Reigns: Three Kingdoms
Reigns: Three Kingdoms
Game
Game2016
Reigns
Developer Nerial
Reigns is a 2016 strategy video game developed by Nerial and published by Devolver Digital. In the game, players control a medieval king who they must help rule for as long as possible. The monarch receives petitions and questions from advisers, which are represented by cards. The player can choose between two responses to the adviser, which has an effect on one or more of the kingdom's four aspects. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
235 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
60
Fresh
101 positive · 66 negative
95% range 53–68%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 101 | 66 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 3 | 0 | 52 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
2,370 of 2,850 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
62% recommend · 103 yes, 62 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 165 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (7,067 of 8,142 positive).
Players find the simple swipe mechanic engaging but note it becomes repetitive over time. [1][2][3] The game's humor and art style are praised, but RNG and unclear consequences frustrate some. [4][5][6] Many recommend it for short sessions, though completionists may find it tedious. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [12]
The game feels very repetitive, with RNG heavily influencing the experience. Without a guide, progressing the story requires grinding through the same scenarios repeatedly while trying to guess the correct sequence of actions. Over time, I found myself stuck, encountering the same events over and over again as I struggled to figure out how to advance the story.
- [6]
Things I like: - Minimalistic art style is charming and "clean". Animations are smooth. - Sound effects / sound design is minimal but does the job; fake voices / accents are funny. - The dialogue / writing is quite good, for what it is. Definitely helps to carry the story forward. - The tinder-style interface, coupled with the YES/NO binary choice system is not that bad, and can work well in "choice A choice B" …
- [1]
The "Tinder for Dictators" Simulator. I thought being a King meant power, wealth, and respect. Turns out, it’s just me sitting on a throne, swiping left and right on people’s problems like I’m looking for a date on a Friday night. The balance in this game is impossible. If I give the people a loaf of bread, the Church gets offended and burns me at the stake. If I tell the Army to relax, the neighboring kingdom …
- [2]
You play as a medieval king making decisions by swiping left or right on cards. Every choice affects four stats: Church, People, Army, and Treasury. Let any stat max out or drop to zero, and your reign ends. Despite it's simplicity, the outcomes can be surprising as you play You'll unlock new characters, events, and cards which carries over between rulers While it can be fun at first, the gameplay gets repetitive …
- [10]
It's incredible how such a simple concept of just swiping left or right to decide can produce such a fun game with so many possible outcomes. This game is all about experimenting with your choices and balancing the powers in order to keep your character(s) alive as long as possible and, hopefully, being able to eventually reach the good ending.
Summarised from 34 of the 228 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 9, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
62% of the 165 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Reigns. The complaint that keeps coming up: gameplay becomes repetitive quickly. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
According to the review aggregator website Metacritic, Reigns received "generally favorable" reviews for its iOS and PC versions. Reviewers generally considered Reigns a fun and unique strategy game. TouchArcade found its gameplay to be interesting and inventive, and Pocket Gamer said that it was "a clever subversion of strategy and casual mobile play that makes you laugh, cry, and think". In contrast, The Guardian felt that Reigns was more of a whimsical experience than a serious strategy game. Critics debated the game's presentation. Rock Paper Shotgun said that it forced the player to alter their approach to rulership, as it changed him from being an idealist who wanted to make moral…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 235 · most liked firstFor aeons, man has debated the question, which is better, former WWE Champion Roman Reigns, or the 2002 Flash game Sexy Hiking? On the Newest Episode of the Versus Wolves Podcast, WE FIND THAT ANSWER youtu.be/g49zZ2NKQmY
neutral · AI labelView post →Director of Astral Chain, game designer for Anarchy Reigns, Metal Gear Rising, Wonderful 101, and Nier Automata.
neutral · AI labelView post →Another lil sneak peek at some of the systems I'm making for my Reigns but TF game.
neutral · AI labelView post →I made a tiny game for PicoSteveMo with @dicey.bsky.social ! ➡️ It's called King Stephen ➡️ You play as King Stephen (King of England 1135-1154) ➡️ It's a Reigns-like decision-making game ➡️ I did the writing + portraits ➡️ Made for a Stephen King game jam ➡️ It's very silly dicey.itch.io/king-stephen
neutral · AI labelView post →Our Valentines Stream Weekend Continues our Tekken Tournament followed by a very fun stream of Anarchy Reigns a dope action game!! twitch.tv/Rose_Waltz
neutral · AI labelView post →Character designs from Anarchy Reigns by artist Kenichiro Yoshimura. More art from the game: www.creativeuncut.com/art_anarchy-...
