Разработчик: Huw Millward
Описание
In 'Warsim: The Realm of Aslona', your only goal is to keep the kingdom running, whether you thrive and become a mighty empire or fall to ruin. How you rule is entirely up to you, you may become a harsh dictator charging people a tax for breathing air, or a blood-hungry warlord commanding armies and mercenary bands on invasions of enemy land, or perhaps a charismatic diplomat with vast trade networks and alliances.
Warsim's core focus is allowing the player to do whatever they want, with the relevant consequences of course (and perhaps we've gone too far in that aspect). Do you want to destroy the bank because you owe them a 1 gold loan, sure, want to imprison every musician who visits your court to disuade bards from visiting you, done, want to gamble and waste away all of your gold betting on scorpion fighting and dice games, yes, yes and yes! (If you want to learn more read below)
Some of Warsim's main or more interesting features include...
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Explore the rich and vast world filled with over 100 locations to be visited/bought/plundered, you can shape the world how you see fit. Visit a giant Blackmarket filled to the brim with mystery and wonder, discover hidden cities (yep multiple of them!), A scorpion fighting pit, Strange villages, and cult like towns. There has been an excessive amount of time spent fleshing out the world. Exploration is well rewarded!
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In the throne room you are tasked with talking to and dealing with the people of your realm, be you a small kingdom with a line of 10 visitors, or a mighty empire with lines of 1000s of people. You will encounter gamblers, bards, tricksters, mercenaries, common folk, beggars, and everything in between. Over 1000 different encounters with complex solutions and reactions. How will you manage your realm? Will you install trap doors and send those foolish enough to visit you plummeting to their deaths? or will you hire a capable steward to deal with them in your stead! The choice is yours.
Warsim's unique and in-depth procedural race generation system has been developed for years and currently produces a total of 94,887,852 possible races, which pretty much means you'll never see the same race twice, in fact statistically the races you see will never have been seen by anyone before! you might find Seafaring Goblins, Fire Orcs, Eyeless Elves or the Famed Half-Turtles of the Western Turtledom, Orange Ogretaurs, Inbred Trench Dwarves, and millions more races you couldn't imagine!
Each of these races has their own birth rate, a level of civility (or savageness), three unique units each with different battle scores, their own laws and societal standards (like xenophobia), and varying traits depending on their racial prefixes pulling from a large list of unique racial abilities sure to make each playthrough unique!
It's not just the races that are massively procedural in Warsim, it's also the faces! The total number of faces is somewhere in the range of 100+ Quadrillion, which lets face it (I'll show myself out), it's basically infinite. This means that all of those enemy rulers, all of those staff members, and everyone who appears in your throne room are all faces seen only in that moment by you, and never again by anyone else in the world! Pretty cool huh?
Here are 10 of the 62,418,146,400,000 (62.4 Trillion) different orcish faces!
And another bunch of faces from various in game races!
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The Arena is another important location within your kingdom, here heroes rise and fall while others are remembered for eternity, clever gamblers make their fortune, great and exalted tournaments are held, and the public sate their appetite for blood! You can find the Arena in a variety of shapes and can even take it for yourself, setting the cost of entry, changing the rules, and upgrading it as you wish!
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Games within games? You bet! Ruling a kingdom can be boring at times and you may wish entertainment to pass the time, hire a gamesmaster to fill your time when you're bored or play one of the many games littered throughout the taverns and locations of the world, games that include: Snail Racing, Bat Racing, Rat Racing, Rock paper scissors, 21 the dice game, Dragon wench knight, Sudden death (4 different types), Coin flipping, Guess the dice, Swampy cup game, Thralls finger, Animal pit fighting, Scorpion pit fighting, and loads more!
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Are you a lover of the procedural arts? Why not listen to the procedurally generated songs of one of the many bards of the Warsim world, or make your way to the musicians guild or the Goblinwood school of drums and try your hand at playing music yourself. The world is filled with all manner of procedurally terrible musicians, from Orc grunters, Gnome whistlers, Goblin drummers, Clickers, Vampire luteplayers, and several others! Hire one as your own personal court bard and train them to play better and faster!
Ruling a kingdom isn't all warfare and conquest, kick back, relax, and gather your people together for a celebration of your design! Or travel around and visit the exclusive celebrations of the peoples of the world, Including: The Blackmarket Century Festival, a huge festival held in the gem of the north, or if you treat them right the great GOBLINWOOD JAMBOREE! A once a-decade experience in the goblin town of Goblinwood.
Here's a goblin drinking competition! (it's pretty easy because goblins can't drink!)
