow start (but worth it - its actually very well made) but it doesn't give you really any context on how the controls work so ill lay some out here.
Q - quick crafting menu where you can lay out buildings and craft tools.
Tab gets you to the main control areas for skill trees and what not but its still confusing especially when your starting out.
P - Changes to third person perspective
ALT - Holding it activates Sense (uses stamina)
Things to note:
Winter is harsh, if you dont want to be running around constantly making torches to keep from freezing or just stand in your house next to fire waiting for the season to end youll need fur clothes (no way are you going to be able to make these in your first year or even 3 years properly. My advice! head to Hornica, make loads of knives and sell them to the seamstress, you can buy fur clothes from her that will make winter alot more manageable.
Health - Health doesn't recover really until the season ends where you gain all your food water and health back. Chicory plants regain points of health and St Johns wart cures poisoning. Horde these plants to keep you safe on the road.
Resources - Wood is pretty self explanatory - grab sticks and stone off the ground (use Q menu to make an axe) chop chop chop! boom you have logs.
Other resources aren't so obvious - STRAW! part of the main resources you will use in your building. You will find straw in the form of Reeds along the river bank. Dont need a tool to get them but they sometimes are difficult to find. Whenever you do find a source stay close by because your gonna need it. TRUST ME!
Later in the game you start farming and mining for other things like bronze but really you'll fall into understanding these a bit more as you play. Main things are Food - Hunting, Water - River/streams/well, Straw - River bank as reeds, Wood - Trees, Rocks - on the ground or if you make a pickaxe, in the ground.
There are bandits and they do come after you if your near them (Sometimes somehow knowing your there even when your stealthy) RUN! maybe try to pick them off at a distance but you wont have enough spears to carry that on.
Animals will charge you especially if you attack so be prepared.
Weapons - In the early days the best your gonna get is a wooden spear. This works well for hunting small game and you will find trap making inside of the decorations part of your radial menu when hitting Q.
goal though is to make the hunters lodge - here you can finally make a bow and arrows BUT you need linen thread (NOT EASY TO GET EARLY GAME) - Remember the seamstress of Hornica from earlier? she sells it so make knives sell and buy linen thread.
Make sure you get hunters sense and survival sense as quickly as possible and hold ALT to activate it, it highlights loads of environment stuff like rocks, sticks etc - just makes it easier.
Village citizens - Eventually your gonna start adding people to your village and if your like me you do this far too early. Once you do invite people you'll probably be hit immediately by annoying tags in the top left corner tell you how much your citizen needs and is missing in the village.
My advice! - Make a house for yourself. Make a house for your new citizen before you invite them and make a hunters lodge and well and assign them to one of them. then the next citizen you get to the other.
IMPORTANT NOTE: When you assign a worker to a station ie, hunters lodge - they will need equipment to do there job like knives - pop them in the hunters lodge box and they'll start working. You can find what they need from the management section when pressing tab, click on the work station and it'll tell you what they need to perform the function you want them to do.
THE MORE VILLAGERS YOU HAVE THE HIGHER YOUR TAX AT THE END OF THE YEAR!
Quests - Some quests are timed for the season you got them, make sure you check in the tab menu before sleeping for another season and losing it. Having said that - some quests have you travelling a long way for little gain so don't be afraid to give up on one or two if you cant be bothered.
Travel - Most if not all of the time your gonna be walking to get anywhere, but eventually you will have a horse and i'm sure it'll make it easier but in the early days if you find yourself with a lot of coin and a wish to venture somewhere distant you can use the travelling cart outside all villages to hire a carriage. (i haven't done it as its really expensive but just in case you wanted to)
Just some things to consider but i absolutely recommend the game and you'll find yourself quite invested if you make it past the first year. Sorry for the long review but i had a long journey trying to figure out the mechanics and i'm still learning and didn't fancy buying the guide.
All the best!