I love the pixel art and the animations, but I don't really get the game play. I move around a bit and eventually I'm dead. In my tries the NPCs seemed to gain huge amount of power, so what would happen is this:
- I move and see someone is powerful and not on my side
- I move away to be safe
- Said someone follows me
- I'm dead
You cannot outrun the traitor, nor hide from them, attack them when favour is on your side (what a paranoid king would do I'm sure) or do anything different than being lucky (or at least it felt to me this way).
Having recently tried creating a strategy game myself I know rules you invent are not automatically interesting or actually allow to develop meaningful strategies, so don't take my words too hard. It might help already if you have the ability to kill any character that's less powerful than you (or whatever). If it was the traitor, you live some more, but any of the NPCs not liking you could be the next one - and killing one of your allies might throw over others. I'm sure there are some interesting rules to be found in this setting!