《天子起居注》是一款虚构架空古代宫廷皇帝模拟养成游戏。你将扮演刚刚登基的新帝，在有限的精力中处理早朝、国库、民心、边境、后宫与朝臣关系。每个决定都有收益与代价，这里没有唯一正确答案；你如何取舍，会慢慢塑造朝局、人心，以及尚未坐稳的皇权。 做《天子起居注》的时候，我一直想做的并不是一个“找到最优解就能赢”的皇帝游戏。 我更想让很多事情互相牵连：今天为了处理一个问题做出的选择，也许几个月甚至几年以后才会显出影响。有些决定没有完美答案，有些看起来正确的事情也可能留下代价。最后的结果，不应该只是一个统一的“好结局”或“坏结局”，而应该尽量像是这一局统治本身的总结。 游戏做到现在，规模已经远远超过我最开始的设想。很多地方也是在玩家不断试玩、反馈之后一点一点改出来的。现在主要内容已经比较完整，之后我更希望把它维护好、优化好，而不是无限增加新的系统。 谢谢愿意花时间走完这一段统治的人。希望每个人最后看到的，都是一个真正属于自己这一局的故事。 The Emperor’s Diary is a court management and ruler simulation set in an unreal and fictional ancient dynasty. You play as a newly crowned emperor, balancing court affairs, the treasury, public support, the border, the inner palace, and your ministers with limited energy each day. Every decision brings benefits and costs. There is no single right answer: the tradeoffs you make will shape the court, the people, and the stability of your reign. When I was making The Emperor’s Diary, I never wanted it to be the kind of emperor game where you simply find the optimal solution and win. What I wanted instead was a game where many things are connected. A decision you make today to solve one problem may not reveal its full consequences until months or even years later. Some decisions have no perfect answer, and even choices that seem right at the time can come with lasting costs. In the end, I don’t want every playthrough to collapse into the same “good ending” or “bad ending.” I want the result to feel more like a summary of that particular reign. The game has grown far beyond what I originally imagined. Many parts of it were gradually revised and improved through repeated playtesting and player feedback. At this point, the main content is largely complete. Going forward, I would rather focus on maintaining and optimizing the game than endlessly adding new systems. Thank you to everyone willing to spend the time to see a reign through to the end.

Editor's Take

By the Pogglo editors

Rule a fictional dynasty on a strict daily energy budget, where every edict pays for itself somewhere you didn't expect.

Sitting a newly crowned emperor down with too many problems and too little time is a proven recipe, and The Emperor's Diary leans into it. Set in an invented ancient dynasty, this ruler simulation asks you to juggle court affairs, the treasury, public support, the border, the inner palace, and your ministers, all against a limited pool of energy each day. You cannot touch everything, which is the entire point.

The design refuses to hand you a clean answer. Every decision carries a benefit and a cost, and the interesting management comes from deciding which fire to let smolder while you put out a bigger one. Please the ministers and the treasury may groan; shore up the border and public support may slip. It is the kind of tradeoff-driven court sim where a reign is really just a long chain of compromises you can live with.

One honest note: this one is in active development, so the current build is playable but the content is still growing, and the creator openly welcomes feedback. If steering a kingdom through hard choices appeals to you, it slots neatly alongside our other strategy games and works on both desktop and mobile.

Play 天子起居注 The Emperor’s Diary with a keyboard and mouse on desktop, or with touch on a phone or tablet. On-screen hints show the exact controls once the game starts.

Supported devices: Desktop, mobile and tablet