Romanizer

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5/10 Minimalistic management sim about Ancient Rome religion. TLDR: while the art here is cute and you may be interested in the described events of Roman history, the gameplay is too simplistic and too random to be enjoyable or even meaningful. Neutral vote Good: + free + cute art + some interesting pieces from the history of Ancient Rome, if you're interested in it Bad: - the core mechanic here is to keep the attitudes of 5 classes of the society to you above zero. Yet you can't see the exact attitude of those classes at a glance. Instead, you need to spend 1 action point (and you have 3 per day) to talk to 5 guys and interpret their replies. The text takes time to appear, and you click to speed it up. Since there are a handful of possible statements these guys can make, most of the text you end up reading is repetitive. You end up in a boring, annoying routine of clicking and reading the same texts over and over. A proper, gamer-friendly way to implement this would be just to show bars or numbers over each guy. Or better just put it somewhere in the UI, and remove the 1 action point cost for learning the current state. - by design, to win here you need to pray for miracles cuz…

It's funny, has decent gameplay, and great art. It's worth the 15 minutes it takes to finish.

short and sweet

Dictator: Rule the World + Reigns combined together, at least that's what it feels like. Still, the results of some choices do feel not obvious and losing is easy, but perhaps this is part of the charm. Check it out, it's good.

Really great game but I do have one suggestion. The main part of the game is balancing the “Friendship” of the five poets. It would be nice if there was a meter that showed each poet’s feelings on Cybele throughout each play through. As of now, you only see their friendship changes during events and actions.