Knights of San Francisco

4.7
5.44K reviews
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Everyone 10+
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About this game

Things to know before you buy:

* This is a short game: about 90 minutes.
* The background music is anything but medieval. This is by design.
* It’s all a bit weird.

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Explore what remains of the ancient city of San Francisco and experience dynamic combat in this RPG text game.

What if goblins, ogres, and dragons weren't imagined? What if our ancestors were, unwittingly, foretelling the future? Find yourself in that future, centuries from now, among the ruins of what was once the 21st century – where these terrifying creatures roam freely…

Heavily inspired by modern tabletop RPGs like Dungeon World, this game puts you in the shoes of a young necromancer on a quest. Battle monsters, raise the dead, and explore what remains of the ancient city of San Francisco.

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Features:

* Dynamic Combat: Simulated to the level of individual body parts. Cleave off someone’s leg, take it, and bash it over their head! A Natural Language Generation system explains what's happening to you in plain English.

* Make Your Choices with Caution: Every action has consequences! Make a mistake in battle and you could lose recruits in your party.

* A Living, Breathing World: Lots of the text isn't pre-written, but generated. The world continues on without you.

* Quick Gameplay: Hop right into the fray! Experience automatic saving and no loading screens.

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This game is a labor of love of a single writer-programmer, Filip Hracek, and a single illustrator, Alec Webb. It is relatively short, and can be finished in about 90 minutes.

The gameplay is closer to tabletop role playing games than to traditional computer RPGs. Instead of presenting you with numbers and graphics, the game tells you what's happening, the same way a dungeon master would. Things are still meticulously tracked in the background, but there are no big tables to look at or tactical maps to read.
Updated on
Aug 8, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.7
5.26K reviews
Nicole W. (Your Spooky Aunt)
March 12, 2023
While the artwork and imaginative story are beautiful, this game falls a bit short. First off, the game run itself is very short. Replay value is there, but not much. Secondly is the input commands sometime cause the game to lag out, or crash. That being said, the creative aspects are lovely, and it's worth al $3 I spent.
15 people found this review helpful
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Corey Regan
March 8, 2024
Stylistic and succinct. For fans of Morkborg or other grim dark ttrpgs. Only giving 4 stars because there is an issue with the map which can make the game almost unplayable starting out unless you happen to figure it out (if you are scrolled down on the map, you can't see the button to go to places when you click on them at the bottom of the tower. Just scroll the map itself a bit and it should work for you, but still)
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Jason Kinder
May 2, 2022
It's good. Great descriptive writing and integrating objects from one encounter to the next. As a story, there's very little character development. You are thrown right into the mix of things roughly, and many encounters involve a similar experience. I don't like the limitations of a 5 star review system, but I can't give it a "perfect" rating. It's short, there's not much replayability, and compared to other $3 games, it's lacking in overall substance. It's not bad, but it's not great either.
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