The Reign Abates

Pretty neat game. At first I tried to do the super-evil-at-all-costs route but quickly found out that probably isn't such a good idea.

There aren't a whole lot of this kind of strategy game for Ludum Dare. Well done.

Interesting game! I like the idea to base it on old text adventures. I only play one time four weeks but if there are many people to judge the game can also be interesting for mobile.

That bastard Archduke killed me but my heir got out ok! Nice little self-contained story that was just as long as it needed to be and a couple of the choices actually made me weigh the odds. Well done!

Nice interpretation of the jam theme! No batteries, no fuel... no power bar at all and it fits perfectly! I tried ir a couple times but I didn't get a good ending :(

Good job!

Nice game. The take on the theme was quite creative. And the text was well written and conveyed a real sense of consequence to your actions.

I was so glad to find something on political power! Well done! Just the sort of game I like to play. I wish I could've known more about this heir that I was working so hard to protect!

There might be a bug when playing music somehow decreases the amount you are loved? The resulting text seems to say that the music was well received, but then the love meter goes down.

Thanks @carraka, and good catch on the bug! It's fixed now. I'd love to add more backstory to the game, but ran out of time :)

Great game! The Power here shows a different meaning.

This is really well done! I had a similar idea, though I was thinking more in the direction of trying to abdicate. Tried a couple of different trajectories and got to the same ending—guess my choices were consistent, huh? :)

Great writing! It would have been nice to see some fancier visuals but I cant hold it against you. I always seemed to end up with a lot of money but not much of anything else. I had fun with it and it was something different so great job.

Good concept, reminds me of Reigns on Android and iOS though. Neat story, keep up the good work.

I expected more action, but that's a good game :)

This is the first full screen web game I've seen the whole day which was actually very refreshing! It had me contemplating every choice! One thing that I kind of a liked and disliked at the same time was that most actions didn't tell you how much gold you would be spending. On the one hand I couldn't min/max on the other hand it made me care more about the action and less about how much gold I was spending. I would love to see this made into a table top card game played with a few friends! Great job!

Good to see some good ole text based games. I have a special place in my heart for them. Thanks!

I uploaded my gameplay of this game on youtube, you can find it here


Thanks for being part of the stream :)

Thank you for playing and reviewing it, @togis!

Images you have are pretty neat. A little static images, but guess it would be difficult to animate them properly. It went forward all the time, so nice progression in the game.

Hey! Good writing, it was fun to read.
Also nice and effective idea to use old paintings for the graphics.
Nice work overall!
Sadly I didn't make it, but my heir survived :)

I spent countless hours playing Reigns, so was more than surprised when I stumbled across this gem.
Twist on the jam theme is more than a fitting, only thing that I would like is a bit more UI work.
Congratulations!

Interesting concept