Intriguing premise at first, but the gameplay is ultimately too luck-based, while the UI/UX decisions make repeated playthroughs annoying. Allow me to explain. (Note thatI have many more hours on this game via GOG in addition to Steam).
The gameplay is, as promised, punishing. You accumulate dice via your advisors, then spend those dice when you dispatch your advisors to resolve quests around the map. These range from attacking neighbouring cities, to exploring ruins, to hunting monsters. Every turn you will also be presented with a random event and a related choice to make. Many of these events are elaborate, and have branching story paths, and some even add new areas or quests to map.
The problem with the core gameplay loop is that the quests are not particularly engaging intellectually. You just allocate the maximum amount of available dice to the challenge every time, since failure wastes all dice invested in the challenge, and there are additional penalties for failure in many cases, ranging from loss of advisor to losing the entire game. And the latter outcome is very frequent. Losing any battle challenge against your home city ends the game instantly. And if you ever go to war with a neighbouring city, let alone two of them, they can spawn a difficult army every turn. This rapidly depletes your dice pool, and since you need the war dice to defend, you can never actually attack the opposing city, resulting in a quick game over. Even if things are going well for you (always a temporary state of affairs), about half your turns consist of a single click to have all of your advisors generate and bank all available dice. Which you need to do constantly due to the difficulty and high stakes of the challenges. So half your turns consist of a single boring choice, implemented by a single click.
On to the UI/UX side, the game contains a number of bad decisions for a roguelike. There is a 2-second unskippable turn animation that quickly becomes a frustration. When you click on quests or locations, there is another 1-second zoom effect that's totally unnecessary and again becomes quite annoying. And finally, the cardinal sin of a dice-based roguelike is that the dice take far too long to roll. The default setting is comically slow, and even the fast setting gets annoying when you will be rolling dice dozens of times in a single run, and hundreds of times if you play several runs back to back. Text from events you have seen before can sometimes be skipped, but not always, which is really annoying as you click through the recurring events to get to the decision. The devs did not respect the player's time when they made these decisions, which is bad enough in most games, but it's poison in a roguelike. And the game still showers you with tutorial pop-ups even after you completed the tutorial and are playing a regular game... why can't these be turned off?
The events also limit replayability, because in virtually all cases there are clear right answers, and once you know them, you'll chose them every time. You'll also know to avoid the many hidden traps that are sprinkled throughout the event deck. In most cases, there are no logical clues in the event descriptions to allow you to figure out which one is which. So the whole "choice and consequence" approach in this game comes down to "trial and error until you get it right, followed by the same choice every time". This also hurts replayability.
This game does have its strong sides of course: it has very good writing, a unique setting, decent art/sound, and an intriguing premise. But the core gameplay loop simply isn't there, and UI/UX is not set up for a roguelike experience. In a world with more good games than you can possibly play in a lifetime, this game just doesn't make the cut.
One last picky point - sometimes there is French text instead of English in the UI/UX. This is a minor thing, but one of the places this happens is the "roll" button, which is the single most-clicked button in the game! Not sure how that one slipepd through!
