Love, but wish it was less buggy
Sun Oct 28 2018 mkuethenI have been obsessed with this game pretty much for the last two months. Even though I've best it many times over, it's still fun and interesting. For the $10 I paid for it, it's provided more entertainment than just about anything else with the same value, and I much prefer it over all other video games I've bought in the last couple years.
That said, I've been really frustrated by all the bugs. They don't happen every game, but when they do happen, the only way to describe the way I feel is 😖😩😭. Occasionally, a hermit will disappear, or my knights that were sent to the ship will, upon opening the game back up after a few hours, be in front of my castle. Little things like that. It's usually still possible to win with the bugs, but is a setback and pulls me out of fun gameplay mode. Is it still worth playing? Absolutely. Would it be better if these glitches weren't ruining things? Duh. Also, it wouldn't hurt if there was a way to cancel an action... not that I've frequently built a wall in the middle of the forest where I oughtn't have, or sent knights off to attack too early, or anything like that...
For reference, I mostly play on Apple TV, but also pick it up on iPhone and iPad.
Amazing
Fri Dec 22 2017 Alhazred01Ignore the people complaining about the ios version vs the pc version or console version. Since I bought this on ios, I went on to buy it on steam as well and on my switch (much layer when they releases it there). I have not noticed a performance difference between them at all, it's likely the people complaining simply have older phones with older batteries in them slowing their processors down. It's an amazingly simple and crazy fun game. It's everything great about God games/building games and tower defense together. It's just so perfect. It's so addictive and there's so many cool things to unlock, various new buildings, New mounts that all do different things (like the unicorn that eats grass and poops gold, the bear that attacks, the deer/elk that will make deer follow you, etc.) The new lands update was amazing, and now they've gone and released a new one! I haven't had a lot of time to really delve into skull island but I have no doubt it will be just as amazing. These devs are a credit to the industry, it's so great to see committed devs who continue to produce new content and refine their game. You can tell this was a labor of love for them. I would buy any new games they release in a heartbeat based on their performance with Kingdoms alone.
Love the game but
Wed Jan 29 2020 LordCookie2021I just think the game is just getting to hard and all. And also you should have the ability to make your own banner shield and your choice of gender. I also thought it would be a good idea to add a sandbox mode where you have unlimited gold and building is unlimited and also the ability to spawn your soldiers instead of making them come. This would improve the game and make more people play the game because the game is just endless fighting and you can keep spawning your men! All you should have to do is add a creative mode bar, a gender choice bar, and a shield banner creation bar. It’s really that simple so please creator if your reading this note add this cause I’d be obsessed with this game if you did add this because I always wished for this.
Please also add a armor selection to change your gear,hair,horse and crown. Just add this cause when they see you added it then these people would be blood thirsty to play the game. I hope you add this cause this a game I always wished for. Please do it it’s my wish for this game
Be ready for a challenge
Sat Dec 29 2018 hetirphoThis game is amazing, but it doesn’t teach you how to play it just drops you in. If you want to make real progress without mucking about for hours to learn everything, you’ll have to use an online guide.
You also have to be very meticulous with your purchases. Just because you can buy something doesn’t mean you should. Buying more walls will decrease the amount of rabbits spawning, hurting your profits early in the game. Buying lots of towers will station many of your archers in useless positions. Clearing a tree next to a recruitment camp or trader will permanently destroy them. There is no way to undo these purchases without starting from scratch, which can get frustrating. Sometimes an accidental button press that does one of those things will hurt you immensely, sometimes to where you’ll even need to start over.
Once you get the hang of this game it’s great, there’s lots to unlock and you’ll have to master your own strategy as the game is fairly difficult.
Great game but...I’d rather the devs fix issues first, THEN add new content
Tue Jan 23 2018 Dubs1Ever since recent update (skull island), the stone wall upgrade alter is randomly missing sometimes, very rarely do you get the archer or builder stone upgrades (on island 5 I got NOTHING once)...that’s crazy -why would the devs remove these things? I’m quite good at the game and have even beat skull island...but I’m thinking of the people that play for the first time like I did once before I knew the skills needed to win (even without arrow statues)...but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be included. Devs need to go back and fix this.
Also, after watching pc play through, the iOS version runs SOOOO SLOW compared...cmon, with the powerful iPad pros and new iPhones you mean to tell me you couldn’t make it a steady/locked 60 FPS?? Don’t buy it - other games have been able to do 60 FPS on itouch 6!..with how much the game is, devs could go back and optimize the game to perform better on latest Apple devices.
