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Diplomacy is Not an Option

Buy86%

Very Positive · 13k player reviews · High confidence

Yes, worth buying.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows

Door 407 · Resource Management · Oct 4, 2024

Player review score
86%
Very Positive
Price
$29.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
60
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
12
Full audio1 of 12
Subtitles12 of 12

Should I buy Diplomacy is Not an Option?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 88 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story: 65 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 21 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Difficulty: 86 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 12 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Combat: 11 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 13k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
25% of themes are praise42% are divided33% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
88 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
It's super simple graphics but are really polished, bugs are rare, gameplay loop is fantastic, game is updated and I'm actually hyped for the DLC
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
65 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
During the campaign you can change sides and join the Undead, which is what I did, and their story is hilariously weird.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
21 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
May say it's not the genre for me, fair but it does have some nice enjoyable aspects to it, as I said above, I do like the castle sim and visuals of it it's nice and to a great degree for me it's what got me to try the game tbf.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Gameplay88 reviews
Story65 reviews
Graphics21 reviews
Divided opinion
Optimization
80% still recommend
Interface
40% still recommend
Co-op
100% still recommend
Characters
100% still recommend
Bugs
100% still recommend
Players complain
Difficulty
76% still recommend
Crashes
25% still recommend
Combat
64% still recommend
Multiplayer
100% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Includes level editor
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop

Platforms

  • Windows

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$29.99

The lowest we've tracked is $11.99.

7 points recordedtoday · $29.99

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