Kingdoms and Castles Reviews

In the span of a single weekend, I've found myself playing the game till 2 AM, nearly 3 AM. Even now I am forcing myself to go to bed because such a simple yet addictive Gameplay loop that is Kingdoms and Castles, to which I grow nervous knowing it's Steam Deck verified, as I own one and use it time to time to game while in bed. To install this game on the Deck, based on my current experience, I may never sleep again.......so I must choose sleep for my own sake.

As far as Kingdom Builder type games go, this one was a fun one. I've played it on both Steam and PS4, getting all trophies/achievements for a total time of roughly 56 hours. The game is simple but wonderful. You have to manage your kingdom with houses, food, beauty, and even defense. I personally loved the combat as it added an extra spice to the game and another purpose to build walls and fortifications. Distance from resources was a factor, but I found that if you built basically mini-cities it tended to workout fine. You didn't have to worry about the minor details too much, but managing your people and jobs through priority was a nice way to make it easier on your management. But there were plenty of times where I had to pause and make adjustments to job to make sure the things needed the most were being prioritized while still having enough builders to keep expanding. Graphics were pretty basic, but colorful and helped make it not feel dull. The designing of the kingdom and the various types of food and benefits also added to the thought process and layouts. I found a simple rectangular layout worked perfectly for the housing area most of the time to maximize benefits. Overall, I loved playing the game (enough I bought and played it on two different systems). If they added a PS5 version, I'd get it and play again.

very fun and relaxing to play as well as a great stratagy game

Its a nice fun city builder but just doesn't get updated enough.

One of the best building strategy games I played. Love how simple it is to learn but there's always more to learn and you can be as creative as you want. Can't wait for Nova Roma!

It's.....nice. I like the simplicity of it which means i can look away for a minute and it doesn't collapse like factorio or cities skylines. But that is a double edged sword which means that late game is basically non existent so by the time you reach 200 pops you just repeat building the same houses or just make an army, completely trash the ai and then cry becouse now you have to control an AI city which looks like a monkey built it with infinite resources and no happiness.

Love the animated blocky feel. Great city building that requires you to plan ahead. Warfare could be better but im sure that will come . Overall 9.5/10

I really like the concept of this game, and it gets a lot of things right that could definitely give you a few hours of fun. Unfortunately the game just constantly feels incomplete and unpolished. The mechanics for handling moving goods around your kingdom are clunky, as is the trade system. The military control is laughable and if you want to win a war you're going to have cheese your way through it. I really want to like this game but piles of little problems like my units trying to stand in a line even though there's a wall in the way, builders not picking a new project when they run out of resources, and just general clunkiness to the game make me unable to recommend it.

a fun, relaxing, simple city builder. good to pass time, just watching your little people do stuff.

its a fun litte city builder, but gets boring quick. after about 2000 people, the arrival rate for newcomers gets about equal too the amount dying and things just get really slow from there.