Kingdom Defense

An aging King can't hold back the monster horde, so he hands command to a supposedly brilliant tactician who agrees to save the kingdom for reasons that have nothing to do with saving the kingdom. The setup plays it straight for about a scene before letting the cracks show.

The story picks the protagonist up at the moment he's handed the army, then lets his real motives surface as the war effort unfolds around him. It's less a rescue story than a study in someone using a crisis for his own ends.

Play is point-and-click, moving through the opening chapter's scenes at a steady clip rather than juggling systems. This is an introductory chunk of story, not a finished campaign, so treat it as the setup rather than the whole war.