Turn-based strategy meets RPG depth in a post-solar storm world stripped of electricity, where you govern Westminster neighborhoods amid harsh realities. Manage taxes, investments, markets, and controls like local assistance or borders, while handling mobilization through unit creation, refits, training, and deployments of agents or militia. Track personnel via assets, transfers, appointments, level-ups, and prisoners, alongside public support from white-collars, blue-collars, underclass, and refugees.
Tactical battles unfold with initiative-based combat, featuring specialized attacks like acidize, enflame, charge, or snipe, plus abilities such as taunt, confuse, and combined strikes. Navigate HQ entrenchment penalties, direction-based weak points, efficiency degradation, morale, and panic in external dealings like trade, alliances, intimidation, or infiltration through defamation and sabotage. This indie strategic simulator challenges players who master governance, conquest frameworks, events, and exploration.
Westminster Darkly is a turn-based strategy game set in Westminster (UK), after a massive solar storm causes the end of the electric age.
Created from a classical approach to game design, it is a unique strategic simulator that lets you experience the harsh reality of local governance in a world turned darkly.
Main features:
- Neighbourhood Management
- Events & Exploration
- Tactical Battles
Management Overview:
- Governance: Tax, Invest, Market, Control (Local Assistance, Stop & Frisk, Borders)
- Mobilization: Create Unit, Refit Unit, Train Unit, Deploy (Agent or Militia)
- Personnel: Asset Information, Transfer, Appointment, Level Up, Prisoners
- Public Support: White-Collars, Blue-Collars, Underclass & Refugee Populations
- Ext. Representation: Trade, Support, Ally, Officer Exchange, Joint Attack, Intimidate
- Ext. Infiltration: Asset Information, Defame, Sabotage, Rescue Officer, Recruit Officer
- Conquest Framework: Accommodate, Manipulate, Dominate
Tactical Overview:
- Initiative-Based Combat: Attacks and Counter-Attacks
- Specialized Attacks: Acidize, Enflame, Charge, Snipe
- Specialized Abilities: Taunt, Confuse, Combined attacks
- HQ Entrenchment & Disengagement Penalties
- Direction-Based Weak Point Bonuses
- Efficiency Degradation
- Morale & Panic