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Is being an honest and good natured ruler not for you? Would you prefer sending your loyal warriors to depths unseen to enslave beasts of the underworld for you to train and fight? If the answer is yes then you're in luck, build a monster pit in your kingdom and hold up to 3 of over 27'000 Procedurally generated monsters inside! Fight them and train them against any of 45 opponent trainers! Do you have what it takes?
A tough day on the throne? why not get drunk in one of the many different taverns around the world. Here you can find a myriad of different drinks with varying effects and tons of things to get up to in each tavern. Be warned though, drink too much and you may blackout and wake next to a sleeping ogress, or to a lighter coinpurse... And we won't even talk about the hangovers!
Community
Warsim has an awesome community spread across a number of platforms. Primarily our discord, reddit, and steam community.
Here are many reasons why I love the Warsim Community
I cannot describe how awesome and supportive the community has been towards me in my years developing this game and I can only hope to deliver a worthy finished product.
Thanks for reading all of this and if you do get Warsim I hope you enjoy it!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: 1.0 GHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 450 MB available space
- Sound Card: Integrated Audio
- Additional Notes: Can run on almost all PCs
Отзывы пользователей
I dont think I will reach Balatro level play time for this game but it puts me in the same mental place. If no one breaks my focus I can quickly lose 4 hours of my life without noticing lol
Lots of fun!
This is one of the single funnest experiences I've had in years. If you can't have fun playing this something is wrong with you. I found myself getting immersed in a ever changing kingdom of madmen all with conquest on their minds, hilarity ensued.
Interesting concept, and seems well executed, just not my kind of game(I'm impatient, and have no imagination lol)
My First Kingdom:
I was a necromancer who came to power in a bloody coup
the people fucking hated that I was constantly turning all their dead into undead
like 90% of my income was through prison labor
The people hated that I had Goblins in my army and a goblin hamlet in my kingdom
BUT
None of that mattered cuz
I had a well funded wellfare state
I sided against my soldiers everytime they wronged the common folk
enlistment was free and the pay was good
I had a MASSIVE army of thousands of well paid well equipped soldiers
thousands of loyal happy goblins
and never ending supply of undead
This game is so much fun.
I had an arena champion executed then ressurected him and made him a champion.
I was so beloved that when I died people killed themselves out of sorrow at my loss, and as a necromancer that is quite literally the most wonderful thing they could in tribute to my legacy.
Bought game on sale
Finally decide to boot it up
Accidentally miss all NYE celebrations by playing the game for 10hrs straight.
Uhhh, yeah it's *slightly* addictive
Could do with better music and more sfx, but pretty good overall!
Better than Bannerlord.
A very fun and almost addictive game—it's a "just one more round" kind of experience.
The game isn’t as deep as you might expect; it can’t be compared to Dwarf Fortress or Caves of Qud. However, it doesn’t need to be.
One of the biggest positives is the developer’s dedication. They are highly motivated and actively listen to feedback and comments, both on Steam and Reddit, which I really appreciate. This is part of why I’m writing this review.
If you enjoy text-based games and want to support an indie game dev, spend a few bucks on this game—it’s absolutely worth it!
I can't believe I played this for 3 hours straight the first time I opened it
It's been a long while since I bought this game, but I decided to boot it up again a few days ago (on the Steam Deck), and I had a good time, forging my kingdom into a wide-spanning empire! It's definitely somewhat simple in the kingdom management aspects I interacted with, but I think that makes it fine to dive in to without needing to consult extensive guides!
I do wish that diplomacy with other factions was a bit more robust; on the version I played, I was allied with two separate kingdoms, but they kept fighting each other, and I didn't find an option to intervene in some way (and concurrently, neither of them asked me to help out, which felt weird to me).
As a note to any other Steam Deck players; yeah, this game is definitely Playable, but with some control configuration required (most interactions require inputting the numbers 0-9 and enter, and also needing to use the scroll wheel to review the kingdom reports), and some text wrapping looks a bit odd. A fine way to play without needing to be stuck at a desktop, if a bit unwieldy with how I set up my controls.
Good game, you dont see many text based games these days
In this game you play as a wise king who shrewdly gambles his entire kingdom's treasury at the arena, while in the middle of multiple wars and under threat of a looming apocalypse.
When I saw this game on Steam I knew this would be right up my alley. Sadly it doesn't seem to work in fact I spent over an hour trying to get it to work. I suggest just to refund it, if it doesn't work immediately. It's not worth the effort, no matter how much you think it is worth it.
