King Arthur: Knight's Tale

Overall its a pretty rad game and would suggest it to anyone who likes turn based RPGs.

I only really have 1 criticism of the game and that the enemy scaling can be weird at times. I think i did every single side mission besides maybe 2 of them in act 4 and still would end up randomly under leveled at times by a couple levels throughout the campaign.

Another criticism i have even its the smallest of them is that the voice acting was a little cringe at times.

interesting take on the tale of King Arthur. Fun turn based combat.

Voice acting is horrible. No options for custom character. Dialog system is very poor. Battle system is very primitive. Music is out of the context, does not make any sense, no atmosphere of true dark fantasy.

crashes randomly, full screen setup on 2nd monitor cumbersome and not fully supported

Great visuals, poor gameplay. Combat is a chore. Not worth your money and your time.

A true turn-base game with a great story. All the elements I enjoy with no rushed forced play and more of a strategic hard learning curve that I am here for.

It is very fun

It's a shame that you can't try all the knights in a single playthrough, but anyway the game is really good

KA:KT is a "tactical RPG" with a medieval dark fantasy setting. You play as Mordred, who returns from the dead to confront a revenant King Arthur.

The game features a fixed series of main missions and semi-optional side missions. You take up to four knights on every mission. Your heroes gain experience from the missions at a rate that increases when under-leveled, so it's possible to skip some missions or rotate heroes without getting too far behind. This is important, as there's no opportunity to grind for experience, and recovery from injuries requires the passage of time... which only passes as a result of completing a mission.

The turn-based combat is straightforward but well executed, with melee, ranged, and spell attacks. RNG plays a very minor role, usually in the form of damage spread. Percentages are usually applied to the effects rather than the success rate, e.g. a "stun" effect will always work, but if you're resistant then the action point loss is proportionately reduced. Information is presented very nicely on screen.

Your home base, Camelot, can be upgraded with the gold and building supplies you receive from missions. Most of the upgrades aren't very important. There are vendors for goods, but aside from a few consumables I didn't find myself buying all that much. The gear you buy and find in missions have randomized attributes, and most of what I found was kind of useless. For example, I found a lot of stuff that boosted effectiveness in duels, which are special 1-on-1 fights you encounter very rarely (maybe half a dozen in the game).

There are some light RPG elements, in the form of a two-axis morality / religion chart. Your current position on the chart unlocks certain features, like bonuses or additional heroes, and affects hero loyalty. There are other ways to influence loyalty; I was the polar opposite from one of my heroes, but was able to keep him in positive territory through events and titles.

Events will pop up between missions. These take two forms: spend money or face a loyalty penalty, and "pick a hero". For the latter, you're given some hints as to what characteristics the hero should have, and if you make a reasonable choice you get a reward.

It took me 54 hours to play through the full game with all side missions on "normal" difficulty. There is some end-game content that I haven't tried. I had one CTD, during a fight; the game auto-saves before missions and after every combat encounter, so I didn't really lose anything.

Overall this is a well-constructed turn-based tactical RPG that I had a lot of fun playing.

Finished the main campaign. This a great game. I enjoyed the dark story line cause I also play a board game called Tainted Grail.
If you're into Arthurian mythology and would like a darker twist on it this is a good game to go with.

Cool game, with cool concept. The previous 2 games in the franchise were pretty cool too if my memory serves me right, though King Arthur 2 is no longer on steam for whatever reason.
I'll definintely buy legio IX if it's on sale at some point in the future.

61 hours is what it took me to beat the main story on moderate difficulty, some post game quests and content remain. The difficulty isn't so hard as some reviews tell you, true like halfway through the game you will encounter some new foes with more hp and various skills who will force you to rethink your tactics, but nothing that you can't handle if you know what you're doing.

A well crafted, good looking turn-based RPG...

It does get a bit repetitive however IMHO and it is painfully linear. But some effort has been made to link together a story and combat is generally fun. Well worth it on a Steam sale.

Use Overwatch!

