For The King

Top tier game design. The randomized maps keep things fresh. The art is fun and simple. Rag-doll physics is an awesome call back to beloved older games. The difficulty and strategy give it long term playability. Game studio is local to me too so I love supporting well made games crafted with love.
Also... Bisonators in the plains is a instant 5 star for me.

A great game. A good challenge with beautifully simplistic graphics.

Very enjoyable and re-playable game, as there are many different classes, gear, and cosmetics.

Story mode is more like a board game with Hildabrants cellar being strictly turn based fighting.
This game can be played casually or not with the various difficulty settings, and only gets more fun as you can unlock more items just from playing.
The only downside being that you cant exactly play this game solo, as it requires at least two players to complete the story mode or get past level 30 in the cellar. You can play as multiple characters and play that way but It slows the game down.
9/10 :steamthumbsup:

It's...just not fun. The mechanics are there to just pad the play hours. The rolls are so bad they make me miss the days of missing 95% shots in XCOM. Even if you get all of your rolls, oops the enemy just dodged it anyways and 1 shot you. Start over!

General advice online is to level up more before getting into battles. Which would be great if you didn't have a chaos timer that'll result in a certain loss once it activates. Easy, just reduce the timer with...oh those things that didn't spawn.

My usual suggestion for these kind of games is to wait for a sale, but I'm not even sure if it was worth the $3 that I spent

Enemy scaling + random events + no saves + few ways to fail forward + inflation = very frustrating to play. Could have been better with either shorter runs or less RNG, having to play for 6-8hrs and then die to a random guy is very bad.

Love the art style, the game has a lot of potential but unfortunately it feels extremely unfair to play.

The game gets boring quickly. Enemy scaling and gold inflation makes very little sense. The Queen personally asks you to save the realm, but you struggle to buy a healing item in a shop nearby...

Some runs you die in the first few levels to a poisonous slime. Some runs you get to the penultimate dungeon only to get petrified constantly and loose there too. Then there are the legendary joke runs where you take 3 skeleton hobos and save the world from flooding.

for the king is an extremely fun but janky TTRPG that has a steep learning curve, but if you keep going even after a few deaths, it starts to hit and you get into a bit of a flow state and can make progress faster. might not be for everyone due to the complicated mechanics but if you take your time with this game you will be rewarded.

Turn-based, but very complicated, or a lot of things to keep track of. It's unforgiving, which makes better for slow play rather than rush

Very fun co-op tabletop RPG! Lots of good strategy, and good practice for communication skills lol. The difficulty curve is a bit harder but there is an unlock system to unlock certain in game items that will help. This is definitely best to play with at least 1 other person, I have not tried playing this alone.

Genuinely fun game if you have friends, the chaos of probability makes the nonsense hilarious.

An absolutely amazing game! It has a gigantic amount of tactical options to discover with your friends. Time flies when you're playing this game—I enjoy it so much more than For the King 2!

Basically a survival board game...shares a lot of mechanics with other survival board games I've played.
You have "chaos" that can decrease or increase based on activities
You get loot from mobs and activities
You take turns performing actions
you roll for different aspects of combat and game interactions
There's over-world events and bosses to defeat with some aspect of randomness
This game is pretty relaxing - great way to kill 10 hours with a couple friends or solo.

The game itself is very good, and fun to play. But my pal and I have been consistently unable to get online co-op working. The servers are terrible and constantly time out. We've had the same issues for years, and have tried all sorts of community recommended fixes. At this point I'm just fed up of spending my precious spare time fixing something that other devs do better.

the kings maze is literally impossible with 2 people, i tried to get more people to get it but the game ended up ruining my friends pc

Pretty addictive and fun. I would have loved to see more difference in playstyle between characters (or how weapons work). Much better than the sequel from my experience.

So it's fun and enjoyable but it looks like there isn't support for the game other than pushing out more content for your money. Found a game breaking bugged quest within the first like 8 or so. Turns out it's a known bug since 2021 and they've done nothing. While reporting the bug, bug submission screen itself...bugged. Had to kill program. Seems fun but what I feel like I got was another buggy indie game some team shipped because they needed money now and then when/if they feel like it they fix something. But mostly seems like they're leaving it saying "Eh, good enough." and they're just pushing new DLC for $$. I say avoid, I wouldn't buy anything more from this company now.

The scaling makes the game feel frustrating, I frequently found myself getting past the start of a run and then it just becomes a slog. Enemies scale quicker than you, and gold inflation just makes you feel poorer and more punished as the game goes on.

Played a lot of rougelikes, with this I never felt excited to go back into a run thinking "what could have I done better", can't recommend.

i do not recommend this game at all. This game gives me and my boyfriend depression. we fought so hard for all of our stuffs just to have the little green guy stole it all then 3 bulky guys with the snakes took our lives

for the king 1 to me feels better than the second one... not sure if its just me but i feel this one better than i do the second version of the game just need to make more classes and models.

Great party strategy game. Love that it's a rouge like, and the rolls are brutal. Love this game!