It reminds me of the Text Adventure/text adventure game I wanted to play in the 90s. I believe it was on Arthur. I didn't have a computer (or at least not the disks) to ever play those as a child. That being said, as an adult it feels like what I would of imagined it to be as a child in the best way possible. I've only just started but its incredibly humorous and so far it hasen't been super repetitive but just living out the life as a ruler playing how you like is nice. It's like a text adventure of Mount n Blade. Just do what you want. Have fun!
It kind of reminds me of old gamebooks like Destiny Quest. The core game loop is pretty simplistic, the mini-games are minigames in name only, and the procgen doesn't really add much besides some light variety. Because of that, there is a lot less meat on the bone for roleplaying than something like CK3. Once you get into a nice groove, you can just spam end turn and watch as you wipe your enemies while rolling in cash. The depth is mostly surface level, as there's really no point in engaging with any of the additional mechanics like slavery or even the throne room.
Despite everything I said, I think the foundation is solid. It's just that the core gameplay loop is so nice and smooth, it feels like the perfect backbone to a more deeper system that adds more run variety and a reason to engage with all the different mechanics and build your kingdom in a different way each time - but then none of that exists. There's a spark but no bang. I think the first item on my Want list is to give more options for managing the populations. The proc-gen claims to add a lot of depth, but whatever depth it added is invisible in the moment-to-moment gameplay and I think forcing players to actually consider their population's traits and likes/dislikes, penchant for the arena, willingness to be taxed, or how entertained they are would add that back.
I did get the game on a sale for $3.99 so maybe I'm being a little generous. I'd probably not get this game yet for $10, but it is on the path to being worth that price.
This game has seemingly confused "depth" with "amount". There is a LOT of things to do, but none of them are particularly interesting, complex, or engaging. Instead of focusing on a few key ideas or mechanics and making them great, it spreads itself thin across hundreds of mini-games, silly events, and small individual locations to explore. I definitely see why some people may like it, but it wasn't for me.
It's also not anything like the games you'll commonly see it compared to on the store page and in reviews: it doesn't offer a complex procedural world like Dwarf Fortress, the ludicrous detail and mechanical depth of Caves of Qud, nor does it offer the emergent narrative gameplay of Crusader Kings. That's fine, and I don't think Warsim was actually trying to be any of these things. It struggles to find an identity for itself and so it's compared to games with a surface-level similarity.
Warsim IS quite surface-level sadly, and for a game promising tons of depth that was pretty disappointing to me. It is still being worked on, but the "lateral expansion" design philosophy has me not all that interested. Though I may not recommend the game I'm also not trying to discourage you completely. If you still think this game is up your alley and have the extra money to spend, go for it. A lot of people enjoyed it way more than I did!
Being an old coot that started out as a PC gamer pecking at stuff like 'Zork' and 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' many moons ago, I have a certain fondness for text based games of yesteryear. I thought maybe 'Warsim' would scratch the itch for a new text-based game and take me back to a simpler time, but I just don't think this one is for me. I like the retro feel/presentation here and I applaud the level of ambition and the potential depth of the game, but as some other reviewers have pointed out, the tone and the developer's offbeat sense of humor really left me cold and often clashed with what I assumed to be the serious nature of kingdoms waging brutal war with one another. I also found a number of scenes repeating themselves several times over with the court visitors in particular after just an hour or two of playtime, which makes me think this mechanic may need some more tweaking in terms of either the number of possible events or the RNG.
I called heads and it was snails and I lost my kingdom
the scary question is how different are large language models from procedural generation? what exactly is the qualitative difference?
i'd argue that in essence they are the same, the purpose of the reproduction of repeating patterns for the purposes of whatever, but LLM's have the advantage of being build completely on their head, being more applicable to more things. what people are actually scared about when talking about ai is it's potential of ripping away the purposes of liberal ideological reproduction for the petite-bourgeioisie
what's interesting about this, is that proc gen has been used for video games for a very long time, and if these things are both similar in essence, then video games are potentially the vanguard force of the meeting of social and technological forces.
mmo's mimic social media in this way too, i want to find other evidence of this, although that's just confirmation bias, simply because i want to feel smart for clout.
oh this game? it's alright. it's very old school in it's simulationism, it's loose guidelines or mechanical coherence remind me of mount and blade. it's probably better than mount and blade, yeah.
Kick ass game from a kick ass dev
I admit that this was definitely outside my comfort zone but I did give it a try.
The visuals are quite funny, but it took me a while to figure out how to scale up the graphics so I could play it with a larger screen.
It just did not captivate me as well as I'd hoped, just could not get into it even though I do enjoy text-based games. Too few options for role plaing, perhaps, and I did not enjoy the game loop and exploring / combat was not interesting enough after a few tries. It felt repetitive.
