Broken Provinces

Editorial Has potential

Broken Provinces is an ambitious medieval-fantasy immersion sim in the mold of Degrees of Lewdity, built around a detailed clothing-destruction and forced-nudity system that genuinely impresses players familiar with the genre. The core design—where any garment can tear through combat, environmental hazards, or NPC interaction, leaving the character progressively exposed—is inventive and well-executed, and the game world's NPCs react meaningfully to partial or total nudity in ways that create both mechanical and narrative consequences. However, the game is currently hampered by significant technical and design problems. A pattern of bugs prevents saving after certain jobs, blocks stat progression, makes story-critical NPCs refuse interaction, and causes combat loot to disappear; the restoration/healing skill does not level up despite descriptions suggesting it should; and core survival mechanics (hunger, thirst) are broken in the current build, making sustained play difficult or impossible. Beyond bugs, navigation is cumbersome—excessive nested maps turn simple errands into tedious clicking marathons, and random-encounter balancing swings wildly between boring repetition and one-hit-kill ambush chains with no middle ground. The developer is actively engaged and patching issues, but the game is clearly mid-alpha; community interest is genuine, yet many players must currently choose between using the browser version (stable but limited) or wrestling with installation complexity on the downloadable build.