For the King is pretty good. I only ever played 3 or 4 player co-op (mods required for >3 players). Managing where you go and what you do is interesting. You have your money, health, focus, time-sensitive quests, and rising chaos all fighting for your attention, making your choices interesting and important.
The combat falls a little flat for me. If you're lucky, you have a weapon that has multiple good abilities, but too often you have a weapon that only really has one good ability, and so combat just becomes spamming that one ability. Having abilities tied to weapons is an interesting idea, but it feels bad when you have a weapon you like that does interesting things, and then you come across a weapon that's significantly better, but also significantly less interesting. We never got especially far, and I don't anticipate finishing this game.

Reviewed on Mar 21, 2024


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