Since March 6th 2020, the role-playing game Yes, Your Grace is available for Microsoft Windows. The small British development team Brave At Night has created a retro highlight in several respects. As King Eryk, you have to take care of your subjects, your family and your enemies. Eryk is ruler over the fictional medieval kingdom of Davern.
The majority of the game takes place in the so-called throne room. There you receive daily visits from petitioners as king. This can be farmers begging for seed. Ambassadors from other kingdoms with whom you have to negotiate. Or your own family. You love them, but they also drive you crazy.
Yes, Your Grace achieves great effect with simple gameplay
Yes, Your Grace's setup is as simple as it is entertaining: each round, a new character comes to your throne and makes a request of you. Then you have to decide on the spot whether to fulfil the wish or reject it. Both can have consequences. After all, you only have a limited number of resources at your disposal.
So, for example, if you're generous with money at the beginning, doling it out to people who don't give enough back to you, you may not have the means later to build defensive structures against an attack by another kingdom. The trick is that you only ever have the next petitioner and their wish in front of you. So you also have to rely on your intuition.
This makes Yes, Your Grace's cleverly make the problems of King Eryk your own. Before you know it, you're attached to the characters. So you don't just make your decisions based on economic principles, as would be the case with a pure economic simulation. Instead, your sense of diplomacy, morality and family is put to the test. The main plot is predetermined, but how you, your reputation with the population, and your relationship with your family turn out is entirely up to you in countless dialogues.
So every player can partially tell their own story after the end of Yes, Your Grace. This has already resulted in a small community forming around the game a few weeks after its release. However, the game's international fans have criticised the current translations of the dialogue into other languages. Brave At Night has announced that it intends to revise these.
Yes, Your Grace is a text-based role-playing game
Yes, Your Grace comes in pretty, pixelated retro graphics. However, King Eryk's problems can also be quite dark. Through wrong decisions you can also become a bad ruler. The gameplay was inspired by the game Papers, Please. And the influence of decisions on the characters has a lot to do with the developers' love for the Witcher games.
We therefore recommend a Yes, Your Grace key to fans of role-playing games with many character interactions, who like to be confronted with tricky decisions. You'll find the best deals for game keys from reputable providers in our comparison portal. Keyfuchs has the best offers for game keys from reputable providers.
