The Darker Night: Regent City

Regent City is a strategy game about ruling a city through a vampire court. Recruit mortals, choose who deserves the Turning, claim buildings, and connect underground operations that supply blood, funds, secrets and influence. Balance five rival Ministries, keep your kind hidden from mortals, and face the consequences of your decisions. Some may cost your Regent their life. A successor takes the throne, inheriting the court you built and the consequences you left behind.
THE CHAIR IS YOURS
You are the Regent of the night. You command vampires from your throne and mortals from the shadows. The Blood keep your court civil and runs a little lower every night. Below the windows a city of mortals goes on living, and it must go on not noticing. There is no last night and no victory. There is the city, and whether it is still yours at dawn. When you fall, the vampires you made remain, and keep it for whoever sits in your chair next.

PUT THE CITY TO WORK AFTER DARK
Put your vampires in charge and connect their holdings into networks. What one building produces, another puts to use. Decide what your Court needs—blood, secrets, protection or influence—and how much of the city you will bend to provide it.

Run hidden blood banks, turn gossip into blackmail, and give your agents new identities. Put enforcers on payroll, bury cases, and make the city repeat your version of the truth. Prepare forbidden rites and wash the Court’s dirty tribute through daylight businesses.

YOUR VAMPIRES HAVE NAMES
Nobody in your court is a unit. Each one has a face, a Ministry, a grudge and a want of their own. A seer who can read a heart. A shadow who can end a problem without leaving a body. A diplomat whose voice people agree with before they understand it. Find the mortals worth keeping, decide who deserves the Turning, and choose who makes them: the new vampire inherits something of their maker and brings something of their own. Post them, send them, visit them, learn what they want from you. How they stand with you changes what they will pull off in your name.

THE CITY IS LISTENING
Every building on the board is a real address with people behind its door.
Take it by purchase, underwriting, force, leverage or old rites; which of those you can afford depends on the vampire you send. Put one of yours in charge and it starts to pay.
Expand too fast and the street starts to talk: a witness, a detective, a protest, hunters at the door. The city does not want you. It is only waiting to be given a reason.EVERY CHOICE COMES BACK
Trouble arrives as a face and a few lines, never a wall of text, and it always names someone you own or somewhere you hold. Promote, exile, imprison, kill, forgive, promise. You know which Ministry a choice will please before you make it, and the consequence comes back weeks later with your name on it.

EMERGENT STORIES THROUGH CONSEQUENCES
Investigations can fail. Factions can retaliate. Promises can rot into curses.
Regent City is built around emergent stories through consequences: the things you do create persistent threads, and those threads can return when the timing is worst.

Features
- Rule a gothic city through strategic decisions and court politics
- Manage a court of distinct vampire characters with talents and loyalties
- Balance power between five Ministries competing for control
- Claim city buildings as holdings for your night operations and other resources
- Watch consequences unfold across events, investigations, factions, and reigns
- Rebuild locations to reshape your economy, blood supply, and inheritance