King Arthur: Knight's Tale

King Arthur: Knights Tale mixes an XCOM-style turn-based battle system with traditional RPG mechanics, including character development, choices that impact the direction of your campaign, and upgrading your…

88 26 April 2022

Role-playing (RPG) Strategy Turn-based strategy (TBS) Fantasy Historical

King Arthur: Knight's Tale is a role-playing (rpg) developed by NeocoreGames, released 26 April 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 1 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What King Arthur: Knight's Tale is

King Arthur: Knight's Tale is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by NeocoreGames and released in 2022. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Coretech 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You are Sir Mordred, the nemesis of King Arthur, the former black knight of the grim tales. You killed King Arthur, but with his dying breath, he struck you down. You both died – and yet, you both live. The Lady of the Lake, the ruler of the mystical island of Avalon brought you back to end a true nightmare. She wants you to go on a knightly quest. She wants you to finish what you have begun. Kill King Arthur – or whatever he has become after she took his dying vessel to Avalon.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

King Arthur: Knight's Tale holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 89% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What it launched against

King Arthur: Knight's Tale launched on 26 April 2022, within three weeks of The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe and Rogue Legacy 2. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, Rogue Legacy 2.

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