Update after 14 hours:
Ok, so I did find the building and economic elements a bit addictive, but I'm not going to say they were great. I had some fun with it, wish I could rate this game either a neutral as it does have it's moments. The real time combat is bad, so I just skipped that. I did beat the game with the economic victory (this made it feel like a poor version of Civilizations series, so there's that). If you've played all those other games, this one is worth 10 or 20 hours, otherwise each of the games total war, Crusader Kings, or Civilizations is a better offering.


After 4 hours:
So I played a little more than 4 hours. I'm trying to like this game, really I am, I just don't see any reason to continue.

It's hard not to compare this the Crusader Kings II or III, and the real time battles to Total War, because those game series do everything far better. Also, it's hard to think of a reason to play this game when there are better games with similar and improved mechanics.

I don't get why I can't even chose who my king marries or try and secure and alliance by getting him married to a rival or neighbors daughter?

The interface is also not well thought out and gets really annoying when you realize how polished the total war and paradox games ones tend to be. When I right click a neighbors portrait I don't want to see a useless stat block, I want to see what option I have to interact with (like maybe diplomacy or something like that). I know I have to zoom out on the map to do that, but there's just no reason for it, I still find myself trying to intuitively click on things the should have thought about that are just dead ends.

I played as Transalvania (1 territory), and Ireland (Leinster). On the Ireland game I ran it 3 times, and each time the powers (Scotland & my neighbors, and the Welsh) formed defensive pacts against me inspite of the fact that I had never gone to war or even built military buildings? Like why? It's like the US and Canada allying against the aggressions of Panama? It's not a glitch, it kept happening when I restarted, this is apparently a feature.

I might try this game again, I really leave the setting, and have fond memories of similar games from back in the day (Lord of the Realms 1, I'm talking about you). But either I missed something massive, or this review isn't changing.

Win a “First blood” game by destroying an opponent. IS HARDEST ACHIEVEMENT TO GET IN THIS GAME CAW CAW.

MAN HUMBLE DIDN'T EVEN GIVE ME GAMES WITH STEAM CARDS CAW CAW, THE WHOLE POINT OF SUBBING TO THE HUMBLE PASS CAW CAW.

The game itself is nice, but it's kind of a more simplified version of Crusader Kings 2 with some clunky battle mechanics added which on itself is a nice touch in theory but ended up neither intuitive nor very user friendly in practice.

So it's not a bad game but i'd only recommend buying this if you've already played a 100hours+ in crusader kings 2 and/or 3 and just want to experience that game but a little bit different. And on top of that, definitely wait for a sale because it's waaay to expensive at the current price of 45 euros. Content wise i'd give this game a worth of about 20eu but not a cent more.