The monsters you’ll be fighting against are represented by standees and small boards, with several large bags of ability tokens to pile on top. There are also several decks of cards, and a whole lot of cardboard tokens for tracking conditions and resources. The map where the game takes place is assembled semi-randomly each game from tiles, which look nice front-and-back. The City of Kings looks absolutely fantastic – you have a massive sheet for your character, where you track all their assorted different stats. The City of Kings is an open-world Co-op/solo Fantasy Adventure game for 2-4 characters, where you can play stand-alone scenarios in around an hour, or longer stories that can take up to 2 or 3. I was lucky enough to track down a retail copy and, with the game reappearing in shops recently, I wanted to offer a few thoughts on it. The City of Kings was an early 2018 release from first-time publisher/designer Frank West, a game which sold out almost immediately, prompting a re-print Kickstarter a couple of months later.
