Reigns

~5% of the population is red green colorblind and yet you use 2 shades of red and green that are terrible for colorblind folks.
Please add colorblind mode so I don’t have to guess which is an up and which is a down

wildly tone deaf with regards to slavery, colonization, and other racially charged topics that require handling with care when depicted in media, especially video games that put the player in the position of the perpetrator. i found it distasteful and uncomfortable

Game makes no sense & is awful. The interface is so minimalistic that it makes it so you can’t tell how your choices are going to impact things, and the combat and dungeon sections are incomprehensible. Can’t believe I wasted money on this.

I really love this game, but there is a glitch with the vase cards. Instead of being the normal size, they cover the entire screen, and I can’t see anything else. Please fix this so I can keep playing your awesome game!

This is a game for masochists. You have very little control (two options) and no information about the consequences of your actions. I can see the devs sniggering behind our backs as they torment us. Maybe that’s what some people are into? Not for me.

What happen ?

It is impossible to figure out the results of any action or recover from any decision. The questions posed are too vague and decisions you are asked to make don’t come with enough Information to assess pro and con. Played a few hours and deleted in disgust. There is nothing clever here.

If it weren’t for some mild humor every once in a while... nah forget it. One star. Decisions are pointless. The main drive of this game is to be funny, but it is goofy and pointless at best. Oh and frustrating to try to make any sense of how to accomplish anything. Might as well be swiping blind.

The text cuts off when in vertical mode, have to turn the phone horizontally to actually read the text

Haven’t tried to play the game in months. Can’t get it past opening screen on iPhone XR. Support site in store doesn’t work. Game hasn’t been updated in 10 months. Not sure what the issue is.

I can’t believe I paid for this lousy excuse of a game. This shottily put together piece of crap contains 0 entertaining plot progression, frequent infinite loops during scenarios due to poor programming, and is overall a disgrace to mobile gaming. And if you’ve seen mobile gaming recently, then you should now realize what a disappointing piece of trash that this “game” is. I can not believe a game this awful has found such success on the App Store.

I don’t understand how people love this game. It gets interesting for a while but eventually you see the same cards and tricks and it becomes kind of mute.
Not happy at all. Would like a refund. Don’t think it was worth it.

This is a game where you swipe right or left and I have no idea how it works. So far I’ve not had much fun. One review mentioned how it’s random, and I hoped that these random things would make for interesting choices. Nope, it’s just random. Going to ask for a refund.

I want to keep playing, as I still didn’t unlock all the cards. How to do?

I love the game but it always opens in landscape, I want to play in portrait but the game always opens in landscape. I have tried turning screen lock on and off, Re-downloding the app, and restarting my phone, but nothing works, the experience just isn’t the same in landscape :(

The game itself is great, but the latest update forces landscape mode on my iPhone XS Max.
Now i can’t play with one hand and the text is also minuscule with a ton of wasted space.

The basic idea is, the game randomly shows you events and gives you two options to choose from, where your choices will affect the status (eg happiness of your people) of your state or trigger a storyline. The randomness and the degree of freedom might seem great but once you start you will find it actually boring in five minutes. The problems are:
1) The supposedly random events get repeated again and again.
2) Your actions have unpredictable consequences which is frustrating because you might get killed no matter how hard you try to make the “right” choice. If you get killed no matter what, why bother thinking before you choose? So you end up just swiping pointlessly.
3) The storylines, like all other events in the game, progress in an unpredictable, unreasonable and meaningless way.

It sure what this game is... there doesn’t seem to be much logic behind the game. The game seems to be based on the humor of a middle schooler. Sometimes you randomly die for no reason - I guess that’s realistic, but it’s dumb. So arbitrary.

