I would trust the Medieval Dynasty developers more than the Bellwright developers which have a history of incomplete games.

Wow this was such a great video! The side by side comparisons are fantastic!

one thing about medieval dynasty that sets itself apart from other types of these games is that MD is mainly just a farming/decoration game with some survival elements. I don't think it was ever supposed to be combat oriented.

it is about time Mount & Blade had a Baby with Medieval Dynasty and made Bellwright .

I was going to give MD a shot when I found Bellwright. Now I'm about 300 hours in the game bascially forgot that there was some kind of main quest line and have still not reached the final tech tier. ;-) Though due to raids I must say it kept me so busy at times that it was outright stressful. On the other hand there is always something to do: Inspecting outposts if they have all tools and food, scouting for new resources, fortification, expansion of the village, buying seeds for farming, managing storage and preparing for winter and raiding the raiders back of course. So you can do quests but usually it's easy to set own own goals like for example I've just geared up a whole NPC village, let's see if they now can fight back without my assistence. ;) Thoug I must say as of now it's too cumbersome to lead an army arround the map because you constantly have to stock up everybody wíth food and that in turn spoils fast. They've improved on the latter meanwhile so it lasts longer but the cheap basic food like dried mushrooms or berries is gone in about 2 in game days, so you hardly can't be on an expedition for weeks. Also the weapons break after a while and need to fixed or replaced. Finally since there are teleporters in the game that only can be used by the player, I most of the time end up fighting enemies myself. My people have better things to do anyway, like taking care of the farms or chopping more wood. ;-)

Medieval Dynasty: survival aspects as an individual Bellwright: survival aspects as a group of people

Love the new games in that genre that are coming out. Always wanted Bannerlord + Valheim

This video is EXACTLY what I was looking for! I enjoyed Medieval Dynasty a ton, but definitely ran out of stuff eventually (before even needing the "dynasty" aspect...). Thank you!

Fantastic video; it was quite helpful. I would be interested in seeing gameplay content as well. Keep up the excellent work. Thanks!

Great video! Helped me get much more hyped for Bellwight while I wait 12 more minutes to play it for the first time!

Great Video. It helped me a lot. And I would love to see gameplay content. Keep up the good work. Thank you!

Brilliant video, such a succinct overview and comparison. Really well presented and put a new game on my radar. Got a sub from me, hope to see more Bellwright content on your channel!

Good video! I'd be interested in a bit of gameplay footage for sure :)

Thank you, this was a wonderful comparison.

exceptional video, went to 2 or 3 streams to figure it out about this question and only now i have an idea

Great side by side comparison! I love this genre/setting of these games, so the more the merrier for me 😆

I heard Alexander Nakarada's music in the background, love his work! Great video, I just subscribed to your channel, keep it up.

Looking forward to it on Tuesday!

Bellwright looks really interesting, especially combat. Looking forward to that clip you might share 😉

Excellent analysis and review Gwen! Great job!

very well done video! Sub! And yes, would love to hear more about the game and roadmap.

I was very excited until I saw Snail is behind it. All I'm going to suggest is, wait and see how this goes before buying. They have....a history.

Yes, this was a great compare and contrast. Thank you. If they add just a couple of survival mechanics to Bellwright, it sounds like a nearly perfect game. Or perhaps some mods could be created? But I LOVE the NPC system. Sounds amazing.

Perfect video, exactly what I was looking for. I'm very surprised you only have 1k subs, this video was the quality that I'd expect of a 200k-1mil channel! I've been looking for a replacement for Medieval Engineers since that game's development was abandoned, and Bellwright looks closer to it than Medieval Dynasty due to the larger emphasis on combat. I was very disappointed to learn the buildings are pre-built in both though, and that Bellwright doesn't really have survival mechanics. In the month since you released this video, have you learnt anything about if they have any plans to add free-form building like ME, or more in-depth survival mechanics like ME or MD?

Medieval Dynasty seemed a little too tedious because of the micro-managing of the villagers. Bellwright, as you mentioned, seems to have greatly improved the mechanics of village management and seems to be a lot more fun. Think I'll try it out....after I complete the Ashlands in Velheim

Very nice review. Have both games. Both games have their own merits.

This looks awesome and I can't wait! I wish I had the chance to play in the beta! Of course you are concerned about the food. lol

Super detailed, great info

Very well done. Earned a sub!

Extremely professional, well done!

I like these type of games

Great video, and comparison.

what an amazing video new sub here thanks for sharing this!

Excellent!

Great video ty, subbed.

great video - subscribed :)

Thx for the video. Does anyone know if there is controller support?

