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Sometimes great power comes with great (ir)responsibility.


<span class="bold">Sorcerer King</span>, a turn-based fantasy strategy/RPG about cancelling the Apocalypse, is available now DRM-free on GOG.com with Galaxy support and a 50% launch discount.

Becoming the King usually requires a touch of magic, either in the form of a ridiculously fabulous getup or a vast knowledge of the arcane. Lacking the pizzazz to pull off the former, the evil Sorcerer King set out to take over the world one spell at a time, absorbing its magic in a misguided attempt to become God. As the leader of one of the few defiant cities, stopping the Sorcerer is both your duty and your privilege, for butting heads with a wannabe-god has never been so fun!

Not only will you build your own army while carefully out-diplomancing your arch-enemy, but you will also make your Sovereign of choice a force to be reckoned with. Gear and level up through hundreds of delightful quests, then join forces with the rest of the desperate sovereigns — by forming alliances or by conquering their kingdoms. But while you are meticulously planning your turns, keep an eye on the Doomsday Counter: if the Sorcerer King manages to complete the spell and turn himself into a god, it will be a most unfortunate turn of events. The final turn of your turn-based adventures.


So turn the tables on the upcoming Apocalypse and smack some sense into the evil <span class="bold">Sorcerer King</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 50% launch discount will last until January 17 1:59 PM GMT.



Q&A Alert!

This Friday, January 15th at 6pm GMT (7pm CET / 1pm EST / 10am PST), we'll be hosting two guys from the Stardock team for a special Q&A event on the forums. Join Patrick Shaw(Producer) and Scott Tykoski(Mad Scientist) for a chat about all things Sorcerer King for a great start to the coming weekend!
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IAmSinistar: The Army of GOG continues its march into strategy territory. It's frankly refreshing after a comparative drought in such titles for a while.
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Fairfox: :(

I'd rather just a nice, even split. Boo, I say. Boo!
But... but... the game looks superb, doesn't it? ;D
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op2016: This game (Sorcerer King) was categorized under freeware games with the label SOON. But now you need to pay for it ... I don't understand.

The same goes for the game SERVO, that is listed there with SOON/TBA label.
Will that one be freeware or you will need to buy it?
They're not free. They're "coming soon". They don't have a game card set up yet, so they can't have a price... GOG just has them listed to let everyone know that they are coming.
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op2016: This game (Sorcerer King) was categorized under freeware games with the label SOON. But now you need to pay for it ... I don't understand.

The same goes for the game SERVO, that is listed there with SOON/TBA label.
Will that one be freeware or you will need to buy it?
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yyahoo: They're not free. They're "coming soon". They don't have a game card set up yet, so they can't have a price... GOG just has them listed to let everyone know that they are coming.
Yes, I understand that, but why are they listened under freeware games? In the past, GOG had a section for Comming soon/Upcoming games, like here, on the first page (look at image):
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Post edited January 12, 2016 by op2016
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op2016: This game (Sorcerer King) was categorized under freeware games with the label SOON. But now you need to pay for it ... I don't understand.

