Easily my surprise game of 2015 thus far. Basically its a strategy game, but there are elements of the game where you have to maintain keeps in different areas and keep them stocked with decent couples who can produce offspring to keep your line of available players going.
So you have strategy both in battle and outside of it. And its hard, even in lower difficulties. Right now i have maybe 6 heroes available, the rest are too young to fight. And in my 4 keeps, i have an infertile 45 year old man who will never produce offspring, and a couple of 65+ year old ladies in other keeps who will never bear children either : This means when picking which resource to make, i have to try and adopt babies. Or when a battle comes up, im more inclined to defend the area with a baby as the reward. Strategy!
The weirdest thing is it can be a decade between battles. I had this awesome bruiser character, started fighting her at like 16, by the time she was 35 she was level 4 or 5. Awesome! But then it was like 11 years before the next fight and she was 46, which is fine, but id hoped to marry her off to breed, which was then impossible. But then i enter this fight against these enemies who literally age you 5 years when they hit you, and she was 66 after the fight and died :( Its also very cool but also disturbing to have a 50 year old badass in one fight but then the next battle rolls around a decade later and you can actually see the wrinkles and frailty of old age.
But man what an awesome Games with Gold selection. Makes up for another month of a shitty billiards game. Anyone else enjoying it?
