Last updated on July 23rd, 2023 at 01:41 am
Reigns
Step into the gaming world with Reigns, one of the top $2.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Devolver Digital, Inc., this captivating Card game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 12+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 12th August 2016, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 28th August 2019.
Whether you have a liking for Card, Adventure, games, Reigns is sure to keep you hooked!
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Dive into Reigns
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.
*iPhone 5 / iPod Touch 6 / iPad Mini / iPad Air or later recommended.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Reigns on 28th August 2019:
Corrects a bug with the homunculus
Hear from the Players – Reigns Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Reigns:
Please make one for a Prince and a Princess!!!!
This is best game ever! We saw one person rate it one star, and thats just stupid! This game is our dreams come true, and if some people want to be jerks about it, they cant ruin our fun.
We love this game this is the best thing ever.
We have had this game for a while and it is one of the best games ever.
A very simple but well-made game with endless replayability.
A fun time waster through the day, gameplay is challenging but not overbearing. We love the fact that the purpose of the game is to make everyone happy, but not giving to much power to one party, as it puts you in the mentality of what a real dictator / king would be thinking.
Good good it is very fun and we love it it is also a little silly actually really silly would recommend.
Reigns is a great game. And its well worth the 3 dollars. The only issue is that the duels are a little hard to understand but other than that, we want to thank the devs for such a great game.
The game is addicting and well worth the money but we do wish that when a king uses the name of an ancestor, they ad II, III, IV, etc or just add more names. Also wish there were more interactive events like fencing but other than those 2 things this game is great.
Its a great game with lots of ending including a hidden one, we will not spoil it but if yuo want to really win you will need your wits and even if your not the witty type its a lot of fun!
This game is amazing the only thing is it can get a little… Hectic but other then that this game is amazing and we would recommend it and shut up haters stop saying its too complicated or this game is dumb because thats just a ton of bs (bull ****) this game has amazing story line but the one thing is the ending is a little unoriginal like its an obvious ending death cant take something thats already dead like make it a little better and can you make a animated part like make a new ending then a cut scene for it like yeah it might ruin a little bit of the originality but itll be cool like breaking tradition and doing something dumb but thats all and this game is amazing and you really have to think about unlike Other her games (Minecraft) so this game is awesome and Id recommend it.
We LOVE this game but it doesnt fit the screen on our iPhone X. We cant see the full screen so it makes it very hard to play. Please fix this.
This game is enjoyable if you know what youre getting into (read professional online reviews about it first). Personally, we think it works best if you play in short spurts here and there, when you have a few minutes, see how far you can go, and dont take it too seriously. Maybe youll get far, maybe you wont, but its fun either way. Certainly better than a plain solitaire card game, which can also be repetitive but is fun in short spurts. Im glad we purchased this game.
The vase card (green one) takes up more space on the screen than it should and covers the dialogue. This is rather annoying, otherwise the game is great. Clean graphics and engaging plot.
This is quite fun at first, but after less than an hour of gameplay we found myself cycling through the same choices over and over and over again. Theres not a lot of strategy involved, as the way impacts are decided (and the severity/strength of those impacts) is almost completely opaque. We want to like this game a lot more than we do.
Ok so this is pretty scary we hate the x eyes even though we dont have this game we like your characters and the style is pretty cool.
The choices dont make sense. There is barely a storyline. Playing at random without reading the choices plays the same as if you tried to think it out.
The game is very interesting we just hate it that instead of knowing how your choices effect the game u literally have to take a chance and hope for the best, its not a good game design we hope that changes.
Honestly this game should be free.
This game is not something that is really even thats interesting. All you do is try to figure out a balance of all the attributes but here is no plot/actual strategy to it. We were expecting this to be more complex than it is. Not worth the money.
It is impossible to figure out the results of any action or recover from any decision. The questions posed are too vague and decisions you are asked to make dont come with enough Information to assess pro and con. Played a few hours and deleted in disgust. There is nothing clever here.
There is no way to "win," you just flip cards. Got boring in a hurry.
We really love this game, but there is a glitch with the vase cards. Instead of being the normal size, they cover the entire screen, and we cant see anything else. Please fix this so we can keep playing your awesome game!
The text cuts off when in vertical mode, have to turn the phone horizontally to actually read the text.
This is a game for masochists. You have very little control (two options) and no information about the consequences of your actions. We can see the devs sniggering behind our backs as they torment us. Maybe thats what some people are into? Not for us.
Game makes no sense & is awful. The interface is so minimalistic that it makes it so you cant tell how your choices are going to impact things, and the combat and dungeon sections are incomprehensible. Cant believe we wasted money on this.
Wildly tone deaf with regards to slavery, colonization, and other racially charged topics that require handling with care when depicted in media, especially video games that put the player in the position of the perpetrator. We found it distasteful and uncomfortable.
If it werent for some mild humor every once in a while… Nah forget it. One star. Decisions are pointless. The main drive of this game is to be funny, but it is goofy and pointless at best. Oh and frustrating to try to make any sense of how to accomplish anything. Might as well be swiping blind.
We love this game… Its as simple as that. However we dont feel as if its a 99 cent game when it has the qualities of a free game. Its really fun however and we definitely recommend it.
Amazing game that we love to come back to time and time again.