Great time with 2 or 3 players! Especially for you D&D loot goblins.

Good luck. You'll need it. In fact, you'll need to be luckier than your great-great-grandpappy whose pocket watch stopped a bullet and saved his life in World War 2.

No but for real, I genuinely wanted to like this game. It's a great concept and had a lot of potential in my opinion, but in the end it was full of horrible RNG, enemies with gimmicky "cut you off at the knee" mechanics, and lackluster loot. What started out as an enjoyable, laid-back, and at times, funny experience with a friend, proved to end up being more frustrating, confusing, and disappointing than anything.

I think the core gameplay of this tabletop RPG is actually mildly fun but there's just not much to keep you coming back for more. Don't get me wrong, there is a shop you can access from the main menu that uses in-game currency (that you basically get for beating bosses), which offers new playable characters, in-game equipment, events/encounters, and cosmetic items. That is what technically qualifies this game to be "roguelike" but I just do not find myself wanting to come back again and again like other roguelikes have enticed me do in the past.

Like i and many others have said: great concept - flawed execution.

Good concept of a game, but very poorly executed. Everything in this game is dependent on luck; from movement, combat, world encounters, enemy/objective spawns, to drops, and more.

The game is too difficult—but not in a good way. The disclaimer at the beginning of the game "Do not set out on this quest with the expectation that you will succeed at first try" is not a good excuse for poorly designed game.

The game is very unforgiving. For example, if you use a weapon spell shockwave, you immediately get 25% less chance per dice roll to succeed, and also you have to roll more dice. If you roll 3/4, the effect will fail, and the damage will be only 20%. Pure madness.

Unfair enemy advantage. However, when an enemy has to roll 6 dice, he has >90% chance to roll each, which is unfair and redundant. What's the point of enemy dice rolls?

Game economy is not well-tested or thought-through. You often heavily rely on herbs that heal you +30 hp which cost 20 or 30 gold each. From a single fight you will get 10-20 gold, which you're ought to share with party members. Half an hour into the game, and a fight will cost you more health than you can get with the gold you earn. You can get these herbs in towns, so if you're out of stock, you're pretty much a ticking time-bomb. Not to account for the other items you have to purchase to advance..

Unclear UI and UX. The game doesn't properly teach or communicate gameplay elements – you kinda have to extrapolate those on your own. A simple example is when you drink a potion it says "temporarily gain immunity to X" but doesn't let you know in any way how long that is, leading to surprise moments (bad surprises), and frustration.

Really fun to play with friends. Somewhat fun to play alone, also

There are some things I liked about this game, but there's enough things that make it tedious, repetitive, and generally just hinder the enjoyment of the game that I can’t recommend it. Overall, not the worst game I’ve ever played, but me and a friend beat apprentice difficulty on the first playthrough and that was enough for us.
One major positive though was that multiplayer was really smooth. Most other games that claim to be “online co-op” make connecting with other players difficult.

Like the idea of the game, it's just much to hard to play without looking up how to play online and I personally don't think that is a great way to teach by trying over and over again and not succeeding. The game isn't good at explaining how fast or slow to progress and if you progress to quick you just can't survive. Quite disapointed with this purchase.

Great game, semi scratches that bg3 itch for me. Encountered a few disconnecting issues but apart from that I recommend picking it up during a sale.

Good game for playing with friends.
Easy to understand, fun and with campaigns that can lasts hours (or just minutes if your team sucks)

fun! good multiplayer for 1-2 friends

Simple to pick up, but very difficult. Addictive and fun, even if the difficulty spike is rough.

Great mechanics and replayability.

For The King is a fun game to pick up with your friends. The charming graphics and numerous build-customizations provide a satisfying gameplay experience during all of your runs to guarantee for a decent replayability.
The game especially emphasizes difficult encounters and an environment of time pressure which motivates the player(s) to plan every move with caution and is therefore most of the time not a cozy and relaxing game but a challenging and serious one.
However the game still allows you to plan your own steps to achieve your goals which is usually increasing level to advance in the story.

From my experience the game heavily relies on it's consumable items especially in later stages which brings me to the only thing I have to criticize about the game. There is only one way of healing yourself or your allies spite massive need of healing in the game. My friends and I found ourselves way too often spending over 80% of our income on that one item to progress in the game which is unfortunately not really optional til the game is designed so that the enemies will usually shred you into pieces in higher encounters.

This review only reflects one of the many gamemodes in this game but spite this critique I have to say that the game is definitely worth playing if you have some friends who enjoy the fantasy setting and want to try out something new without spending a lot of money or sacrificing a lot of diskspace while also being entertained for a decent amount of time for its price.

damn fun and really worth the price ( bought at 80% discount ) I find it a bit buggy like the game froze sometimes.

me and a friend beat this stupid game after 54 hours...



on the easiest difficulty

This is a good game. It's fun to play by yourself or when chilling out with friends. I've spent many an evening relaxing with this game and trying to get to the next fight... and next dungeon... and next boss...