And lastly, there’s STILL an issue with sending knights and builders to the boat where it sits at the end of the screen; if you complete what I just said then you cannot save and exit the game or else YOU LOSE ALL YOUR KNIGHTS AND BUILDERS that you sent to the boat...this is incredibly annoying and there’s no reason this still hasn’t been fixed. Other reviewers have brought this bug/issue up since it was released.
It’s a great game, but these issues need to be fixed to make it an excellent game.
Great game
Wed Aug 14 2019 MirgelThis game is great very simple gaming mechanics but hard to master! That being said there are two things I wish they would fix or somehow make better. Possible spoiler if you haven’t played but not much of a spoiler.
1) When you destroy a portal during the day all my archers and workers just continue you hunt or stay outside the walls even though it turns into a red moon and enemies come meaning they get wiped out and no one is protecting the walls.
2) When you finally build the boat all your workers like to run to the boat which is fine but then they continue to die until your out of workers. There should be a way the workers can just hop on the boat because it still moves without them or they could hop on until the enemies are gone then hop off again and walk with the boat instead of just running to the boat and dying then there are no more workers.
Still super fun game though!
Screen glitches
Fri Feb 09 2018 bumpounI love this game but there have been many moments when my screen glitches out during an animation. I once went through a portal but the smoke and black stuff stayed in that spot even when I was done so every time I passed that area I was effectively blind. More recently I dropped my crown and it went through the floor (it sometimes does this) but instead of coming back it stayed under and my game got stuck in slow motion. When I quit and went back in my screen was stuck to where the crown should have been but it was still stuck underground meaning I couldn’t get it, so I had to restart my game again. Also I don’t know if this is a feature or bug, but since the skull island update the first island won’t spawn the wooden totem that is used to make stone walls and such even though I have been at that island twice since the skull island update, so now it’s a rush to make the boat before things are too hard for level two wood walls.
Give it time!
Wed Jan 02 2019 GoPadres1904Artwork is nice but gameplay is limited. No instructions. All the sudden my archers stopped hunting/generating money. So is that it? Did I do it wrong? Start a new game? Hard to know tactics when there’s literally no communication of whats going on. Its like a puzzle with no distinguishable pieces.
Edit: Once you realize that the point is to start the game over it gets better. Still a lot of unknowns but I guess thats what makes this game unique and fun. Still enjoying it but I can see it getting repetitive and losing its allure.
Edit 2: I cant stop playing. There is solid depth to this game once you understand whats going on. I suggest reading some online work throughs to get an understanding of the details of the game (like the financer, had no idea he did anything until I accidentally dropped a coin to him)
Very challenging but please fix the following...
Sun Aug 11 2019 ReadyEddieSpagettiGame is great I can’t stop playing I only did 4 stars because the bugs and glitches are seriously annoying. We spend all this time in a very expensive mobile game and then something happens that completely ruins your save like on the second world XXVI I assigned about 6 archers and they all tried to go into one tower but there was only room for one more, so they all stayed at that tower waiting doing nothing just standing there.
Also Needs better graphics, and it would be nice to see a small number near your coin bag or in it to count.
An monster and building index or a mini wiki in game would be fantastic.
This game has potential and could really make itself worth $10 down the road if the developers listen to its users.
Incredibly buggy, brain dead AI
Sun Nov 27 2022 Brandon.IrwinNot worth the price.
No way I’m paying for the second one. The bug that made me rage quit wasn’t the fact that I sometimes can’t move, it’s that the hired peasants more often than not just disappear before they get back to camp. For example, I buy a bow and hire two peasants. They walk back at minimal speed, then when I go off screen and back, one is gone. Do it again, and sometimes the second is gone. Since they take literally 5-10 minutes to walk back to camp, this is a *huge* loss. Sometimes I can find a new peasant at the camp I already hired them from.
For brain dead AI, once the nights move on, they all start dying because, rather than standing on the safe side of the wall they just built/walked up to, they hang out on the monster side. Even though there’s a watchman in a tower, they just wait around until the monsters kill them. So, the majority of your people die from feeding themselves to the monsters. Since replenishing them requires extreme patience, slowly walking with them all the way back to make sure they don’t pop out of existence, or extreme luck that they don’t pop out if existence if you leave, this is a game of frustration.
I don’t understand how the 5 star reviews that mention the bugs are ok with them. For me, it seems to be game breaking.
