Lords of the Realm

An Excellent Premiere game of Rick Goodman's great host of finely made games. I used to have the old Lords of the realm 2, albeit only recently picked up this one. More out of a sense of nostalgia, I realized the dynamics of this game however primitive as to the graphics actually function better in a number of ways than it's initial sequel. Whether you enjoy Rick Goodman's style of superb historic masterpieces, or simply have fun with old retro gaming, of which I must profess to be a fan of both, this is a wonderful addition to your repertoire.

New review, game not worth my original review. This is the WAREZ version with DOS Box. I just discovered Steam does do refunds. I applied but it was bought as a package for the series. Why is it Steam allows people to sell WAREZ on their site. WAREZ is piracy, piracy is illegal! If you have or find the original WAREZ release for this game, try it out. It will have the same missing content as this version Steam sells. Sorry Steam, this is not acceptable. BTW, I careless about a dollar refund, my disgust is your lack of concern selling WAREZ as a retail game from publisher. Buyer beware on your purchases. It may not be authentic.

classic

One of the greatest 16-Color/MidiSound/DosBox/480x240 resolution games ever. EVER

Manual pages 43 and 44 are missing EVERYWHERE (unofficial sites as well as on the sierra homepage), the very good thing: youtubers covered all the hints and missing infos in their videos. Super fine game aaand cheap. Music can be turned off (you might want that).

best turn based strategy of all time, IMHO

One of the best old school strategy games! The economy is fairly hard to figure out at first but once you learn that cattle feeds everyone by dairy, grain needs to be rotated onto paddocks where livestock were last year and livestock rotated onto fallowed fields, and that sheep net you money through wool the rest is just min-maxing to get your desired resources from any given county/shire. The real-time combat is surprisingly in-depth for a DOS game and while most units are unnecessary (and cost the same as everything else except knights) there's a nice rock/paper/scissors theme to using them. The diplomacy is also pretty fun to figure out. Lords of the Realm 2 really streamlined a lot of these processes, but I feel like they lost something special in doing that as well. There's something to be said about having such complete control like this.