For the King II released on Steam to "mixed" reviews, mostly citing bugs but an otherwise good game. (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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From the store description:

Battle against Fahrul's tyrannical Queen alone or as a party of four players in the sequel to For The King, the massively popular turn-based roguelite tabletop RPG. Will you unravel the once beloved Queen's terrible secret?

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Adventure
RPG
Strategy
Board game
Co-op

That last part is IMO the important one. For the King was a fantastic little coop game.

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[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 17 points 10 months ago

I refunded it after an hour.

Besides the glaring bugs that shouldn't have been there at release, I was disappointed that barely anything changed from the first game. Unfortunately the gameplay loop is not engaging enough to warrant releasing the same game twice.

[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Good to know, thanks!

I enjoyed the first game but it was fairly basic, I didn't know they were even making a second one but if it is just more of the exact same then I'll pass for sure!

[-] BreadGar@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I grabbed it for the couch co-op, which we really enjoyed in the first one. But in ftk2 every controller can control every character, which feels weird. Also playing with the controller feels more clunky than the original.

[-] darganon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Super pumped about this, can't wait to get this semester over with so my group can finish BG3 and get into this. We played the first one a ton, and adding a fourth will be nice!

[-] simple@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Shame, me and my friends were looking forward to this but I guess we'll wait a couple of weeks.

[-] MercuryRiver@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I spent about 15 hours on this already, and luckily for me, I only ran into one major bug (froze but thankfully game autosaved a lot) and one light one (two enemies in one spot). We played online two people with two characters each and it was fun and worked great, we only controlled our own characters. Sounds like maybe it's more optimized for online than couch co-op, but who wants to buy two copies of the game if you don't have to?

Music is improved, couldn't play a lot of the first one because it kept making my partner pass out, too sleepy vibe. No issues like that here, soundtrack is nice.

I suppose it is really similar to the first, except the new taller models and stuff. The dead heroes thing seems new to and possibly neat, but I could be wrong. I see it more as a story sequel than a game sequel currently. I was happy buying it early, but for others, I'd probably recommend getting it on more of a sale.