Kinghold
A downloadable game
Tower defence and survivors-style chaos collide in this frantic fantasy strategy roguelite. Lead your king, rally your troops, and fortify your defences in real time as you fight, gather, and build to survive waves of enemy hordes.
Wishlist the game on Steam here, or download the playtest build below.
Full version will include:
- A greatly expanded selection of cards, perks, maps, and enemies.
- Meta-unlocks.
- Leaderboards.
- Soundtrack.
- The incorporation of feedback and suggestions.
Controls
- WASD — Move.
- SPACE — Attack, or stop moving when within range of a target.
- Q / E — Use the King’s Area of Effect attack (costs 1 gold).
- ESC — Pause
Additional Notes:
- Cards cost gold and are placed based on where you click on the card.
For example, clicking the left side of a card spawns the unit/building to the King’s left. This is demonstrated in the tutorial. - Hold RMB while hovering over units or buildings to view their stats.
- Hold RMB on cards or perks to view a short description before choosing a reward.
- The Cards menu allows you to select the five cards with which you start the game.
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Development log
- Kinghold Update: Shared Health and Battle Sheep34 days ago
Comments
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Hello! Do you have a discord server for this game?
Heya, have just finished watching through your playtest. Thanks again for that, really clear and useful!
No discord yet, was hoping to work through an initial round of feedback to get rid of as many rough edges as possible before setting up a Steam page and Discord too, so hopefully in the next few months :)
Okay, I'll try to keep an eye out for when it pops up.
Dude, the game is really addictive. You clearly thought everything through in a very consistent way. I managed to create a pretty crowded situation, and there was even villager production from houses.
However, there seems to be something that causes units to run in place sometimes. It is not only friendly units; enemy builders and other units also get stuck like that from time to time. While playing, I had a guess about the reason, but I forgot it.
Also, instead of showing the descriptions by holding right click on the card, it would be more practical if they appeared when hovering the mouse over the card.
The game is honestly both challenging and full of opportunities. I would love to work on something with you someday :D
Ah brilliant, really pleased you liked it! The descriptions should be fairly easy to change, and I'll have a look into the unit issue as that's definitely not supposed to happen. Thanks for taking the time to have a proper go, I will message when the next version is ready :)
I think I found my best deck so far. The red butterflies and the butterfly upgrade let me fight against large groups almost by myself. I focused on getting more archers from the beginning, and whenever I had the chance, I kept upgrading them.
By the end, they were extremely fast and really strong. I also built a tower next to my castle and kept upgrading its health whenever I could.
I probably played most of the game with around 2.5 economy houses on average. Thanks to the upgrades and having enough units, the army I had been building since the early game did a really good job.
This was on the first map. I’m going to try this deck on the other maps too. My final score is 576764 at that game.
Same strategy and better score at map 2 :D
I used the same strategy and got an even better score on Map 2 :D
The game turned out amazing. Seriously, congratulations!
I really liked the features and expansions you added. I tend to get completely hooked on games like this.
Thanks, glad you like it! Starlane is nice project too, I managed to get on the leaderboard :D
Nice, I saw you got a pretty good score compared to others, congrats! :D I’m still playing your game btw, I added it next to my other games. I really enjoy seeing projects like this on itch.io.