Yes, Your Grace

Yes, Your Grace is a very unique game. It’s considered a management simulator. I had to look up the actual genre because I had no idea. In Yes, Your Grace you have three resources you have to manage: Gold, supplies, and agents. Gold is money, supplies are a generic term for food and resources, and agents are people that help with tasks.

The game is split into 52 segments, weeks, which comprise the gameplay loop. At the beginning of every week petitioners come to you for one of two things, to ask for help or to sell you things. You can decide to help them or not based on your resources. Check out the second screenshot for my favorite petitioner. Choosing to help them or not affects a meter of happiness. Not too sure what it’s for, but I assume if it dropped too low it would be bad.

Behind all this there is a compelling story of family, and what one will do to protect them. King Eryk is the ruler of a very small country, and he has just promised his first-born daughter to Prince Ivo, of a neighboring kingdom, in return for the promise of 3000 men to help defend his kingdom from the imminent threat of a barbarian attack. Well things don’t go quite as planned, and that’s where the game gets interesting.

Now you are on a time crunch to solve a mystery, build an army, and form alliances with nearby Lords and Ladys. Will you make the right choices? Will you be prepared in time? Well that’s up to you!

The music is very somber, but doesn’t stand out. That’s actually a good thing here, as it’s more ambient. It’s a very Scottish influenced soundtrack and you always feel that it adds to the mood of a given event.

Yes, Your Grace is very short. It took me about 6 hours. I actually finished it in one day. 

Overall I’d say it’s worth a play through. Many times I had to sit and ponder if I was making the right choice, and more than a few came back to haunt me! It was on GamePass at the time of writing this, and it’s a quick download! Give it a shot!

8/10