‘King of Dragon Pass’ Spiritual Successor ‘Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind’ Coming June 28th - Videogames Blogs

‘King of Dragon Pass’ Spiritual Successor ‘Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind’ Coming June 28th



If the title of this post alone doesn’t mean much to you, then gather ’round the campfire children and settle in for some story time. King of Dragon Pass is an incredibly unique role-playing game developed by A Sharp and originally released on desktop way back in 1999. I say it’s unique because, as our own Eli Hodapp described it in his review of the iOS version back in 2011, King of Dragon Pass is “a largely text-based menu-driven mash up of a Civilization game and a Choose Your Own Adventure book." There are no flashy graphics here, unless you consider static illustrations flashy, and playing the game will involve more reading than most games we’re used to. This is a special beast, friends, but one that will reward you with its depth should you decide to delve deep into its mechanics. As mentioned it made its way to iOS back in September of 2011, and beyond our review you can also get loads of information about King of Dragon Pass from Shaun’s excellent RPG Reload on the game. So a fairly obscure PC game finds new life and a new audience more than a decade later on mobile platforms, and in fact for being such a niche type of game King of Dragon Pass did really well on mobile selling more than 30,000 copies in the year and a half following its mobile release. Not too shabby for a game that sells for ten bucks. In the fall of 2014, A Sharp announced that they were working on a spiritual successor to King of Dragon Pass called Six Age...
Source: Touch Arcade
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