Sword of the Samurai

Very old-school game. Basically text-based. Can be complicated to learn and play. Mostly since some of these older games do not pull punches. Decent.

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Its a jank ass treasure.

Sword, swing, talk, die, repeat

Old school cool

fun but annoying. good luck learning the controls.

While this game shows its age graphically, you get to enjoy working your way from the ground up to shogun, either through demonstrating your honor, or defaming those in high standing, to put you in your lords favor when he dies, possibly even through your blade. The main part of the game is interacting with the world around you, which uses pretty advanced morality and reputation systems for its time, this mode of play can lead into 3 more modes of play: 1 on 1 Sword Fighting, Top down action, and a Real Time Strategy mode. This game allows you to succeed through gaining honor and high standing, or backstabbing and betrayal, you can in fact frame other members of your clan by sneaking into their house and leaving evidence of wrongdoing to raise your standing to the top, and then assassinate your lord to take his position as lord. You can also incite peasant uprising in a rivals domain to create a similar means to that end, or kidnap and ransom their family members. All in all this has a pretty satisfying sandbox of morals to play around in, especially if you don't plan to do things the right and honorable way. While your interactions are important however a lot of them are generic, and provide the same dialogs with RNG.