The same goes for the game SERVO, that is listed there with SOON/TBA label.
Will that one be freeware or you will need to buy it?
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yyahoo: They're not free. They're "coming soon". They don't have a game card set up yet, so they can't have a price... GOG just has them listed to let everyone know that they are coming.
I think you misunderstood. If you go to games search and set the settings for free games it shows Servo as free and before it showed Sorcerer Kings as free too. This is what Opeter is talking about. Its an old gog glitch there.
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Post edited January 12, 2016 by Matruchus
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HunchBluntley: It's a strategy game. Menus make up a huge part of the gameplay in a lot of strategy games. : )
Yeah exactly, in fact it pisses me off that on gamersgate you usually get only screenshots of some pointless 3D closeups which tell you exactly zero about the gameplay.
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tremere110: In Fallen Enchantress you are fighting other faction for control on more or less equal footing - think Master of Magic or Master of Orion.
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Matruchus: In Sorcerer King you are limited to one gameplay style. In every game be it random or campaign you have to destroy one enemy aka Sorcerer King while fighting to beat the doomsday clock aka Sorcerer King finishing the spell that would turn him in to a god while you also have to protect the shards Sorcerer Kings needs to destroy. The games reception in comparison to Fallen Enchantress wasn't good so the budget for dlc and other additions was scrapped. Only a few updates to the game will be made in the future.
Sounds like Fallen Enchantress is more my kind of a game then. Thanks!
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Fairfox: I'd rather just a nice, even split. Boo, I say. Boo!
It would be nice to have a more balanced selection of releases. Some of these waves of games in the same genre are due to GOG signing a new publisher. Often publishers specialise in a specific genre, ergo a lot of releases in said genre.
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Fairfox: I'd rather just a nice, even split. Boo, I say. Boo!
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IAmSinistar: It would be nice to have a more balanced selection of releases. Some of these waves of games in the same genre are due to GOG signing a new publisher. Often publishers specialise in a specific genre, ergo a lot of releases in said genre.
It kind of feels like 6 months of strategy games releases and before that it was 1 year of adventure games/platformers and rpg releases. Judas named it a genre release cycle about a year ago when I was screaming bloody murder cause of the flood of above mentioned genres and no strategies :)
This looks nice.
Something like Heroes of Might and Magic.
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IAmSinistar: It would be nice to have a more balanced selection of releases. Some of these waves of games in the same genre are due to GOG signing a new publisher. Often publishers specialise in a specific genre, ergo a lot of releases in said genre.
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Matruchus: It kind of feels like 6 months of strategy games releases and before that it was 1 year of adventure games/platformers and rpg releases. Judas named it a genre release cycle about a year ago when I was screaming bloody murder cause of the flood of above mentioned genres and no strategies :)
Yes and now I expect to see you playing those strategies as I expect you have more than a few now :P
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Matruchus: It kind of feels like 6 months of strategy games releases and before that it was 1 year of adventure games/platformers and rpg releases. Judas named it a genre release cycle about a year ago when I was screaming bloody murder cause of the flood of above mentioned genres and no strategies :)
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JudasIscariot: Yes and now I expect to see you playing those strategies as I expect you have more than a few now :P
A few, yes but hardly most of the current releases :) Now all I wan't to hear is positive confirmation for HoI IV :P
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yyahoo: They're not free. They're "coming soon". They don't have a game card set up yet, so they can't have a price... GOG just has them listed to let everyone know that they are coming.
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op2016: Yes, I understand that, but why are they listened under freeware games? In the past, GOG had a section for Comming soon/Upcoming games, like here, on the first page (look at image):
It's a long-standing GOG bug. Games with no price set yet default to a price of zero and are listed by mistake as free. They are not free and were never intended to be free.

The assumption that information presented on GOG is always correct is not supported by past experience.
Post edited January 12, 2016 by mrkgnao
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yyahoo: They're not free. They're "coming soon". They don't have a game card set up yet, so they can't have a price... GOG just has them listed to let everyone know that they are coming.
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Matruchus: I think you misunderstood. If you go to games search and set the settings for free games it shows Servo as free and before it showed Sorcerer Kings as free too. This is what Opeter is talking about. Its an old gog glitch there.
You're right. I did misunderstand. I guess I still do. Why, of all of the upcoming un-priced Stardock games, would it only affect Sorcerer Kings and Servo, but not Sins of a Solar Empire, Offworld Trading Company, and Ashes of Singularity. They are also in the system without a price listed yet...
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Matruchus: Is there anything better in Fallen Enchantress that it still costs the
Campaign campaign or randomly generated?
"As the leader of one of the few defiant cities, stopping the Sorcerer is both your duty and your privilege, for butting heads with a wannabe-god has never been so fun!"

I don't know, I think I'd rather be the evil Sorcerer King. Summon a legion of undead and demons, lay waste to a few towns, tear down some enemy castles... Sounds like a good ol' time to me. :D

Anyhow, seems like a decent HoM&M/ King's Bounty style game, but I'll wait for some reviews before considering a purchase.