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Note: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

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Why Early Access?

“Medieval Engineers is an Early Access game, which means that it is released while under development but is already in a very playable state and contains a vast amount of features. The game is being improved on a regular basis through updates that add and polish features and content, optimizations and bug fixes.

Getting real feedback from our community is our topmost priority. Working on a game behind the veil isn’t fun and is altogether much less effective. Real people with real needs and real voices you can listen to are the heart of game development. We invite all players to give us their feedback and suggestions and help us create the best game possible!

Buy now, play on Steam and receive future updates.

Everything in the game is subject to change.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Medieval Engineers will remain in Early Access development until we gather enough feedback from the Community. We need to see how people play our game and what do they want us to focus on. Community feedback is expected and will direct our future decisions. We want to ensure that our players have the best experience possible and we will continue to develop the game in Early Access for as long as it is required in order to achieve it.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“We are planning to release new updates on a regular basis. These updates will contain new features, optimizations and bug fixes. The same model has been used for our first Early Access title, Space Engineers (http://store.steampowered.com/app/244850), with great success. New additions to the game will be also depended on player feedback.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The first release of Medieval Engineers will feature: Creative mode (unlimited resources, instant building, invulnerability, levitation), Steam Workshop (SDK + API), damage, and structural integrity. Multi-player and survival modes will come later. A full list of all the features can be found on our website: http://www.medievalengineers.com/features.html”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“All players who decide to purchase the game in Early Access will receive future updates. The price of Medieval Engineers is going increase gradually for as long as it is under development and more features are being added.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Our studio has a very good reputation for developing Early Access titles and the way we involve our players in this process. Our first Early Access game, Space Engineers, is considered to be among the most successful Early Access projects on Steam. Getting real feedback from the Community is our topmost priority. Real people with real needs and real voices you can listen to are the heart of game development. There is a dedicated sub-forum where players can report bugs that they find in the game (http://forums.keenswh.com/?forum=415209). Similar to our forum, players can use our Reddit page as well (http://www.reddit.com/r/MedievalEngineers/).”

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2 August

Medieval Engineers: Developer Diaries - Episode 10

The 10th episode in our series of behind-the-scenes developer diaries has been released! This week you get to meet Daniel, one of our programmers who will tell you more about the new environment system in Medieval Engineers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USSADU4Q3lc

Full info & Main forum thread: http://forums.keenswh.com/threads/7386182

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26 July

Medieval Engineers: Developer Diaries - Episode 9

Greetings, Engineers! The 9th episode in our series of developer diaries has been released. Today we introduce you to Greg, our programmer who worked on the revised building for Medieval Engineers.
Revised building is the unification of building between Medieval Engineers and Space Engineers. This is to allow the use of planets in Medieval Engineers. We needed to do this because the old building system was locked to a fixed grid. This grid was no longer useful because of the curvature of the planet, meaning that buildings needed to rotate to align with the planet's surface. The additional benefit is that it enables players to build freely, aligning castles with the natural features of the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8nb126gA78

Full info & Main forum thread: http://forums.keenswh.com/threads/7386022

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“Medieval Engineers has set the bar for future sandbox games quite high.”
http://mmohuts.com/news/medieval-engineers-early-access-preview

About This Game

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build cities, castles and fortifications; construct mechanical devices and engines; perform landscaping and underground mining.

The game is inspired by real medieval technology and the way people built architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Medieval Engineers strives to follow the laws of physics and history and doesn't use any technologies that were not available in the 5th to 15th centuries.

Medieval Engineers concentrates on construction aspects, but can be played as an action game too. We expect players to avoid engaging in direct man-to-man combat and instead use their creativity and engineering skills to build war machines and fortifications. Medieval Engineers shouldn’t be about troops; it should be about the machinery you build.

Medieval Engineers is the second “engineering” game developed by Keen Software House. The first one is Space Engineers, which sold over 1 million copies in its first year and is still a bestseller.

