Reigns
This interesting title published by Devolver Digital has players taking the role of a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch.Reigns is a sim-style choose your own adventure game where you have to fulfill a seemingly endless stream of requests from your advisors, peasants, allies and enemies all while maintaining balance in your kingdom between different factions.
It’s simplistic in both its visual design and gameplay, but the mechanics work exceedingly well for the game. Basically, each story you play contains a stack of story cards, each of which have a request. You can swipe left to answer no, or right to answer yes. Sometimes there will be multiple answers to a question, in which case you can slightly pull the card in either direction to see more answers. It’s incredibly fun to struggle to keep your monarch alive, but if they die, a new king will take over, and the adventure begins anew. Reigns is available on both iOS and Android for $2.99.
