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Warsim: The Realm of Aslona

Warsim is a deep, rich text based kingdom ruling sim unlike anything else, complete with charming ASCII graphics. Navigate the millions of different procedurally generated races, events and areas with a huge emphasis on player choice. Don't let its look fool you, there is depth in every direction.

2022 Indie RPG Simulation Strategy ★ Overwhelmingly Positive
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona

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Warsim Throne Room Guide — Encounters, Choices and Factions

The throne room is the beating heart of Warsim: The Realm of Aslona, where over a thousand encounters bring petitioners, mercenaries, beggars, bards and strange events before you, each with branching choices that ripple across the realm. This guide shows you how to judge them well. Learn how to read encounters, when to be generous or ruthless, how diplomacy with the realm's many factions unfolds, and how the arena and exploration extend your rule beyond the throne.

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Warsim Strategy Tier List — What to Prioritise in Aslona

This Warsim: The Realm of Aslona strategy tier list ranks what to prioritise as a ruler — economy, military, stability, diplomacy, the arena and exploration — by how reliably each builds a lasting realm. Because Aslona is procedurally generated, this ranks strategic pillars and playstyles, not rigid unit balance. Economy and stability anchor every realm; military deters threats; diplomacy, the arena and exploration multiply a strong base. We also flag the traps that sink new rulers.

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Warsim Economy Guide — Master Gold, Taxes and Workers

Gold is the lifeblood of your realm in Warsim: The Realm of Aslona, and this economy guide shows you how to keep it flowing. Learn how peasants and slaves generate income from fields, mines and clay pits, how to set taxes without sparking revolt, and how to fund armies without bankrupting yourself. Master your workers, your tax rate and your spending, and a stable treasury becomes the foundation for everything else — armies, diplomacy, the arena and exploration.

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Warsim Beginner Guide — Your First Hours Ruling Aslona

New to Warsim: The Realm of Aslona? This beginner guide walks you through your first hours ruling Aslona: how the realm and its menus work, how to make gold with peasants and mines, how to set taxes without sparking revolt, how to handle the throne room, and how to raise a small army against bandits. Get your economy stable first, keep your people content, and grow from there. Master these basics and the deeper systems of diplomacy, the arena and exploration open up safely.

Overview

What's the Game?

Warsim is a deep, rich text based kingdom ruling sim unlike anything else, complete with charming ASCII graphics. Navigate the millions of different procedurally generated races, events and areas with a huge emphasis on player choice. Don't let its look fool you, there is depth in every direction.

Staggering procedural depth

— Millions of possible races, quadrillions of faces and thousands of monsters make every realm unique.

Total freedom

— Rule Aslona as a benevolent monarch or a brutal tyrant through the throne room and its 1000+ encounters.

Deep, interlocking systems

— Economy, military, diplomacy, arena and exploration connect under a clean menu-driven loop.

Gold is the lifeblood

— Peasants and slaves work the land; taxes fund the realm; spend within your income.

Honest caveats

— Pure ASCII presentation, dense menus and a great deal of text.

Languages

— English only; no Japanese, Korean or Chinese.

Trailer

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Languages

Supported Languages

Language Interface Audio Subtitles
English

Spec

System Requirements

Windows

Minimum

Minimum: OS *: Windows XP Processor: 1.0 GHz Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: Integrated Graphics Storage: 450 MB available space Sound Card: Integrated Audio Additional Notes: Can run on almost all PCs

FAQ

FAQ

A deep, text-based kingdom management simulation made by solo developer Huw Millward. You rule the realm of Aslona: manage your economy, raise armies, judge petitioners in your throne room, conduct diplomacy with dozens of factions, run a gladiatorial arena, and explore a procedurally generated world. The presentation is pure ASCII, but underneath sits an enormous, interlocking simulation with huge freedom in how you rule.
If you love depth, freedom and procedural variety and can look past the lack of graphics, yes — it is one of the richest kingdom sims around, holds an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam, is cheap, and has been expanded for years by its solo developer. If you need visuals, a guided experience or a clear win condition, it may not suit you, because Warsim is a pure-ASCII, menu-driven sandbox.
Your steadiest income comes from peasants working fields, mines and clay pits, plus a sensible tax rate. Slaves are cheaper and boost harvests with no upkeep, but cannot work mines or clay pits and risk uprisings if held in numbers without soldiers. The arena adds gold through entry fees and betting once your land-and-tax base is stable. Gold is the lifeblood of the realm, so build it first.
It has a steep, unguided learning curve. The systems are deep and largely unexplained, presented through dense nested menus, so you learn by experimenting and reading carefully. It is not hard in a reflexes sense — it is turn-based — but understanding how the economy, military, stability and diplomacy interlock takes time. A beginner guide and a willingness to tinker make the early hours far smoother.
No. The Steam store lists English only, with no official Japanese, Korean or Chinese localization, and the game is extremely text-heavy: nearly everything is conveyed through written menus, events and descriptions. Non-English players should weigh the language barrier carefully before buying, since reading is essentially the entire game.

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