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Sorcerer King

Platform(s): PC
Genre: RPG/Strategy
Developer: Stardock Systems
Release Date: July 16, 2015

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'Sorcerer King' Gets Release Date

by Rainier on June 30, 2015 @ 3:48 p.m. PDT

Sorcerer King is a new 4x strategy game in which the player must stop a single, overwhelmingly powerful enemy from destroying the world.

In Sorcerer King, the doomsday counter is always advancing; only by recruiting powerful champions, crafting magical artifacts to customize their capabilities, and expanding your kingdom can you stop the Sorcerer King’s apocalyptic plan. You'’ll don the mantle of one of six powerful sovereigns; the Wizard, the Commander, the Tyrant, the Guardian, the Priest, or the Tinkerer. You may also create your a custom sovereign to halt the march towards doomsday. A random map generator offers unlimited replayability while story-driven quests provide a rich narrative experience. 

Players are able to explore a vast and detailed world, finding treasure and adventure throughout the monster-infested wilderness. Overcome tough but often amusing dilemmas in hundreds of quests written by Cracked.com's Chris Bucholz, and command your armies in tactical battles against the Sorcerer King's monstrous hordes. You must defeat the Sorcerer King's terrifying lieutenants to unlock the Shadow Gate and eventually battle the dark demigod himself or all will be lost. Again.

A sophisticated "Game Master" AI controls the Sorcerer King's unscripted assaults. Unlike traditional 4X games where evenly matched rival factions race toward diverse victory conditions, Sorcerer King has the player and his enemy playing by an entirely different set of rules. The Sorcerer King doesn’t need to crush your empire, he just needs to destroy the magical shards in order to enact his doomsday plan. Defending the shards, not careful plotting toward economic victory, is the only way to save the world.

In the game you play as the leader of a city-state in a world filled with magic generated by the “shards,” but the self-styled Sorcerer King has begun to destroy the shards and use their magic in a quest to become a god. You must build a kingdom and raise a force powerful enough to stop him while at the same time dealing with rival factions who only care about conquering more land and resources for themselves. Time is limited: the Doomsday Counter keeps track of the Sorcerer King’s progress toward godhood. Can you stop him in time? 

City-building, item-crafting, monster battling; all of these familiar tropes are found in Sorcerer King, but there is a twist: you've already lost the world to the Sorcerer King. Now you must take it back before he destroys it.

Key Features:

  • Unique, asymmetrical design creates a new kind of 4X gameplay based around surviving the Sorcerer King’s relentless, unscripted assaults.
  • Sophisticated "Game Master" AI ensures each game is a new, challenging experience.
  • Win the allegiances of independent minor factions before they abandon any hope of defying the Sorcerer King’s dark reign.
  • Play one of six different sovereigns, each with their own unique skill tree, spellbooks and units.
  • Extensive crafting system allows players to customize their units and seek out ever more powerful recipes to even the odds.
  • Hundreds of quests deliver unique items, units, resources and unexpected narrative twists.
  • Earn the loyalty of powerful champions and develop them into juggernauts capable of standing up to the Sorcerer King’s most powerful minions.
  • Found new cities and build them up to gain access to new units, abilities, crafting recipes and more.

Sorcerer King is available now via Steam Early Access for $39.99.


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