Fantasy Senate Simulator Reviews

I really wanted to like this game, because a political fantasy sim is a wonderful idea. However, after just a short time with it, I decided to ask for a refund, as there are several problems here that make me not want to play it: - There is no tutorial, the tooltips are far from clear, some terms are called different things in different menus (charm vs charisma), and the feedback information after choosing an option is almost nonexistent. As a result, I had no idea whether, for example, my rallies were doing anything and if not then why. - There is no way to compare information about various regions other than clicking them separately (in two different mapmodes, because population and economy stats are in the international view and the polling and demographics are in the senate view) and reading the pop up windows. Which means that if you want to identify the regions in which you have the best chance of succeeding, you have to click every single one of them and take notes. The game seems stingy with information in general, you have to pay money to see some of the stats of any character in the game, including your own, and you only get to know the opponent's actions by a series of second-long popups with the name and result of the action - and as they appear over the region with no indication of which party did it, in games with more than 2 parties you can't even know which of your opponents is doing what. - The laws, which are one of the most important aspects of the game, have a lot of problems. First, almost all are etiher left- or right-wing (with a few being both left and far right or both right and far left) and as far as I can tell all the senators in the game can either be left or right wing (with possible far left/right sympathies). This means that there is no real way of finding compromise proposals, if you don't have the voting majority, you have to pressure or bribe your way towards a successful vote. That in itself could be tolerable if the laws themselves made any sense, but they often don't. There are just stupid laws (every citizen has to attend lectures given by peasants), ones that make no sense in how various ideological factions react to them (an act that makes the local businesses property of villages is supported by capitalists and opposed by socialists; an infrastructural expansion act is supported by naturalists) or how they are positioned on the left-right spectrum (both “abolish superstitions” and “make superstitions the main source of knowledge” are leftist, apparently). Not to mention that some laws have illogical requirements (you cannot pass a workers holiday act - something that in our reality is a thing even in right-wing countries - without first passing a law that officially embraces socialist doctrine...). - There is something deeply wrong with the demographics and/or polling. In a region with a total of ~60k population the votes in the polls can total up to hundreds of thousands, even one candidate can have more votes than there is people in the region. What is more, even in a region where one demographic dominates and mostly supports the capitalist faction, said faction can have significantly less votes in the polls than the imperialist faction that is not the favourite faction of any demographic. This is a fundamental flaw in a game where gaining votes is the main goal. This is what I've noticed after less than 2 hours of play, so I haven't even experienced some of the mechanics, such as wars and monsters. I'm sorry, but at this point there is too much wrong with the game for me to recommend it.