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King's Blood box art
2003 Ranked #15,789

King's Blood

A family-tree card game has players arrange marriages, exile rivals, and crown royalty to extend their line. Compatible characters create new generations, and playing your final family member ends the game in your favor.

Family Games Card Game Open Drafting Set Collection Theme: Anime / Manga

Players

1-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.21/5

Rating

5.79

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

From the Steve Jackson Games website: Marriage. Royalty.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Open Drafting

Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Set Collection

Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
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From the Steve Jackson Games website: Marriage. Royalty. Tragedy. Will your line reign supreme? King's Blood is a fast-paced multi-player card game. Build the family tree by arranging marriages, exiling rivals, and crowning new royalty. Match a character with a compatible member of the opposite sex, and start a new generation. Play the last family member from your hand, and you've won! King's Blood was originally published by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan, where it remains a fan favorite. Steve Jackson Games is proud to offer the authorized English translation of this fast, fun game, complete with all the beautiful original manga artwork. 90 cards in a tuck box.

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Type

1
Family Games

Category

1
Card Game

Mechanism

3
Hand Management Open Drafting Set Collection

Family

1
Theme: Anime / Manga

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
1–6
Best with
2–6
Play time
45 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.2/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Tadaaki Kawahito Hitoshi Yasuda

Artists

1
Tsukapon

Publishers

2
Kadokawa Shoten Steve Jackson Games

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