Lakeburg Legacies dev may add incest for the Crusader Kings crowd

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Lakeburg Legacies, the upcoming life management game that takes cues from The Sims, Animal Crossing, and Stardew Valley, may allow you to cultivate some extremely messed-up and incestuous relationships between your villagers, similar to Crusader Kings.

The premise of Lakeburg Legacies is quite sweet. As the governor of a pastoral, mediaeval village, your job is to manage the lives of your subjects so that they find the best romantic partners, cultivate happy children, and achieve highly in their jobs so that your township may continue to grow. The goal is to maximise your village’s “prestige”, with each run in the game ending when you reach a yet-to-be-determined prestige level. Bruno Laverny, communications and marketing director for developer Ishtar Games, makes Lakeburg Legacies sound just lovely.

“The big focus is on the social aspect of the game,” Laverny says. “Like The Sims, you can tell someone to come over to your house, and the goal of the game is to find a way to make some couples between your inhabitants. When you have the couples, they will be able to have children, which is the same for same-gender couples. And then the couples will be able to have children, who will inherit some traits from their parents. The big question in the game is to find a balance between making happy couples, but also happy children.

“When you have children, when they are like ten years old, you can put them into mentorship, so they can learn the job of someone else and be even more effective in the future. But you might have a lot of very effective children, but they will not be very happy, so that would be a dilemma for the player obviously.”

Fundamentally, then, Lakeburg Legacy involves managing your villagers’ quality of life