Governance RPG · GDD v0.2 · No swords
Makasero!
任せろ！— The Kingdom Was Yours to Fix
Summoned for a sword arm, you got a ledger instead. Twelve weeks, five departments, twelve recruitable specialists with hidden skills, weekly decree cards with delayed consequences, and eight crisis events — survive with all three factions above 40% or watch Sunnyside World tiles decay on the live kingdom map.
Scout · place · decree · crisis
Core loop
Weekly turn · dominoes
Morning report → recruit 1–2 NPCs (scout free, hire reveals secondary skill) → assign to department slots → draw 5 decree cards, play 1 → resolve crisis if triggered → end-of-week efficiency and faction tick → map tiles refresh.
Satisfaction: “I knew putting her in Trade was the right call” — or the Morale collapse you ignored three turns ago.
Systems
Departments & Sera
Food, Trade, Defense, Morale, Infrastructure — each 3 slots, efficiency 0–100, decay per empty slot. Hidden skills revealed after 4+ weeks or relationship events.
Mayor’s daughter Sera watches competence, not heroics — Week 8 crisis assist unlocks Thrive/Legacy endings. Romance is consequence, never pursuit.
Scope
Godot UI crash course
30 decree cards, 8 crisis types, 12 NPC profiles, drag-and-drop department UI, card-hand arc layout. Primary dev goal is Control-node mastery. 6–8 weeks part-time.
Ship: itch.io $4.99 → Steam $5.99. Inspired by How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom and Spice and Wolf pragmatism.
Universe
Quiet World era
General Corso references CastleLast’s crystal mine war. Infrastructure decree “Ancient Road Survey” uncovers markers matching A Quiet Post roads.
Sable’s ledger contains a route entry to “Alterra” — Saigo no Debug easter egg. Background details only; no required knowledge.
