Knights of San Francisco

5.49K reviews
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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
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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Brett O'Donnell
July 29, 2022
This game is fun and I would recommend getting it. My only complaint is that it is too short and feel like there could be a lot more added in to make it either longer or harder. Like the whole story seems rushed and the fighting was too easy. It was made by one person though so my message to you RainDead is this: you did good with this and I think that you should invest and get some help to make more of this.
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Braden Thomas
May 8, 2022
A quick delve into the universe presented before me has left me craving more. Unfortunately, whether by crazy luck or game design, the fights were a breeze, and I wound up with more weapons and gear than I probably needed, and the final fight ended within two to three turns. That being said, KoSF has a certain uniqueness that I hope to see expanded upon by the developers moving forward. Well done, very well done.
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