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Kingdoms Forlorn: Dragons Devils and Kings

Game ID: GID0452122
Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-5
Age
16+
Playtime
90 min
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Description

Massive cooperative campaign dungeon-crawling board game set in a dark medieval fantasy world featuring tactical boss battles and branching narratives

Description

Massive cooperative campaign dungeon-crawling board game set in a dark medieval fantasy world featuring tactical boss battles and branching narratives

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positive
Pros
  • Rich narrative with meaningful, branching decisions that affect later events
  • Deep tactical combat with a dynamic card/dice system and varied knight abilities
  • Expansive exploration that grows with map expansion and cipher/story layers
  • Asymmetric character arcs and recruitable allies add variety and replayability
  • Active community involvement (Patreon) influencing choices and playthrough direction
Cons
  • High complexity and frequent rule interactions can invite misreads or mistakes during play
  • Cumulative time pressure (time track, curses, gates) can be punishing and slow pacing at times
  • Potential for analysis paralysis due to many simultaneous options and card interactions
Thematic elements
  • Duty, leadership, sacrifice, and moral choices under pressure
  • A perilous fantasy kingdom exploration during a caravan-based expedition
  • Story-driven, branching quest lines with character interactions and evolving objectives
Comparison games
  • Aon Trespass Odyssey
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Clash phase with tokens — Use break tokens, opening tokens, heat, and passion to resolve combat against foes; involves a clash pool and turn-based windows.
  • Clue tokens and investigation — Collect green/blue/yellow clue tokens to advance investigations and grant rewards or progress toward quests.
  • Curse and panzer gate mechanics — Gains curses when thresholds are crossed; panzer gates create locked paths requiring keys to bypass.
  • deduction — Collect green/blue/yellow clue tokens to advance investigations and grant rewards or progress toward quests.
  • Delve phase and time track — Move on a time track that drives encounters, events, and potential curses; increases urgency to complete objectives.
  • Dice-driven combat with armor thresholds — Combat uses red/black dice, armor thresholds, pains, scars, and bane tokens to determine wounds and outcomes.
  • Encounter and ambush resolution — Encounters spawn from time, explore, and sometimes trigger ambush events requiring immediate decisions and tests.
  • Exploration and map expansion — Draw exploration cards, reveal tiles, place keys and gates, and allow map expansion as you travel through the district.
  • Hidden movement — Track progress toward hunting major threats via hunt tally marks and assign marshall/clue tokens to detect tracks.
  • Hunt tally marks and marshall clues — Track progress toward hunting major threats via hunt tally marks and assign marshall/clue tokens to detect tracks.
  • Mercenary (level two rogue) card — A level-two mercenary acquired from a delve event, offering a dual-card draw ability when drawing exploration cards.
  • Refresh, heat, and arc tokens — Cards have refresh/arc mechanics and special tokens (opening/break/heat) that influence clash windows and shock effects.
  • Rest and campfire phase — Reset knight abilities, regain resources, and collect campfire tales that may affect future events.
  • Time track — Move on a time track that drives encounters, events, and potential curses; increases urgency to complete objectives.
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  • I am having an absolute blast with this game.
  • The decision space where it's like, okay, do I really help that caravan out or do I let them go on their merry way?
  • This one's one of my favorite parts of the game because of the decision space.
  • I love the decision space where it feels like your choices truly matter.
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