The Living City Board
Rule from one gothic diorama where court, events, holdings, tribute, blood pressure, and Ministry loyalty stay visible.
Political management roguelite
The Darker Night: Regent City
Every ruling buys an ally and makes an enemy. Rule a vampire court, claim exact city holdings, rebuild what later Regents inherit, and shape a bloodline that can outlive your reign.
Core loop
Rule one consequential bargain at a time.
Every Ruling Has Teeth
Investigate, negotiate, reward, or punish. Each ruling shifts loyalty across five rival Ministries, and the choice you reject can become tomorrow's crisis.
Claim Exact Places
Every visible building is a playable holding. Claim a location, post a vampire manager, collect Influence and Funds, and let that address become private power.
Rebuild What Survives
Upgrade, rename, reconstruct, and repurpose managed holdings. The city can carry those changes into later reigns, even when ownership changes hands.
Shape A Bloodline
Courtiers grow through work. Choose who makes the next vampire, preview inherited talents, and build a court that can outlive the Regent who began it.
Current gameplay captures.
Every Building Is A Holding
Inspect exact locations, see their yield and blood capacity, and decide whether the court has the reach and price to claim them.
Rebuild And Repurpose
Turn an acquired address into a different kind of business, changing its model, output, affinity, and inherited city state.
Court Matters Return
The Regent's Court collects petitions, rumors, local matters, and "Because you..." consequences that trace back to prior choices.
Power Costs The Regent
Political failure does not vanish into a log. It can reach the throne as a final choice, a sentence, or a succession problem.
The Bloodline Remembers
When a reign ends, selected holdings and turned vampires can continue into the next Regent's rule.