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Step onto a new frontier and fight in the daunting Frozen Expanse with a 20% discount at launch.

Press release:
London, Tuesday 19h April 2018 – Multi-award winning publisher Curve Digital, is pleased to announce that IronOak Games’ rogue-like RPG adventure for “For the King” has left it’s early access program via Steam. So that means that you could now enjoy the full game for PC, and not only that. A new adventure into the Frozen Expanse will be available as a FREE update to all players as well.

Mixing up a challenging blend of strategy, tabletop RPG, and rogue-like elements, For The King features both a single player experience as well as the ability for three heroes to play cooperatively both online and locally. Taking place in the gorgeous, hexagonal kingdom of Fahrul, players must strategically explore and battle their way through the fairytale, stylized landscape in a bid to discover and survive, lest they succumb to death.

The game’s short run in Early Access allowed for new features to be tested, balanced and tweaked following suggestions from the community. As a result, IronOak Games have added a horde of new features including a Dungeon Crawl Mode, Discord integration, a whole host of multiplayer functionality and, of course, vital enemy and economy balancing. The full list of updates can be found via the game’s Steam page.

The exit from Early Access will be accompanied by an extensive free update which adds an all new adventure into the daunting Frozen Expanse. This includes three entirely new realms: The Shivering Woods, Frozen Expanse and the Frigid Sea. Along with these new realms comes two vast new dungeons, a brand-new playable character to unlock and plenty of fiendish traps. Plus over 20 new enemies and encounters, two new Scourges and a wealth of new weapons, armour and loot. For completionists,10 new steam achievements are up for grabs.

For the King will be priced at $19.99 / £15.49 / 19,99€ with a 20% launch week discount, when it leaves Steam Early Access on April 19th. PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch versions of the game are slated for release in early 2019.

About IronOak Games
Founded in 2015, IronOak Games is an independent video game developer based in Vancouver, BC. The team consists of AAA game industry veterans, who previously worked on such titles such as Dead Rising 2, Sleeping Dogs, Turok and Need for Speed. Influenced by old school RPGS, For The King is the studio’s first foray into building a roguelike fantasy RPG based off the Black Gate board game, designed and created by Colby Young, Game Designer for IronOak Games. For more information, please visit http://www.ironoakgames.com .

About Curve Digital
Curve Digital is one of the world’s leading publishers of games on PC and consoles. Since 2013, the company has been working with some of the world’s best game developers to help bring their games – from indie hits like Dear Esther to the likes of the million-selling Human: Fall Flat – to the broadest possible audiences all over the world. In July 2017 Curve Digital was recognized by the celebrated Develop Industry Excellence Awards as ‘Publishing Hero’ and recently ‘Indie Games Publisher of the Year’ at the 2018 MCV Awards.