It seems indie publisher Hooded Horse knows how to pick 'em. After the absurdly successful launch of Manor Lords, the label is putting out another medieval strategy game with a big city-building element in the form of Norland, which has just crossed 500,000 wishlists on Steam ahead of its Early Access launch.
Norland is a "medieval colony sim" where you build a kingdom from the ground up in the style of a game like RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress. There's a massive emphasis on showing the needs and emotions of both your ruling family and the peasants they reign over, to the point where everything from hunger to sex drive is simulated in-game. And, of course, there are other fledgling kingdoms to compete against, which means there's lots of hands to shake and backs to stab along the way.