We’ve been playing for a while and we absolutely love it! The only problem we have is with saving our progress. The game only saves after the king has died. Please add a way to save your progress mid-reign.
We dont want to spoil too much about the game in case you know nothing, but its great. Just… Better to enter it with a mindset where youre prepared to laugh at yourself/your failures. If you can do that, we think youll love it.
Love this game so much! Its great for someone whos into old European history!! Honestly l just wished that as time moved on, real life events would happen in the game (Industrial Revolution, Introduction of Modern Technology, etc.). We really enjoy trying to achieve all the titles and meet every character in the game. Thanks for making it!
Really a great game, its a unique idea and its implemented very well. Casual, but clever. A little addictive, just one more card, at least in the first run through. Thats the basis of one complaint, though. The first run is one of discovery, the second is a little more strategic because you know the effect of your decisions for most of the cards. But it would be better if there was a little more variety in which cards are available based on your decisions. There is some of that, cards get added if you choose to meet certain characters, but ideally this would happen a lot more often so theres still more to discover in later playthroughs. We havent won yet and Im not sure how many more playthroughs Im going to bother with to get there because it is becoming a little too repetitive. Our other complaint is that progress is only saved when a new king begins his reign. Leaving the game for more than a few minutes means starting back at the beginning of that Kongs reign, which can be annoying (although we suppose it can be useful, like going back to a save). Id like to see the option to save progress mid-reign.
This is honestly the best game we have ever downloaded on any device besides papers please. Reigns has a fantastic art style with a good theme. The only complaint with the game is the add ons you get in the bottom right sometimes dont work ESPECIALLY the cathedral that thing is legit broke it says it keeps the people from becoming too powerful and the church from becoming too week. It really doesnt though other then that though it is an amazing game highly recommended.
We love this game, literal hours into this game already and we’ve only had for two days. Only issue is we’ve discovered the frozen blood three or four times yet it doesnt leave our goals. Otherwise the games amazing.
We’ve loved this game ever since we first bought it. The concept is awesome and it really makes you think. Id recommend it to anyone whos looking for a game.
Would love to play additional content. Been dying for it!!
This game is fun and we want to come back. Enough said…..(not yet) Heres a suggestion: have important historical events or references during the game. Ex: its 1945, someone could say, The war is finally over sir! Or maybe you could have an option to send troops over to a real life conflict-It would be cool when you catch them and even take part of. Course you would have to make up your own after the current year but nonetheless it would be fantabular. Yes. Fantabular. Thanks for reading our review.
We love this game its so addictive and fun! We’ve lasted 42 years so far and am hoping to get even farther! The only thing we would consider changing is make it so that you know how much of each items you have currently, other than that it is a fantastic game!
This game is great, but the app gets old after a week of play. We loved this game, but we wish that there was more detailed endings. Also, is there even a way to beat the devil??
The plot is very fun but when we had to restart instead of continuing we got really sad we would like if the cancel would let you play again.
If you keep all 4 bars in the middle sometimes Cedric Brandon will throw a huge party that you cant decide not to attend. The party always ends with the king getting drunk and drowning or eating too much and choking. Sort of annoying when everything is going well and then the game kills you for it.
First of all we just redownloaded loaded the game and we completed the game for the good ending killing the devil but one thing just saying it was over 100 years and our FRIEND never came not once so we got one of the bad endings…. So just when that comes make it guaranteed we guess.
Bug: discover a new world is impossible if you exit the app just as you discover the new world. We’ve discovered a new world a few times now but the first time we had to unexpectedly shut the app just as our explorer told us about the new land.
Overall a fun game. We have reached the "end" in Reigns and find it a bit frustrating that if you mess up once you basically have no chance of getting at the good ending, since after you meet the devil for the last time you are set onto 3 paths only if you set yourself onto them beforehand which takes up a lot of time). So what we’re trying to say is, it takes too much time and luck to set yourself up to the good ending (ending not death). Mess up once and you have to restart the whole game from year 1998-2000 something all the way to the 600’s, where you have to work your way up and make strategically randomized choices in the dungeon. We think after you beat the game once you should be able to travel back to the 1800’s or the 1900’s with no special boosts or any cool quests unlocked.
We want to love this game But it is to random. Your decisions dont seem to have a predictable outcome. You have no idea whether the outcome is going to be good or bad its pretty ambiguous. Which is quite frustrating. We dont think we’ve been able to live more than 15 years in this game (which is only 15 decisions which takes about 5 minutes.) That being said it is a fun game. We just cant seem to get very far in the game sometimes just for decisions and then Im dead and we didnt really seem like there was an obvious answer. Note to the developers: When you make a decision-there is a small or large circle above. It would be great to see if that circle was green or red to know how theyre going to handle it. Its not taking the fun out of the game its taking the frustration out. Also it would be nice if you could add a little more variety to the sayings to help distinguish one reign from the next. It would be also neat if you could add a swipe up or down to add choices. Instead of just yes no right or left. Perhaps those choices could be more or less extreme. I.e. Swipe up strongly agree swipe right slightly agree swipe left slightly disagree swipe down strongly disagree Or something.
What is there is fine, but you’ll get bored after an hour or two. Cards repeat. As for the storyline and puzzle for many endings– it’s kind of convoluted and the main game is not enjoyable enough to warrant playing through enough times to solve the endings. Wish they’d spent more time on main game content.