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Rising Lords
Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
“I loved the Lords of the Realm series (I and II) and decided to pick up Rising Lords. It adds some features to its spiritual successor, but the core idea is the same. The management element of the game works. It is not too complicated to build up your economy and an army. The…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“If you played the classic Lords of the Realm 1 and 2 games this is the closest thing to a proper sequel, with changes that do not take away from the originals but instead keeps the essence of what made them unique and enjoyable, while improving it in how the economics and…”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“Frustrating game that I wanted to like. - Tutorial is very brief (3-5 minutes), and leaves out the majority of systems to know or 'how to do a specific thing'. Normally not a problem, as i like discovering myself, but it was often the case that 'this game doesnt have that, so…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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1.5.8 (July 18)
cycling to swordsmen still possible when not unlocked stone wall radial graphic for desert potential crash w/ DLC button crash due to bad tile id radial double-click crash army garrison max crash due
1.5.6 (may 15)
- localisation update - Fixed field upgrades not locking/unlocking correctly - Fixed other incorrect radial toggle checks - Fixed building fields as wrong biome w/ desert - Fixed radial crash due to t
1.5.5
Fixed a rebellion army zero units crash. fixed trebuchet crash w/ decoy card fixed a credits crash fixed a bombard crash fixed disband crash w/ mercs in desert army fixed xp boost crash due to bad til
hotfix 1.5.4 (April 26)
- added proper tavern lvl3 atra/desert version - fixed a user reported crash with generals that occured through science research
hotfix 1.5.3 (April 24)
- fixed a nasty freeze on right click that occured on many systems - fixed a crash when going to a certain campaign battle - fixed a bug with AI using skirmish card - fixed a crash with water auto til
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Medieval · Turn-Based Tactics · Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Indie · Multiplayer · Tactical · Turn-Based · Turn-Based Combat · Base-Building · Hex Grid · 2D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 12 |
| Official site | https://www.Argonwood.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: WIndows 64bit Processor: 2,27 GHz Dual Core Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Dedicated Graphics Card with min. 2GB shared RAM DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 500 MB available space Sound Card: Any