Weather system is a must needs some sort of survival element like drinking water and winter being cold and farms get affected

Thanks for the video! I've played Medieval Dynasty in the past but it was just... too passive? I played the Bellwright beta last year and I've been pretty hyped for it. Thing is now I'm trying to look for more info on Manor Lords since it keeps being compared to Bellwright. Either way, I want to give the Bellwright Devs a chance solely because I found the game to be very fun. I will miss those Survival Elements though. I actually really loved that in MD.

Love the game’s concept! If it spent more time in development then it could potentially turn out really well.

Keep in mind that the company behind Bellwright has a history of releasing games in EA and never finishing them. It's worth checking out the video Kira did on it before you consider buying the game.

8:45 over 100 hours you say, more like over 10 years IRL. Building is just painfully grindy and long

Was watching SirJayWalkers Bellwright Stream and he mentioned you and came to check it from another perspective... Very awesome video and comparison between the 2 games... I feel like medieval dynasty needs more late game content to break the autonomy... it kinda gets boring late game without any action, but from what i watched, bellwright might be more fun with weapons and combat.

I've played both and logged over 100 hours in Medieval Dynasty. I'm currently around 30 hours in Bellwright. From my experience, Bellwright is so much more grindy, sometimes almost to a fault. For instance, going to Tier 2 by building the Village Hall was a pain in the arse. For one, it takes so much resources and two, it takes forever to build. Even with assigning the villagers to build it, it still takes a while to complete. Also, researching and crafting things takes longer than it needs to be. In Medieval Dynasty I don't remember being pissed off quite as often because things were taking way too long to build. In Bellwright it feels like everything takes twice as long to build. Both are extremely fun to play, but I will have to give the edge to Medieval Dynasty because it doesn't piss me off as much as Bellwright.

Great video! It was fun testing the Beta together!

I can't wait to try this game thanks to this great review, now i just need to buy a whole new computer to run it lol.

you get a debuff in the cold

looks good. Hopefully with MD and SD the game loop doesn't get boring. Good thing they implemented some brains into the NPCs tho :) Also yes, the playtest video is requested.

A great video, i hella like it

Question: I played Medieval Dynasty, one thing who bugged me was the repetitive tasks, I mean I can't play hours and hours so I'm annoy to spend my gaming time to collect wood and painfully skill my farming skill... what is your thought on that for both games ?

a bit of medieval dynasty n stranded dawn in my opinion

Can't rule out the factor that Bellwright is for PC only and Dynasty is for both console as well as PC.

Nice video :) sadly i never gonna buy another game donkey crew, that did leave 3 other games in early acess, i dont trust them anymore

I hope they optimize the game and a fix combat/raids a bit.

The gaming community is a toxic place. This game is great and a good comparison video. One tip eat meat it has a health regen aspect. And seasons have a small debuf slightly less productive in winter followers are have a small mood change because it’s raining and you’re running across the landscape. It’s a great game as is fully playable and complete story included right to end game at day one of ea release that’s impressive. I played medieval dynasty at day one. I couldn’t play it it was horrible I picked it up like 6 months later and enjoyed it ended up many hours in but at day one to day one this is insanely better.

it looks nice

Oxygen Not Included already exposed the glaring issue with priorities, and non-specific assignments: workers do one step of a task and go to the next task, wasting time on traveling back and forth between them, taking forever to finish anything. I've had a worker with research on priority 9 and construction on 5, and it still lugged a single log from the communal chest to a building site, then went back to research for one second, before going on his way to fell trees, so I've had to completely disable all activities except research for that worker to stick to researching. Sorry, but eventually having to resort to disregarding priorities and setting everything to disabled while keeping one task active, is just functionally the same thing Medieval Dynasty already has with its own specific assignments, so there is no way less micromanagement nightmare involved here...

Will this be abandoned like all the others...ummmmm yes!

For me I was hugely disappointed with the NPC in dynasty. I am thinking getting bellwright for the better NPC stuff

BAY-TUH not BEETA

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bellwright does not have backpack HAHAHAHA

Wish they had generations. You can have children and pass down to the next gen. Imagine if NPCs also could do that.

It’s 3rd person manor lords

Idk, I learned that the developer's are owned by Snail Games, and snail games have a history of not being able to publish and host good quality, finished games. I bought Dark and Light when it first came out, super excited about it because it was like, fantasy medieval/DND + ARK, and content creators were going BANANAS over it. Then it just dropped off the face of the earth. Abandoned by snail. I won't purchase another Early Access game from them or any sub-developers owned by them again.

