King's Heir: Rise to the Throne (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

King's Heir: Rise to the Throne

The clash for the crown is coming! Two royal knights, Edmund and Randall Ulmer, are tricked into a conspiracy against the crown.

31 May 2018

What King's Heir: Rise to the Throne is

King's Heir: Rise to the Throne is an adventure game developed by Artifex Mundi and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Spark Casual Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Many years ago, the prince of Griffinvale fell in love with a poor girl and – against his father’s wishes – married her. The king, unable to reconcile himself with the hopeless union, sent his son on a crusade and, in his absence, drove his young wife out of the castle. The king had counted on the fact that the prince would eventually forget about her, but his plans were ruined when his heir died in battle, and the prince’s beloved wife gave birth to a child and died in confinement. After the death of his son, the king sank into mourning, and the future of the royal line was thrown into uncertainty. The royal court was overrun with ambitions and conspiracies, from which a group of people…

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How it plays

Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

King's Heir: Rise to the Throne launched on 31 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.

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