Really nice strategy game. Very simple compare to paradox games, but still engaging. I hope it will get better with time, because I waited for such game in s&box for a while. P.S. I saw latter comment wishing the intro was skippable. It is changeble in settings. But to add to the critisism. My biggest complaint is the combat system. The way it works is that if your army is defeated it gets wiped out regardless, so the meta is just to spam the strongest units in one army and to have many many small armies to capture territories. This way I won, while playing as one of the weakest nation, which started having army only when most of the world was captured by the local germany thing (basically I defeated the whole world with one country). Even though it took like 30 frustrating minutes of running around with small armies trying to capture territories while trying to live from one resource income tick to another, which I used to build more small armies, to capture more land, while also constantly losing it. 300 ore is what is needed to win. You build the meta army of 30 strongest units 10 ore each and then this army just wipes everything your enemy has.

Good quality game, but fighting system needs some changes. My biggest complain is that no matter if you hit your enemy or not they will still strike you. It makes the fighting much worse than it could be because the enemy cannot be punished for attacking early and you have to block each their strike even if it should be your turn to strike after succesfully blocking. The other problem are combos. Skeletons combo-strike all the time and if they miss the first strike and you try to block it, you'll get hit by the second strike that came 0.0001s after the first one. My suggestion are to stop the enemy attack if they were hit (like in any other melee game) and to stop the enemy combo if they miss or make it much slower if they miss. Also skeletons constantly get inside you 0_o because of the attack animation, which makes it hard to tell what they are going to do next. Conceptually the game is very good. It's like a singleplayer roguelike with melee system inspired by chivalry or mordhau. I never knew I needed it, but with maybe more RPG elements like clothes and stuff, and multiplayer it can be a great and unique game. (I saw Fortune testing this fighting system with teleportation from Dishonored. What if we actually add this and other magic as weapons and spells in the game. I don't think the game aims to be competitive, so this would be cool)

I tried to play queen's gambit but it turned out that queen and king had swapped places, so it became king's gambit. I love Inscryption-like style of it, but possibility to turn any pawn to a queen looks a bit overpowered.

One of the few polished and actually fun games out there.