Osprey Games | The King is Dead: 2nd Edition | Board Game | Ages 14+ | 2-4 Players | 30-45 Minutes Playing Time: Second Edition

Easier than it looks, but with enough strategy to keep adults, adolescents and teenagers entertained. Personally we love the box and beautiful packaging. We also love the fact that instability leads to a French invasion!

Great game at a great price. Really dont know what people are chatting about when they take issue with the box and the insert. All the cards fit into the insert just fine. If you sleeve them, just turn the sub-insert from the card well upside-down and they still fit perfectly. All the other pieces fit neatly into the drawstring bag, which has its own well in the insert. The box is just a nice size. Really don't know what people were expecting. I recommend checking out Ricky Royal's solo mode for this, at boxofdelights.net, and his videos on the same over on YouTube. His channel is 'box of delights'.

Had a great time with this at Christmas. Took a while to understand but it was fun!

This is an excellent game for any number of players. It's relatively easy to learn, but it has depth for more experienced players. The artwork is beautiful, but the size of the box itself is crazy. The box could have been 50% to 75% smaller given the items that need to fit in there. It's very inefficient. Also, now you need to store this huge box.

Once you’ve got your head around the rules, it’s a great game.

A fun game, can play 2-4 times in a session before it gets repetitive, I will get it our occasionally The physical board was very low quality, they could have done better with that. You have to use paperweights to get it to stay flat

A well-made product, but quite expensive for what is in the box. Not a particularly interesting or exciting game, sadly.

This is a super fun board game, one game takes about half an hour, easy to learn and fun to play in 3 people. Shipping was fast, no problem

The King is Dead is possibly my favorite board game of all time. It has a tight, minimalist approach to the mechanic of area control, that engages both veterans and newbies - veterans because the game is highly strategic and almost free of all randomness, and newbies because it's very quick and easy to teach and play. The change in art style is overall good, and goes out of its way to look like it actually belongs in the Arthurian time period, which I love. That said, the boardstate is less readable in this version than the original, as it's a little loud and bright, instead of muted and dull, like it used to be. I appreciate the attempt at spicing the colors up, and it is good, but it didn't turn out perfectly. This version has replaced the Mordred variant with the Cunning variant, to convince people who already have the game to buy it again for new content. I did, so it worked. That said, I think Mordred is by far the better variant. It gave players the opportunity to end the game early but use normal scoring conditions regardless, resulting in long term planning becoming dangerous unless you're also willing to police Mordred's followers to avoid that endstate. Meanwhile, it gave players who feel like they're losing momentum an opportunity to end things before the other players progress past them. This variant worked because it took the existing puzzle and gave it an extra layer of complexity for everyone to interact with. This new Cunning variant involves an element of significant randomness being added to the game, which is a weird idea in a game that's all about razor sharp balance, and kind of goes against the spirit of it all. Also, since each player gets their own special, different cards in this variant, all with different rules, that's more things to remember, in a game that values simplicity and being easy to teach. I technically have no problems with Cunning existing, since I'm just glad people get to enjoy the game in one more way, but the fact that they took Mordred out to replace it with this is sad. Finally, the box. The box is far, far larger than it needed to be. This was already a little bit of a problem with the original, which had very few components but kiiiinda arguably needed the space for the map, and even then, made the box very shallow to make sure they weren't using too much vertical space as well. The old box also folded open like a book, and had a cute little molded plastic insert, both of which were nice touches. This box, in comparison, opens regularly, has much more vertical height that goes entirely unused, and has a mediocre cheap paper insert. This is honestly my biggest disappointment - this is a really small game when you aren't counting anything other than the actual pieces, and in this remake, they made the unnecessary space even bigger! What a waste. Overall, though, even with the oversized box and lack of Mordred, this game is still a 10/10. It would be if it were printed on a cereal box, the game is that good, but that's not giving this printing enough credit - it's good in its own right, as it adds new art and new content, and generally helps add a second viewpoint to something I love. I definitely recommend buying it. Or the original, if you can find it. Both are good.

Very sharp, interesting, and quick-playing game. Recommended for fans of cube rails and games with shared incentives.

Easy to learn yet complex in strategy. Recommended for anybody who likes strategy games. Thus second edition has beautiful art and the components are good too.

Alles was prima in orde