Reigns

DevolverDigital

About this game

** Play Store Most Innovative Game of 2016 **

Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal fingers either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom. Survive the seemingly never-ending gauntlet of requests from your advisors, peasants, allies, and enemies while maintaining balance between the influential factions of your kingdom. But beware; each decision you make might have implications and unfortunate consequences down the road that could put your reign and family’s dynasty at risk!

Each year of your reign brings another important – seemingly random – request from your unpredictable kingdom as you strive for balance between the church, the people, the army, and the treasury. Prudent decisions and careful planning make for a long reign but unforeseen motivations, surprise events, and poor luck can take down even the most entrenched monarch. Extend your reign as long as possible, forge alliances, make enemies, and find new ways to die as your dynasty marches along through the ages. Some events will span on centuries, with an intrigue involving burning witches, scientific enlightenment, wicked politics and, maybe, the Devil himself.

Ratings and reviews

Very unique game. It got repetitive and some outcomes make no sense but underneath you see that its really just a numbers game. There isn't much to build on as you constantly die and assume control of the next king. The choices you are able to make are binary and don't make enough impact for any meaningful preparation for the future of your "reign." The dungeon and fighting modes are simplistic and uninteresting. I will continue to play the game though it is failing to keep my interest.

An interesting and affective redesign of "choose your own adventure" story telling as game that is easy to pick and play any time. The short form narrative helps keep sessions and choices short and to the point. I had wanted to try this game for a while, so it was one of my first downloads with the Google Play Pass. I can say that it is worth the premium price point and a no brainer if you have the Play Pass.

This game is great and I absolutely love it. Problem is it doesn't scale correctly to my phone. Text on both the left and right side of cards is cut off by the screen. I think it's to do with my phones screen ratio being 20.5:9 and when this game was originally designed 18:9 was the industry standard. I'd love to see an update to fix the scaling for newer phones with weird size screens. Sadly, I know this game is up there in years and updates probably aren't the devs priority.

What's new

Corrects a few bugs. Support of 64 bit devices.