neutral · AI labelView post →How will your story evolve? Craft your adventure in Reigns: The Witcher, the card-swiping decision-making game from Nerial and @devolverdigital.com! 👉 youtu.be/9it7oMf0l00 Coming to iOS, Android, Mac & PC on February 25th. ⚔️ www.reignsgame.com/witcher
neutral · AI labelView post →my best friend reminded me about Anarchy Reigns. man that game was fucking cool
positive · AI labelView post →Some behind the scenes Lil' Guardsman lore: Initially we had the player balance the favour of the three advisors, inspired by Reigns. Ultimately it proved cumbersome with the other systems, but this element definitely shapes the dynamic between Lil and the advisor trio through the game!
neutral · AI labelView post →Thought I'd also give an update on my "Reigns but TF" game as well. Currently, I'm in the process of redoing all the current pixel art into a simple vector style instead. I felt the pixel style had some readability issues, and I was getting a bit frustrated with the medium in general.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last week saw the release of Reigns: The Witcher, and we wanted to share how the game came to be in our latest Beyond the Game Blog. But we promise, it’s not as scandalous as the stories told by Dandelion in the game! 🔗 cdpred.ly/reigns_article
neutral · AI labelView post →Reigns: The Witcher is available to wishlist on Steam or GOG and pre-order on App Store and Google Play: reignsgame.com/witcher Follow @nerial.bsky.social for more details and updates on the game on its road to launch on February 25!
neutral · AI labelView post →In 2015 a game called Rise of the Incarnates was nominated for the GOTY for best fighting game. The other noms are Rising Thunder and Mortal Kombat X and that’s it! It’s a free to play Anarchy Reigns that wasn’t even alive for a year. Tekken 7 and DOA5 came out that year! Was this game any good???
neutral · AI labelView post →Full Cast of ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Including Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes Appears at The Game Awards wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/ful...
neutral · AI labelView post →Need some opinions on the overall UI design for a TF Reigns-like game I'm making. Can't run a poll on Bluesky, so it's only on the other site, I'm afraid. x.com/8Bit_Familia... Polls for Bluesky when?
neutral · AI labelView post →Durga, Rin Rin, Sasha Ivanoff, and Mathilda from Anarchy Reigns by artist Kenichiro Yoshimura. More art from the game: creativeuncut.com/art_anarchy-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Meh....Just a Medieval "Tinder" app. i.e. Mostly random. Quickly gets repetitive and boring. No happy ending. ...I'll swipe 'left' on that one!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am now having dreams about Chaos Reigns, my on-the-shelf gacha game. I really need to get Home on the Strange off the ground asap so I can bite into that game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Swipe right to slay beasts in Reigns: The Witcher announced for February 25 #Reigns #TheWitcher #ReignsTheWitcher #IndieGames
neutral · AI labelView post →The polls have opened! Vote for Squirrel Girl! Select your ballots in game, and also on the Webstore by using code CatMurdockCache (which will also give you the title Inhuman Queen Reigns Supreme) #mcoc
neutral · AI labelView post →Reigns: The Witcher, the card-swiping game from @nerial.bsky.social and @devolverdigital.com, is out now! Check out the details here:
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's my #NintendoSwitch #indiegame highlight for today! 🎮👍🏼 Game - Reigns: Beyond Developer - @nerial.bsky.social Publisher - @devolverdigital.com Release date - April 17, 2024
neutral · AI labelView post →The game feels very repetitive, with RNG heavily influencing the experience. Without a guide, progressing the story requires grinding through the same scenarios repeatedly while trying to guess the correct sequence of actions. Over time, I found myself stuck, encountering the same events over and over again as I struggled to figure out how to advance the story.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Devolver has laid off 40% of staff at internal Reigns studio Nerial. (Read more: Game Developer)
neutral · AI labelView post →Here is the first look at my game Chaos Reigns! It's a soulslike, action RPG. Here's 2 minutes of early in development gameplay! youtu.be/-z0vgRxnstU #indiedev #gamedev #unrealengine #UE5
neutral · AI labelView post →@choochoobear.bsky.social So your Something Positive comic about the Goblin game resonated with me, I'm an early millennial (Like '83) And grew up playing the same sorts of games... also a game like that out now is Reigns on steam.
