Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 07:19 am
Reigns+ – Card Game Review
Reigns+ is a Card game from Devolver Digital, Inc., first launched in 2nd April 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 163+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Reigns+ Stand Out
Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal fingers either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom. Survive the seemingly never-ending gauntlet of requests from your advisors, peasants, allies, and enemies while maintaining balance between the influential factions of your kingdom. But beware; each decision you make might have implications and unfortunate consequences down the road that could put your reign and family’s dynasty at risk!
Each year of your reign brings another important – seemingly random – request from your unpredictable kingdom as you strive for balance between the church, the people, the army, and the treasury. Prudent decisions and careful planning make for a long reign but unforeseen motivations, surprise events, and poor luck can take down even the most entrenched monarch. Extend your reign as long as possible, forge alliances, make enemies, and find new ways to die as your dynasty marches along through the ages. Some events will span on centuries, with an intrigue involving burning witches, scientific enlightenment, wicked politics and, maybe, the Devil himself.
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Reigns+ is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd July 2021
Recent improvements include:
- Minor text changes.
- Press 2 fingers on the screen for 5 seconds to reset the game.
Download & Availability
Reigns+ is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
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We are seeing alot of poor reviews for not having red green colorblindode. This game is not designed with colors and all the cires are the SAME color. If the circles were colored you wouldn't need to follow the story. The circles are different sizes big circle equals big decision positive or negatively little circle small decision positive or negatively. Colorblind mode not required BTW we really enjoy this game and will continue to play.
This game is great and one of our favorites but it gets a lot of bad reviews from red-green colorblind people not liking how the ball indicators for your decisions are colored allegedly red/green but the color is SUPPOSED TO BE THE SAME, even for non colorblind people. Otherwise it would be too easy (or we think thats what they thought). We love this game and am sad it gets bad reviews from colorblind people.
It was a pretty fun game, got very interesting but can be quite tedious at times. It gets compelling and got our boyfriend and we hooked. We love the surprise things and figuring out little hidden ways to hack the game lol. Super cool, everyone should try it, also cool outro screen.
Thats all we have to say Okay listen we know this isnt helpful we just wanted to write a good review.
So far we have enjoyed the game but for whatever reason even when we had almost every bar near the top we died as the last victim of the dungeon murderer even though 2 rounds before we had reinforced the guard when a body was found in the dungeon this was pretty annoying considering we were on our best run yet and we feel like random events shouldnt play so big of part in failure other then that the game is really fun.
Title says it all. Knowing the stradegy of the game can surely help you live a long time, but beating it requires luck. Unfortunate and frustrating. The plot itself is rich and deep, and the game is creative and charming. If the devs made a couple essential events inevitable (we.e. Late game needed to win), this would be an easy 5/5. Playing for 4 hours only to lose because the game didnt provide you with the option to say yes to a certain card (no spoilers, iykyk) is frustrating.
Annoying that its game over if you have too much money.
Why does the text keep messing up? You start the game and now every time we play the text messes up so you cant even read it. If we can ever play again Ill change the rating.
Im usually able to make out the two fairly well actually, but Im on the cusp of actually saying Im RG colorblind. This game is almost fun only knowing which factions are involved, but not being able to tell if its a positive or a negative leaves you going in blind. Either needs a colorblind mode/setting or expanded narrative in the way of advisors etc.
Its a really cool concept and the gameplay is cool, but we wish there was a way to restart and play again bc the first go, we didnt totally understand how to play and we wish we could go back.
Its a decent game all things considered – a good story with a plot even in its simple form. But mostly we keep running into a problem due to the fact we don't have a Home button on our phone. When we swipe up, sometimes this causes a card to be drawing instead of the app to be closed – we wish the swiping was a little more concentrated towards the center of the card – or less sensitive around the bottom of the screen / when swiping up.