Ngl I feel like they picked the worst time possible to release this game, because it’s not going to compete with Manor Lords, that’s a fact. They should have given Manor Lords a few months for the hype to die down. I’m still getting the game, just definitely not now.

This dev has a really bad rep. They always abandon their games. It's Manor Lord for me.

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Bay-tuh not Bee-tuh

Hey! It's the exact same terrible melee mechanics as that terrible game Oasis! I think they ctrl+c, ctrl+v the animations and everything.

Bellwright looks cool but I'm very sceptical seeing the developers, donkey crew. Their last two games got lots of hype and buys and were later abandoned before being fully released when they were unable to improve the games significantly and the playerbases died. The devs can either be viewed as incompetent or fraudulent, neither of which gives you lots of hope when buying into an alpha.

The crafting and building seemed interesting but I really disliked the intro of Bellwright. So much that i took it off my wishlist as soon as I saw someone playing the demo and heard the intro. The story seemed just so badly written and unrealistic that i lost all interest. What's your thought on the story? Does it improve further down the line? Are you forced to follow a rather rigid story arc and does the game end when you finish the story or can you play endlessly like in Medieval Dynasty?

the developers tend to leave their game hanging like last oasis so be warned, might 🏴‍☠ this sht just to try it out but wouldnt buy the early access.

This is a really sketchy video (just like the developer). Comparing a game overly favourably to another game thats designed to be completely different.

Note to devs: 1. Speed up the pace of the game itself by at least 10%, ideally 20%, all around (way to slow to move/run without any gear, let alone when you equip full set of plate armor) 2. Improve storage capacity for all buildings, by 100% 3. Speed up the building animations by 30-40% (clicking on a few dots at first, to build any starter building is nice, but starting tier 2 and don't let me start on tier 3 buildings, it is a nightmare, especially when you need something quickly and you are doing all the building yourself, at night, when your AI helpers are sleeping) 4. Combat needs a lot of polishing, for an early access experience it is ok, but leaves a lot to be desired 5. Being able to equip only 1 cloth quiver is really handicapping you in any kind of raid scenario, should also be improved upon 6. While finding food is not the issue, getting all the ore types is another story... 7. Minimap needs a complete rework (it is a complete mess at this point). 8. Getting the Bellwright status at any neutral village shouldn't be the prerequisite to build "Village archery range" and "Village training grounds", cause you need those buildings to help you earn required "Trust points" (they can only be build once you have maxed trust points). Not being able to place "Travel sign" closer to a village is ridiculous. 9. No water interaction in any way, so kind of makes it funny having to provide food for your subjects, but water is not the issue. 10. Day goes by really quickly, needs to be addressed in a way that we should get somewhere in the ball park of 40-50% more daylight than it is at the moment. Overall, game has a lot of potential, but also needs a ton of work. Judging their track record, I am not keeping my hopes high. If they manage to get things sorted out, in a few years time (I would say at least 2 more years before the official release) this game could become one of the best in genre.

Lol just before Manor lords .... i didnt think much of the demo and what ive seen. Hope im wrong and its great. Battle though looks generic, bland and repetitive....

Idk , to be honest i was following medieval dynasty since 0.8 version , and it improved quite a lot along the way , but at the same time is was not that laggy , idk the visual in both look the same but the level of detail in bellwright is just out of place , i mean do we really need 150k polygon trees ? the game feels more like alpha then early access , ppl forgot how early access started all along, it started with games being almost finished , like they had the base gameplay but some content was still in development , now EA basically throw at you a laggy mess with somehow finished mechanics and stuff like that

I will never buy another game made by snail games. Look at how they killed ARK survival evolved after promising a free graphics update that they then changed and sold back to us. Instead get Manor Lords. A developer that killed the multiplayer servers once they started charging real money for the same game with a graphics update is as bad as developers adding lootboxes after the reviews are out.

AI is terrible. Even if combat works AI will just move straight line to you.

Well for me its Medieval Dynasty for sure ! I dont trust the devs from Bellwright , like more ppl said , its there 3 th game , the other 2 where never finished! And then the publisher ,Snail Games ! Can it even wors !? So no , for me is Bellwright 👎👎👎

Bellwright won’t be complete. Developers aren’t known for finishing or caring about games

Both games are insanely boring and offer no real challenge. And they are fantasy games, so a bit bizarre to compare them to games like Manor Lords.

I refunded the game after it crashed a few times and realized that its developed by donkey crew and snail games. It'll be abandoned it a couple of months.

beeta... beta!!! ugh