Yes, Your Grace

The game is about choices, I got that when I bought it, but I expected a resource management element to it, not a "choose your preferred type of suffering" kind of deal. Basically, the game enforces hard choices on you by taking away your resources. No, I didn't say by making you choose who to give them, but literally taking it away with red herring quests/ petitioners, upkeep mechanics, and upgrades you straight up need to have a CHANCE at getting a semi-good end. This will result in you needing to straight up send away petitoners because you didn't pay that specific agent's upkeep so you can't use them, or because you got asked to provide resources you literally spent to get the game going. And this would not be a problem, as long as the red herring petitioners WOULDN'T REDUCE HAPPINESS IF TOLD TO BUZZ OFF. Because there is a lot of those, yet somehow a lovers quarell being ignored amidst war reduces the entire populace's happiness the same amount as crop fields getting flooded and ignored by the king... The concept was good, the story is alright, but like with many other games, the execution was faulty. Instead of getting enjoyment from playing king and making choices for my domain, I often got frustrated because an agent wasn't ready or a resource missed 1-3 units to allow for a choice besides sending the petitioner away. Overall, I left with closure to the story, but no interest for it's continuation. I bought this game at a big sale, and I recommend you do the same

This is a very good well rounded game of resource management. Not only is the story really engaging but it is very fun to manage all the different aspects of being a king.

get this game for narrative, is not a strategy game. But honestly i liked it a lot

I played through it all, yet I don't think I enjoyed a single second of this.

This is one of those games where I had to play "just one more turn" ... and then it was over. But while it lasted it really did a great job with its narrative that comprised both very personal and more epic elements, with matters I could influence and others I presumably had to simply accept, as grim as they were. The management mechanics followed a similar scheme, in that they mixed the day-to-day (or rather week-to-week) business with long-term goals, both of which had to be balanced against each other. The key to success here seems to be building up a good reputation among your subjects, which leads to higher income, making it easier to aid more people, which in turn raises your reputation. A virtuous circle that rendered that part of the game a bit easy, but I can see how it could have gone the opposite way as well. For the story that was there, the pacing was quite appropriate, neither rushing nor dragging things out too much, and without ever entirely losing the tense undercurrent. I only wish it would have continued for another 50 turns!