The King's Road

A pretender sits on your throne. The road to his gate is seven roads long, and you will not walk it alone. THE KINGS ROAD is a hand-drawn strategy game about the unglamorous part of taking a kingdom back: the felling, the hauling, the feeding, and the slow business of turning a campfire and a handful of vagrants into a company that can break a castle gate. RAISE A TOWN ON EVERY ROAD Mark the timber and your foresters fell it. Sink a mine and your miners work the seam. A tool store turns wood into hammers and picks; a weapon store turns iron into swords and bows. Every trade feeds the next, and nothing happens because you clicked a button — it happens because somebody walked over and did it. HIRE THE PEOPLE WHO WILL DO IT Vagrants camp along the road. Pay one and he takes up a tool and a trade. Pay him again and he takes up a sword. The company that reaches the seventh road is the…