Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim

Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Cyberlore Studios, and published by Hasbro Interactive under the MicroProse brand name for Windows in March 2000. It removes a central feature of the RTS genre, direct control over units.

The game is not a simulator. That part of the title is a reference to Majesty's central joke: affectionate parodying of fantasy role-playing games (RPGs). Drawing on RPG cliches presented in great seriousness, the realm of Ardania is ripe for wandering heroes to have adventures, with landscapes dotted with ancient evil castles, city sewers infested with giant rats, and guardsmen helpless against anything bigger than a goblin. But where convention would demand that the player take on a heroic role, they are instead cast as the quest-assigning troubled ruler, who in RPGs is a minor non-player character stock character/plot hook and essentially support staff.

MacPlay released a Mac OS port in December 2000. Infogrames released the expansion pack Majesty: The Northern Expansion for Windows in March 2001, and Majesty Gold Edition, a compilation for Windows bundling Majesty and The Northern Expansion, in January 2002. Linux Game Publishing released a Linux port of Majesty Gold Edition in April 2003. Majesty Gold Edition was re-released by Paradox Interactive under the name Majesty Gold HD Edition in March 2012, adding support for higher resolutions and including two downloadable quests that were incompatible with the original release of Majesty: The Northern Expansion.

A sequel, Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, was released in 2009.