If you into games like X-COM, you should definitely check this one out. Played it twice in a raw =)
Pros:
- Nice medieval setting, pleasant graphics and animations.
- You can't change your character's outlook, but all of them have nice unique outfit. So everyone can be easily recognised.
- Even side quests are voiced!
- Plenty of game mechanics. Base building, loyalty system, resource (health, trauma, money, building materials) management, loot, unique loot, loot level/upgrades.
- Combat animations are also nice.
- None of these "60% chance to hit", with 3 misses in a raw. There're some chance mechanics, but as part or special abilities/skills. Basically you don't feel screwed by quasi-RNG.
Cons (devs should pay attention in the future products):
- Difficulty. Normal difficulty is more like "story style". If you have any experience in X-COM type games, you should pick at least HARD. Also no true "hardcode" mode. And I usually play on normal and it's fine for me.
- Arcanist type character is one of the most important assets in your party, tactically, DMG wise. Game gives you plenty of loot for Arcanists at the same time you might finish the game and having only one in your team, which you get at the begging of the game. And because of it's loyalty predisposition, you are kinda limited with your loyalty options during the game. Basically some balance is missing here.

This game quet interesting, not without flaws and the biggest one is a voice acting and dialoge sounds in general. Sometimes VA is abysmal sometimes its just "meh". Animations not as good as could be.
That being said, the game mechanichs, setting and averall tone of a game is great. I percieve it as a mix of Divinity original sin and Darkest Dungeon. I really anjoyed combat annd overall gameplay feel of the game.
In conclusion: solid gameplay foundation, great setting and RPG progression of heroes, but in need of polish and, I guess, budget
7\10

Great game, really enjoyed it and the game keep it intersting by adding new characters throughout the game

This a great game! Challenging but not impossible. Good graphics and sound effects...

game crashes !!

Very interesting game, get's repetitive after a while but it's worth i. Would destroy King Arthur again.

Wish there was a 'meh?' option and not just a thumbs up / down. This has a lot of good going for it, but the combat is so boooooooring... it just feels like a chore.

Smart game. The charters are unique. The strory need some background knowledge but it's even funnier if you know the Monthy Python version :) There could be a easter egg for that... anyway I didn't like when we get the feeling of rushed game and a bit... how should I say? Crappy. For example: Here is the end game boss oh you killed it? Now kill it 3 more times to finish the story... And the whole graphic is kinda with the same feeling that it came from an Indi studio. Anyway I highly recommend to anyone who like to play tactical RPGs like Third Age, FF etc... It's good for one for sure. Oh and the atmosphere with the foggy everything dead and cold is really nicely present GB :D Jk

I enjoyed this more than expected. The game is essentially a dark fantasy medieval XCOM-like with RPG elements. The game is broken up into missions of killing several packs of enemies with a small amount of exploration rather than a free roam open world. I have only completed the main story (including all side missions) and 1 end game mission so far. The main story missions were relatively easy, but the difficulty seems to ramp up significantly in the end game.

Things that I liked:
+ Art style and setting (dark fantasy, medieval Arthurian, serious tone)
+ Tactical combat system
+ Character progression, builds, and synergies between characters
+ Large roster of uniquely-voiced playable characters
+ Voice actor quality, especially Mordred, Brunor, Balin, Black Knight, Morgana. Voiced monologues by Mordred to set up each mission. "Power and Glory". Pre-mission monologues somewhat remind me of Myth: The Fallen Lords (that was such an awesome game back in the day)
+ Morality system adds flavor to the game and it was cool going full blown Tyrant route
+ Cut scenes - intro and act 4 ending were cool. Cut scenes between acts were ok, but not as good and lady of the lake facial animations were a little weird.
+ Music - not many different tracks, but the limited ones available were enjoyable and not annoying/repetitive after many hours of playing
+ Does not pander to the "modern audience," just cool knights going to battle. Does not overuse purple and teal.
+ Writing/dialogue was well written and not millenial/quippy/Marvel/reddit tier

What could have been better:
- More enemy variety
- Tactical combat is 2D, could be cooler if it was 3D (verticality)
- Add an option for Tyrant Mordred to overthrow Lady of the Lake and seize ultimate power for himself
- I think the game uses forced TAA and there can be ghosting visible if zoomed all the way in. This might be more visible at lower framerates. It wasn't noticeable when zoomed out (the normal view distance), so I don't think this is a major issue, but should be noted. Performance was pretty good on a 1080 ti (120+ fps at max settings, but it will be running close to max pwr).

Hoping for a full sequel to this. I never heard of this developer before, but they have caught my attention for future developments.

This is a good tactical RPG. It starts slow, and progression is slow, but there's a lot to enjoy here.

