Kingdom: New Lands

为童年补票，神作，不过新人入坑更推荐两位君主版本 好玩，爱玩，乐玩

It’s hard to pin down exact genre for Kingdom games - it is kinda strategy, but number of actions you can do is quite limited - it is base building cause you essentially just spread your single base to get more resource nodes and it is a tower defense, since you got waves of enemies that try to reach your king, whose death means game over and only way to defend from them is literally to build towers and walls, fill them with units and hope for the best. There is way to attack enemy spawn points - portals too, however even if you manage to destroy all of them, at least one giant waypoint remains at edge of map that would produce biggest waves. Those expeditions to reduce enemy numbers have to be very carefully planned, cause you need lots of firepower to do that objective and losing your force might mean game over. There is essentially only two resources in game - people and gold, you can get gold from several sources, main reusable one being fields of wheat that could be built at your base. People on the other hand would need to be recruited manually with your king in homeless camps, those would disappear if you spread your base to them, so you have to be careful with expansion to not lose sources of people, who respawn at those camps after some time. Everything happens from side scrolling perspective and your king is the only unit that you have direct control over and who does most of job and also your main weakness, cause he has noway of fighting back if attacked and death means game over. At same time you need to ride all over the map to explore, uncover rare points of interest, recruit homeless to join your kingdom, put locations for buildings etc. Speaking of buildings - all of them could only be placed on specific nodes or areas - towers on boulders, wheat fields on cleared big enough empty pieces of lands and so on. Main goal of each map is to find shipwreck, rebuild the vessel, crew it and get out of the island, in campaign, you have to repeat that quite few time to reach final land and ending of the game. There isn’t really much of plot at all - you’re monarch that has to save your kingdom from aggressive monsters called Greed who aim to destroy human lands. That’s all, there are no in-game cinematics or dialogs or anything. Audio consists of mostly calm tracks during your exploration and building phases with few alarming ones when waves happen and you got to fight for your life. They are decent enough, but nothing outstanding in my opinion, just good enough osts. Sounds are fine, there aren’t that many of them to be honest. Graphics are minimalistic pixels - they had a bit of modern touch to make them stylised enough to look fair for some years to come hopefully, but not whole makeover beautification of old school ways, just a nice touch up.

I recommend it. It’s not Songs of Conquest when it comes to new pixel art game and it’s definitely not Contra or Mario but it’s a game worth having and spending at least a few hours on. It’s relaxing and pleasant, sometimes in a way that really draws you in and gives you a little adrenaline boost. What I really like is how easy and intuitive it is to understand, kind of like assembling furniture: there is probably a manual somewhere, but who cares. Protip: it goes perfectly with your own soundtrack: try Fever FM from GTA or YouTube mixes like “It’s summer 1985/1986/1987/1988 and you are driving in Miami" It fits perfectly

Fix the stupid suicidal AI

村民AI傻的想骂娘，弩手射的不知方向 纯纯的高血压游戏，几次过关都是碰见弓箭手雕像，提升了射箭的准确性 综上，除非你想挑战一下高难度，观赏怪物森林里村民临危不乱的步伐，否则不如体验最新的王国：两位君主

The original Kingdom is very fun. This one is just dull. Lot's of waiting around for things to happen. Tedious and boring more than exciting or challenging. Achievements are also bugged on save and continue so you will get them even when you shouldn't. Regret buying,

fun lil indie game to play for couple hours a day some stupid moments though that are slighty rage inducing 9/10