Playtest!

The playtest is now live! It only took 6 short years but better late then never. Join the playtest and let me know what you think! All feedback welcome. Also, please see below for the perfect card art- they said it couldn't be done. More to come...

About This Game

Kingslayers is a free-to-play Roguelite featuring both turn-based and real-time strategy elements. Select your team and choose your skills, then jump into a run to see what broken builds you can create!

Once you get your bearings, you can conquer ever-increasing ascension difficulties in single-player mode or enter multiplayer and try to climb to the top of the leaderboard.

Singleplayer- Relax and Enjoy the ride

Theory craft and min-max to your hearts content in this chill mode. See how high you can go in the ascension ranks or just create some cool unique builds. How about a build where you constantly have a Dragon die to make use of its on-death true damage dealing fireball passive? Or one where each shot from the archer fires 30 arrows? There's thousands of builds waiting for you to explore.

Multiplayer- A turn based game where speed and reaction time actually matters.

The multiplayer is designed for fast-paced, chaotic action. You and your opponent will traverse an identical run and meet at different stages to showcase your builds and outwit each other. This isn't your regular turn-based strategy - speed, quick decisions, and quick reactions are going to play a major part in you climbing to the top of the rankings.

So get on in here and enjoy the theory crafting, minigames and wacky characters. We need you to stop the wizard space snakes as they psychically control bipedal creatures and use them as pawns in their yearly death tournament (or ignore the lore and just slay some kings).

Some Dev Ramblings I Wanted To Share

I started learning game design and making this game in 2019 and had a working version in 2021. Looking at the massive task ahead of me, I gave up multiple times, with several year-long breaks between working on the project, thinking it would never be finished. I am so happy to say it is finally here and am really proud of what it has become.

I named the company BortsDad after my dog Albus, AKA Bort, who, through a massive portion of the development, sat at my feet day in and day out, supporting me every step of the way.

He's a good boy.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

I started working on this game ~6 years ago and had a working multiplayer version ready before AI was even a thing back in 2022. Having said that, in order to release this game before the pending AI apocalypse, I have ironically included some AI elements.

Everything purchasable is human made, and all VFX, all playable units, the story, the character abilities and 90% of the voice acting (of which there is a lot), menu theme and artwork, and most of the card artwork in the game is also 100% human-made.

The AI is almost entirely in the form of the semi-realistic full-screen images for the encounters, some of the music along with some of the boss and snake models.

I will continue to work to replace the AI elements in the coming months after release.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Mild fantasy violence