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Life is Feudal: Your Own

You play as a survivor in a medieval sandbox where you can live alone, cooperate with others, or host a private world with up to 64 players and customized rules. The game offers no fixed profession, allowing you to develop a character around your preferred activities. Core activities include gathering resources, farming, hunting, fishing, cooking, animal breeding, crafting equipment, and constructing homes, villages, or fortified settlements. You can reshape the terrain by flattening ground, raising hills, and digging tunnels, mines, trenches, and moats before building on it. Progression uses skills and stat caps rather than a fixed class structure, letting you specialize through repeated activities. Combat uses directional, non-target attacks controlled by mouse movement, with timing, positioning, physical damage, formations, bleeding, fractures, exhaustion, and unconsciousness all affecting battles; alchemy recipes are individually randomized and learned through experimentation.

Shape land, survive harsh medieval conditions, craft tools, and build settlements while fighting or cooperating with other players.

Released 17 Nov 2015

66%positive of
12k player reviews

$19.99

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Dig tunnels, mines, trenches, and moats, or raise and lower the ground to permanently reshape the landscape around a settlement.

Experiment with individually randomized alchemy recipes rather than following one universal recipe list.

Direct attacks by moving the mouse, combine directional attacks into effects, and organize fighters into formations that provide bonuses during battles.

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Developed by Bitbox Ltd. · Published by Bitbox Ltd.

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Players Praise Most

Deep terraforming and building that let players reshape land and create settlements
Cooperative multiplayer, private servers, roleplay, and player-run communities
Extensive, varied, and distinctive crafting and survival systems
A slow, demanding progression that makes completed projects feel earned

Common Player Critiques

Very slow, grind-heavy progression in which basic tasks can take many hours
Bugs, clunky systems, technical problems, and a lack of ongoing support or updates
Solo play is considered substantially harder or less enjoyable than playing with others
Small or declining player population and reduced server activity

66%

positive of 12k player reviews

63/100

Metacritic

From the Devs

Life is Feudal: Your Own is a truly hardcore sandbox RPG with captivating survival aspects. Described as a real life Medieval simulator, which caters for up to 64 players on a 3km x 3km gameworld, any and all paths are an option.

LiF:YO places you in a realistic feudal setting with the ability to host your own private world and set your own rules to suit your playstyle. There’s an in depth crafting system, a range of building features, and free terraforming across the map - meaning you can build your own house anywhere in the world. Team up with your friends and build a village or city and repel attacks by other players who want to ransack your lands!

The unique combat system is non-target and physics-based; the direction of your attack depends on mouse movement. Basic movements and directional attacks can be combined to create deadly combos with special harmful effects. Battle formations are also a new way to collaborate and control the situation on the battlefield with your fighting team. Co-operation and a good strategy within a formation will help you prevail against the enemy.

Everything is tweakable and unique to you, including how your character progresses. The skill and stat cap system allows you to design a character molded to fit your style perfectly, for example. Even alchemy is unique; all recipes are randomized for each character thus the only way to learn is by experimentation.

Features

Unique Features:

Free Terraforming & Tunnel Building. 100% free terraforming and tunnel building means you can dig tunnels, mines and moats and expand them in all dimensions barely without limit! You can raise and lower ground levels with a landfall effect. Substances include soil, rock, granite, ore veins, clay, sand, and much more
Battle Formation System. Strategize for massive battles and provide your units with certain bonuses with the formation system. Keep organised and inside the formation shape to continue to reap the benefits
Unique Alchemy Combinations. There are over 40,000,000 alchemy combinations unique to each player! You need to learn, experiment and create your very own unique combinations. Complementing the hardcore feel of the game, alchemy is not simply a matter of character skill as it strongly emphasises spending time and resources on creating good recipes and combinations
Full Seasonal Weather System. Much like in real life, LiF features seasonal weather that directly affects your life in this feudal world
Complex Food & Cooking System. Cooking is no longer a secondary or non-existent skill. Being a good cook who knows many complex and tasty recipes means that you and your friends will be better fed and will receive skill bonuses
Realistic Player Damage System. Based on human anatomy, with fractures and bleeding wounds, you can create unique and deadly combat tactics
Double Health & Stamina Bars. Double health and stamina bars represent better information about the status of your body. Players can be knocked unconscious or killed. They can also be temporarily out of breath or totally exhausted

These are only a handful of the many features that make Life is Feudal:Your Own unique and true to life in a Medieval world. With hundreds of personal choices and customizations on offer to create endless combinations, your imagination will be your only limitation.

Back of the Box

Platforms	Windows
Achievements	150
Age ratings	CRL 18 ClassInd (Brazil) 14 — Violência Atos criminosos IGRS (Indonesia) 18 — Kekerasan Rokok dan/atau rokok elektronik, minuman beralkohol, narkotika, psikotropika, dan/atau zat adiktif lainnya Interaksi Daring Steam (Germany) 16 — Drastische Gewalt Alkohol / Tabak
Players	1–64
Play modes	Online co-op Online PvP Persistent world
Other modes	Private server hosting PvE servers PvP servers Roleplay servers RP/PvP servers Guild and kingdom play Sieges Large formation battles Community settlement building
Multiplayer	Life is Feudal: Your Own is a multiplayer sandbox RPG that supports private hosted worlds and server-based play. The official description states it caters for up to 64 players on a 3km x 3km world. The provided text indicates online co-op and online PvP, with servers varying between PvP, PvE, and roleplay-focused rulesets. Solo play is possible on private or adjusted servers, but the game is repeatedly described as designed around group play.
Multiplayer & mods	The provided text indicates server hosting, server customization, and RP mods. Mods and server settings can change progression speed, skill caps, rules, and roleplay features, but no specific multiplayer-only mod framework is formally described.
Controller required	No
DRM / EULA	Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA Life is Feudal: Your Own EULA
Content notices	Online interactivity
Metacritic	63/100 View on Metacritic
Website	Official website