The Arab Republic of Taghia Reviews

[h1]A very basic game which allows you to rule Syria (and liberate Palestine)[/h1] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3498704772 This game a series of decision cards. It's way too hard even on the "Easy" setting (and I say this as someone who has played and won literally dozens of strategy games of all types) but it DOES allow you to liberate Palestine and for that, I respect it. In my game after failing several times (the lack of a tutorial makes that easy to do) I decided to just focus on building up the military and secret police and taking on Israel. I've noticed from other playthroughs that if you do NOT take on Israel and seek good relations with the west, the Israelis bomb you and America invades. That seems counter-intuitive but it is so close to what happened to Iraq, Libya and Syria after they disarmed that I really respect the dev for making the game work that way. My plan worked and I was actually able to liberate Palestine. However I ended up massively overspending, deep in debt which is once again, exactly what tends to happen in wars in real life (nothing will ruin your budget faster than a war) which forced me to rely on secret police and rigged elections to hold on to power. By keeping the support of the military, the secret police, and conservative Sunni Muslims, I was actually able to make this work, though I quit playing after 2025 simply because the game was made in 2020 so I assumed that if there wasn't a victory screen by the end of 2026, there simply isn't a victory screen. Sadly, this game seems unfinished and I don't know if that guess is correct but I don't regret the roughly two hours I spent with it considering that I bought the game during a sale. I hope the dev makes more games and/or adds things to make this a bit more playable.