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The Fractured Kingdom is holding an election in Cavalier Game Studios’ new card-based roguelike Prime Monster. This nation has a three-party system that lets players choose between Viscount Sucksworth of the Vampiric Victory party, Orcs-4-U representative Chopper Badstone, and The Zombified People’s Movement’s prime shuffler, Rotilda De Cay. They’re all monsters here, and there’s no promise too outrageous for them to make in order to gain political power.
The demo for Prime Monster is out now on Steam, and the cards let players unleash every dirty trick in the book. Murder isn’t out of the question, but why kill your political opponent when you can smear their good name and ruin their reputation? Some fates are worse than death for these mostly dead creatures.
Cavalier Game Studios is going for political satire with some of the available initiatives, including calls for same-hex marriage and demands to release the nosferatu files. And rather than discouraging players from making false promises to the electorate, Prime Monster rewards them for lying. The more outlandish the promise, the more likely it is to keep you in power. These voters are pretty gullible, and they don’t seem to mind voting for
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