I was truely contemplating whether or not to reccomend this game or not reccomend it. There are so many detrimental points to this game that make it seem so primitive. Something I really adore of the community, is that they dont let go of a game that is already dead. This game, as you may have saw from a trailer, is a primarily competetive game (99 percent of us will want this game for the multiplayer) but there are also single player modes. While, after 3 years of development, the game HAS improved, it is still buggy as all hell and they didn't bother to fix a lot of the issues with the engine. However, despite all this, what really drew me in to play nearly 400 hours was the community. Small, infact maybe 200 or less active players, but a mostly great and welcoming community that tought me how to play properly when I first began. I have not seen another newer player in some time. The game and community nowadays is 75 percent focused on the modding community. And for good reason. TranshuManDesign, the creators, have not botherd to update this game in months. So if you want to dedicate yourself to the community at this day and age, you have to be willing to play the same game over and over and rely on the 4 or 5 skilled modders to produce more mods for you to play. However, all good things don't last forever.

Tl;Dr- This game will most likely not be updated any time soon or ever. The community is fantastic.

Pros
-Action Packed game which offers what it says it does in trailer.
- Great community that welcomes new players politely and kindly.
- Large modding community that keep the game fresh.
- Single player mode for practicing and general fun.
- 3 classes with entirely different playstyles.
- Addicting gameplay with each map in official servers being pre-generated.

Cons
- Has almost as many bugs as it did in release form.
- THD (transhuman design) Will mostly likely never do a content update on this version of the game (i am implying they might make a KAG Reborn or Sequel)
- THD has essentially moved on to other games, like trench run. A game I enjoy a lot, but was a fail on launch because of laziness.
- Community is dead and small. In some parts of the day, servers are baren.
- Awful engine that is outdated. Crashes frequently, cannot change screen size from game. Modding is buggy.
- DDOS attack on servers a few days ago is still plaguing the community and myself. I can OCCASIONALLY come on, but on other times it crashes.

So. Would I reccomend this game? Its a tough choice. All in all, it is still a good experience if you dont mind the cons. A bad experience otherwise. So, while this post says reccomended, I suggest you choose for your self from what you have read.

Only problem with this game is lack of players

King Arthur's Gold (KAG) was a game with a lively community, albiet i wasn't there for the early days, the days I growed into were amazing. Plenty of mods, servers, and an everlasting community. There were many pros and cons back then, but now it's, i would harshly say, dying. When I had booted up the game since the last year or two, I noticed a few things that lingered as I continued to play. For one, the community had been cut severely in half. So much to the point, there were only two decent servers to get onto. Two, the players were not very accepting of my rustiness, most were. I know there are tons of nice people on here, it's just what I have faced. Or much so to other actual new players. This cut me off, but not much so i stopped playing entirely. The game itself had a few patches implementing new crafting slots, such as components and whatnot to add onto the game. I've only been playing for four days, and the game has already shown deteriation from the last time I had played. Aside from this, I was desperate to see some light in the darkness sooner, or later, but it never came. Such as the lack of patches to fix the problems occurring since the last time i had played, but it's understandable, considering the developers eased off of major development for KAG. The game has it's amazing moments, although I wish they were more apparent. I wish i could've returned with a positive review, but i just cannot do such a thing with the game in it's current state. It's even more so sad for me to admit the game is out of beta, and still poses these problems. I would be glad to do an edit of this review once the developers spend more time on KAG, and give it the positive review ti deserves.

This game is one of the best games ive ever played, i have 60 friends who play this game and over 1000 hours. so you should buy it:)

This game was amazing
Everything was so well made
So much hard work put into it
I rate 9.5 /10

I recommend this game for anyone into online games

Game is good but the bugs are terrible ... 6/10

In the beginning there was nature.

But because nature by itself was boring, god added 32 slots for players to join 2 teams and battle for domination with medieval weaponry but still with all the laws nature applied. like things falling down, not up, structures crumble when they are robbed of their foundation, things falling on players kill players, wood burns, explosives explode when lit on fire, animals may kill humans becaus they are hungry or angry, humans die when they happen to stand next to an explosion. and so and and so forth. ...

King arthur's gold was born!