Not a bad game, just not for me.
still on year 1 but i like it
Truly inspirational
This game made me hungry for more text-based RPG/Adventure/Strategy/+ games like it - I couldn't recommend a more entertaining, fun or accessible entry into the text-based game genre, and hope you enjoy both the lovingly hand crafted and cleverly procedural generated characters and experiences that await!
One more turn... Go to Bank, explore, spontaneously initiate the rapid unscheduled disassembly of the World.
Worth it for the goblin interactions alone.
After reading the reviews at 8:30pm my time I thought I would jump back into Warsim to see what it was like. So it is now 10:30pm and regrettably I have to save the game and close it down. Sad!
- Win Kingdom in coin toss
- Skip tutorial.
- 57 people want to see my throne room
- Ban rabble
- 6 people want to see my throne room
- Mutated Half-Aardwolfs offer me tribute. :D
- Weird Halflings send me insults. >:(
- Last visitor is the devil. He offers me a coin toss for wealth or death.
- Lose coin toss. Die.
- Grim Reaper turns into a gnome and plays dice games with me.
Second-best 14 minutes of my life.
for me personally this is up my ally in every way. must by if your used to text based games
It's good, very good. Well worth $9.99 , let alone $4 on sale.
Found this game over reddit and play it on again off again ever since.
The creator listens to the fans and updates fairly regularly.
Great game
The game is well worth the four dollars. The singing is a nice unexpected touch.
I wasn't quite sure what to expect but saw it on sale and decided to give it a go. I thoroughly enjoyed the game, it is quite funny at times. I was most surprised at the level of depth it has, didn't think a text-based game could achieve that.
Peak. Never thought I will like playing with letters and symbols
She Wars on my Sim till I Aslona
CK3 had a baby with Dwarf Fortress. Caves of Qud could also be the father? It is really anyone's guess.
did mushrooms in a forest
It was pretty good, I was surprised by how in depth it was. The tutorials were helpful and explained everything in detail. The game is focused on managing your kingdom and going to war. That and gambling in the arena if you're a real one.
Didn't think I could get into a game with this style. I'm glad I tried it out, I was hooked. I'd say it is a solid 8/10 I'd recommend it.
Weri guud
The humour is so bad you just can't help but laugh/groan.
This was just an impulse purchase when I saw it on offer, but I've already had my money's worth a dozen times over.
Great fun, and a surprising amount of depth to it.
rip o snake, a real one died that day
There's ample enough warsimming for this warsim, thats for sure! It's so full of charm and personality, you can't help but appreciate the silliness that happens at every turn. If there was a way to put this on a phone, I'll never get bored ever again.
Only thing I genuinely dislike is that it can be a little too easy to make money the second you pick up gambling at the arenas. Sure you can just simply not gamble and just disable it/only take the monthly profits from owning it but... I love gambling too much. ITS TOO FUN AND I KEEP WINNING. AND THE FACT HOW YOU CAN MANIPULATE THE ARENA BETTING SYSTEM DOES NOT HELP. HELP I HAVE A PROBLEM.
Game made me laugh out loud multiple times. Wasn't sure what to expect but it's genuinely extremely funny and also has a great amount of depth.
This is a fun time waster and reminds me of old BBS door games so it has some nostalgia marks and it will run on whatever you have, even the potato.
Its a neat concept but ends up having very little actual depth for a simulation game. Despite there being procedural generation, its all just a coat of paint on top of a repeating scenario. After only a half hour, I had court room visitor events repeating several times and some parts of this feel straight up useless (Like the council).
I think what hurts this most is the conquest and lack of a map. All the different factions and kingdoms feel like their names and nothing else. Having no concept of who a neighbouring nation might be just feels odd and at the end of the day, this ends up just feeling like a "Numbers go up" type game.
Tried the game and found a bug where my save file would become unplayable. Issue happened twice.
An amazing game. I've had a wonderful time exploring the world and seeing the wacky varied things sprinkled through it. It hits just the right level of farcical high fantasy that I love while remaining so simple I could play it on a numerical keypad. A triumph of text based adventure, and the official trailer says the rest.
BTW, Biggleroll is so fun I play it with my friends in-between college classes. Thanks for the game Huw!
There is a Kenshi reference
fun
The hours aren't accurate since I've played outside of Steam. A fun and interesting game with its own mischief. It has that old school text based charm yet modernized. Your kingdom really becomes its own story as you explore the surroundings and learn the strange neighbors you end up with up. And if they're less than nice... well then it's only right you liberate their lands and people by the sword! ;)
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Huw Millward |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 96% положительных (1513) |