Knights of San Francisco

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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.
A short adventure of swords & sorcery in the ancient city of San Francisco.
Updated on
Aug 8, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

5.32K reviews
Chris Male
May 20, 2022
Well written and engrossing, combat flowed well and had multiple action choices, i enjoyed it thoroughly. my only complaints would be that it was very short (all areas visited and revisited at least once) and I would have liked a bit of character progression. I could have happily played for hours longer. Hope to see more of the same from the developer!
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Eóghan Macmillan
May 9, 2022
This was a fascinating wee game, and I really enjoyed it. Above all else, it had an excellent sense of atmosphere about it. If I had one criticism to give, though, it would be that the mechanics aren't particularly clear, and they can be a bit clunky at times - things like not being able to change weapons outwith combat, or for that matter knowing what weapons are better than others. All told, though, that's a minor complaint. Definitely worth a go, this one.
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Andrew Broadfoot
July 10, 2023
The setting was fun to explore. It felt like your character played more as a warrior than anything during combat. The story was ok, but quite short. Items and combat mechanics almost felt like an afterthought, I had a ludicrous collection of weapons but no idea if one was better than another. Overall fun but kind of shallow.
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