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King's Orders

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.

What works

  • Unique delayed order mechanic
  • Immersive medieval strategy experience
  • Multiple campaigns and scenarios
  • Accessible compared to complex grand strategy games
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Clunky and repetitive ui
  • Ai is weak and sometimes illogical
  • Diplomacy system is confusing and unbalanced
  • Economy and micromanagement can be tedious
  • Lack of multiplayer and social features

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King's Orders: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Expression.

Last update: 23/08/2026