Life is Feudal: Forest Village
Released May 2017
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
66% positive · 6,005 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
Life is Feudal: Forest Village launched out of Early Access on May 26, 2017. At launch, the developer explicitly stated that the release was "not the end of its development" and promised more features and bug fixes ahead — and they delivered on that. The game received a steady stream of feature patches through 2017 and into 2018, adding content like raiders, pavement, steel tools, and improved mod support. The last recorded update was on July 23, 2020, a patch focused on mod support improvements and bug fixes.
Scanning across all 50 news posts, the game has zero major named expansions or DLC releases, and zero announcements of upcoming content. The developer's last communication was on July 23, 2020 — nearly six years before today's date of June 27, 2026. There are no unreleased DLC items on the store, no roadmap commitments outstanding, and no developer statements about future content after that final patch. The store description makes no mention of planned additions, seasons, or a live-service structure.
The update pattern never established a major content cadence — the posts consist entirely of feature patches and bug fixes, with no named expansions or content drops. Given the complete silence since July 23, 2020 and the absence of any outstanding commitments, the game is best understood as a finished product that received post-launch polish and improvements before the developer moved on. The July 23, 2020 patch represents the last known developer activity and is treated as the point at which active development concluded.
Evidence
Patch 1.1.6814 released with mod support improvements and bug fixes. This is the last recorded developer communication.
Developer explicitly stated they did not abandon development and planned to continue, listing upcoming features including Viking incursions.
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Developer
Publisher
Bitbox Ltd.
Achievements
29
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
Life is Feudal: Forest Village is a feature-rich, town building simulator strategy game with engaging survival aspects. Lead your people: a small group of refugees who were forced to start again on an unknown island.
Terraform and shape the land and expand with houses, pastures, orchards, farms, windmills and many other buildings. Forage in the forest, hunt for prey, grow crops and domestic animals for food. As Winter creeps up, ensure you stock up with enough firewood, charcoal and warm clothes to survive, and remember: a lack of vitamins in good rations may lead to disease and could even totally wipe out your village!
You can oversee your village from a birdseye view or occupy one of your villagers to control and perform tasks in a first person view to speed things up or just to explore.
Some of the more exciting features:
Terraform and shape the land and expand with houses, pastures, orchards, farms, windmills and many other buildings. Forage in the forest, hunt for prey, grow crops and domestic animals for food. As Winter creeps up, ensure you stock up with enough firewood, charcoal and warm clothes to survive, and remember: a lack of vitamins in good rations may lead to disease and could even totally wipe out your village!
You can oversee your village from a birdseye view or occupy one of your villagers to control and perform tasks in a first person view to speed things up or just to explore.
Some of the more exciting features:
- Advanced farming system. Different crops and fruit trees require varying amounts of moisture, man labour and time in order to ripen ready for harvest. Your pastures and hens require hunters to protect them from forest predators.
- Switch between birdseye and first person views. You can play in a birdseye view, watching over everything and issuing strategic orders, or you can possess a villager and play from a first person perspective, performing everyday tasks along with your fellow villagers.
- Terraforming and pavement. Terraform land around your settlement to enable construction of larger buildings. Pave roads to speed up the movement of your villagers and thus improve the economy of your settlement.
- Diseases, food rations and vitamins. Diseases spread faster in cold weather, especially if your villagers lack warm clothes or their food ration is too plain and lacking in vitamins. Try to stock all types of food possible (meat, fish, bread, vegetables and fruits) to keep your villagers’ healthy.
- Dynamic ecosystem. Villagers continuously walking in the surrounding woods will scare wildlife deeper into forest. Excessive farming or woodcutting can lead to flora and fauna extinction thus lowering the flow of meat, hides, mushrooms, berries and medical herbs to your stocks.
- Real time weather and seasons system. The seasons effect your village’s needs: summer droughts will force your farmers to water your crops and rainy days will force them to dig trenches to drain excess water, and you’ll need firewood and warm clothes for your villagers in Winter.
- Morale and increasing population. Keep your villagers happy and their families will grow - that is, if their needs are being met! Living in overcrowded hostels, unfulfilled requirements and even bearing witness to a villager’s demise will reduce morale and their productivity.
- Disasters. Lightning can hit tall buildings that are standing on hilltops. Tornados can leave a devastating trail of destruction across your settlement. Earthquakes can destroy your houses and even topple trees. Make sure you are prepared to face those challenges!
- Mod friendly. Our game is designed to be modder friendly. Game modders will have access to AI, animations, task and resource management, navigation, sounds and many other game systems. Those systems and assets can be completely changed through game scripts written in LUA.
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Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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