ROTK Clone without the QOL.

Spent more than a few hours got the scenario down to 3 kingdoms. Every step of the way was like pulling teeth. For some reason the dev's decided it was a good idea to impede every thing you want to try to do. Every process is cumbersome and Inundated by limiters that do nothing other than limit your ability to play.

Your Kingdom has a Tech tree which you put points into the specific node to increase your Kingdom modifiers. You have 4 Ministers that help you expedite the Accrual of these points. If you do anything else with these 4 ministers they automatically get removed from your cabinet. So these 4 officers are now basically bunkered down in BFE while they run your kingdom. - 4 Officers.

Each town/city requires a Prefect, Military Officer, and Building Officer. These are unique positions so if you have even just 4 towns to fully maximize everything especially early on you would need 12 officers.

- Just get more officers.. DUH.
Except doing most of your schemes require a "tactical" resource point. (the accrual is expedited by installing an officer in your cabinet) except its not enough. EVERYTHING from sowing discord {lowering officer loyalty}, to moving officers, boosting defense, searching, EVEN MOVING FOOD requires these points. On top of that you need an officer at the location where you want to move the food from.

To do anything in the game requires a lot of TEDIOUS MICROMANAGING that felt like it was added just to make the players miserable. All the convoluted steps do nothing other than impede your ability to get anything done. There needs to be automation of some sort, Regency etc Doing EVERYTHING MANUALLY is Mind-numbing l.

Save yourself time and money. Game needs alot of work from features, character customization, rework alot of systems etc.

Its a very streamlined rotk experence, if you like the time per this is not a bad title.