1453: Fall of Constantinople is a historical narrative game that tells the story of the fall of Constantinople through four different perspectives. The Janissary shows the conquest from the Ottoman military side, the Baker focuses on the economic and social collapse of the city, the Engineer shows the people trying to keep Constantinople’s defenses standing during the siege, while the Noble focuses on the city’s political and financial side during the siege. What I liked most is that your choices shape each character's story, while the game uses historical facts and eyewitness accounts. The writing can be demanding at times with its poetic style and old-fashioned expressions but it also feels fitting for the age and perspective of the characters and helps bring the siege to life. A great experience for anyone interested in history and narrative games.
P.S.: The writing may be a weakness or a strength, depending on the reader.
P.S.2: I found the game really interesting and kept looking up facts about it while playing and after I finished it.

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🔲 My grandmother could play it
🔲 Easy
☑️ Normal (Not mechanically difficult but the writing can be challenging at times.)
🔲 Hard
🔲 A challenge to be reckoned
🔲 In the heat of confrontation, (Only PVP games)


🔲 MS Paint
🔲 Bad
🔲 Meh
☑️ Normal
🔲 Very Good
🔲 An original artistic direction
🔲 Beautiful
🔲 Masterpiece


🔲 This game has no story
🔲 Basic element of the contractual requirements
🔲 It's there for people who want it
☑️ Well written
☑️ Leading to more in-depth researches/thoughts
🔲 A model to get inspired by


🔲 0 (No story)
☑️ Short
🔲 Average
🔲 Long
🔲 To infinity and beyond


🔲 Just filling noises/No music
🔲 Trivial and uneventful
☑️ Good and/or fitting the game's artistic dispositions
🔲 Memorable
🔲 Transcending whispers of a forgotten world


🔲 I would rather watch paint dry
🔲 Hard to enjoy
🔲 Repetitive and/or uninspired
☑️ A good moment
🔲 Sticking out of the pack
🔲 You will remember it long after


☑️ A one-time experience
☑️ For achievements (Multiple endings.)
🔲 If you wait a few months/years (or with mods)
🔲 Definitely
🔲 Infinitely replayable (or almost)


☑️ Never heard of
🔲 Minor bugs
🔲 Can get annoying
🔲 Impacts the player's experience badly
🔲 The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs


☑️ You can run it on a microwave
🔲 Low
🔲 Average
🔲 High
🔲 NASA computer


🔲 Free
🔲 Underpriced
☑️ Perfect Price
🔲 Could be cheaper
🔲 Overpriced
🔲 Complete waste of money


🔲 No
🔲 If you have nothing else to play
🔲 Wait for sale
☑️ Yes (Especially if you like historical narrative games.)

🔲 It's a completely different game
🔲 This game is a scam
🔲 It's missing many features they announced
☑️ Looks very similar to the steam page
🔲 Better than expected and/or announced
🔲 Masterpiece, no patch or feature has to be added.


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Thank you for taking the time to read and think about this review.
Disclosure: I received a free copy through Steam Curator Connect.

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Four thousand nine hundred and eighty-three.

I'm not in very deep yet, but I can tell, for those who love to dig into the narrative, deep and immersive at climatic points of life and lore, lived versus the official records on the pages.

This is a reading game, and the interface is clean and neat. I was quite pleased to find the text-scaling didn't break the game (that's the first time I've had that pleasure on Launch Day). The renders are clean, very well done, and have the perfect amount of particle-affects to bring the somber music to immersive-life.

This is not Suzerain, nor is this the suffering of some prince. This is a walk through lives that experienced a profound collapse, from living inside it. The choices are very realistic (so far), and you can get hints at how these decisions change lives (and will change the narratives connected to them), even if the grander fate had already been written.

I'm very impressed with the historical research, that blends the historical facts, with the lives of those who lived through that history.

Unquestionably well worth the asking price.