A neat little game. It definitely feels overly difficult, but it feels thematically accurate. I noticed that, excluding options that cost you money, all the options result in at best a net-even result (i.e. the gain of Coop for one nation is matched by an equal loss of another's), which certainly leads to a sense of "everything is slowly falling apart." My biggest issue with the game is the accessibility issues with the map. The text is rather small, making it hard to read many of the place names, especially at the default resolution. Additionally, marking the countries by color was a problem for me since I'm colorblind. Notably, the colors for Beorland and Estenmont look pretty much identical to me. I suggest trying to keep accessibility in mind for future projects. Also, a minor bug: pressing "Toggle Music" wouldn't bring the music back for me after I turned it off.
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I'm absolutely sorry about that whole color thing; that never came across my radar as a possible problem during the jam. For the map, it isn't necessary to read the map to play, but I can see that being frustrating for people who do want to read it (for immersion, etc.), which might be fixed by just scaling up the image (or it might break everything, idk). For the music, I think it might just take a couple seconds to kick back into action after toggling off and then on again. Thanks for the detailed feedback and for playing!