To Rule... Bavarin

Rule a kingdom on the edge of oblivion.

To Rule... Bavarin is a deep single-player kingdom management strategy game inspired by classic board games, set in the fantasy world of Eirethune. Govern a living realm, manage fragile economies, complete narrative quests, recover ancient relics, and defend the western bastion of civilization against relentless threats.

Every decision matters. Expand too quickly and your people may starve. Neglect your roads and supply lines fracture. Ignore the frontier and darkness spreads ever closer to your heartland. Success comes not through endless conquest, but through wise leadership, careful planning, and knowing what must be sacrificed so the kingdom may endure.

Key Features

• Build and Govern a Living Kingdom

  • Manage six cities and dozens of regions connected by roads, rivers, and trade routes. Gather resources, expand settlements, maintain supply networks, and keep your people fed as your realm grows.

• Every Turn Presents Difficult Choices

  • Balance production, diplomacy, warfare, expansion, and survival through a structured turn sequence where every decision influences the future of your kingdom.

• A Dynamic Fate System

  • Choose Fate Tokens each turn to determine how boldly you tempt fortune. Greater rewards come at greater risk as darker forces awaken across the land.

• Complete Narrative Quests

  • Undertake over thirty handcrafted quests that lead your companions across forgotten ruins, haunted forests, abandoned fortresses, and dangerous frontiers in search of powerful rewards and ancient secrets.

• Recover Legendary Relics

  • Discover unique artifacts of history and legend, each carrying its own powers, stories, and difficult choices.

• Defend the Frontier

  • Command Knights, Priests, Mages, Rogues, and loyal Folk against invading armies, bandits, and supernatural Horrors as the kingdom's borders come under constant pressure.

• Multiple Scenarios and Crises

  • Play a short introductory campaign or a full multi-era epic. Enable optional world crises—including the Ûr Invasion, the Ssu'Den Arise, and the Raj Gohn Terrors—for new strategic challenges every game.

• Your Rule Becomes History

  • When your reign ends, a dynamic Ruler Chronicle records the story of your kingdom. Earn distinctive titles based on how you governed, the lands you protected, the hardships you endured, and the legacy you leave behind.

A Kingdom Under Constant Pressure

Bavarin is a realm built upon delicate balance.

Your Folk cultivate the fields, harvest timber, quarry stone, and mine precious resources. Cities transform these raw materials into wealth, while neighboring nations offer trade, mercenaries, and opportunities—provided you can maintain peace and satisfy their demands.

But prosperity is never guaranteed.

Supplies must travel safely across your road network. Hungry settlements breed unrest. Corruption spreads where chaos takes hold. Towers must be maintained. Borderlands must be defended. Every season demands new priorities, and no ruler has enough time or resources to solve every problem.

Your greatest challenge is not building an empire.

It is preserving one.

The World of Eirethune

Bavarin stands as the western bastion against an ancient darkness.

To the north lie the merchant kingdoms of Angleside. Across the sea, the Distant Lands trade exotic goods from faraway shores. The Free Cities prosper through commerce, while the Southland offers fertile harvests and skilled mercenaries.

To the east lies only fear.

Beyond the frontier stands The Mote—the shattered homeland of the Ûr. There, rival clans wage endless war, dark rituals awaken forgotten evils, and corruption seeps ever westward. From these lands come raiders, Horrors, and powers older than recorded history.

The frontier holds because someone chooses to hold it.

Now that burden falls to you.

From western sea to eastern marches, all of this is Bavarin—its lands, its people, its future.

Now... it is yours to rule.