{"id":1158523,"date":"2026-02-09T20:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/94LWcKdVdX8hj3KjeSsztm"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:46:25","slug":"a-new-game-of-thrones-rpg-is-coming-to-steam-today-with-a-cast-of-familiar-faces-which-is-good-because-its-really-the-only-way-to-tell-its-a-got-game-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/a-new-game-of-thrones-rpg-is-coming-to-steam-today-with-a-cast-of-familiar-faces-which-is-good-because-its-really-the-only-way-to-tell-its-a-got-game-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Game of Thrones RPG is coming to Steam today with a cast of ‘familiar faces,’ which is good because it’s really the only way to tell it’s a GoT game at all"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I didn’t watch HBO’s Game of Thrones series\u2014I get my fill of political intrigue and badly-behaved dimwits from the real world, thanks\u2014and so when the whole thing fizzled out like a wet tissue tossed into a burn pit, it was a bit of a non-event for me: I was mostly just surprised at how quickly the once-reverent fanbase turned on the whole thing.<\/p>\n

But maybe hunger for the continuing (or, I suppose, repeated) adventures of Jon Snow, Peter Dinklage, and the huge dude with the face (look, I told you I didn’t watch it) persists, because a new game based on the series called Game of Thrones: Kingsroad<\/a> is set to launch into early access today on Steam.<\/p>\n

(Game of Thrones: Kingsroad was supposed to be out now, in fact, but some last-minute issues<\/a> have pushed the release to a currently-estimated 1 pm PT\/4 pm ET.)<\/p>\n

You can tell GoT: Kingsroad is based on the HBO series and not George RR Martin’s still-incomplete series of fantasy novels because the trailer is filled with familiar faces, and in fact it states explicitly that players will “encounter familiar faces”: There’s Cersei, there’s Jaime, there’s Roose (who I briefly thought was Bronn), and of course Jon Snow puts in an appearance too.<\/p>\n

The gang’s all here, as they say, which is good because the inclusion of those faces is pretty much the only way to tell this is a Game of Thrones game. It otherwise looks like a pretty generic fantasy RPG: Verdant landscapes, towering castles, and big monsters abound, and the number of hulking dudes with big axes makes it seem more like a mobile Skyrim knock-off than anything else.<\/p>\n

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