Kingdom Two Crowns

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7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 40 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 10 out of 40
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  1. javo01
    Dec 16, 2018
    10
    Kingdom Two Crowns in a nutshell: minimalistic 2-player kingdom development/exploration/survival game with beautiful music and graphics that will keep you hooked playing for many many hours.

    In this game you can become a monarch and build a kingdom up from its ruins. The controls are very simple: you can trot/gallop with your horse left and right, and you can drop coins/gems to interact    Kingdom Two Crowns in a nutshell: minimalistic 2-player kingdom development/exploration/survival game with beautiful music and graphics that will keep you hooked playing for many many hours.

    In this game you can become a monarch and build a kingdom up from its ruins. The controls are very simple: you can trot/gallop with your horse left and right, and you can drop coins/gems to interact with the world. For example, turning a beggar into a peasant requires you to give him a gold coin. Cutting a tree requires allocating a gold coin on it, and so on. You can upgrade your camp and buy weapons/tools for your peasants to have jobs. You cannot control your followers, they will do as they think best to accomplish the tasks you request (via investing gold coins on stuff), and sometimes they'll be dumb and not do exactly what you want, but I guess that's just a bit of realism right there. There is no undo button (or any buttons for that matter), so you must be strategic and think carefully before you build stuff around.

    Yes, the game is very similar to the previous version(s), Kingdom New Lands. But when something is working amazingly, why fix it? Same graphics, mostly same sounds, new music and objects in the world, more upgrades, a new variant (Shogun kingdom - mostly skin, but also some character roles) and a new playstyle, but above all, the most wonderful addition to the game is the capability for 2 players to rule the kingdom with a split screen! Now my wife and I don't have to take turns, we just play together and that is as awesome as anything can get.

    I am impressed by how smoothly the game runs on split screen. There are slight frame rate drops when you build really large armies, just as there were in the previous version of the game, but this hasn't hindered play for us at all.

    There are also a couple of bugs as I could expect from any recent release. The most notable one is the "hermit bug", where some key characters will wander off the camp when they shouldn't, or simply disappear right in front of your eyes. That can be frustrating, but we've only experienced it once, then read that others experienced it too. I'm assuming devs are aware of this and will fix this in a future update.

    I'm not saying anything else as to not spoil the fun of the game. If you haven't played this game and it piques your curiosity, I'd advice you to give it a shot and not look for much information online; figuring out what things do on your own will is so much more fun than reading about it on a wiki. That's how we've been exploring the new objects in the game and we've been having a blast. I'm sure most of you would, too.    … Expand
  2. SSCheetah
    Dec 31, 2018
    4
    It's not an awful game, but honestly it just isn't very fun. The pace is infuriatingly slow (it takes forever just for you to move around) and you spend the majority of your time just waiting for money to come in so you can actually do something. Or you wait forever for things to build. It's like Clash of Clans or something.

    Many elements of the game are extremely frustrating. For    It's not an awful game, but honestly it just isn't very fun. The pace is infuriatingly slow (it takes forever just for you to move around) and you spend the majority of your time just waiting for money to come in so you can actually do something. Or you wait forever for things to build. It's like Clash of Clans or something.

    Many elements of the game are extremely frustrating. For example, once you build a guard tower or a ship, your archers are stuck inside that for the rest of the game, so too bad if you need them to defend your borders from enemy attacks later. The game also does next to nothing to explain to you what everything does. Some things are self-explanatory or can be inferred, but not everything. I spent a gem to unlock this hermit girl who was immediately attacked and kidnapped. Would've been good if the game could let me know spending that gem would release a kidnappable human BEFORE I wasted it. Learning the hard way is great IRL but this is a GAME, isn't it supposed to be fun? The pace gets even slower as you get close to conquering an island as people seem to stop spawning entirely, making it impossible to continue doing anything, especially if you have died and respawned with few workers already, basically breaking your game. (Unless I've missed something, once you expand past the spawn points for recruits, you can't get any more so if you have no builders at that point you can never build again.) It's a catch 22 because you need to expand out to win, but expanding out eliminates the resources you need to be able to win.

    Incredibly frustrating that this game feels so broken in its mechanics and there are so many ways you can get yourself in a situation where it's impossible to progress, or you spend 90% of your time waiting around for something to happen.

    Graphics are also quite lacking in my opinion. I grow very weary of this modern fad for everything to look like a SNES game. It's 2018 for goodness sake, can't developers make games that actually look nice?

    Finally, it's still early days for this game, but there are few bugs and glitches so even if you're interested might be worth waiting until the patch comes out in early 2019.

    I got sucked into buying this by all the extremely positive reviews here on Metacritic so I guess this review is a counterpoint to that. I'm sure it's great for some people but if you don't like slow-paced, frustrating strategy games that feel like mobile base-building games but with worse graphics, don't buy this. I feel like it has the potential to be something awesome (the fundamental concepts of resource management, defense and expansion, and simplicity of it are great) but somehow it just does't actually work together into a satisfying experience due to how easy it is for your progress to be blocked.    … Expand
  3. nortoons
    May 1, 2020
    9
    This is one of my favorite games on the Switch, though I concede that it's not going to be everybody's kind of game. Strategy games don't get much simpler than this, yet I've found myself pouring dozens of hours into both the classic and Shogun campaigns. Perhaps it's because of this simplicity that the game has such long legs. There is a certain satisfaction to beating back the hordes ofThis is one of my favorite games on the Switch, though I concede that it's not going to be everybody's kind of game. Strategy games don't get much simpler than this, yet I've found myself pouring dozens of hours into both the classic and Shogun campaigns. Perhaps it's because of this simplicity that the game has such long legs. There is a certain satisfaction to beating back the hordes of greed each night while methodically pushing your kingdom's borders a bit further each day.

