Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim

Oh man this is one of my favorite games of all time. It was so good I wanted to make a game that was basically a knockoff of it.

The genius of it is it's basically a base builder slash strategy game where you're not in direct control of the units who do the fighting in your kingdom. You set up taverns you set up the economy for people to live and for heroes to come and buy gear and then heroes have free will to use those things to go off on adventures and fight monsters and keep your kingdom safe. It's well and truly a pretty emergent simulation game. Ahead of its time in a lot of ways.

Beyond the gameplay being great I also really loved the late 90s charm to the whole thing. I can still hear the voice actors for the heroes like the wizard saying "I'm meeeelting" and "Oo tough fight" from the paladin when they run away from a high level threat.

Really wonderful classic game.