The game has a handful of different adventure types, so there's some variety. Most of them are longer adventures with quests, but there's also an endless dungeon mode and a multiplayer PvP (gold rush is short but it's a blast with friends!).
And it's pretty replayable. Expect plenty of failure on your first several (or more) playthroughs, but it's pretty awesome when you finally beat an adventure. I found the adventures reasonably fun to replay even after beating it the first time. The story stays the same between plays, but your actions and random chance do make things play out differently.

A few minor complaints about the game. These weren't that bad but might be worth noting:
1) Steam remote play is kinda buggy. I have experienced an issue when playing with a friend who was using controller remotely. They couldn't pick up books of lore, which really messed up the flow of gameplay (bc the game would get stuck and we'd have to reload it to make a different player receive the book). Sometimes the game just bugs out.
2) Status effects are sometimes buggy. This problem is rare but weird. On one playthrough, Fergus the Mad ocurred but the effect never kicked in until after I reloaded the game. On another occasion, my character got cursed out of nowhere despite being immune to curses. That was infuriating.

its a good turnbased game fun to play with friends if you want a chill game :;D

For The Emperor! Oh wait wrong game... eh still really fun though.

So much fun to play with your buds. We beat up a wizard and stole his jammies. We killed a witch and stole her wig.

The game is pretty fun, but god my luck is shit in it. i never find any good weapons for me, but somehow my friends always get the best weapons! so i'd say if your luck is shit, do not play it.

Played a couple dozen hours after getting it for free in that other store. Liked it so much that I actually bought it and all the DLC and FTK II over here. Definitely worth it if you have people to play with. It's fun playing solo too, but it's exponentially more fun to yell, argue and occasionally fist fight with the other two morons that decided to play with you.

It's a good little game. The encounters can go from "casual" fun to a frustrating "you're all dead". I have only 9 hours in it but I really enjoy it. If you want in depth coverage of the game play, you're in the wrong review.

It's like D&D, but you can seemingly only roll 1 and 20 and the DM stands behind you with a gun to your head and says "hurry up or I kill all of you".

I dunno, I hoped for something different.
If you enjoy hard-as-balls combat, micromanaging your healing items for the final encounter AND being nearly 100% relying on luck, this game might be more fun for you.

95% per slot, 3 slot, fail all
51% per slot, 5 slot, hit all perfectly
im ending myself

This is overall a fun game that's well executed, but decisions by the developers ruin the fun for me.

I really enjoyed this game to start, but it constantly kicks you in the nuts. Get a great weapon? It'll break on a critical botch. Fight a master thief? He'll steal all your character's gold and even if you kill him, you can't get it back. Get hit with an acid attack? It'll randomly destroy a piece of gear every other tick or so.

If you've got a high tolerance for losing, maybe this won't be a deal breaker for you, but it was for me. This game warns you up front that your party will die, but I *wasn't* dying. I was doing great, I was just constantly losing my loot, which totally killed the fun for me. Games are supposed to be fun, so for that reason alone, I cannot recommend it.

Also the interface randomly stopped letting me access my inventory during combat, which meant I couldn't use my panaxes to cure the acid that was destroying my loot. Not sure if that was a bug or a game mechanic, but it was the final straw. If you're a loss tolerant player, this is still a good game, but if the idea of doing a quest for a sweet purple sword only to critically botch and have it get destroyed ON THE VERY FIRST USE (happened to me), then save your blood pressure and skip this game.

This game will kick you in the jewels over and over again under the guise of being "hard." Recommended if you don't get enough of the random cruelty of life and would like more via a game.

A pity because the game has good bones. As difficulty climbed though, it became more of a misery grinder than something fun.

If you want to see a hard game that's actually good at being hard, go play The Last Spell instead.

good time little hard to find others for long term but def worth

really struggled with the game first time trying; it was just me and my bf aand it was very hard to manage support/damage balance as a group of only two- we either went full damage and suffered on healing/buffing and died as a result; or either one of us would take up full support role and we'd still die due to insufficient party damage.

it seems the sweet spot is to have a three people group; we had a friend join up recently and we're currently on our third map. been really fun. idk how it goes on hard mode but we're slowly getting there. game has its ass moments sometimes; you get f load of gold at the final objective- the campaign ends :D can't spend it or have it accumulate in some sort of other type of currency too...wow you're trolling your players!! how unique of you XD

How do you make blacksmith so miserably bad. I have to wait for the enemies to act 3 times in a row and my teammate die before I can fucking do anything this game is dogshit dont waste your time

Still very buggy in 2024, frequent crashes and connectivity issues.

Devs also need to learn there is a difference between "challenging" and "bullshit." A fun challenge is when things don't go your way and you can strategize your way out of it. However in this game, you can very frequently run into situations where enemies who are lower level than you can easily permanently stunlock you. Think you can use focus to stunlock them instead? Nope, you don't have any focus because enemies keep draining it. There simply aren't enough resources in this game to make skill more of a factor than luck. Increase player agency please.