
Those enemies won’t just be men in plate armour. You can also use traps and lures, as well as tactical use of cover and terrain, to put the enemy at a disadvantage. The heroes you can recruit are assigned one of five different classes - including fighters and magic casters - and are able to make use of “hundreds” of skills and artefacts. Sir Mordred and his knights will act as your troops in the XCOM-style turn-based tactical battles, which take place on battlefields that have been rendered using photoscanned environments and a physics-based rendering engine.

Neocore notes that the game has roguelite elements, but told IGN that constant replays of the campaign are not necessarily part of that, and so it seems like permadeath characters may be where those elements come into play.

Each of the 30 knights has a “traditional” RPG progression system, and can be permanently killed if they succumb to disease, curses, or straight-up battle wounds. Play The band of knights he travels with is, naturally, Neocore’s dark reimagining of The Round Table.
