Reigns: Her Majesty

DevolverDigital

About this game

***Reigns: Her Majesty has just been crowned with the new Transformation Update with over 200 new cards, new characters, and new ways for her majesty to meet her demise!***

Reigns: Her Majesty is the revolutionary follow-up to the smash swipe ‘em up hit Reigns. A cultural renaissance has bestowed the world with a new era of knowledge and enlightenment but greed and jealousy still conspire against the benevolent queen. Outwit and outlast those that would seek to depose you and your husband by swiping left or right, making just (or unjust) decisions on all manner of royal matters. Maintain the balance between the kingdom’s most powerful factions, use mystical items from your inventory, and navigate the increasingly complex politics and personal relationships of your dynasty.

New Kingdom, New Drama: Your royal decrees and unpredictable requests of the people will shape both your time on the throne and the future of your dynasty. Carefully navigate the foolish politics and emotional pleas of the kingdom’s eccentric subjects to find balance between the most powerful factions of the land.

Mystical Inventory: Find and upgrade five special items in a new inventory system. Use your powerful items on character cards and unlock special paths in the ever more complex narrative of your kingdom.

Royal Challenges: Reach specific goals set before each new monarch’s reign to unlock new sets of cards and new directions to take the story of your dynasty.

Nerial and Friends: Reigns: Her Majesty is a collaboration between François Alliot (design/programming), Arnaud de Bock (art), Jim Guthrie (music), and Leigh Alexander (narrative director).

Ratings and reviews

Fun but too many bugs... First of all, the game doesn't fit my screen well so some of the wordings were cut off. Second of all, I've been trying to dueling myself for one of the quests, and winning many times, the character is still telling me to duel myself, not sure what to do to proceed. The achievement is there as well but there's no way for me to proceed with this quest. Customer support has been quiet as well for the past few days. It's a paid game so I was hoping for a better experience.

If you liked the original Reigns, then this is very similar, except you can hold items this time...and upgrade them. I admit, it eventually had to Google a few of the final steps to unlock the "true" ending, but the game was fun all around. It's a good time-waster, for sure, and I'm always happy when a game has neither in-app purchases nor ads. I think I got more time and overall enjoyment out of the first one, but this is a worthy sequel.

It's a nicely balanced game with interesting mechanics, but I have some bones to pick. It's difficult to understand steps you are supposed to take to advace the game, especially since many events happen every twelve life cycles. Some story cards happen only once, difficult to differentiate between them and normal ones, and gives little room for not choosing right. The ending was very underwhelming and extremely vague, it's an unsatisfying close. And the AUTO ROTATION, it's an absolute pain.