Realm of the Ghost King

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• Press Coverage·11 Jun 2020

  Realm Of The Ghost King: the good roguelike

  You could fill a stadium with games that deserve a bigger audience. This marks the third time I’ve written about Realm Of The Ghost King (including calling it one of the best unknown games of 2018, out of thousands). It’s now part of the Itch Bundle For Racial Justice And Equality, and I hope it finally catches on. It is terrific. Even though it’s a roguelike. You are a ghostie. You want a shot at the king, and standing in between him and you is a legion of monsters. But you have bombs. Oh, that age-old tale. (more…)
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• Patch Notes·10 Jan 2019Official

  GOTY Update: 1.2.2

  A quick update to the game: Damage taken was not properly tracked (as in not tracked at all) when playing as Swamp or Marsh. This is fixed now! Sadly all the damage you've taken as them in the past is gone forever.Similarly, damage taken in general was off by one for all characters. This is because no stats are tracked after you die aside from "Deaths", so the last damage you took just wasn't counted since the stat was counted after you died. That bug has been in place since the game launched, so that's neat. Fixed now, finally! Also next week is Realm of the Ghost King's first birthday. Hooray!
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• Patch Notes·3 Jan 2019Official

  Realm of the Ghost King Game of the Year Edition, Out Now!

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31457465/165f88b94953136c44eb3a5bc75c9789506cd280.png Also known as 1.2.0, since winning a prestigious GOTY award I've put together a Game Of The Year Edition, as is tradition in gaming. 1.2.0 adds two new gameplay modes: Tourism and Endless. Tourism allows you to just play through the game without any enemies and Endless is played on a single map where you try for a high score. Both modes were fun to add and are hopefully enjoyable to play as well! The game should update on Steam and itch (via the itch app) when you start the launchers. The game will also run in "Game Of The Year" mode for the month of January, which is entirely cosmetic, displaying a fancy GOTY logo on the title screen (pictured above). You can also play as GhOsTY, who is exactly Ghost except purple (the official GOTY color). If you play the Steam version you can unlock an achievement by beating the game with GhOsTY! I hope you enjoy and have a happy New Year! Here's the full list of changes: NEW FEATURES GOTY Mode, which is active during the month of January The logo in the menus makes note that it's Game Of The Year Play as GhOsTY, a purple version of Ghost, who replaces Ghost for the month of January GhOsTY is just Ghost, except purple NEW GAME MODE: Endless Mode Play on a single, randomized map with an infinite amount of enemies spawning Spawn rates (frequency and amount) increase over time until it's basically impossible You also have infinite bombs and killing an enemy automatically grants you a soul without the need to collect it New stats for best score, kills, and a couple more tracked specifically for Endless Mode Nothing to unlock, just play! NEW GAME MODE: Be A Tourist It's the normal game except no enemies (including bosses) You can explore or figure stuff out or whatever else you want You can still totally kill yourself with bombs if you want Also no achievements or stats count here (just like the tutorial) Steam Vers...
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• Press Coverage·21 Dec 2018

  The best of Unknown Pleasures 2018

  The end of the bizarre and troubling year 2018 is close, and with it comes a time of reflection. I hope you’re enjoying the RPS Advent Calendar, but even that cannot hope to contain the bounty this year provided. When I joined Unknown Pleasures a year ago, I was a little fatigued with games. There were both too many to see and none that were grabbing me. This isn’t the critic speaking – I’d written only one article in a year – but the player. 2016-17 were by no means bad years for the PC, but despite all the industry drama (not to mention wider sociopolitical troubles) I think this is the best year we’ve had for PC games for absolutely ages. The games are out there. The weird, the funny, the clever, the silly, the exciting, the touching, the unambitious-but-plain-good games are positively sloshing about the place. But which ones were the best? So here it is: the pick of picks. A selection of the very best, weirdest, most original, and plain fun Unknown Pleasures of 2018. (more…)
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• Announcements·22 Oct 2018Official

  A Sale! And Presenting: Pumpkin Nights

  Realm of the Ghost King is now on sale for 40% off! It will be on sale at this discount for the rest of October and probably for a day in November. It's a game with ghosts and monsters, so it's certainly a good October type of game in that regard. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31457465/d0ef09164570db5887c8d31f477c0d6173bf8213.png If you need more enticing, I added something strange and weird to the game as well. If you play it at night (specifically after 7pm) for the last ten days of October you'll get a slightly modified version of the game with more pumpkins than the original. The main change is all the Spirit Bombs have been changed from skulls to pumpkins, which is kind of weird but silly. The second change is, if you manage to make it to the Ghost King he will be a pumpkin instead of a ghost. I don't know why I did this, but it's there. The changes to both the bombs and King are purely aesthetic, so everything otherwise works exactly the same. I know I said I probably wouldn't be doing more updates, but it just seemed too fun and weird not to do this. Other games have more in-depth Halloween updates, but have they ever replaced the titular character with a pumpkin? I doubt it!
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