An interesting adventure game that made a real emphasis on your choices and their consequences. I started this game sometime on November and it took me until today to actually continue it. I found it a very stressful experience, and it makes sense. You are the king of a small nation, and you have to deal with several major threats while balancing everyone's needs and wants. Just like in real life, it is straight up impossible to please or help everyone. Your puny little kingdom does not have the resources or the manpower for that, so you have to compromise. You play as a very well defined character, and the solid writing made me attached to the rest of the cast, and I often found myself making choices based on what I thought Henryk might do. While there are a lot of possible ways to get there, the ending appears to be always the same, which is a bit of a letdown. Still, I don't regret playing this game, and was a bit sad when I was done with it in around 5 or 6 hours. There's some replayability in making different choices, at least. Visually, this game has a pretty chunky pixel art that looks really nice, and the characters can be surprisingly expressive despite not having any faces and being fairly small on screen. Also, I was not expecting the soundtrack to be such a banger. There's no song I dislike, and some are a very interesting type of polish folk-metal core type thing that I want to listen more of.

Reviewed on Jan 30, 2022


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