“The population is scared by the terrorists! Please, suspend the payment of taxes this year.”
Uh, how do you expect that to solve anything?
You don’t ask a kingdom for help, and suddenly, everyone dies.
“I saw strange lights in the kingdom last night. Maybe it’s a sign that my destiny is to rule this kingdom.”
Yeah, then a monk says scholars are convinced and that it’s a miracle.
You don’t adopt a son, and your military gets stronger.
The citizens get freaky with each other every time you work with other countries, because the population increases every time.
The list goes on and on and on and on.
The developers used no common sense in any aspect of this game. Plus, the voices are annoying as can be.
A breathy “BLOHCHEWDASKOO” or “BLEEKHEHLEH” for example. Is that a language? Not even close.
USE. COMMON. SENSE.

I bought this because of the great reviews. I’m now wondering if Where I missed out. Not impressed. This isn’t a game. If it’s a choose your own adventure the lessons on cause effect were missed.

Title says it all. What I waste.

This game requires a lot of random swiping left and right. It gets repetitive since you can’t control what happens. There is a loose plot but most decisions are random. There’s not even instructions about how to play. I felt this was a waste of time.

This is a massive waste of money. It should be a free game because it has no point, no continuity, no rewards and most importantly, no fun! I feel cheated for buying it. I wish I could get a refund. I don’t see how this piece of garbage game won the awards they claim it did.

This game had such great reviews, I decided to give it a try, but it's quite tedious and repeditive. It's simply a series of binary choices and really mundane objectives. It's akin to a text based game from the 80's, but far less interesting. And it has this really odd obsession with the devil. Save your money and your time, this game is a real stinker.

Ill tell you what this game is, its a bunch of random questions that make no sense. Its not an rpg, there is no story. You juggle meters that move up or down depending on how you answer the questions. Game is over if one of the meters gets too low. Its boring and i deleted it after a couple plays.

The game has arbitrary consequences that don’t make sense as you play. There is no really story line. Additionally, I believe this game is homophobic. If you end up in a homosexual relationship the consequences that follow force you to be killed each time.

I’m in my second kingdom and i just met the barbarian and I’ve entered a loop. No matter what I do It keeps giving me the same options. Everything I do it says it charms the barbarian and I’m not telling the translator guy to leave. It clearly is making me do something that hurts my kingdom in some way which is bs. Clearly why have set it up so you can’t get past a certain amount of years until you have died a certain amount of times. I wish I could get my money back since clearly the decisions you make don’t even matter.

The game tricks you into having fun with its lore. The actual gameplay is purely based on memorization of the choices on the cards. Success is purely based on rng.
There is a victory condition that requires a moon logic puzzle. So it is NOT a strategy game advertised. You were lied to. Much like how in game the game lies to you regarding the effects of decisions.
DO NOT BUY

Honestly this game should be free

The game is very interesting I just hate it that instead of knowing how your choices effect the game u literally have to take a chance and hope for the best, it’s not a good game design I hope that changes.

The choices don’t make sense. There is barely a storyline. Playing at random without reading the choices plays the same as if you tried to think it out.

This game is not something that is really even that’s interesting. All you do is try to figure out a balance of all the attributes but here is no plot/actual strategy to it. I was expecting this to be more complex than it is. Not worth the money

This game has some interesting aspects but you don't really have a lot of control of what happens through your choices; One game, I decided I would just swipe left, no matter what, and I set a high score.

It’s a game for 2 hours, then it turns into rubbish. Then it turns into a game you already figured out and there isn’t any point anymore...

It’s a fun game for the first hour. Making choices and seeing the new cards is great. But after that it’s like the most repetitive game I’ve ever played. So much so that I don’t even read the outcome, I have them all memorized so my 70 year reigns take me 3 to 4 minutes... good game, not worth 3.00 unless there are more cards added.

