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The King's Men box art
2016 Ranked #17,919

The King's Men

A competitive kingdom-building game has nobles complete quests, defeat threats, and develop assets to gain enough prestige for the throne. Sabotage and trickery let rivals undermine an ascendant player, keeping leadership insecure.

Card Game Dice Open Drafting Take That

Players

2-5

Play time

15-45 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1.33/5

Rating

6.83

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 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Each turn players try to complete quests, slay creatures threatening the kingdom and build economic and military assets to help them in subsequent turns.Their goal is to gain enough prestige to become the next king.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Open Drafting

Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Take That

Direct negative effects at selected opponents.
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Each turn players try to complete quests, slay creatures threatening the kingdom and build economic and military assets to help them in subsequent turns.Their goal is to gain enough prestige to become the next king. The other nobles are trying to keep each other from ascending to the throne. The King's Men is a super competitive, fast based game featuring trickery and sabotage. Even so, casual players can learn the game easily in about five minutes. The game scales seamlessly between the casual and hardcore markets.

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Category

5
Card Game Dice Medieval Negotiation Political

Mechanism

3
Dice Rolling Open Drafting Take That

Family

1
Crowdfunding: Kickstarter

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–5
Play time
15–45 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
R. Alex van Vloten

Artists

2
Jason Lewis (II) Manuel Martinez (II)

Publishers

1
Alt Mode Games

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