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.

Stardock released Sorcerer King: Rivals v2.1 update, adding a new campaign, complete with a unique quest with all-new dialogue and text, a new villain, and an unusually well-dressed ogre.

"For this update, we teamed up with writer Chris Bucholz over at Cracked.com again," said lead designer Brad Wardell. "The quest dialogue is fantastic, players are really going to enjoy the humor."

The campaign begins when the player visits a nearby inn, which triggers the primary quest. A mysterious letter arrives with an unusual artifact called the Crux of Az-Adoras, which is capable of piercing the magical wards that seal off your realm from the rest of the Sorcerer King's world. But, where did the artifact come from, and who sent it? This isn't a world where things are done for free.

In order to solve the mystery of who sent the artifact and why, the player will need to explore the realm, taking care not to upset the irritable Sorcerer King. Each gate that you unlock with the Crux draws his attention as you explore territories that he'd previously barred you from. He's willing to let you explore, but for a price - leave his minions be, and provide him with some of your life force now and again. For the Sorcerer King, it's as fair a trade as anyone has ever received. With a custom map and setting, hilarious quests, a new villain, and more, this campaign provides additional adventure and entertainment to Rivals. "We've got lots of plans for Sorcerer King: Rivals," said Wardell. "This update has a pretty sizable campaign, and in the future we'll be enhancing each individual sovereign with custom starting units, unique improvements, and some other things."

Sorcerer King: Rivals is can be purchased on Steam or through Stardock or GOG for $29.99. For those who already own Sorcerer King, Rivals is available as an upgrade for $14.99.

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.