The main draw is the tactical combat, which is excellent. Positioning and facing are very important. Characters take extra damage when flanked, so maneuvering to block enemies from slipping past you is critical. The combat scenarios are varied and interesting with multiple enemy types and you'll never have a duplicate encounter twice in a row.

The setting and characters are great. The knights are complete badasses and deliver wicked lines of dialog from some excellent voice actors. I was surprised how much I liked these guys as I played the game. I loved seeing Mordred face off with some hulking abomination of a knight and demanding they kneel or meet their end. If you're into macho medieval dark fantasy, you will love it.

Each encounter has some story elements as you discover what each knight has been up to after the cataclysm. Even the smallest plotlines kept my interest as they fleshed out each knight's story.

The RPG elements are really good as well. There are two morality dimensions you act on: Rightful/Tyrannical and Christian/Old Faith. Each combination unlocks different knights and abilities as you play the game. Do you execute traitors or give them a second chance?

Each knight can be leveled up and change equipment as well. New skills give your knights a definite power/utility increase.

The main downside of the game is the UI. It's rather unintuitive and has too many slow animations. It takes a while to get the hang of where everything is on the kingdom management screen. I'd have preferred something snappier and cleaner. The UI elements and art are beautiful, however.

Some of the maps can be a little mazelike, and the minimap can't be zoomed out very far, making navigation frustrating in certain areas.

I recommend this game to people who like tactical RPGs (XCOM, Battle Brothers) and who want to follow a linear story.

I love the campaine of the game, It is so good, but god damn it the end game is absolute shit, they ruin the balance to an insane level where they just throw more of the same enemy at you whilst also multeplying their hit points by two at the least

An RPG with very solid tactical gameplay, and enough strategic decisions to keep things interesting.

Do I recommend this game? Yes and no. If you like tactical turn based RPGs you will probably like this one, but there are certainly better titles out there (Wasteland, Pillars of Eternity to some extent). If you are new to this genre I suggest you try those other games first and only come here if you really *really* like it and have already finished your third playthrough of those games and want more.

What it comes down to is that the voice acting and plot is ok at best, and I wasn't a big fan of the whole idea where the timer of everything in Camelot runs how many missions you do. So if all your knights are wounded you might not be able to continue because you need to finish a mission for them to heal up. If never locked the game to me but it could happen and losing a 30+ hour save to that ain't fun. Some heroes and abilities are also just not very good, the difference is quite large.

In the end I did finish it, but I'm not going to replay it. Get it on a sale, 45€ is way too much for this game imo.

King Arthur: Knight's Tale by Neocore Games.

Release Year: 2022
Genre: Squad based tactics w/RPG elements
First playthrough length: 80hrs

King Arthur: Knight's Tale is a post-apocalyptic take on Arthurian legend, where you play as Mordred hunting down a corrupted version of Arthur


Positives:

Great Atmosphere - The game sells a dark vision of Avalon while keeping its locations varied

Variety - You have many different knights to chose from, all with their own strengths and weaknesses

Engaging Combat - Combat is fun and occasionally hair raising with (optional) permadeath


Negatives:

Levelling: The game is miserly with levelling points, stopping the combat being as fun as it could be

Pacing: The game feels stretched, it didn't need to be 80hrs (60hrs would be perfect)

Lack of RPG Mechanics: Aside from your morality alignment, the options to role-play are limited


Final Thoughts:

King Arthur: Knight's Tale is a classic Neocore Game, in that it's clearly the result of the dev's plans oustripping their available resources. What works really works, but it's maybe 80% of the way to being a true cult classic.

Also Mordred's voice actor is incredible.

Final Score: 7/10

I'm still not a turn-base game veteran but starting to like more and more. This game is a good boost of love to this genre! Still unfinished but I recommend. Love the fact that the game pushes you toward maliciousness.

King Arthur: Knight's Tale has just about everything I like in a game and I enjoyed it immensely on my first playthrough for 22 hours on normal difficulty. The religion and morality choices are interesting and the obviously the story and setting are both top-notch.

It was all undone in one mission, though, when the gameplay, which had been almost too easy with no real danger until I got to level 10 missions, suddenly became impossible. I think it was punishment for expanding my roster to the maximum as soon as possible and being left under-levelled, but recruiting new heroes is a larger part of the fun.