neutral · AI labelView post →Savatage - Madness Reigns from the Gutter. Savatage - Madness Reigns from the Gutter Whoa - that's a helluva live album! [https://tidal.com/album/513760029/u](https://tidal.com/album/513760029/u) [\#musicreviews](https://metalhead.club/tags/musicreviews) [#vinyl](https://metalhead.club/tags/vinyl) [#metal](https://metalhead.club/tags/metal) [#savatage](https://metalhead.club/tags/savatage) [@metal](https://lemmy.world/c/metal)
neutral · AI labelView post →Swipe right to slay beasts in Reigns: The Witcher announced for February 25 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/swipe-right-to-slay-beasts-in-reigns-the-witcher-announced-for-february-25/ #Reigns #TheWitcher #ReignsTheWitcher #IndieGames
neutral · AI labelView post →Ai Rin, Zero, Fei Rin, and Blacker Baron from Anarchy Reigns by artist Kenichiro Yoshimura. More art from the game: www.creativeuncut.com/art_anarchy-...
neutral · AI labelView post →While not random, the swipes feel.... inconsequential and repetitive. The novelty soon wears off and all that is left is the chore of balancing and finishing. The rush of tinder swiping soon gives way to an empty feeling of yearning for more. Better and real connections that truly sate the empty hunger within every one of us. Oh, yeah, the game is all of the above too.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reigns #16 · 1/5 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⚡ 4 day streak reigns.app I like this game
positive · AI labelView post →The "Tinder for Dictators" Simulator. I thought being a King meant power, wealth, and respect. Turns out, it’s just me sitting on a throne, swiping left and right on people’s problems like I’m looking for a date on a Friday night. The balance in this game is impossible. If I give the people a loaf of bread, the Church gets offended and burns me at the stake. If I tell the Army to relax, the neighboring kingdom invades and turns my head into a decorative vase. If I try to be a "nice guy," I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Chaos Reigns Gameplay Video! youtu.be/2AYGBiWuJSA?... #gamedev #game #unrealengine #unrealengine5 #ue5
neutral · AI labelView post →I wish there was a way to give Reigns a "mixed" recommendation, since I really did enjoy most of my time, and it's at a fantastic price-point for how much game you get... but I really wish I hadn't decided to play it all the way through. It really is a charming little casual rogue-lite, with lots of personality, and an addictive but super simple game play loop. It can also be played in very short bursts, which is a plus, and it's very funny at times. While there is a puzzle related to the main…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Anniversary update wiped my save. Very cool.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very hard for me to give a positive score to this one but I'll tell you this - it may look quite enticing to play through this game in one or a couple of sittings, but please take your time with Reigns. Otherwise, the repetitiveness and RNG-induced frustration will kill you, trust me. Especially the latter. That being said, some things I enjoyed: - The black and absurd humor - Game rewarding you with new events, characters and cards from time to time, for that sweet dopamine hit - Ways of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New game digest: Reigns does The Witcher, Warframe, Candy Crush, an ‘AI first’ battler, more #gamedevelopment #indiedev #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →This isn't bad. But... It's too boring when you play too much. The gameplay is repetitive. I like unusual events and characters tho The sounds are really amazing. 5/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bro was ready to uninstall the game over Roman Reigns & Meltzer went "Aw, dude." That might be WORSE than the actual self being sent back to the lobby.