The moment I fell in love with King Arthur’s Gold is a moment that I have never been able to repeat, and likely never will. My team, red, was at the gates of the blue team’s home base for nearly 20 minutes, stuck in a stalemate that never seemed to go anywhere. The blue team had constructed a massive tower, complete with spikes and platforms for archers that made it impossible to ascend. To make matters worse, it was on the edge of a lake, meaning there was no easy way for us to dig under their tower and attack from behind. I was at a loss as to how we would be able to win, until someone had the bright idea to construct a boat.

It wasn’t just any boat mind you, for it was a war boat designed for ramming enemy fortifications that could also double as a spawn point. I, along with 12 others, hopped on the boat, and sailed towards the enemy stronghold. Arrows bounced off the hull, and someone was in the proper mind to shout “RAMMING SPEED!” through chat as we slammed into the base of the tower. It collapsed with one blow, and it killed around 20 people, defenders and boat people alike, in the ensuing chaos. But it didn’t matter, for within the next minute my team stormed into the enemy’s last stronghold and secured victory.

I encountered several similar moments throughout King Arthur’s Gold, each different from the last. Yet they all had one quality in common: insanely ridiculous action. And that is what this great multiplayer experience is really about.

King Arthur’s Gold is a two-dimensional side scrolling multiplayer game that pits two teams of 16 players against each other across several game modes. While each game mode differs in terms of goals, they all focus around building fortifications in your teams base and assaulting your opponents in return. The three classes that one can choose from and switch between at any point in the game are the knight, who focuses on stabbing and slicing the life and limbs out of his opponents; the archer, who has a wide variety of arrows for any situation alongside a handy-dandy grappling hook for climbing; and the builder, who can harvest resources and build epic structures that will make medieval castle designers blush upon first glance.

Each class works well in most situations. Knights are for when you feel like suicide bombing an enemy’s front gate, or want to not die as often as everyone else. Archers are for when you get tired of dying as a knight and want to rain death on whatever patch of ground takes your fancy. And builders, my personal favorite, are when you want to bugger off and construct elaborate traps and structures that someone will hopefully appreciate one day. It’s a healthy trio that allows for one to never get too bored, as you could just as easily change your style at a moment's notice.

As a general rule in multiplayer games, I tend to like it when there is a certain order to how the game operates. Objective is to kill the enemy team? I’ll grab a rifle, walk forward and start shooting. King Arthur’s Gold is an exception to that, in more ways than one. While a match will always start with some semblance of planning in effect, within five minutes utter chaos will descend upon the map. Suddenly the enemy is digging a tunnel under your capture point, and you forgot to place spikes around the pit of death you just constructed. Your teammates are imitating kamikaze pilots as they march to set off bombs at the enemy gates, and the catapult someone just constructed has just fallen over and killed a builder. And to top it off, you just discovered that not only do sharks exist in the water and that they can eat you, but they can also be ridden like a horse at the rodeo.

The amount of crazy that occurs in any given match never ceases to produce laughter and keep me entertained. Seriously, I discovered shark riding on accident. The simplicity of the game, combined with the number of possibilities that can be exploited, make for one hell of an entertaining ride.

That’s not to say that there are not any problems with King Arthur’s Gold. There is a singleplayer mode included within the game, along with a genuinely helpful tutorial that brings you up to basics quickly. The singleplayer is bland as a whole, lacking any of the chaos that is present throughout the game’s multiplayer portion. The AI is a pain, mostly because the archers have a godlike aim to them and the constant pursuit by them does not help ease the pain in singleplayer. In fact, one could skip out on the singleplayer portion entirely and not miss out on a single important concept that is necessary to know for the multiplayer.

And this may be minor nitpicking, but there are several bugs that are found in multiplayer that I have come across several times. For one, I occasionally was unable to respawn after dying, forcing myself to disconnect and rejoin a server to gain the function back again. And after several matches, I and several others I was playing with had to leave a server because the game was convinced that the new match would not start for half an hour. These were not isolated instances, and whether these glitches will be present for long remains to be seen.

But I digress, for those bugs do not take away from my overall impression of King Arthur’s Gold, which is a great multiplayer game that stands out from the crowd by being something that embraces lunacy and remains grounded with simple mechanics that allow for a variety of strategies.


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Minecraft has shown me that some people find building a giant fortress very satisfying.

But you know what's more satisfying? Raiding said fortress, finding the plebeian who built it and curbstomping him while you blow up his precious work.

THAT is satisfaction.

If you're the kind of kid who drew little people fighting each other while your apathetic teacher regurgitated his syllabus, you're going to love this game.