Early Access

Game modes
- Creative - unlimited resources, instant building, invulnerability, levitation
- Survival - this mode is work-in-progress. Currently available: death/respawn, survival building, resource management, inventory, character stats (health, stamina, food)
Single-player
Multiplayer - alpha version (not final)
- Creative and survival mode with your friends
- Cooperative: build together with your friends, protect your castles/cities from barbarian raids
- Competitive: battle against other players
- Privacy customization: offline, private, friends only, public
- Max 16 players (this may increase in the future)
Character crafting - craft your tools using the basic resources such as scrap wood or small stones
Dedicated servers - players can connect to a third party host, rather than using a player-host, in a peer-to-peer set-up. The result is a faster connection and a more fluid multiplayer performance with less lag
Barbarians - first prototype of enemy AI
Barbarian waves (survival mode) - barbarians will attack players in waves during the night
Weapons - Crossbow, sword
First-person & Third-person
Block types:
- Small: 0.25 meter (25 centimeters)
- Large: 2.5 meters
- Dynamic: can be used to construct carriages and machinery that is supposed to be moved around
- Static: immovable and connected to earth; if a heavy load breaks its structural integrity it cracks and unsupported parts become dynamic
Building blocks: stone walls (various shapes - from blocky to rounded), wooden walls and flooring, roofs (ceramic, thatched, hay), power source blocks (manual human labor), stored energy blocks (torsion spring), leverages, weights, swings, ropes, wooden beams of various length and shape… More will be added in future!
Realistic physics – structural integrity, destructible objects (everything: from blocks to terrain), real proportions, volume, mass, storage capacity, integrity
Steam Workshop – share your creations with the Community
Modding - world files, 3D models, textures, shaders, API (scripting in-game objects in C#)
64-bit
World management – generate new worlds, “save as” to multiple copies, auto-save every 5 minutes (can be turned on/off), edit world settings

More to be added later

Please be sure to read the list of current features before you buy the game. It will give you an insight on what is or isn't actually working: http://www.medievalengineers.com/features.html
Performance Notes
Medieval Engineers is in development and undergoing frequent optimizations. The performance will get better. The performance depends on the complexity of your world and the configuration of your computer. Simple worlds run smoothly even on low-end computers, but a more complex world with rich object interactions could overload even high-end computers.
Minimum requirements represent the bare minimum to run simple scenes and don’t guarantee a perfect experience.

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 (latest SP) 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.0 GHz (or AMD equivalent)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 3870 / Intel HD Graphics 4000
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 10 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX® compatible on-board

Recommended:

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 (latest SP) 64-bit
Processor: Core i5-680 @ 3.6GHz, Phenom II X4 810 or better
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7870 / NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 with 3 GB VRAM or better
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 10 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX® compatible on-board

Medieval Engineers® and VRAGE™ are trademarks of KEEN SWH LTD.

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Posted: 6 August

This was the most amazing fundraiser I have ever seen, SPACE ENGINEERS GETS ALL THE MONEY!!!

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Posted: 6 August

Honestly had lots of hope for this game. Coming from playing space enigneers I thought it would be amazing, but unfortunately I was wrong.

Honestly the game is complete dog-♥♥♥♥. It's got no depth to it other then building castles of which you then have literally zero use for. I hoped they'd add REAL battles sometime but I guess I was wrong.

Not to mention in the year I'ved owned it, literally zero updates have been released and no word on any future ones.

This really does feel like a quick cash grab and I STRONGLY suggest you do NOT buy this POS of a "game".

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Posted: 3 August

absolute ♥♥♥♥, do not buy this. poorly optimized, and you are dressed in a neon red jumpsuit. what the ♥♥♥♥ is this ♥♥♥♥

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Posted: 3 August

God as Space Eng.

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Posted: 31 July

Medieval Engineers had an unimaginable amount of potential but was abandoned. It's very bland and boring and since it first went on the store, few changes were made. The game runs horribly on my PC which nears the recommended specs. It is still early access and no different from the original release. I didn't even want to take the time to expand on my sentences into further detail because no effort was put into this.

