Life Is Feudal

Life is Feudal is video game franchise set in a fictional Medieval world, developed by Bitbox Ltd. On top of their two flagship titles - Life is Feudal: Your Own and Life is Feudal: MMO, Bitbox Ltd have expanded the franchise by publishing other titles, such as MindIllusion's title, Forest Village.

Development
During the late winter of 2014, the indie team - which later became Bitbox Ltd - had created a working tech demo for the concept of Life is Feudal: MMO, showcasing many of the main gameplay features, such as real time multiplayer, terraforming, and objects construction.

Life is Feudal: Your Own (LiF:YO) and Life is Feudal: MMO (LiF:MMO) shared the same codebase and were developed simultaneously. Life is Feudal: Your Own was first launched by Bitbox Ltd. on the gaming platform Steam in September 2014 under the Early Access program, reaching Steam's ‘Top Ten’ within two weeks. Within a month, Life is Feudal: Your Own sold over 100,000 copies and continued to rise in popularity.

Life is Feudal: Your Own was released out of Early Access on 17 November 2015, including a trailer and launch cutscene narrated by Sean Bean. After the release of Life is Feudal: Your Own, Bitbox Ltd. expanded to launch Life is Feudal: MMO. Closed beta tests for the game began during the second half of 2016. Bitbox Ltd. also announced a partnership with Xsolla in support of Life is Feudal: MMO.

Also in 2016, Bitbox Ltd. published another game as part of the Life is Feudal franchise; Life is Feudal: Forest Village, developed by the studio MindIllusion and released on Steam. Life is Feudal: Forest Village focused on town-building, and received lukewarm reviews upon launch.

Life is Feudal: Your Own
In Life is Feudal: Your Own, the player is randomly placed on a 9 square kilometer map and must gather necessary resources to survive. Hunger, wild animals and combat with other players present the main source of challenge, and the game's design encourages co-operation. Players can also build structures and terraform land as part of a persistent world.

Life is Feudal: Your Own allows up to 64 players to play together on a private or public hosted server.

Life is Feudal: MMO
Life is Feudal: MMO was a multiplayer sandbox RPG with survival aspects. Described as a "real life Medieval simulator MMO", the game featured a 21 km x 21 km world inspired by the cold regions of Northern Europe. Life is Feudal: MMO took place in a realistic feudal setting where players worked their way up from scavenging for materials and shelter to becoming a leader of a guild. The game featured a crafting system, building features, and terraforming across the map - meaning players could build their own house and town anywhere in the world.

The game premiered in 2017 and shut down in January 2021. It was relaunched in 2023 by a new studio.