Sunset Kingdom challenges players to balance taxes, rations, and job assignments while conquering this new world.
Starting from the humble beginnings of a small settlement, you will have the ultimate goal to become the monarch of a prosperous land.
In this strategic management simulation, you will have to decide on a lot of factors to ensure your success. Firstly, taxes – what’s a wealthy monarchy without them? Taxing your citizens will gain you more money, sure, but they probably won’t be too happy about it. You can try to negate this bloating tax by increasing their food rations – full belly, happy citizen.
Once you’ve established your first colony and have amassed a modest sum, you’ll want to start thinking of expansion. Enlist those happy citizens by assigning them to one of seven different jobs. You’ll want a diverse crowd to make sure you can construct new buildings with builders and lumberjacks while maintaining and gathering for your food stores with fishers and farmers. You may also want to check into your defenses since Viking ships are always a threat, and only a strong set of knights will protect your throne.
This adorable simulation of creating a thriving population for the glory of the King/Queen is a great way to exercise your inner tactician – and monarch.
Sunset Kingdom is available now on itch.io. You can also check out the Patreon.
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I played through this when I got it through Patreon and really loved it. It’s simple-ish but very nice.