Reigns: Her Majesty 12+

I’ve bought Reigns and Reigns: Her Majesty on a couple of different systems now but after buying the bundle for my new phone I played Her Majesty properly for the first time - and wow, it’s even better than the original, better love options, more in-depth choices, more interesting writing that approaches a few interesting topics in a really well done way, great characters, nicely balanced. Well done Nerial for creating my all time favourite mobile game <3

This game is excellent, genuinely excellent. The writing is some of the best writing I’ve seen in a game, several times the cards I’ve made me laugh out loud. It approaches the topic of feminism with the sort of light humorous angle you wouldn’t expect of such a popular game, the MRA cult talking about free speech or the witch labelling assassination attempts as ‘problematic’ and asking if revenge was ‘toxic’. I’ve found myself print screening responses often to send to mates. Or when it’s Scorpio season and the option is let’s get messy.

My only problem is that I think it’s glitched. I know this is true in some minor ways, such as not allowing my Queen to gain the achievement the innocent despite havin now been found innocent twice. I also suspect that it has glitched in a major way, at least for my game. I am in year 2604 on my 100+ queen and still! No option to upgrade the perfume. The witch has never given me the time capsule dialogue. Either I have to do something to trigger this, tho none of the online guides nor in game
Hints point to this being true, or for whatever reason I’m locked out of achieving the end I’ve worked towards (I’ve collected everything else). I’ve downloaded the latest patch hoping that it will be solved, but if not it will be a pretty grim end to what has been up to this point a sick experience.

If you played the original ‘Thrones’ you’re going to want to play this game. If you didn’t play the original, you should still play this game!

If you’re not familiar with the basic premise, here’s a spoiler-free summary. You are the queen, you handed important decisions to resolve by a range of characters and courtiers, you swipe left or right (like that famous “dating” app) and your decisions change the story.

You will die... lots... but that’s part of the story telling mechanics! You will also laugh!

I loved the first ‘Thrones’ game, and this one improves on the original formula whilst keeping things original. It’s definitely much more than ‘more of the same’, give it a go, you won’t be disappointed!!!