Westminster Darkly

Westminster Darkly is a turn-based strategy game set in Westminster, UK, after a massive solar storm ends the electric age. You manage neighbourhoods and govern a community in a world without electricity, explore and respond to events, and fight tactical battles.

Neighbourhood management

Your governance options include taxing, investing, using the market and controlling local assistance, stop and frisk, and borders. You can create, refit, train and deploy units, using agents or militia. Personnel management includes viewing asset information, transferring and appointing personnel, levelling them up and handling prisoners.

Public support comes from white-collar, blue-collar, underclass and refugee populations. Beyond your neighbourhood, you can trade, offer support, form alliances, exchange officers, launch joint attacks and intimidate. Infiltration options include gathering asset information, defaming, sabotaging, rescuing officers and recruiting them. The conquest framework lets you accommodate, manipulate or dominate.

Tactical battles

Combat is based on initiative, with attacks and counter-attacks. Specialized attacks include Acidize, Enflame, Charge and Snipe; abilities include Taunt, Confuse and combined attacks. Battles also involve HQ entrenchment and disengagement penalties, direction-based weak-point bonuses, efficiency degradation, morale and panic.