It was partly my fault for overconfidence (the overconfidence was perfectly justified for twenty-two hours) and choosing the permanent choice mode with no reloading, but I don't think I will be restarting this game for a while. In games like Darkest Dungeon, I have no problem with failing and restarting, but that game doesn't have the RPG and 'choice' element that King Arthur has, so restarting becomes a much bigger chore. Only buy this game if you are happy to enjoy replaying the same missions over and over again and choosing the same dialogue options.

I really wanted to like this game. The premise is really interesting... but then as far as tactical RGPs go, it's really bland... every battle is a rush to the enemy ranged units that will obliterate your troops while your ranged take out the melee adversaries. Runs woefully on Steam Deck (no reason tbh... it's not that graphically demanding) and even on a decent PC, the graphics feel bland...

Gave um 10 hours in... really couldn't justify continuing to play this one.

Great ass game. I spent waaaay too many hours on it. The base building is good, the unique characters are great. The plot is ok. I say get it on sale

Way better that i expected, also you can get hit more often that in other tactics games, remember focus on two moralities from the start of a run

Some may enjoy this rogue-like game but it is too drab for me. Very little scenery variety. And combat is lack lustre.
I have been thoroughly spoilt by BG3 ;(

Recommended

Mostly good turn based dark fantasy. The biggest regret is you will lose the will to finish it after 30 hours, progression and story is SO slow.

I had a lot of fun playing this game. The combat is engaging and the story is good enough.

I think this is a really cool concept. It is like a blend of Diablo, Exiles, and Grim dawn, but in a strategy game. Dark and terrific. I think the true way to enjoy this game is in its character development and using your knights skills to the best of their ability. Watching the cool things that they can do as they progress and using those specific skills as tools to dominate. I read reviews that suggested the AI was lacking here but given the terrain and the lack of elements to manipulate your environment it works as it should. The combat is put together in a simple but understandable way, it really isnt just killing the masses, for example if you place or jump one of your knights into the wrong place, he or she is dead every time. Its about the very basics as any game showcasing heavy armor should be. Play according to the style of game you are in and you will always succeed.

I highly recommend popping some youtube summaries of the Arthurian Cannon and Welsh Poetry before playing. Alot of thought went into incorporating the source material into this game and the effort shows.
Plays kind of like medieval fantasy xcom.

Worth on a steep sale. I'd say 7/10. It isn't bad just everything is just a bit bland. The combat is okay. Story is okay. Voice acting sounds nice but not much actually going on.

The walking around each map just feels like a waste of time. It is utterly boring and not always clear where to go. "Secrets" are finding 20g (nothing) or maybe an occasional item.

Lots of better options for turn based combat though.

Good game for the money. kight arthur Tactics!

After spending 130 hours on this game, I will say that it has good potential and a few good ideas but unfortunately many things are poorly developed and this overall pushes me to recommend it only when on sale.

The good: the graphics are nice, the music is great and the game system is at least interesting.

The mediocre: the loot system is a bit too "hit or miss", the roster of heroes is excessively restrictive.

The negative: the story is written rather badly, and the effect is exacerbated by voice actors who with a couple of exceptions sound terribly amateurish; the heroes' talents are overall not very customizable, especially for those that are obtained in more advanced stages of the game and that have entire unmodifiable sections; the cover system is poorly implemented and in the vast majority of the game it is irrelevant if not entirely absent.

The really bad: the difficulty curve, especially in the transition from the campaign to the end game, is abismally done (at least in hard mode): suddenly you find yourself in rooms full of enemies with insane amounts of hit points and armor, rows and rows of tanks (litterally) that hit like tons of bricks and protect archers and mages in rooms that, as mentioned, have no cover wahtsoever.... and all this while the heroes who until the previous mission managed to eliminate their opponents in a few hits now seem to have become all anemic. This does not make the game challenging, it makes it exhausting and boring.

For what this game is its not a bad game. There are some things that could be better. I wouldn't pay more than 20 for it but for a low price the game is pretty good.

A very entertaining game , Turned Base fighting gameplay that is diferent in a positive way from the clasical turn-Base . Here everythink it's about AP points you can move, attack and move again , or you can attack 2 times in the same round or use more then one skill in the same raound , and then is the overwatch funsction that allows you to attack a target that gets close to you , like a retaliation but before you get attacked , you can save an amount of AP points for the next round if you are not in range or you just wanna wait fro the right time . Overall a solid strategy game ! I will post the entire game on my YouTube channel if you are interested, pretty soon !

