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Steam hit Manor Lords shifted 1m copies in its first 24 hours, publisher Hooded Horse has said.
The medieval city builder/strategy hybrid was always likely to do well, being one of Steam's most-wishlisted games. Last Friday, on the night of its release, the game had more than 156,000 people playing. Last night, it hit a new peak of 173,178.
Writing on social media platform X, Hooded Horse claimed this was the highest ever concurrent player count for any Steam game in the city building genre (or simi
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