For The King's tabletop-inspired RPG adventuring is returning for a sequel

Developer IronOak Games’ wonderful tabletop-RPG-meets-digital-board-game adventure For The King is getting a sequel, and it’ll be making its way to PC some time next year.

The original For The King, if you’re unfamiliar, was a thoroughly entertaining (if sometimes brutally challenging) blend of familiar RPG stables – think dungeon crawling, questing, turn-based exploration and combat, loot acquisition, and so on – streamlined into a light-hearted, optionally co-operative rogue-like adventure.

More than anything, it was a wonderfully designed little story generator – encompassing everything from haunted carnivals to suffocating jungles – with enough potential combinations across its moving parts to feel sufficiently different each run.

“If you’re a fan of tabletop RPGs and have a couple of sadistic pals to keep you company,” said Eurogamer contributor Vikki Blake in her review, “it’s a Kraken little game that’s sure to delight – and dismay – in equal measures.”