King Of The Castle never explicitly instructs you to read its dialogue aloud, but this makes for a more sociable experience – and some dodgy accent work from those players responsible for voicing the Chiefs Of The North
T here’s an old piece of wisdom among videogame critics which holds that games played with your friends are always the trickiest to review. It’s difficult, the thinking goes, to separate the quality of the game itself from the company with whom you share it. Of this, King Of The Castle might be the ultimate example. A rules-light game of negotiation and group storytelling, its finest pleasures don’t live on the screen but over voice comms or across the sofa.