    If I had any complaints, it's that the Skull Island and other individual campaigns are painfully difficult, while I find the main game more zen and relaxing. However, they at least give you something else to do. I also really prefer riding the gryphon over every other mount, so I guess I wish there was more of an incentive to use other mounts, but that's no big deal. I found the controls and gameplay to be easy to learn and never clunky or frustrating. Everything generally makes sense, though searching for some basic tips might improve your overall enjoyment of the game.

    It's something I enjoy returning to play now and then.    … Expand
  4. Threnagyn
    Dec 13, 2018
    9
    As a big fan of the first game, I recommend this version. Visually, the game looks similar than its predecessor, but there is more content added than what came with 'Kingdom New Lands' after the original 'Kingdom' game.
  5. JJHLH
    Dec 16, 2018
    10
    Kingdom Two Crowns is the best game I’ve ever played in over 30 years. A genuine masterpiece of design, animation, and sound. Beating the Greed for the first time was the most memorable video game moment I’ve experienced. I love the music in this game. It’s easy to enter a zen-like meditative state while playing. So beautiful and engaging. I love the simple controls yet deepKingdom Two Crowns is the best game I’ve ever played in over 30 years. A genuine masterpiece of design, animation, and sound. Beating the Greed for the first time was the most memorable video game moment I’ve experienced. I love the music in this game. It’s easy to enter a zen-like meditative state while playing. So beautiful and engaging. I love the simple controls yet deep gameplay. The screen is completely uncluttered. I wish there were more games like this.… Expand
  6. 1000fps
    May 20, 2022
    5
    Starting this game was very confusing. You get no explanation on how the game mechanics work or how to progress. I started to have fun with this game when I managed to progress on level 1. Built my base and made a lot of money. Felt great. Then I got to island 2 and 3 and realized that you do the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Slow, tedious andStarting this game was very confusing. You get no explanation on how the game mechanics work or how to progress. I started to have fun with this game when I managed to progress on level 1. Built my base and made a lot of money. Felt great. Then I got to island 2 and 3 and realized that you do the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Slow, tedious and repetitive. This game however has something to it. The concept is very interesting.… Expand
  7. EmCza
    Jul 2, 2020
    0
    This game will be perfect if contain something more... It’s perfect for two players, but why challenge islands are unplayable with that mode? Whyyy???
    No multiplayer challenge islands is one of two flaws of this game. Second is performance on switch on later parts of this game.
  8. Frepe
    Dec 14, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. An masterpiece of modern minimalist game design, it can be described as: an slow burning strategy game, and once every 15 days a blood moon will happen, at first is ok, small enemy's no pressure, but when you hit day 60, that's the day you will lose your on-line virginity... Any way, the game has hidden features like in the winter animals and crops start to die and you become more poor each day, i will not spoil too much because there's still hope, you can fell the music becoming more hopeful and the music brightening up as the snow starts to melt, the happiness you fell and the relief that goes through you can compel you to play some more hours
    10/10 - must play    … Expand
  9. AtTheCorner
    Apr 21, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game has great art, music, and premise,but it has some serious problems it needs to fix before I'd ever recommend it. 1. Speed. It takes forever for anyone to get anywhere. That includes npc's.
    2.Tutorials. I got a bug that completely reset one of my isllands, and I have since stopped playing. Although I'm not even sure it is a bug because the game gives you no explanation of the decay system.There are certain mechanics that the game doesn't tell you, but if you don't know will seriously handicap you. For example: Vagrant camps are destroyed if you break adjacent trees. Also, certain enemies will end most runs the first time you encounter them if you are not prepared.    … Expand
  10. Blackshine
    Nov 17, 2022
    7
    Хорошая "БЕГАЛКА" с удобной, необычной экономикой

    Было приятно играть.
  11. Rabarbara1995
    Mar 21, 2023
    6
    Cudownie minimalistyczna pikseloza - z początku interesująca, lecz po kilku godzinach nie mająca już zupełnie nic do zaoferowania :(. Na xone problemy z optymalizacją gdy za dużo się dzieje.

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#33 Best Switch Game of 2018

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
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  1. Nintendojo
    Mar 29, 2022
    100
    Kingdom Two Crowns is easily one of my favorite games and keeps me coming back again and again even without updates. It’s a game where starting fresh can feel great, but progress and advancement is rewarding. It took an already engaging and memorable game, Kingdom New Lands, and developed it into a well balanced multiplayer experience. It’s three versions in one are a stellar deal and the Norse Lands DLC is so much more than a cherry on top. For fantasy, strategy, and indie fans, Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Lands is a must.
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  2. PLAY! Zine
    Jul 8, 2019
    85
    A fun and interesting premise, that makes you play "just one more day“, shines in co-op but frustrates in single player mode.
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  3. Switch Player
    Jan 14, 2019
    80
    Despite the many similarities to its predecessor, Kingdom: Two Crowns is a minimalistic town-management game that still holds many wonders. With the addition of couch co-op and many improvements, this can be seen as the definitive edition of the series.
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