Cutthroat Kingdom
Long Live the King. He’s a Parrot Now.
by Patrick Shearon · TR Hawthorne
An HD-2D pirate action RPG: cartoon heroes in a lit 3D world. King Redbeard took the Scattered Isles with six pirate captains, promised them a fortune and stopped paying — so somebody poisoned his cup at the royal feast. His witch’s charm cheated death by changing his shape. It picked “parrot.” You’re the adventurer who agreed to pass him off as a pet, for a price. Sail the isles, dig up the evidence and find out which captain wants the crown badly enough to kill for it. Whether you fix the king, sell him out or take the throne yourself is your business. Built in Godot 4.7.
- Pick your cutthroat: Brand the Swordsman, Shade the Rogue, Queen the Mage or Ivy the Archer. The three you don’t pick are out there working for the captains — free them and they join your crew.
- Every job has a ruthless option. Fight the camps or bribe them, expose a fraud or blackmail him. Your infamy changes prices, how people treat you and who comes hunting you at sea.
- Six isles: a strongroom heist on Barnacle Key, Greenmaw’s jungle rivers, the Sunken Reach under a whirlpool, ship battles on Gallows Water, Rimeback’s melting ice fortress and Cinderholm under siege.
- Sail it yourself — take the helm, cross the open sea, fire broadsides and refit your ship along the way.
- Real-time lighting, rain, snow, fog, raymarched fire and glowing reefs. Five possible endings.
Cutthroat Kingdom is in closed playtesting. Keys are handed out on the Discord — come ask for one, and come tell us what broke. Testers get every new build as an automatic patch through the itch.io app.
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