The Monarch (2024)
- Developer
- Citadel Games
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Genres
- Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
- Rating
- 3.6 of 5, 104 player ratings
- Typical playtime
- about 4.0 hours
- Where to get it
- Steam
How it feels
A calm, minimalist castle-defense loop with a rising tension each night as demonic gates open, balancing light resource management and adaptive tactics.
minimalisticsmoothrelaxingstrategictense at nightmedievalbase-buildingdifficulty scaling
What players say
Players are split: some enjoy the simple base-building loop, but many find it a buggy, abandoned clone of the Kingdom series with progress lost to crashes, softlocks, and no proper roguelite meta-progression.
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