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Posted: 31 July

best game ever worth spending money. my favourite bit is when you break stuff

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Posted: 30 July

1. Start it up.
2. Crash.
3. Computer crashed aswell.
4. Forever black screen.

10/10- Would crash again.

(No but seriously, this is alpha. What did you expect?)

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Posted: 30 July

dont buy. last time it was updated in may 24, 2016

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Posted: 29 July

Stop being salty and learn what "Early Access" means

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Posted: 29 July

Game was promising at first, but it seems to be somewhat lagging behind the developer's other projects like space engineers.

It's sad to say but this seems like a case of hitting early access too early with a barebones concept and falling flat on developing it further.
Updates do arrive occasionaly but they're very minor and insignificant so you'll probably barely notice them.

I'll change this review if the game gets changed enough, do avoid this for now though.
If you really want something similar you're better off playing Space engineers and finding a planet.

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Most Helpful Reviews In the past 30 days

shiznit

111 products in account

14 reviews

Posted: 10 July

New inventory system allows you to put nearly everything into your pocket. Game was supposed to be about moving stuff using machines like carts and cranes with pulleys and levers. Instead, we get an "inventory"

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Matthew

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16 reviews

Posted: 31 July

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xXblueray95Xx

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Posted: 30 July

dont buy. last time it was updated in may 24, 2016

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NonDeadly

129 products in account

3 reviews

Posted: 29 July

Where is the gameplay?

I bought this in a Steam sale after reading all positive reviews for "Space Engineers"
Medieval Engineers seemed like a brilliant idea for a game.

I realise it is a sandbox game but after you build a couple of castles there isnt much
to keep you engaged.

Got bored after 1 hour.

Very disapointed.

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UrhoKarila

377 products in account

6 reviews

Posted: 11 July

The game's dead. No important updates recently, and no one plays.

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Roy

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29 reviews

Posted: 29 July

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Bobmcboberson

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Posted: 6 August

This was the most amazing fundraiser I have ever seen, SPACE ENGINEERS GETS ALL THE MONEY!!!

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Crusty Pancake

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9 reviews

Posted: 19 July

When I first bought the game it seemed amazing. Building a castle then seeing the awesome destruction as it toppled. Building medieval weapons with outstanding physics was really fun. Fun for about an hour. After that the game gets extremely boring. There's just nothing else to do. No missions or objectives. Nobody is EVER on multiplayer. After a couple of months they released survival mode. It was so difficult to learn and ultimately just plain boring. I deffinetly regret buying this game and I wish I would have bout space engineers instead.

Pros:

Great Physics
Decent Graphics
Workshop content
Ok building mechanics

Cons:
No story or objective
Very un-optimized
Steep learning curve
Nobody is ever on multiplayer

3/10 This game sucks

GO BUY SPACE ENGINEERS

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GeckoKid3

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4 reviews

Posted: 13 July

Ok so I posted a review for space engineers and I'm doing the same for this. I love medieval stuf and I was thrilled when I saw this game. The physics are great and so is the concept, but I feel tyhat the game is dead. There are no more updates and at the moment there is only about 3 hours worth of singleplayer entertainment. The multpiplayer is a bit shoddy and overall the game just isn't what it looks like. It just needs to be updated.

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parsifal

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Posted: 27 July

BLUF: If you don't mind Space Stuff, go with Space Engineers for now - it's more polished, easier to use, has land-based and space-based environments, better experience overall.

That said, by all means support Med Engs as well as many of us do. I can see the reason for the Med / Space split - but personally think those reasons could be addressed better as one game unit.

No Water. Not gonna troubleshoot the Devs other than to say "Water, please." And ladders should come before elevator / crane assy's.

I have faith Keen will complete this and do it well. I'd like to see large, flat worlds in both this and Space Eng.

I will say this is not quite a 'Minecraft Upgrade' yet in many ways.

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