Here to Stay

In the first hour or so I was tempted to sway towards a negative review. However, watching the (old) tutorial video I was able to make some sense of what is going on and how to make progress. The game has no hand held tutorial, so can be a bit overwhelming at first - but within a couple of hours I had managed to figure most of it out and started to see my actions actually making a difference. By day 200 or so I had managed to get my first party member elected to the town council and am now making progress to expanding influence into another city. If you give it time and are willing to put in the hours you will slowly see how the mechanics all fit together and affect each other. It is actually surprisingly deep once you start to advance and your party gains more influence and power. My only gripes would be that the generic names and photos do not seem very Eastern European at all, given that the game is set in this area of the world the choices for the names seem quite bizarre. It w...

This is a fantastic game if you have the time and patience to learn how it works. There is definitely a learning curve, as there should be for a game like this! It's kind of a mix of Suzerain, Democracy, and Crisis in the Kremlin. It's pretty light on the roleplay, and heavy on party politics and grinding your way from breaking into a city to running a whole State. The negative reviews are clearly people who gave up early. There's a lot of thumb twirling in the very beginning, and there is not an in depth tutorial. Use your first several hours in the game to figure things out, experiment, unlock actions, and work your way toward running a city, which took me about 3 hours of gameplay. From there, things get a lot more fun, especially once you get into Parliament. I'd love to see a lot more ruler customization, more flavor for your party members, and "events" that you can deal with in a roleplay sense, but otherwise I've had a blast with this and recommend it to anyone who enjoys politi...

I wanted to like this when someone said there was no tuturial, when i turned on the game i went to the youtube video... i invested 18 min .. while the idea is good,, this needs help with a hand on tuturial sorry but refunded this...

No frills political experience. Pretty good considering it's under €10. Devs were quick to fix a couple of issues that made the game unplayable. Hope for a few more updates and fixes in the future. Changing this recommendation from a No to a Yes as a result. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Update from a couple mins later: Changing it back to a No. Turns out they broke the game even more

The game is horribly written, with very bad English. I understand that is not a native English speaker writing it, but it is very hard to understand what the game is saying to you when you're trying to do anything. It doesn't help that this game is so small scale in terms of popularity, there's no support to be found on the internet for any issues you may have. The concept is brilliant, it's just not executed well, especially in the only supported language

A political sim reminiscent of old tycoon games. It has lots of potential, but because of the price its still worth buying for those who are into this sort of thing, even if there seems to be lots of elements lacking. Its not a game for hard and fast adventure, but more a management style player. It could be too dry also for those who like the roleplaying element. But for its target audience, it does a decent job.

The game is no longer being developed and unfortunately it is still monotonous.

personally, i just did not enjoy it not a ton of hours, but the lack of a tutorial (a clear good one, not written general terms without any guidance thru the UI), an unclear UI, and unclear mechanics just made my first impression instantly just negative i wouldn't recommend this until the game has a tutorial or a QOL UI update cool concept though, similarish to Law Givers

Amazing idea for a game, love the concept and core gameplay loop. Could have been one of the best games of its kind. But it is ruined by many unpolished and unecessarily annoying things. None of them are by themselves so bad as to warrant a negative review, but all together they make the game feel unfinished and low effort. I know there was a lot of effort put in this game since it is amazing if you ignore all the problems I am about to list, and even more that I forgot to list. 1. Saving does not save your favourite characters, the game has a usefull feature of being able to favorite any character, it helps in finding them later among the 100 characters you possess and even more characters the other political parties posess. The problem is, if you save the game, close it, open it, load your save, THE FAVORITE CHARACTERS ARE NOT FUCKING MARKED ANYMORE. WHAT THE FUCK. This game contains too much caracters to waste your time finding the important ones again and again every time you start...

Here to Stay is a game where you compete with other political parties over control of a small, unnamed country. It is a hidden gem when you look past its undoubtedly numerous, but largely superficial, imperfections. The game centres around your party members, without any members, your party cannot rule, you need to assign them to the right jobs and slowly level them up. There are a finite number of members in each region, so you need to fight your rival parties over the best members through bribing, deceit, and intrigue. It has a fairly steep learning curve, but after a couple of hours of gameplay, you receive the reward of developing an intuitive understanding of its mechanics and inner workings. I had a lot of fun slowly turning my country into a fascist dictatorship over around 10 years, I eventually managed to tighten my grip over the political system, sideline my opposition in the Parliament, and remain in power indefinitely. This is not a game for the faint of heart or impati...