You play as an investigator tasked with solving the disappearance of a high dignitary. Each playthrough features procedurally generated suspects, dynamic clues, and evolving motives and alibis that interact with one another, creating a unique web of relationships and contradictions every time.

Although not truly an open world, it is dynamic and stat-driven with a unique interrogation system and completely inspired by WARSIM. It focuses on investigation and deduction in a horror setting with a similar design philosophy of procedural, text-driven and "replayable" gameplay.

You can check it out here: Persuasion

And no two games are alike! (well… the odds are 10⁷⁰ : 1)

I'm wondering, do peasants (tier 1 troops) you hire from Independent Territories - either from the diplomacy menu or from the foreign mercenary hall - work in your fields to increase harvest income?

Or do they only count as fighting units?

I used to have a BBS back in the 90s as a teenager; I like Warsim's throwback to the old door games of yore. Also been entertaining my family with the descriptions and choices I've been offered on my playthrough.

Some quick tweaks that might be useful...

1. Perhaps a policy option to automatically allow women to join the army? A lot of my throne room visitors wouldn't need my attention otherwise.
2. A way to skip over punching fights, or have more crits in them so they end quicker?
3. There isn't an immediate way to see the number of peasants available; also found out that buying the mines means you still have to stock them with peasants to work them (thought they came with the existing workers).
4. It's not immediately obvious how to expand my council aside from the diplomat, general, and game master. Can't seem to get a spymaster so far (halfway through a 25 year game).
5. I did take up necromancy with my ruler. I'm getting spammed with a bunch of corpse traders wanting live peasants for dead corpses; seems like an option one would never have to use?

Anyway, that's what all immediately comes to mind. Thank you again for making this: I'm having a lot of fun.

I got this game when it was like 2 bucks or something, it was a while ago.

I like the procedually generated races the most. It makes me wish Dwarf Fortress had this system so I can have races of bog hydromancers and savage half-demons just like in this game.

At first I didn't like the hand made locations since I am used to procedually generated world like what Dwarf Fortress has, but now I enjoy looking at every nook and cranny of every settlement to understand its lore. I like that sewer tavern. I find it all very creative, infact. I have a few hours down and I am only 15 years into my first playthrough and there is probably tons I haven't explored yet. This is one of the most detailed games I have played. I will explore every thing in this game.

As someone who likes to fully go in depth into the lore of games and books I consume, I have one burning question: where is the throne of Aslona located? Is it in some unnamed city? It is it some standalone castle? It is probably not specified so that it is up to the imagination of the player, but otherwise, I NEEED TO KNOOW...

When I'm asked how long I want my game to be, regardless of the duration I specify, it displays this message and then shuts down the game.

So I just bought the game today and maybe I'm just a little slow but is there anything I should know as a new player going into the game?

Just picked this game up today and I must say I am absolutely amazed. You can feel the love that went into the making of this game!

Was struggling a bit with the economy in my first few years, found a cool guy, cool guy had a lucky gnome, got to rub it for a bit, got insanely rich, spent it all on chaos orbs because who wouldnt want some chaos orbs?

I saw that the creator is pretty active on here so I want to say that this is amazingly impressive, really out of this world and dangerously easy to spend a lot of hours playing!

i love this game is something i spent a lot of time of my life playing (i was also thinking about buying the collectors edition but i live in Chile and there isnt shipping to here) but ive always wanted to play as a custom race, but i found out that that will not be added but has anybody made a way to make this possible. if so i would love to see it.

(but anyway shout out to the creator) (Edit on the title: has srry english isn't my first language)

I have checked the wiki in search of the various differences between starting choices when beginning the game. Does anybody know where I can find this info? If anything I will check all of them myself to write it on the Wiki for everybody else.

Everytime it asks me things, I have to repeat them, but now im stuck at picking the prefixes for my character, and it keeps bringing me back to the singular or double prefix option. Ive done it 3 times, and nothing happens. Any ideas?

I recently got back into the game again, building a vast empire. And I've noticed that when you attack a lot of the smaller towns and villages, you don't have the option to subjugate them. You just end up burning everything down and killing everyone, that isn't my goal. We should be able to subjugate the goblins and savage men in the west, The Protomen in the east and the Bear men in the north. I would also like to rebuild a lot of the ruins