There’s only one force known to man that can improve board-game-like strategic RPG For The King, and that force is pirates. They’ll be swinging on board November 21st as part of the Into The Deep update, equipped with new gun-class weapons and with other NPCs (friendly and not-so-friendly) on their tail. If the trailer’s anything to go by, there is a lot of shooting people on boats.

Do what you want, because the pirates are free. Yar, Har, fiddle dee-dee.

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I honestly don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing For The King. It’s probably got something to do with the evil magic that’s popping up around the kingdom, but I’m more interested in my lute. (more…)

Hex-based roguelikelike action-RPG For The King today completed its fourteen-month adventure through early access and arrived at a full launch. Our Brendan enjoyed what he played even a year ago, so it’ll be nice to see how the game has ended up. Check out the pretty little adventure in the launch trailer. (more…)

Hex-based tactical dungeon crawler For The King has been rattling around on Steam’s Early Access section since February of last year, charming folks with its stylish texture-lite aesthetics and its compelling mix of freeform adventuring and uncompromising tabletop-inspired combat, where things are seldom far from a bad turn. IronOak Games reckon that their first baby is just about ready to take its first steps into the wide open world, and are gearing up for launch on April 19th.

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Every Monday we order Brendan to examine the early access entrails for signs of coming chaos. This week, the guts tell of a magical and old-fashioned RPG called For The King [official site] with strange rougelike properties…

Death comes easily to the intrepid hex explorer. If you re lucky, you ll just get a quick bandit axe in the forehead. But if you re like me, only the most scurrilous death will do. In a poison bog surrounded by old swamp hags, for example. Or deep underground at the hands of deranged cultists and their bat minions. These are just some of the ways you can (will) die in For The King, a shiny and modern-looking RPG that nevertheless retains a good and ancient heart. And by that I mean it has absolutely no qualms about murdering you. … [visit site to read more]