For The King 2: How To Revive Characters

For The King 2 can be a brutally unforgiving experience, especially when you’re just starting out. Rushing into battle without knowing what you’re walking into can be a recipe for disaster and often results in untimely deaths.

Luckily, there are ways to revive characters who have died in battle, albeit limited. Just like the original, there are three main ways players can hit a reset button. Here is the breakdown.

Reviving Using Hearts

Before starting your adventure in a new campaign, you’ll be asked to select the difficulty and choose your loadout. One of the aspects that needs to be decided at this point is the number of hearts you start with, indicated by the setting “Life Pool.” Hearts are essentially free lives that can revive a dead party member.

Selecting difficulty tiers automatically adjusts how many hearts you have at the start of a campaign. Apprentice defaults to 6 hearts, Journeyman to 4, and Master to 0. You can customize the number of hearts you start out with at any difficulty. The most you can get at the loadout screen is 10 hearts. Don’t be afraid to give yourself more hearts if you’re having trouble beating the game, especially before unlocking better starting gear at the Lore Store.

In Combat

If one of your characters dies during combat for any reason, you can revive them by performing the bonus action: Revive Ally using any of your other characters. If all characters die, that run ends. Reviving an ally consumers one turn.

In The Overworld

If one of your characters dies in combat and you don’t revive them there, you’ll get another chance to revive them after you leave combat. Bring one of your existing characters to the hex with the dead one. This will consume one heart.

A dead character can be identified as a tombstone on a particular hex. You can find them by clicking on their character portrait in the bottom right.

Reviving Using Sanctums

Sanctums are large structures spread across the map that provide incredibly useful buffs to characters who trigger them. Getting a Sanctum buff on a character means that whenever that character falls in battle, they will revive right then and there without prompting. However, in doing so, they will also lose all buffs they gained from the Sanctum, effectively weakening them until they find another Sanctum. Free revive from a sanctum cannot be transferred to another character.

Reviving Using XP

If you’re playing co-op and one of your characters dies, you can expend XP to revive them in a nearby town. The XP cost rises with time, and only the player whose character dies is the one who can choose to make that decision. Of course, you can also choose to revive them in any of the other methods mentioned above as well.