Played for 5 hours on Normal mode thus far. The actual difficulty is all over the place. The first several missions were too easy, but then it became ridiculously difficult in one mission in particular. I kept having to re-fight a ghoul or wraith or something like that. I basically bricked my game. It was too boring/repetitive to urge me to start over with the knowledge I gained the first play-through. For that reason I can not recommend this game. I'm about to start Legion IX, I purchased the pair on deep sale. So I don't hate the game, I simply have no interest in restarting Knights Tale anytime soon. I feel as if i'd have been better off only buying Legion IX due to it being shorter and cheaper.

First time playing a game of this type and so far I'm entertained. If I had one negative, it's that sometimes the battles get a little monotonous, so I wish there was more dueling or some other mechanic to break it up once in awhile. I really enjoy all the different heroes and being able to make choices that determine available options. Cool game!

It's good enough. There are some poor level choices that if you don't take a dialog in a certain way you get to a harder level result. I don't know. I like the story it appears to pull from the old movie version of Arthur which I liked. But I uninstalled after some dialog decisions resulted in a series of total wipes and I wasn't able to go back far enough to find whatever conversation choice resulted in the more workable option.

The game feels polished. All the characters, despite being mostly undead, somehow feel very real. It has an amazing art direction, fitting soundtrack and gives a new spin on the legend of Artus.

What I don't like so much is that Mordred looks like a super edgelord with his spike armor that you can't really get rid of. The character progression in terms of skills and gear is quite bland. There's like 5 skills and a bunch of passives to unlock per character. It feels less invovled than building a character in LoL over the course of 20 minutes (and here I still only had access to my initial 3 skills after 10 hours in).

But apart from character progression you also build out your Camelot castle with upgrades, a bit similar to Darkest Dungeon. Your decisions move your position on a 2d morality board (Rightful/Tyrant, Christian/Old Faith) and depending on your standing you will have different party members available. There is also an option to play with permadeath, so you may lose your favorite party members or even screw up your entire playthrough (if you play on hard-mode). I really do like that.

TLDR: an all around solid tactics game with superb atmosphere and overall enough challenge and gameplay elements to keep it interesting, despite somewhat limited skills/gear progression

Fun tactical RPG game, leaning more towards RPG than tactics.

I found the gameplay getting a bit stale by the end once you have recruited all the knights which you like, and unlocked the 3rd (and final) tier of abilities. That being said there is a wide variety of abilities to experiment with and upgrade; different classes each have their own speciality, and each character having a slightly different set of abilities from others of that class. The abilities themselves were fun to use, and you can synergize the abilities of your character with your equipment, and with your other characters.

There are a few different groups of enemies each with a number of different classes, but you fight so that I found it getting repetitive. It would have been nice for the different enemy types to gain more abilities or mechanical changes throughout the game, eg: undead which you fight from the very beginning to end of the game.

The story is interesting enough and a fun twist on the classic tale and cast of King Arthur. Between each main mission there are side missions you can do, including ones which allow you to recruit new characters, which kept things interesting. There is a small kingdom management portion which allows you to choose what to upgrade to customize some benefits.

The setup of the game is one where you have many more characters than you can take on each mission, and seems to encourage you to switch them out. If characters take enough damage in a mission they get permanent debuffs which can only be healed by sitting out at least one mission. I don't really enjoy those types of mechanics, but the game wasn't so difficult on hard that it came up much. You can save freely throughout missions so if you want you could certainly avoid that mechanic entirely if you only want to use the same 4 knights the whole game.

There is a morality chart where you will make choices between two options of religion and ruling style, with different unlocks when you reach certain points in each direction. This included the ability to unlock some characters which was great, but I didn't find the other unlocks that interesting of useful. The morality chart will also change a few side missions which was cool

Overall the game is fun and a nice mix of tactics and RPG, but not amazing and gets a bit stale after the first half.

3.5/5

Good tactic game with rpg level up dynamic.
A bit repetitive, but not too much.
The story is good and the Castle dynamic for equipping heroes interesting.
I recommend.

Great challenging tactical turn based combat. Story and voice acting are good. Good depth of different team synergies and classes. Enemy variety struggles a bit towards the end of the campaign. Morality system and perma death make the game more engaging.
Overall great fantasy tactics game.

The game is fine. However despite the recommended specs, I am using a 2080Ti and this game still uses 100% of my GPU for some reason