Shogun Kingdoms
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Launched in 2010 in the minds of the Renaissance Kingdoms Shogun Kingdoms follows the same path as his older sibling: to become a classic of the genre.
Unfortunately the game was shut down and is no longer available.
Presentation
Online, free, international and truly multiplayer game, Shogun Kingdoms blends styles and simultaneously offers a role-playing, management, strategy and policy game.
It is part, along with the Renaissance Kingdoms and Native Kingdoms, of a vast ensemble called "de gloria regni". This set of three games, all of which take place at the same time, communicate with each other to form a vast world, from Japan to the Aztec Empire and Europe.
Go and explore the world if you dare.
As well as to say it right away: if you're looking for bloody fights or state-of-the-art 3D sets, then it's not necessarily Shogun Kingdoms that will meet your expectations.
Translated into 10 languages, the fundamental driver of Shogun Kingdoms is interaction between players: in this game, if you want to progress in the hierarchy or become an influential, then you will have to discuss, convince, to talk, to talk... in short, it's a rich and complex game, that puts human relations at the heart of everything.
A rich and complex game
In Shogun Kingdoms, you play as a vagrant, within medieval Japan in the mid-15th century, the troubled end of the Muromachi era. It is up to you to make progress on the social ladder, and by perseverance, you will be climbing up step by step and will be able to participate actively in the political life of the archipelago.
All the characters you're going to meet are players like you: the carpenter, the baker from whom you buy your portions of Udon, the miller who produces flour, the travelling merchant who imports wheat from the other end of the archipelago... and even the city administrator, the treasurer of your province, the judge, the army commander or the Shogun.
There is no "Non-playable character" here, all possible freedoms are left to the players, including the wrong roles: brigands, pirates, agioteurs, plotters of all kinds.
From pig farming to the geostrategy of the Daimyos
This vast world extends over the three main islands of the southern part of the Japanese archipelago.
You can take the boat or the land lanes to go drink sake, trade or warrior. But keep abreast of the political situation of the states you are going through, and the ongoing conflicts: being on a battlefield by chance is a rather not-for-reviewed experiment.
But maybe these adventures aren't for you?
Perhaps you aim instead to earn a living by exploiting your fields and raising animals, or by making rare objects intended for interprovincial trade (silk clothing, local alcohols, etc.).
And why not open a tavern, or make a fortune in commerce?
The money earned could allow you, for example, to fund an election campaign to become an administrator of your city or simply to live a happy life without leaving your village.