neutral · AI labelView post →This one has the most basic gameplay of all the Reigns games, but I don't think that's a bad thing. Some of the other games get overly complicated and forget the appeal of the original, which is balancing all four meters by making yes or no choices. There's also a LOT of cards, and situations can change based on the choices you make. There's also multiple endings! The best ending is kind of hard to figure out, but not impossible.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reigns is what happens when Tinder, medieval politics and an extremely unsafe workplace join forces. You play as a succession of kings who must respond to every royal problem by swiping a card left or right. Each decision affects the Church, the people, the army and the treasury. Allow any one of them to become too weak or too powerful and your reign ends—usually violently, embarrassingly or both. It sounds almost too simple, but there is considerably more hiding beneath the oversized…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some events are either overlapping eachother and make them dissapear or when you do the supposed thing, it doesn't register and makes you to do that thins over and over again. I swear I collected the blood ruby 4 times in a run. ALSO some achievemt,nts are not even register. I SWEAR Devolver cannot code achievements even if you put a revolver to their head. I normally at least give devolver games a positive but for a text based game, these are essencials.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting game, enjoyed the concept on a similar game called Sort the Court! but, this game has a lot of choices that don't make sense ever. There are things like the dungeon that seem to be totally RNG that can keep you trapped and end your reign just because the RNG keeps you there indefinitely. Another example is the dots indicating what you gain and lose in each aspect of your kingdom. Some make sense but others are completely confusing why they would go up or down and by how much they do…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A unique game where you swipe left or swipe right to the event occurring in your kingdom which are usually delivered by a particular character (the head of the church for instance). Swipe right for “Yes” or positive responses and left for the reverse. You are running a kingdom, as the king, and you need to balance four aspects of your kingdom: church, people, army and economy. If any of these reach zero, or the max value, your king is killed and your reign is over. How you respond to each…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not much content, yet very repetitive. To progress the story, you'll have to grind out the same scenarios over and over until you happen to select the correct series of options. The game also occasionally glitches, making the cards cover the text font, so you can't see what prompt you're responding to, which is frustrating. I don't recommend this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Showers are for spring flowers. Adults need Golden Reigns. Yes, it means what you think it means. One of the stranger game shows conceived by the global AI to keep humans entertained in the Plato Wars. #BookSky Can man kill the god it created? AzothKhem.com/book30.html
neutral · AI labelView post →I was 20 cards away from all cards achievements but they decide to add more (which is good) and to reset all progress (now I am ALL cards away)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun at the start, but you soon realise that this game is just a massive waste of time. Some of the decisions make no sense as to why they affect certain stats. It gets easier when you unlock the ability to see how your decisions will affect the stats, but that only last so long and sometimes your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ no matter what. Don't recommend this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Things I like: - Minimalistic art style is charming and "clean". Animations are smooth. - Sound effects / sound design is minimal but does the job; fake voices / accents are funny. - The dialogue / writing is quite good, for what it is. Definitely helps to carry the story forward. - The tinder-style interface, coupled with the YES/NO binary choice system is not that bad, and can work well in "choice A choice B" situations. Things that don't work: - Remember that Choice A / B thing I mentioned?…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You play as a medieval king making decisions by swiping left or right on cards. Every choice affects four stats: Church, People, Army, and Treasury. Let any stat max out or drop to zero, and your reign ends. Despite it's simplicity, the outcomes can be surprising as you play You'll unlock new characters, events, and cards which carries over between rulers While it can be fun at first, the gameplay gets repetitive quickly, and by the 10th run it gets exhausting to the point i want to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gets repetitive very fast. Too arcady for my taste as well
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh hey Reigns I remember that game,
neutral · AI labelView post →While there isn’t much to do after your first playthrough, short and sweet micromanagement game filled with quirky characters and amusing conversations.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A message from @munoz.houseof3000.nyc regarding a certain game where Anarchy Reigns Supreme www.twitch.tv/munozsamurai
neutral · AI labelView post →Indie developers Nerial are closing (tinyurl.com/3nr2yvjn). You may know them as the developers of Reigns. I remember writing about an earlier game, Devouring Stars, on my long-defunct website Arcadian Rhythms (tinyurl.com/49udc4fp). RIP Nerial. I'm glad François Alliot will continue making games.
neutral · AI labelView post →Almost got to the end, anniversary update occurs, hop on game, have to start from the start. What a waste of my time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You make a choice left or right but it doesn't really make sense on how it will effect your country. There is a real lack of control while you play that makes me feel like I am wasting my time trying to play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I personally just don't like the game. I am forcing myself t complete it, but there is 0 enjoyment with it. All the choices you make are not your own they are really based off of RNG, which can make it hard to progress if not impossible with bad enough luck. I know its a cheap game, and its a bit of a gimmick/niche kind of game but its just not for me, and probably not for others that value their own time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reigns presents itself with a deceptively simple premise: as a king, your only role is to make decisions by swiping left or right on cards representing various advisors, events, and dilemmas. Each choice affects four pillars - Religion, People, Army, and Wealth - and maintaining balance between them is essential for survival. If any pillar becomes too powerful or too weak, your reign ends and a new one starts. The core gameplay loop is built around learning the consequences of each card over…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you enjoy easy to play games and don't mind that this game is really short then this seems fine. It was nice playing through a few times. I'm sure its boring if you wanted to try completing this game though.
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