Developer IronOak Games has announced that its delightful tabletop-RPG-meets-digital-board-game For The King will be leaving Steam early access in "early April", with an Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch release planned for 2019.
I stumbled across For The King on Steam early last year, and it's a game I keep coming back to. It features a bunch of familiar, if streamlined, RPG systems - dungeon crawling, questing, turn-based exploration and combat, loot acquisition, and so on - and fashions them into a tough, roguelike experience that plays out a lot like the RNG-heavy, luck-mitigation designs of so-called Ameritrash board games, such as Arkham Horror.
For The King's story isn't exactly a complicated one: the king is dead and your plucky band of three adventurers, picked from a pool of distinct classes, must scour the hex-based kingdom in search of his killer. However, it's got a real, swashbuckling sense of anything-can-happen adventure, thanks to the myriad mini-events that can pop onto the procedurally assembled map any time as you roam the world.
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I stumbled across For The King on Steam early last year, and it's a game I keep coming back to. It features a bunch of familiar, if streamlined, RPG systems - dungeon crawling, questing, turn-based exploration and combat, loot acquisition, and so on - and fashions them into a tough, roguelike experience that plays out a lot like the RNG-heavy, luck-mitigation designs of so-called Ameritrash board games, such as Arkham Horror.
For The King's story isn't exactly a complicated one: the king is dead and your plucky band of three adventurers, picked from a pool of distinct classes, must scour the hex-based kingdom in search of his killer. However, it's got a real, swashbuckling sense of anything-can-happen adventure, thanks to the myriad mini-events that can pop onto the procedurally assembled map any time as you roam the world.
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