Yes, Your Grace

Gameplay: The game consits out of 3 main parts: 1. Deciding what to do with the requests of your subordinates. It is mainly a decision between: 1. Give ressources 2. Send somone 3. Ignore them. There are a few small storylines, but many are just one-time encounters 2. Upgrading buildings: This is the alternative to helping the peasants. Higher Investments, but clearer result. 3. Talk with your family and decide their fate throughout the game through this There are some more aspects (Deciding who to ally, 2 battles (Rock, Paper, Scissor and you know what the enemy took), a small detective task) but they are not the core gameplay loop. All these parts are fun and are accompined by a suiting soundtrack, but have a few problems: 1. Difficulty: You can easily buy all the buildings and still treat the peasants more than satisfactory. The game always tells you, that you just have limited ressources and it is true, that you can not help everyone. But overall I never had the impression that I really had to decide wether to be disliked by my people or spend ressources, as I nearly always had enough. 2. Different Playstyles: In games like Long live the queen, you reach a different story branch if you focus on other traits (e.g. military, magic, diplomatic etc.). In Your Grace this is not the case. You have to balance the ressources and thats it. You could differ in the dialog with your family, which results in most differnt outcomes, but they are often pretty obvious good/bad decisions. So if you managed your whole family to survive there is not much replay value (Note: Game took only 5+ hours) 3. Humor vs. Seriousness: The dialogs are lighthearted, which is nice to read but sometimes is contraproductive. When the game wants to struck you emotionally or make decisions about the life of your subordinates its difficult to feel a conflict, because the mood has not been set. Overall: It is a short, fun game and I really enjoyed it, but it has obvious downsides.

Gorgeous graphics, amazing soundtrack, good writing, fun management, difficult decisions. I really liked this game and how it delivered a really interesting mixture of genres here! Bonus points because I could encourage one of the daughters to be come a sword-lesbian.

I barely review a game but I think this requires one. - Although based both on me and other reviews the story might not be the best it's a unique games because it combines game genres that you can't find on the internet easily. It combines Simulation, RPG and survival which makes it an Interactive Roleplaying choice-based Survival King Simulator. - The story could be better and I only managed to pass the game in not more than 5 hours. - Although the game is 50% survival I think there is barely anyone who managed to pass the game without taking a loan, not paying their army or dismissing their agents a least one time. On the part of survival it could have been improved a lot. - Poor endings and outcomes. The game is also choice based although your choices don't really matter to the game. The only thing that choices influence the ending a bit is by deciding to help peasants or not. Of course that's more of survival and not choice based since you also require resources to do that. - If one thing I could rate better then this is soundtracks. I was really impressed by the soundtracks.

Really nice game to play over a couple evenings. Not that "hard", though some choices you make or poor management of your resources can have terrible consequences. It's not just a management game though, there's a cast of characters with their own distinct personalities with whom you interact throughout the game. You get to know them, see them grow, and love them. In my opinion, that's the true heart of this game. I loved the range of options (you can be way more benevolent and kind than I would have expected, and it seems you can also be, well, an ass). I only did one playthrough (I rarely have the patience for more), but for completionists, I think there's enough content to satisfy. Thanks for a very nice game :)

This is a kingdom manager game where failure could lead to fatal consequenses for you and your family. As such the game can be bleak. But that also mean you will value your successes more. The ame itself I find the choices rather limited and predefined. Resources and money unnessesary hard to get by and the fights too chaotic and limiting. Places to visit and things to repair/upgrade at the castle are also pretty limited. In many ways the game have the feeling of a Visual Novel. You are led step by step through the 50 or so turns of the game. Some choices further into the game are also time limited. At the start of the game I was rather worried the pixelated graphic would ruin the feel for me. I like games with good graphic. And although I feel it could been way better, I still made it through the game. I love Kingdom manager games. And although this game certainly have its fault, I found it playable. Not sure about replay-value, but I enjoyed the 10 hours or so I played it, and all the time I had a "One more turn feel" On GOG I will give this 3 stars. Possibly a bit generous, but I always do so when I am having a "one more turn" moment.