Legends of the Round Table

Very unique and strange game inspired more obviously by Arthurian legends and less obviously by the Pendragon tabletop game. Manage the Knights of the Round Table as King Arthur year by year. Every year some of your knights participate in a major adventure, which plays out like an adventure game with combat. The rest of your knights perform minor tasks, with one being selected for a text-based minor adventure. Sometimes you have army vs army field battles which are influenced by the glory you amass from adventuring. Pay attention to the in game video tutorials because the interface is practically out of the 90s. Only downside is everything is voiced (and occasionally sung) by the narrator, and well, ymmv on her. Overall thumbs up, the devs put a lot of love into this and I hope this is a success for them.

I've played through the demo a couple of times so this isn't quite the usual sub-2 hour review I usually do. The first thing to praise is the hand drawn illuminated manuscript style art, in a lot of places it's absolutely stunning to look at. The whole vibe is obviously the chivalric romance tradition of Arthurian legend - Chretien de Troyes and, later, Malory. At university I had a tutor who'd turn up with a lute and sing medieval ballads so I can see where the narration is coming from but I do think that will be a very marmite thing for players when they hear the narrator begin to sing - you don't have to listen to it, of course, but even if I don't quite love it there's a part of me which admires the brass ones behind trying to give players a bit of a taste of how the legends were originally presented. The game seems more complex than it actually is, a lot of the UI is taken up by things which are very situationally important. Combat is a little mini-game and (so far) I've not really seen it diverge enough to think it will require anything but a fairly straightforward approach (alpha strike ftw). It is an RPG but it's quite a light one, there's not huge divergence in options you can take that I've seen. All that said, I've found it really enjoyable. There's suitable little bits of darkness to it, the art does a lot, the stories are pretty compelling - as you'd expect for some of the seminal works of European literature. Will probably revisit this on completion of the game at least once but I'm looking forward to seeing how it handles more of the stories of the legend.

This is such a creative and beautiful game.

Truly wonderous visuals with a strong but not too varied Combat system. Fun characters, with devs that show obvious care for making this game proper. Buy it.

If you enjoy medieval fantasy and especially Arthurian legend, then this game is for you! I love it. A little confusing to start but once you get the hang of the rules, it is a lot of fun! It very closely follows Arthurian legends.

Un petit bijou pour les fans de Moyen Âge, j'ai à peine terminé le chapitre d'introduction et il faut encore que je me fasse au système de combats mais c'est clairement un jeu qui va me prendre du temps à finir pour en apprécier la narration. Bravo à toute l'équipe pour ce jeu sur les légendes Arthuriennes

Premièrement: c'est beau. La direction artistique est folle. C'est aussi un plaisir de retrouver l'épopée arthurienne. Malheureusement c'est a peu près tout. On passe notre temps a faire des aller retour pour apporter un objet a un PNJ, les dialogues des PNJ sont long, souvent identique a quelques variation près et souvent inintéressant. Les combats sont d'une difficulté absurde: un mauvais tirage de carte, et tout votre groupe meurt. Reprendre une sauvegarde ? N'y pensez pas, il n'y a aucune sauvegarde manuelle. Je suis déçu car ce jeu avait tout pour me plaire sur le papier, malheureusement je ne peux pas le recommander.

This is a lovely game and I would recommend it to anyone fond of Arthurian lore and literature, and I think that many strategy RPG fans in general will find a lot to like here. The care that has gone into producing Legends of the Round Table is everywhere as you play - the art based directly on the style of illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period, the stories drawn from all manner of Arthurian texts (not just Malory's Morte D'Arthur), the period-style music and the style of songs and singing in different cutscenes. There are three different difficulty settings and i imagine that those who wish mostly to experience the artistry and the tales themselves will find a lot of enjoyment playing the easiest of the three. For myself, I chose Champion - the hardest - and i will tell you that it's difficult. If you enjoy a good strategic challenge you'll like this, as you need to be careful in how to you set your knights' positions. Usually, if an enemy or one of your units is successfully attacked they will become destabilized. This renders them less effective in attack and easier to hit. All of which is important because when performing attack, defense and other checks in combat you select from a group of five active cards with different values across four virtue types. If you have only lower value cards but your opponent is destabilized you can often use these lower cards and still score hits. sometimes, you may need to intentionally use a card that is poor, even if you are going to fail your attack check, because when you use a card a new one from your deck takes its place. Using lower value ones when there is less of a consequence for doing so can help you get higher level replacements from your deck that could mean the difference between successfully defending and getting hit hard. When and how you use your cards and how you manage your actions (you get 3 per turn) is critical in successfully winning fights. But fighting isn't all there is - the general structure of the game is that each year (beginning in 515 A.D. after the earlier tutorial sections) you, as Arthur, get to select one adventure for four knights of your choosing to embark upon. Each adventure is drawn from one or more literary source, with some adaptations and merged stories as well as fully faithful ones. These adventures have different traits recommended for the knights who will be undertaking them. In addition to choosing an adventure, you also get to assign tasks to the other knights, each of which confers different bonuses. You can also recruit new knights, ask Merlin to send you back in time to replay a given year of the game, and have solo quests for one of the knights not going on the adventure. Once these are all assigned, that year's adventure begins. The quests I've played so far typically require exploring, talking to individuals, collecting items necessary for certain characters or quest requirements, fighting various enemies and hopefully resolving the story satisfactorily. You will be given decisions about whom to trust and whom to kill or spare. Most of the quest items are fairly simple - in one, I needed to prepare a meal that would appeal to an individual I was trying to lure out so i had to find the ingredients for a savory pastry. Likewise, adventures are not typically populated with dozens of NPCs. Rather, each adventure is a sort of vignette - a short story in game form but with combat and decisions to make. When you complete quests your knights gain vocation points that help them to advance in level, as well as the possibility of opulence points, which are obtained when granting mercy to a defeated enemy knight. the more opulence points a knight has, the more money is at your disposal on adventures that knight participates in. Unlike a lot of RPGs there are no healing potions or items to clear status effects. You fight and potentially accumulate wounds, fatigue and cowardice points, some of which persist from battle to battle. The gameplay is fairly complicated from a UI and stats perspective, and it takes a while to get used to all of the different rules and mechanics. I was more or less comfortable after about 4-5 hours of play. The devs have essentially created a new RPG system (it does not use D20) of their own for the game and as such it takes a bit to get the hang of it, but fortunately the two earliest sections of the game are filled with tutorial guidance and there is a game manual easily accessible at any time within the game. If that sounds like a lot, it is, but it's well worth it for the music, the art and the sense of living out these stories. The devs have truly crafted something unique and special with this game and I really hope it does well because the work they've done deserves it.

Tactics gameplay and card meta is pretty good, The telling of the Arthurian Fables is Very good if you're into it. It is the later version of the fables written by the French sadly (Superfrenchman Lancelot etc...). They did a good job all the same.