Swipe left, swipe right, ach, won’t someone just show me a good time?
Unfortunately, you cannot cheatily flick through to interesting parts nor use your finger as a bookmark.
Not even if you jam it into a USB port.
You’re trying to take over 13 regions and settle this tumultuous period.
This plays out mostly as a series of binary decisions.
Do we side with rebellion?
Should people be able to buy their way out of of prison?
Do you agree thinking is cool or do you call a scholar a nerd?
Do you help a fisherman expand his business?
Which child do you bet on in a game?
Do we ban alcohol for soldiers?
Wanna marry someone?
Wanna follow this cat?
Some decisions start or advance quests, whether that’s working towards gaining power or helping someone bust ghosts.
These stories can be fun diversions.
Many decisions increase and decrease your four meters: Supplies, People, Military, and Virtue & Morality.
Usually, you’ll swap one for another.
This does preserve your campaign progress, though many decisions recur in each life.
This quickly becomes tiresome, and it undercuts the fun of choosing your own adventure.
The first is to focus heavily on your meters.
Reigns: Three Kingdoms also introduces turn-based battles.
You tend to field three or four at once, randomly drawn at the start of battle.
Both armies deploy onto essentially rotating discs.
The battles are fine.
It also has a multiplayer mode that’s all about battling.
I’m about ready to turn on the “auto-win” option and skip all this.
Reigns: Three Kingdoms is out nowon Steam, priced at 2.49/2.99/$2.99.
And on phones through Netflix, somehow, for some reason.
