Reigns: Her Majesty (PC) (2017)

Overview: You are the Queen. Make decisions and try to reign for as many years as possible. When your reign is over, you become the heir to the throne and try again.

20230224 AM Hours:
The icon and title screen for this game is a deer wearing a crown. Judging a book by its cover, this often kept me away from the game, because it seemed artsy. In particular, I thought it would be similar to Superbrothers: Sword & Sorcery EP. Little did I know, the game is nothing like Sword & Sorcery, and it has nothing to do with a deer (at least not that I know of).

In any case, the game is simple and entertaining. The game provides no instructions but it is simple enough to figure out as one plays. Thus far I've passed through being about 5 different Queens.

Steam Game Time: 34 minutes (total game time)

20230224:
Today I played this game some more. Thus far my record Queen lasted for 28 years (1091 to 1119). The next Queen will be the 12th Queen.

Steam Game Time: 82 minutes (total game time) / 48 minutes (session game time)

20230226:
Steam Game Time: 2.4 hours (total game time) / 1.0 hours (session game time)

20230303:
I'm beginning to make less progress, and unfortunately I wasn't taking notes on how my answers affect the outcome. Feeling that I wont be able to optimize without such notes, by the end of today I felt discouraged from playing this game further any time soon.


Steam Game Time: 2.9 hours (total game time) / 0.5 hours (session game time)

Thoughts:
Pros:
+ Fairly simple game mechanic; the items portion of the game seems to be a more advanced aspect
+ Fun and funny

Neutral:
~ I personally don't like how the game could be optimized based on one of the following: memory, innate intuition for the outcomes, or writing information down; to be fair, there are many games plagued with this problem - and some people are fine with this aspect while others like me may not like this type of dependency


Con:
- Can become repetitive

Rating: 4.6/5

Summary:
None at this time
20241009:
Revisited this game on my desktop. Starting from scratch. I tried to take notes but it wasn't practical to make a note of everything.

Steam Game Time: 3.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 0.5 hours (session game time)

20241010:
Steam Game Time: 3.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 0.2 hours (session game time)

20241011:
Steam Game Time: 4.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 1.3 hours (session game time)

Reigns: Her Majesty (PC) (2017)

Relevant Links:
None at this time Reigns: Her Majesty (Wikipedia.org)
Reigns: Her Majesty (PC) (MetaCritic.com)
Reigns: Her Majesty (steamdb.info)
Reigns: Her Majesty (Steam Store Page)

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