We got this game because of the high star reviews and we were looking for something new to play. At first its addicting as you try to hit different achievements in the game. Once you get those and figure out what you have to do in order to win the game, it quickly becomes frustrating. A lot of events that need to happen pop up randomly and you end up going through the same cards repeatedly while waiting for one of these events to happen. You are at the mercy of the games randomness in order to win and we found it more frustrating going through the same prompts over and over than satisfying. If you dont mind a game where its a bit of skill and a lot of luck then you may enjoy! But if you prefer games where you are making progress and it depends more on skill then you may get frustrated going through the repetition of this game. Also – the game may have been updated but red/green color blind shouldnt have a problem! The dot that people reference is not colored unless you get the clarity card. When you have that it turns into up/down arrows so the color doesnt matter.
Feels like swiping through the same dialogue over and over, sometimes get trapped in loops where it feels like no way to make something happen. Interesting when that doesnt happen in early games, frustrating and stale pretty quick after that.
Seems like you might as well play a sort machine. Your ability to survive or progress is completely random, even if you memorize which responses have which effects, which is definitely possible because youll start to see the same events over and over again.
Unplayable do to red green circles looking the same.
We hadnt played this game in a long time, perhaps a year, and there isnt a way to reset our save data that SOMEHOW is still there and begin anew.
Needs a colorblind mode for the little dots above the symbols at the top.
Please add a color-blind option. We do not know the difference w/ red-green color-blindness. Please make this game be accessible.
This game is perfect don't get us wrong. But every time we get "Your fortress is to weak…" card no matter what we pick it freezes the game and won't show any more cards. Other than that this game is perfect.
Your fortress is too weak. We should build a new tower, has replaced all of our cards. Im sure our kingdom is populated mostly by towers at this point. UPDATE: The update fixed it but we still flinch whenever we see this card. Otherwise a delightful indie style game thats well suited for mobile play. :).
This is exactly like the original reigns, which we love. We have all of the reigns games, reigns, reigns: her majesty, reigns:GoT, reigns: beyond, and now reigns+. All great games, but if you have the original reigns you dont need this one if you dont, welcome to reigns, we hope you enjoy.
There needs to be a way to see what would have happened if you made the other choice.
This game is fun to play and the story is cool. We think there is a bug with the identify the terrorist cell achievement. We have not seen the prompt card for this after playing through 50 kings.
His game is so much fun however there is a lot of choices that lead to death and we feel like there should be an option to escape or less death options.
The gameplay is great. The mechanics are great. The characters are fun. Its a good a game. However, having red-green colorblindness (the most common), we cannot tell the difference between the differently colored circles indicating the effects of our actions before we choose them. We know whom/what it will affect, but we do not know if it will be positive or negative… Which is really, really important in this game. Not knowing what Im doing is really debilitating to gameplay. If a colorblind mode or an option to customize the colors of the positive/negative indicators were implemented, this would absolutely be a 5-star game for us. This game is great, but we cant quite play it.
This is an extremely fun game. However Ive been playing for days and still cant trick the devil. Ive lived to 100 once in 4 replays. And still havent met all the characters. Help.
Truly immaculate. Our only gripe is its SO good we want to keep playing, but the cards are getting repetitive. Im on king 60, and would love to get all achievements, but the first cards are nearly always the same as every other king! Lets get some new stuff plz :3.
It was fun for a few minutes but then it just got repetitive and boring.
This game is amazing and we are looking forward to updates, one idea is adding more opportunities for jousting, like when youre overrun by a different kingdom or Popes people.
This game was fun for the first 2 weeks or so, but got boring very fast. It repeats its self over and over, and now its just old. Also, what if we want ro be a queen, or princess? Or custom more things? We dont know, but we are deleting this game. Its just taking up space now.
We really like this game but we have one problem which is that Ive gotten a central bank and if we say no to it when we run out of money it just keeps asking us to do it and another problem is that our general keeps asking us if we want a tower even though we already have one and if we say yes hell just keep asking if we want a new tower, it does the same thing as the bank and doesnt let us say no. Edit: the devs have now fixed the problem.
- update April 6, 2021: Thank you for fixing this bug fast! * from April 4, 2021: we cannot continue in the game because of this repeating card from the general. We were really enjoying the game, but its literally unplayable for us until this is fixed.
The fortress prompt bug has been fixed! Now go play this game, its a joy to experience with its simple concept but outstanding writing and gameplay loop. Played the original and the expansion/sequel, cant recommend it enough.
