Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Kingdom of Aer: King Maker is a 2-5 player elimination assassination card game set in a Florentine fantasy realm. The King of Aer has died and each of the Great 5 houses must send their Royalty to the palace to see who is most worthy to become the new King.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Betting and Bluffing
Risk resources on uncertain outcomes while disguising intentions or information.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Negotiation
Make proposals, promises, or deals directly with other players.
Simultaneous Action Selection
Choose actions secretly or concurrently before revealing them together.
Player Elimination
Players can be removed from contention before the game ends.
Voting
Players collectively approve, reject, or select an outcome through votes.
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Kingdom of Aer: King Maker is a 2-5 player elimination assassination card game set in a Florentine fantasy realm. The King of Aer has died and each of the Great 5 houses must send their Royalty to the palace to see who is most worthy to become the new King. Along the road mayhem and treachery ensues as each family plots and assassinates the potential candidates' KOA Kingmaker is played as a simultaneous action card game. Players play 1 card each turn from their hand face down to the table. Once all players have played their card the cards are revealed and the actions of those cards are resolved with various consequences. Eliminate your opposition until there are only two players remaining. Each card is worth a different amount of points and the player with the most points from the final two players wins the game.