As the name suggests, is a city builder about managing a medieval village. You help it develop, fight bandits and eventually participate in larger military campaigns. But all this may not be enough should you cannot persuade families to maneuver in and help develop society, and a few players appear to have problems on this regard. “I have houses, the homeless won’t take them,” wrote one player on Discord. “Approval is NOT the issue here. Before the homeless came, I was at 90%.

The the game is on Steam’s most wishlist ahead of today’s Early Access launch, exploded to over 150,000 concurrent players, not even including everyone playing on Game Pass on PC. This overtook it in terms of total current players and made it the top seller on Steam, ahead of . This is all good news for developers Slavic Magic and their publisher, Hooded Horse, and all of this has apparently contributed to record numbers of homeless peasants.

Players start with several groups of villagers, a few basic resources, and one ox. Initially, they work in camps to gather resources and produce wood. They are eventually expected to move out of their camps and into the homes players have built with them, leading to a virtuous cycle of hardworking workers, growing villages, and happy populations. It’s just that some players seem unable to make their subjects obey. This sounds frustrating, but also funny.

“So I built the first few houses, but families aren’t moving in.” he wrote one player on Steam. “Instead, I keep getting warnings about homeless people…” Some people wonder if this can be a mistake. “I ALWAYS have 5 people who are constantly homeless, even though I have enough town plots, I can’t do anything about it” he wrote player on subreddit. “I swear to God I encountered some bug, 5 of my original families are usually not moving into town I built, but every latest family that involves town has moved in, so now I even have 4 families which have moved in and 5 homeless, despite that I HAVE enough burgers and half of them are empty,” wrote a 3rd person on Discord.

So what’s going on here? Are there gremlins in the early access code, or do players only need a few days to learn the nuances of a realism-based management simulation? “We have seen the same reports,” Hooded Horse spokesman Joe Robinson said in an email. “While at first glance it may seem like it’s the same problem at the highest level, there are a few things that could be contributing to this. Some are by design, but others are related to known bugs that are already being fixed.”

One of the present causes of homelessness is a known bug that stops the reconstruction of burned houses. Another more diabolical bug is that upgrading the starting family camps will cause them to never move to nearby town plots until they demolish the camps. Finally, even should you solve the issue of homelessness, the corresponding negative modifier may stick around for a while. “We’re investigating a possible bug where malus just isn’t welcome, so we’re unsure about that,” Robinson said.

This is just the first day of the Early Access journey, as player feedback helps Slavic Magic deliver on the ambitious promise of the medieval strategy game. I’m sure players will discover even weirder bugs and quirks as they try to figure out what makes it tick. I can’t wait to find out what it is.

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popular 2006 sandpit a game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve Source software was recently hit with a takedown notice Nintendo. As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of , are within the technique of removing Nintendo-related content from the sport that was created roughly 20 years ago.

In the update to ‘ Couple on the web site, the developers stated: “Some of you may have noticed that some Nintendo-related workshop items have been recently removed. This is not an error, the rebuttals came from Nintendo.”

The update continues: “Honestly, that is fair enough. This is Nintendo content and what they permit or don’t allow is up to them. They don’t need you to mess around with things like that – it’s their decision, we’ve got to respect it and eliminate as much as we are able to.”

Despite Nintendo’s procedural nature, not to mention being fiercely concerned about the image of its brand and mascots, Nintendo’s announcement comes as a bit of a shock. According to the update, Nintendo content has been hosted for nearly 20 years. Models of countless Nintendo mascots such as Mario have been ported to the Source engine so that every player can enjoy them from the very beginning. It’s strange that Nintendo would suddenly come out of the blue and force the removal of so much content, especially since the flexibility of the Source engine was a large part of the appeal of the game, which was popularized in the early 2010s by a slew of YouTube personalities playing multiplayer social games in such games What . Of course, you could also argue that Facepunch was sometimes a little too lenient with what they allowed which explains Nintendo’s decision to take action after so long.

It looks like Nintendo-inspired additions have began to be removed A number of months ago, although Facepunch has not publicly disclosed that the corporate issued takedown notices as recently as today. Since then, the method has been “ongoing” and developers are still working on removing it all, which is understandably a Herculean task.

There’s so much of it that at the very end of the update, Facepunch jokes that, “If you would like to help us by deleting Nintendo-related uploads and never uploading them again, that might help us so much.”