The King's Dilemma: Chronicles

For those not in the know, this game is based on a very popular board game, simply titled The King's Dilemma (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/245655/kings-dilemma). It has a high ranking on most board game websites, and my own particular group had an excellent time with it for many sessions. When I heard it was being turned into a video game, I was quite hopeful. This isn't a board game review, so I won't get too...

45 found this helpful, 2023-01-31

I love the boardgame. It did not translate well to a single player game I'm afraid. It looks nice and the events are still good. The problem lies in the way a lone player interacts with the game. The AI isn't interesting and the decisions therefore seems arbitrary. Also, knowing the endgame even for the first time you play lessens the appeal of the story. Not knowing where you were going in the boardgame was great. I...

18 found this helpful, 2023-02-17

Good, but short ruler game. Played through twice in 3hrs. Very short game. You can literally play it through and still get a refund(not to say that is what you should do but you could) The game is similar to something like the Reigns series of games where you have to tossle diffrent columns like knowledge, money etc. they are interchangable and dont have much impact on anything. But the decisions themselves can end...

23 found this helpful, 2023-01-30

I played this game at launch and I was ready to dive into something story heavy. Unfortunately choices matter little. You will always get a weird outcome one way or another and the minigames are not very well explained

10 found this helpful, 2023-11-04

The King's Dilemma Chronicles is a representation of a game that is tarnished in adaptation, as it is both too faithful and not faithful enough to its source material. It fails to really consider the shift in medium from board game, to video game or to really consider what going from multiplayer to singleplayer means. There is some brilliant elements here taken from the board game in writing, but for a replay focused...

21 found this helpful, 2023-03-10

Inability to review past decisions, other duchies' information, and built upgrades during votes and other important situations makes this game more frustrating than it needs to be. Glad to have played it for the price, tho if you plan on playing the board game please do that first as it is a much more rewarding experience!

9 found this helpful, 2023-02-20

Sadly I can't give it a thumbs up. I found myself more worried about balacing the 5 resorces in the game on the right spots than caring about what I was actualyl deciding. This is not a good single player game.

23 found this helpful, 2023-03-21