King Arthur's Gold

King Arthur's Gold (abbreviated and referred to as KAG) is a game about mining resources, building castles and destroying the player's enemies. It is a side-scrolling 2D pixlated action online multiplayer and offline singleplayer war game with a focus on building by gathering resources, buying and unleashing siege machines, and PvP-combat. There are three playable classes: Knight, Archer, and Builder. Each class has their own role in KAG and work together to defeat the enemy team. Knights excel at close range combat and demolition using bombs and explosive kegs, as they are referred to as. Archers have superior mobility and a selection of specialized arrows (fire arrows which burn wood and enemies, water arrows that have a glass vial of water of an unknown origin attached to the end that explodes and stuns enemies, and the pricey bomb arrows that explode on impact), along with a grappling hook that can be used for parkouring and scaling walls. Builders erect fortifications (block by block), build multiple blocks spanning "shops" (mainly as structures to buy items), construct lay traps and initiate escalades.

Some inspirations for the game are Soldat, Minecraft, Dungeon Keeper, Ace of Spades, and King Arthur's World. In KAG, two teams (by default red and blue, though by typing cheat commands in chat other teams of other colors, such as grey, magenta, and green, can be accessed and played) struggle to dominate the other on giant randomly generated or custom-made 2D "maps." [2] Currently, there are five online multiplayer modes: CTF (Capture the Flag - capture all enemy flags while not letting the enemy capture yours by bringing it back to their flag, and vice versa), TDM (Team Death Match - play as either an Archer or Knight in a 2-minute skirmish, where each participant has 1 life), THH (Take the Halls - capture all the halls to win), and the two neglected Sandbox (a free range mode with no objective) and Challenge (an assortment of different minute-spanning challenges, such as kill all enemies, or make it to the end of a map, where at the end of the match a leaderboard is shown along with the best score recorded on that server). In singleplayer, solitaire Challenges (albeit stylized as Challenges! and Sandbox, along with a basic Tutorials section (Basics, Capture the Flag, and Take the Halls) and the short Save the Princess campaign, where the player fights against a purple-clothed necromancer named Sedgwick.

The game has extensive modding support. Whole game logic is written in AngelScript and can be easily modified by anyone. Numerous mods have been created, adding new classes, items, and game modes. Total conversion mods also exist, e.g. Shiprekt where players build ships from blocks in a top-down view arena. Players can also create their own custom heads (the only point of customization) and use them along with the official built-in ones (which are mostly human, but a brown pop-eyed horse and zombie one can be found), as long as the modded server supports and recognize it. A few heads are recognized by modded, unofficial, and official games (multiplayer and singleplayer), but those are specially-earned, usually by being part of the development team of King Arthur's Gold. Heads are merely cosmetic, changing nothing, not even the hitbox where damage can be dealt.

The team of THD started working on KAG (King Arthur's Gold) at April 18, 2011,[3] the first alpha version was released only 3 days later. The public beta was released silently on 1 May 2013.[4] The real release of the game was on 5 November 2013.[5] KAG is still under active development as of early 2019, the main focus is on bugfixing, adding minor content (now mainly done by voluenteers), and supporting the community to develop content itself (make mods for the game).[6]

The game has very positive (83%) reviews on Steam[5] and received an aggregated score of 81% at Metacritic.[7] As of November 2016 the game has sold over 200 000 copies.[8] Critics praised its fast-paced battles and light-hearted approach to medieval combat, while criticizing bugs and poor single player.[9]

• Official website
• King Arthur's Gold at MobyGames