The game is very fun but we cant really play it when the guard keeps saying that he needs to build a tower, but this time it freezes and we cant do anything we try to open and close the app and the same thing happens. Please fix this we really love the game, but with this bug, we just hope it gets patched in a update.
Its an amazing game but it keeps giving us the same card over and over. We cant advance in years even.
The general keeps saying your tower is too weak build a tower, and it lasts 200 years.
How many towers do you want us to build?? Hopefully this glitch is resolved soon, we just said yes 500 times in a row…. Can never have enough towers, we suppose, lol. That aside, this is a great game! Fun to play on the go, quick decision making, lots of endings to unlock… This is a unique style of deck building.
As other users have stated, Im getting the repetitive fortress bug. Game unplayable. Fun while it lasted though.
We were unpleasantly surprised that the re-release of original Reigns is such a buggy game. First few rounds seem fine, but obviously no one tested it further. Some cards just repeat and repeat, and some get you stuck, with no other means to end the cycle except to uninstall. Yes, we mean run madly in the dark mini game that doesnt progress when you already completed it before. Also a cherry on the pie: Settings icon seem to toggle landscape mode, instead of, well, showing settings.
We looked at all the other reviews, and almost all of them say your fortress is too weak. We really like the game, but Im just wondering if you could please fix this. Thanks.
This game is super good! We love all the options you can do and the interactivity is super fun. However, there are two glitches Ive encountered. One, we keep getting a tower card over and over. With this at least we can still play. The other glitch we cannot. This man asks us about donating blood to a womans party but no matter what we say, there is no other cards after that and the game basically freezes. Ive tried closing it out, deleting it and everything but it gives us the same card and then stops. Please help! Otherwise good game though.
Quick and fun game about choices and balance.
We love the game but after playing it for a long time we were continuously asked to build more towers…we cant do anything except run out of money or run out of soldiers.
We just downloaded the game and so far so good.
Some of the effects are every second (lover, crusade, Silk Road, etc) which is really annoying because for the rest of that game we dont have enough time to think about our choices. Im pretty sure thats how it was intended, but that still doesnt make it a good mechanic. This game is supposed to be about strategy, Im supposed to think about our actions. When we have one of these effects, we just swiped left and right randomly because if we stop to think, Id die immediately. We think these perks should be every turn, so they still have a big effect, but we still have time to think. Otherwise, we really like this game. Its creative and unique and fun.
We really enjoy this game and we have played it all the way through. Only issues is, the general is ALWAYS asking you to build a new tower – we built a new tower for 300+ years; no other questions would be in the deck, besides the general wanting us to upgrading the tower. We recommend downloading, great time killer.
Like the game and the challenge of having to keep the balance of all four categories. Since sometimes youre never quite sure if the categories are going to be negatively or positively impacted, your choice can be a bit of a gamble. But most of the time its your own decision and you can guess it. We really enjoy it because when you get a new achievement, sometime you get a whole new section of cards that youve not seen before, giving it a whole new story line. Unfortunately, we are having the same issue everyone else is having that repeatedly asks for the fortresses to be built over and over again. We ended up getting the achievement for governing for over a century just because we were trying to flip through these cards! We have to take a break from the game because its getting quite irksome. Hoping its just a glitch that can be easily fixed by the game developers since the rest of the game is super fun to play.
This game just came out and its great!!! Fun choices and good characters. Not too hard, but you still have to think about what youre doing. However after two days of playing Ive found that sometimes the knight dude will come up and ask you to build a tower over and over, and by the time he stops asking you are forced to die because one of your stats is too low from the forced repetition.
We love this game, and we were playing today when we encountered a glitch thats stuck and we cant get it away. We think we reach 950 years or so, and every single card was General guy saying Your fortress is too weak. We should build a new tower until we died from either saying yes or no. But one time we didnt die even if our money or sword thingy went down or up, and ended up living to 133 years old before the game finally gave us a card saying we died. Its been stuck ever since, idk what to do but delete and reset the game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.03
- Size: 128.19 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Devolver Digital, Inc.
Last updated: 2nd July 2021 | Genre: Card | Developer: Devolver Digital, Inc.