Beschreibung
In a distant kingdom. the king's death begins a race to power among the members of the court, the coronation of the new king will be between four weeks, every member of the court is determined to win using spies and assassins to gain power and become the new king.

In the King's Death the players play a member of the king's court. Their goal is to collect more influence points of their opponents. To do this, each player has henchmen (represented by tokens) that may send to other members of the court to spy on them, bribe or kill opponents henchmen. The game play uses the secret roles and worker placement to simulate the internal struggles within the court, so bluff and intuition are fundamental.