Kingdom Two Crowns+ (2023) [/]
Dec 08 2025
Kingdom Two Crowns is a side-view village building game. You are the king (or queen) on their horse. Collect coins and use them to recruit peasants, build items that an available peasant will grab and use, and upgrade walls and buildings. At night cultists attack so build walls and guard towers. Keep cutting down trees and expanding your small kingdom. Later on there are more unique things to find and this ghost that urges you on.
iPad UI is pretty easy. Slide left or right to move. When you stop at an action spot there will be empty coins and you swap down to add coins until the spot is paid or you don't have enough coins in which case they drop to the ground and you pick them up. You can swipe down at any time to drop a coin which is how you recruit people (since they move around moving to a "coin drop spot" would have been hard) and I realize if you have lots of money (your money bag only holds so many coins) you can drop them outside and a cultist will grab a coin and run off instead of attacking.
I did find the graphics a bit too 8-bit retro and with no text it was sometimes hard to tell what I'm doing. Also it bothers me I can't tell how many people I have and how they're equipped (i.e. how many builders, archers, warriors, farmers) unless I go around and count them.
You can play two players split screen (one on top and one on the bottom) though that doesn't seem like it would work in practice -- maybe if one or both players had controllers.
Kingdom Two Crowns+, the Apple Arcade version has the optional worlds unlocked so you can play in a Shogun world or a Norse world or three other worlds.
At a few minutes per day/night cycle and with several things that can only be done daily a game is sort of a slow ramp up. Cultists get more numerous and worse as time goes on but your village gets bigger and you have lots of people to do work and fighting. Physically having to move around to do things is an interesting limitation that also promotes a slower build up.
I found this to be a sort of fun game. A little too real-time for me.
iPad UI is pretty easy. Slide left or right to move. When you stop at an action spot there will be empty coins and you swap down to add coins until the spot is paid or you don't have enough coins in which case they drop to the ground and you pick them up. You can swipe down at any time to drop a coin which is how you recruit people (since they move around moving to a "coin drop spot" would have been hard) and I realize if you have lots of money (your money bag only holds so many coins) you can drop them outside and a cultist will grab a coin and run off instead of attacking.
I did find the graphics a bit too 8-bit retro and with no text it was sometimes hard to tell what I'm doing. Also it bothers me I can't tell how many people I have and how they're equipped (i.e. how many builders, archers, warriors, farmers) unless I go around and count them.
You can play two players split screen (one on top and one on the bottom) though that doesn't seem like it would work in practice -- maybe if one or both players had controllers.
Kingdom Two Crowns+, the Apple Arcade version has the optional worlds unlocked so you can play in a Shogun world or a Norse world or three other worlds.
At a few minutes per day/night cycle and with several things that can only be done daily a game is sort of a slow ramp up. Cultists get more numerous and worse as time goes on but your village gets bigger and you have lots of people to do work and fighting. Physically having to move around to do things is an interesting limitation that also promotes a slower build up.
I found this to be a sort of fun game. A little too real-time for me.