paint me unimpressed.
i expected some grand spectacle, i found just a fistful of buildings and some truly retarded choice, like sheep farms giving only wool, no meat, not even milk. everything is tagged "work in progress", "temporary", "placeholder", but honestly everything feels rather bad, the core of the game is micro shuffling around people until you have enough in a year or two, no idea how that could be fun.
Spent enough time with this game now to come to the same conclusion.
Some of its systems show more promise than Banished and its clones, but that's about it. Right now it's just way too limited, and the promise of a complex economy is only barely fulfilled. It doesn't go much further than what Settlers did in the early 90s.
I also tried Farthest Frontier yesterday, and that game has a much better economy, with a lot more stuff to do.
One thing Manor Lords currently does really badly is map generation, because every region has one of every resource. No exceptions. Sometimes one or two resources in a province are particularly plentiful, but there's always just one source of it.
One iron mine. One clay pit. One berry patch. One herd of deer. Always just one, never more, never none.