The initial design is very appealing, which is why it gets two stars. It's cute... on a first playthrough, before it gets repetitive.
However.
Heaven help you if you try to make your kingdom prosper, because having any power prosper TOO MUCH causes them to overthrow you. Too much money? You die in a tragic party accident. Too happy a populace? The mob storms the gates and... adores you, even though they depose you. The theocratic revolts and military coups at least make sense, but the other two were absolutely phoned in. So you MUST pursue mediocrity to the point of actively sabotaging your own progress, including deliberately starving your populace when you could easily feed them.
But that's not all! In a triumph of fake difficulty, the game shows you how much impact decisions will have, but not in what DIRECTION. So you must learn through trial and error whether this decision will increase or decrease a given stat - not always obvious - while suffering deaths by starving peasants or... too-happy peasants. Brilliant.
This, however, is at least not RNG. What IS RNG is visiting the castle dungeon, which has a semi-random internal structure. Said dungeon must be traversed successfully TWICE in order to get the good ending, WHILE getting a randomly-available bonus item WHILE on a timer of constantly-draining stat bars. As said dungeon is randomly available, you may only gain access while one stat is low, causing ignominious death even with perfect execution.
You are never actually told of the bonus item's existence unless you get it, and it's quite possible (indeed, probable) to reach the exit and return to your reign without seeing it, so you may end up repeatedly traversing the dungeon without having any idea that the randomly-encountered skeleton (who may also kill you in a semi-random duel, though you can drive the odds of a loss quite low with practice) is ANYTHING but a gag character. The riddle allowing you to find the correct path through the dungeon is also quite obtuse unless you're really, really bored. (I thought it was warning me about in-game events and was confused when the mentioned dates passed without any. Turns out you're supposed to look at the timeline screen... normally only available right after you die...)
So suppose you look up a guide, as I did, after a frustrating and eventually boring first playthrough.
Well, essential events can flat-out refuse to trigger. I will detail that in a moment, but first...
Recommendation: DO NOT BUY. Look up a Let's Play if you must. How did this get so many 5-star reviews?!
Now begin the SPOILERS.
-SPOILERS-
I got the vase and the witch and started a crusade. Well, the witch apparently can't offer the Ruby while you're on crusade, because she never triggered that event line in about a century of crusading, despite triggering it on my first playthrough soon after I got her. Eventually the damned DOG took pity on me and brought me the Ruby. Kudos at least for safeguards against progress-jamming.
And then the event that triggers while you're on crusade never went off, so I had to stop that one and start ANOTHER crusade before it worked.
But the witch eventually came through, because she triggered the event line after THAT crusade and we went through the same song and dance routine, including the same event on a third crusade. Uh... I can understand having the option to get another strawberry plant if it gets squeezed out before you visit the skeleton again, but shouldn't that quest line just shut off if you've delivered it to him? It serves no other purpose.
And here's the worst offense that made me review. The devil only arrives every 666 years. I missed the second arrival because the dungeon RNG didn't line up for a second successful visit in time. So I was forced to wait OVER FOUR HUNDRED YEARS to complete the game. That's over four hundred turns of just faffing about, accidentally revealing the terrorists, and mostly just churning through kings while waiting.
How in the WORLD is that good game design?
The devil's deal doesn't even really WORK for most NPCs, as non-event-chain ones will be replaced by identical NPCs with different names. What is the point of a shocking decision like that if there are no consequences?
In fairness, the True Pacifist ending is apparently achieved by never activating the deal, so it really only takes ONE hundred years of pure tedium to win if you're savvy about it. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the supposed focus of the game in the first place! Hooray!
-END SPOILERS-

The game mechanic is ridiculously simple. Basically, you get a random event and make one of 2 selections, which leads one or few of your 4 parameters to grow or drop. When one of the parameter is too high or too low - you lose. The is no real story, development or consequences.

So I got this as a recommendation from a friend, but it was not worth my money! Contrary to popular belief, your choices DO have consequences in this game, and the cards can seem random at times but there is a subtle storyline in it. Would not recommend for kids under 12 as there is some language from some of the characters and several of the characters are... suggestive... in nature. Also, I finished this with about 9 hours of gameplay; it’s too short, and once you’re done, that’s that. Overall, fun game, I enjoyed the challenge, but it should’ve been free 😕