War for Magincia

I am sorry to admit it but it was such a disappointment. If you are looking for a Kingdom Simulator, the first part of the game can give you some experience, although it's going to be rather clumsy. Not all of the specifics are clear and they are not explained properly (What does Agriculture reserch do?). When you finish the first part, you are expecting some expending of content. New lands to conquer or trade, new intrigues to unravel and etc. Unfortunately, there is nothing about it in the second part. We only get scraps of Kingdom sim of the first part of the game here. Moreover, it is full of bugs (like repeating diologes with already dead characters). If you are looking for a story here, then move along there is little to none to it. The main story is super short and very simpistic. Promised random events between turns don't really immerse you into your rule. They are more like, hey, want to buy cheap horses, sure. This kind of thing. So, if you are into Kingdom Sims better go ...

Began good, went adequate, finished bad after taking rule over the Central Kingdom. Politics in the end is just utter boredom and ill-elaborated. Game engine is even broken, I could enter into talks with even dead characters. 5/10 game in my opinion, no match for Swamp Castle or Great Tournament. I'm really disappointed, I hoped for a nice new game for the start of the summer. Meh

This game has horrible mechanics! There is very little story in the game; It's mostly just management with very little improvement to your own progress.

The author screwed up with the RNG. I'm guessing he tried to make it more replayable but he focuses too much on it and doesn't do much with the story. It just feels like a subpar kingdom sim in the Choice of Game engine that doesn't work well with it. I hope that the author will learn from his screw up and go back to his previous style since he is one of the better Hosted Games authors and it'd be a shame for him to stop.

Cannot recomend it. Its dull, repetitive and boring. Almost has no story and you get absurdly overpowered in a few turns. Its not up to expectations and not up to the previous books of this saga.

Compared to other Choice-script games, it has a unique style which expresses itself well, I will warn however that this is way more game than it is story so if you're looking for a more story-driven game look elsewhere. It is quite short but I feel it takes as long as it needs to without making it's various tasks tedious. A good, short game with interesting references to his other books that I would also recommend.

If you enjoy the other games by Kempton then you'll like this game too. It adds a new kingdom sim mechanic to the story line that shows up in the Great Tournament games, but it is expanded on in this game. the story still has the same charm as his other games and the quality of the writing drives you to make some difficult decisions which does a good job immersing you into the story. It does lack the deep character development like his other Great Tournament games. Definitely worth the price if you're a big fan of the series. I would recommend.