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- 3
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- Release Date
Nintendo Switch
- 24th May 2019, £11.99
- 9th May 2019, =
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Review For The King (Switch) - A Roguelike RPG That's Best Played With A Friend
By royal decree
Don’t let the beguiling art style of For The King fool you. It might look like a children’s book that’s been conjured to life, bathed in the soft autumnal light of a European fairy tale, but beneath the funny hats and cute character designs sits a roguelike RPG with teeth. Underestimate the challenge of its procedural maps and...
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For The King News
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (May 18th)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
With that lovely Super Mario Maker 2 Nintendo Direct and the surprise launch of a new Pokémon smartphone game, it's been yet another busy week for us here at Nintendo Life. Still, it's now time to sit back and relax for another weekend, and we've gathered together to speak about our gaming plans. We'd love...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (May 11th)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
And just like that, yet another week has gone and passed us by. We've had a pretty huge sale on the eShop and finalised Nintendo E3 plans to get all excited about over the last few days, but now it's time to sit back and talk about how we'll be enjoying our weekends. We've shared our gaming plans below, but...
Nintendo Download 9th May (Europe)
Saints Row! Super Dragon Ball Heroes! For The King!
The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch Retail - New Releases: SAINTS ROW: THE THIRD - THE...
Nintendo Download 9th May (North America)
Saints Row: The Third, Sniper Elite V2 and Redout!
The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Nintendo Switch: Saints Row: The Third - The Full...
News Tabletop RPG For The King Makes Its Move On Switch This Week
20% discount available
Strategic, tabletop RPG For The King is just days away from release on Nintendo Switch. Available to pre-order right now, it'll launch this Thursday 9th May. The game blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a "challenging adventure that spans the realms". Aiming to be highly replayable, it'll have you venturing forth into...
News Tabletop Strategy RPG For The King Is Getting A Signature Edition Switch Release
Will you put an end to the Chaos?
Curve Digital has revealed that the strategic RPG, For The King, is heading to Nintendo Switch on 9th May. The game blends tabletop and roguelike elements in what is said to be an "incredibly replayable" and challenging adventure. You must venture into the lands of Fahrul, where you'll discover that every...
News For The King Physical Switch Release Arrives In The Month Of May
A roguelike tabletop adventure
For The King will be receiving a physical Switch release, according to a pre-order listing over on Amazon UK. The page reveals the IronOak release will be published by Merge Games and arrives on 24th May, for the price of £29,99.
About The Game
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally. None before you have returned from their journey. Will you put an end to the Chaos?
The King is dead, murdered by an unknown assailant. Now the once peaceful kingdom of Fahrul is in chaos. With nowhere left to turn and stretched beyond her means, the queen has put out a desperate plea to the citizens of the land to rise up and stem the tide of impending doom. Will you put an end to the Chaos?
For The King is a challenging blend of strategy, turn-based combat, and roguelike elements. Each playthrough is unique with procedural maps, quests, and events. Explore Fahrul in either single player, local, or online co-op.
Just remember adventurer, you do this not for riches or fame but for your village, for your realm, For The King!
INCLUDES ALL PREVIOUSLY RELEASED CONTENT EXPANSIONS!
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Hope we will get a review soon. I love this game so far, more people need to know about it.
@Vepra how would you describe it, if I can be curious?
@Ludovsky In short: Dungeons and Dragons made enjoyable on console/PC.
In this game, you create a party of three members. (You either play solo, controlling all 3 of them, or you can play both online and local coop with up to three people where everyone controlls their character). You begin with 4 classes and you can unlock additional 7 (you do that by playing the game, no microtransactions).At its core it is, as I mentioned, like D&D so it is rng based.
This release is the complete addition with two expansions that both offer a new map, class and its unique mechanics. In the Frost Adventure, you have to be careful as the low temperatures will damage your heroes at every end of their turn (unless they are placed in a city or a camp). The Into the Deep adventure is focused on a map with islands where you sail the seas and have to watch out for the Kraken that can surprise you and kill you or just destroy your boat which will get you randomly shipwrecked on land.
There is a lot I could talk about so I think it'd be better if you'd just ask for things you are interested in and I'll do my best to answer you.
@Vepra what's the difficulty like? I hear it can be quite roguelike so I wondered how the game handle this
@Ludovsky Well, it is difficult. Once your party wipes, you have to start over. Of one of your party members dies, you can ressurect him tho, you need to have atleast one hero alive not to lose. The difficulity isn't really unfair, to me it really captures the feeling of an adventure where you really have to think about your next step.
If you are worried about it being too difficult or punishing, don't be. You just can't rush things, that is about it, just take your time, level up your heroes, do not take high risks.
Just started playing this game and it did crash two times in the first 3 hours of multiplayer play. With the saving scheme you only lose up to one turn, but I hope the devs resolve these issues as the load time to start the game is not short.
@Vepra So it's more grind some levels or are you able to beat hard enemies with strategy?
@MrSoczek Well, strategy does help a ton but keep in mind its bassicly just a D&D game. So it really depends on dice rolls. Before every attack, your character rolls a dice and the attack efectivness is based on that roll. I'd say viable strategy is as important as a bit of grind to level your characters before challenging a tough oponent.
@Vepra Thanks, looks good enough to spend some time with it )
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good replay ability.
bit too long at 1cool.
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