A List Games, a community-first publisher, and Finnish developer Vaki Games, today announced that Kingshunt, a dark fantasy, third-person 5v5 arena brawler has entered into Early Access as a free-to-play experience on Steam.
Kingshunt blends real-time melee and magic combat with strategic tower and minion summoning. Beginning with fifteen Summoners to choose from, players will be able to use the melee, ranged, or utility characters that suit their playstyles. Each game consists of two teams of five seeking to conquer the other by controlling strategic locations and/or destroying the enemy base. The initial game mode, “Conquest”, is a unique blend of lanes, towers, and minions (similar to MOBA games) and capture and hold points (similar to Domination games).
After Epic Games chose to make assets available from their hit title Paragon, Vaki Games leveraged this amazing opportunity to jump-start a new approach to the MOBA genre. Kingshunt is not a remake of Paragon but a fresh new take on competitive multiplayer team games. The assets from Epic Games were instrumental in the initial formatting of the Kingshunt experience. Last year, Kingshunt took home two awards at the WN Unreal Dev Contest for its incredible attention to detail and graphics.
