God-King revolves around a land once ruled by the eponymous God-King. After a natural disaster splits the land in two, and the easterners and westerners begin to quarrel for the God-King’s favor, he vanishes, and with him his divine blessings. The player characters are a group of foreign people, with their own conflicts and culture, who set out to find the mystical land of Otugari, against the orders of their war-torn Empire. The game supports three to five players and each has one role, from five provided roles. Rather than dice, the game uses a deck of standard playing cards.