

With time of the essence, Hamish McYourAvatar must gather together a band of mercenaries in order to defend the kingdom.

If nothing else, we learn that it’s a wise man who goes around impregnating women across the country – you never know when that valuable resource might need to be tapped later down the line.

Instead of telling his royal highness to cough up for a load of missed Christmas and birthday presents and pointing out all those missed primary school nativity plays, the newly-royal bastard snatches up a sword and rushes to the kings’ aid. Fortunately for everyone, the old king liked to put it about a bit during his younger days and has sired a butt-load of illegitimate offspring that he can now appear to in a dream and cry to for help. The evil duke threatens to usurp the throne and conquer the kingdom for himself and all looks hopeless. With that in mind, let’s take a gander at RPG-lite, Rogue-like, turn-based, RNG-focused fantasy battle game, Crowntakers. It does naturally lead to arguments about what exactly constitutes an RPG, an FPS or a Katamari-esque open world collect ’em up, but for the most part this serves a useful function for everyone. Genre defining is a laugh, isn’t it? In order to give readers a quick overview of what a game is, we’ve developed a shorthand to explain the mechanics in a quick and broadly reliable manner.
