Life Is Feudal

Life is Feudal is video game franchise set in a fictional Medieval world, developed by Bitbox Ltd. On top of their two flagship titles - Life is Feudal: Your Own and Life is Feudal: MMO, Bitbox Ltd have expanded the franchise by publishing other titles, such as MindIllusion's title, Forest Village.

Life is Feudal: Forest Village[4]
Developer(s)Mindillusion
Publisher(s)Bitbox Ltd.[5]
Designer(s)Вячеслав Доценко, Oleg Kolyada, Дмитрий Шкаровский
EngineFeudal Engine (Modified Torque 3D Version 1.1)
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release26 August 2016 (Early Access)
Genre(s)Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Life is Feudal: MMO
Developer(s)Bitbox Ltd.
EngineFeudal Engine (Modified Torque 3D Version 1.1)
Releaseearly 2018
Genre(s)MMORPG, Online role-playing video game, Sandbox
For the 1993 game released as "Serf City: Life is Feudal" in North America, see The Settlers (1993 video game).

Life is Feudal: Your Own
Developer(s)Bitbox Ltd.[1]
Designer(s)Vladimir Piskunov, Artur Borodin
EngineFeudal Engine (Modified Torque 3D Version 1.1)
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release17 November 2015 [2][3]
Genre(s)Online role-playing video game, Sandbox

Development

During the late winter of 2014, the indie team - which later became Bitbox Ltd - had created a working tech demo for the concept of Life is Feudal: MMO, showcasing many of the main gameplay features, such as real time multiplayer, terraforming, and objects construction.

Life is Feudal: Your Own (LiF:YO) and Life is Feudal: MMO (LiF:MMO) shared the same codebase and were developed simultaneously. Life is Feudal: Your Own was first launched by Bitbox Ltd. on the gaming platform Steam in September 2014 under the Early Access program, reaching Steam's ‘Top Ten’ within two weeks.[6] Within a month, Life is Feudal: Your Own sold over 100,000 copies and continued to rise in popularity.

Life is Feudal: Your Own was released out of Early Access on 17 November 2015, including a trailer and launch cutscene narrated by Sean Bean.[7] After the release of Life is Feudal: Your Own, Bitbox Ltd. expanded to launch Life is Feudal: MMO. Closed beta tests for the game began during the second half of 2016.[8] Bitbox Ltd. also announced a partnership with Xsolla in support of Life is Feudal: MMO.

Also in 2016, Bitbox Ltd. published another game as part of the Life is Feudal franchise; Life is Feudal: Forest Village, developed by the studio MindIllusion and released on Steam. Life is Feudal: Forest Village focused on town-building, and received lukewarm reviews upon launch.[9][10]

Life is Feudal: Your Own

In Life is Feudal: Your Own, the player is randomly placed 9 square kilometers map and must gather necessary resources to survive. Hunger, wild animals and combat with other players present the main source of challenge, and the game's design encourages co-operation. Players can also build structures and terraform land as part of a persistent world.

Life is Feudal: Your Own allows up to 64 players to play together on a private or public hosted server.

Life is Feudal: MMO
Main article: Life is Feudal: MMO

Life is Feudal: MMO was a multiplayer sandbox RPG with survival aspects. Described as a "real life Medieval simulator MMO", the game featured a 21 km x 21 km world inspired by the cold regions of Northern Europe. Life is Feudal: MMO took place in a realistic feudal setting where players worked their way up from scavenging for materials and shelter to becoming a leader of a guild. The game featured a crafting system, building features, and terraforming across the map - meaning players could build their own house and town anywhere in the world.

The game premiered in 2017 and shut down in January 2021. It was relaunched in 2023 by a new studio.

References
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  2. "Life is Feudal:Your Own"Steam. Valve. Retrieved 7 November 2016
  3. "Release!"lifeisfeudal.com. Bitbox Ltd. Retrieved 7 November 2016
  4. "Life is Feudal: Forest Village" Steam. Valve. Retrieved 09 November 2016.
  5. "Bitbox Ltd"
  6. "Life is Feudal Press Release"(2 October 2014). Gamasutra. Retrieved 7 November 2016
  7. "Sean Bean escorts Life is Feudal out of Early Access"(Andy Chalk, 6 November 2015). PC Gamer. Retrieved 8 November 2016
  8. "Life is Feudal MMO"wccftech.com. Retrieved 15 November 2016
  9. "Life is Feudal Forest Village (PC) Review - CGMagazine". www.cgmagonline.com. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  10. Caldwell, Brendan (5 September 2016). "Premature Evaluation – Life Is Feudal: Forest Village". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
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