Great Houses of Calderia

This might be called as a "recent bias", but this could be the best political grand strategy game. Even could beat CK3 and Norland. But here's the thing: 1. Last update was in 2024, it's a pity. 2. There's should be more than one way that a player can use to achieve "win". It's limited to linear progression. Not to mention it's hard to elevate oneself. 3. The end is bugged. It says that I win, but the final war itself doesnt conclude. Not to mention it forced me to pick a side. 4. Vassalage, claim title, and other mechanics are not stated thoroughly. One must hardly discover it by themselves. 5. It's only worth to buy when sale. Don't waste your money on unfinished project. To conclude, I do hope in the future, some studio will take and continue this game's development, or create a similar one. Bcz the game itself is fun. What makes it not fun is the bug, less tooltips, less option to progress and unfinished. Just combine CK3 with Manor Lords, remove (or reduce) annoying mechanics like family members relationships and chain of resource usage, and voila, you get the perfect kingdom-building game.

Abandoned game with great potential

Abandoned great game with huge potential. Don't even try to reach late game there is a bug with a civil war and the devs don't care! It's just a crash grab, save your money and your time! I am not sure about their other games but I am sure they are abandoned slops also, save your time and money from this monsters!

This game deserves like a 50% rating. You start the game and understand nothing - then when you understand the game, you are already done with it. Which is like 10 hours. Gameplay: You basically figure out how to grow your city, then send spys to other states and drain them of their workers with war which is wayyy too easy and then you do that for 10 more hours. After the 5th hour, this gets tedious. Game also begins lagging after 30 mins so you gotta restart it. Also didnt get the achievements for winning the game and becoming the king since i didnt become a baron yet. So in the end - its a budget Crusader Kings that costs 25 Euros.

Dead game, no updates in over a year

It's a tough call, but ultimately no: there IS so much about the game that DOES work -- I especially love the skill-tree system they have -- but there's also so many basic features that either aren't present or aren't accessible. The tipping-point for me was (spoiler) when the civil war started and I had no way of telling which side I had previously agreed to be on or which side my neighbors said they would be on -- wound up surrounded by enemies and it felt completely unfair since I had no way of telling which side would have been strategically sound to join. That's the biggest example, but there are tons of situations like this where you know HOW to make a decision but the game just won't allow you to access the information you know is available, and it stings every time to know that you COULD have made a good decision if the interface wasn't so opaque. Combined with that, various technical issues: bugs with the cursor vanishing or in-game events not triggering, and I have no idea how to delete the save file.

A 'deep political strategy game' with events every 10 sec and constant 'dice rolls' on random attributes. Family members become rivals and friends randomly with no feedback or purpose. Characters gain traits constantly through events. Its like Sheogorath created a world after reading Game of Thrones...terrible

A lot of mechanics that work, but at the end of the day amount to nothing. The combat system is a breath of fresh air, but overall this game is a slug. Overall is not bad but tedious enough to cause me to not care about anything that happens. Probably a game for the hardcore players that are still looking for that game of thrones subterfuge. For me this is far from it.

最后一次更新，2024年11月12日。 确定跑路了，枉我苦等两年制作方承诺的汉化补丁。 在其他玩家一片批评中，我选择默默信任，等承诺实现后送上一个好评。 目前看来，终是错付了。 这就是意林宣扬的欧美契约精神。

Passable grand strategy game based on simple RTS minigame. Not bad, but feels unfinished and not well balanced. After one victory I really do not feel interest in replaying, which is not a good sign for grand strategy, I am on the fence for this one, but given the price and lack of replayability I move to not recommend. But there is value if you really like grand strategies, especially focused mostly on economy and diplomacy.