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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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