Review: Reigns: Kings & Queens (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Harvard L.

Reigns is a game about being many things at once, and it too, is a game which tries to be many things at once. It feels poetic to review Nerial’s compilation of the original and its expansion on the Switch, also a console which tries to be many things. Reigns is a solitaire game where you play as the ruler of a large kingdom, and cards are dealt which represents requests from advisors, townsfolk, neighbouring warlords and other members of the menagerie that is your kingdom. You’ll have to either grant or deny each request while precariously balancing your allegiances to the Church, the people, the army and the economy, knowing fully well that if any of these becomes too strong or too weak, your ruler will meet a grisly end.

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