« Kingdom: New Lands is the same survival simulation game you'll find on Steam, but it feels even more at home on the Nintendo Switch. While the lack of tutorial and clearly defined goals can potentially lead to frustration and some difficult first starts, Kingdom's simple controls lead you right into an incredibly engrossing game. The gorgeous pixel graphics shine on the Switch's screen, and the changing of day to night, and summer to fall is not only visually stunning, it's an ever present reminder that winter is coming. Based upon the principle that nothing lasts, with each new game Kingdom asks: How long can your crown survive? »

« I have immensely enjoyed my time with Kingdom: New Lands. The set up of randomly generated island variations makes every playthrough both exciting and scary, and the feeling of branching out and fortifying your base is very satisfying. This is not a very action-heavy game, but more a dynamic adventure with the highs of triumph and the lows of defeat all wrapped up in a beautiful simulation game. With a great challenge, subtle and organic strategy and a gorgeous presentation, Kingdom: New Lands brings an excellent title to the Switch, one you won't want to miss. »

« Kingdom: New Lands is a great experience. At a first glance, it looks like a kingdom management game with a very simple gameplay premise; carefully built with an astonishing beautiful pixel art style. Under its subtle design philosophy, though, lies a deep experience that is both frustrating and fascinating. »

« A deceptively simple idea that can become laboured and bewildering as well as oddly compelling, Kingdom: New Lands is certainly a curious take on the strategy genre. Its ambiguous, incredibly minimalistic nature will initially intrigue and could easily frustrate in equal measure. Fans of roguelikes or tower defence-style games may prefer more complexity, as the simple mechanics give you control over choices rather than actions and rely on astute observation and perseverance, rather than on skill or improvisation. There is a balance to learn and a set of rules to be discovered, but even with the admittedly gorgeous aesthetic - and progressing beyond the initial stages to where the dilemma of ambition over security ramps up - it may still not be enough of a pay off to reward your time. Definitely one to consider, albeit carefully. »

« When it hits those lows, it's not unplayable, but it's dang close. I'm more apt to put it down after a particularly choppy run, but I still find myself coming back to it after a while. Despite its technical flaws, I still want to see all of the different areas, and learn all of their secrets. »

« Kingdom: New Lands may look impressive and feature a very immersive sound component but the game's limits become visible early on, when its simplicity turns more into an obstacle than an asset. The feeling of repetitiveness also becomes dominant early on, which doesn't contribute for an experience that at first seems to set the stage for something grand and ambitious. »

« É um bom jogo. Cumpre bem o que promete ser. É um daqueles jogos que você joga e desliga grande parte do cérebro. Você fica de boa, jogando moeda na cabeça de mendigo e sobrevivendo waves de monstros. Os gráficos são lindos. As vezes você está correndo pelo mapa com seu cavalinho e começa a tocar alguma música muito boa e você pensa: ''Puta que pariu, a vida é legal.'' »

« This is a rare game that I will just never complete. For every great thing about it there's a hoard of BS mechanics and a load of RNG to disrespect the players time. I'm even save scumming and I've been stuck on island 4 losing to ridiculous RNG such as bad placement and bad archer aim, and then there's the fact that on top of the rng, it's brutally and insanely difficult. The game also touts itself as a strategy game, but there are so few things you can control that any "strategy" to be had is minimal. The worst part is that playthroughs can take like 30 hours EACH doing the same thing on repeat hoping you don't get a bad seed for 5 islands in a row. Again, this would be fine if it wasn't reliant on rng and terrible ai. This review is jumbled, and off the top of my head, so bottom line: F*** this game. »

« Essentially a tower defence game there is some satisfaction to be found from seeing your settlements grow, but the core gameplay loop (which largely involves riding back and forth until you find enough coins to spend on upgrading your settlement) quickly becomes rather repetitive. »

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« Nice game... in general. Units are governs by simple rules, most of the time it is good, but at another time it is ruining the whole session. Lack of commands like "hide behind walls" or "hold your ground" is really annoying. »

« A decent tower defense game with a lot of maintenance around it. Not really a game I was hyped to play but there is some depth to it, even if it feels shallow at first, and there is a learning curve, it will take a few hours to understand what does what and what needs what, and that's a big part of the game. »

« At first I found myself surprisingly addicted to this game. However, I can't get past the second level because multiple times now I've had game-breaking bugs related to builders not cutting down trees or building walls. If not for that I would have kept going, but regardless, the game is way too simple and tedious. There's just not much to it. It's not very consistent and many things are unclear, like who is the guy that spawns at a level 4 base? Some kind of tax collector who doesn't collect taxes? Why does the trader sometimes charge me a coin and sometimes doesn't, and just how long does he have to sit in my base before he drops money, and how much longer before I can pay him to leave? A lot of stuff is just poorly designed. Level 1 farms never produce money. You can't tell an archer to get out of a tower, even if the tower is not useful at all. Why is destroying the trader and destroying villager spawns an option? Sometimes you will have to because the randomly generated levels will generate very poorly (they often do). The absolute worst part is the traveling. You have to be constantly traveling, which takes a long time. Your horse can run, but he has to rest for longer than the amount of time he can run (or you can stand still for 5 seconds to eat some grass as long as there are no trees within 100 miles). The game looks nice at first, but it's the same crap over and over. There will be huge stretches of screen with nothing in them at all. Your territory can be huge, but there's hardly anything to put down in it. You can make farms, walls and towers, that's it. You can pay an archer shrine to power up your archers. You run around. Just so shallow. Even free would be too high a price for so much wasted time. »

« Kingdom: New Lands is a bit of a hidden gem on the Nintendo Switch. With no proper way of filtering by genre and the game being out for about a year now, it's practically impossible for people to discover this game unless they are specifically looking for it. The objective of the game is simple, build by day and survive the night. The Good: 1. Kingdom is a fun, as well as relaxing, game. The player should feel fine with saving at any point and not worry that it would be difficult to pick up where you left off. 2. Player has freedom to build up their kingdom the way they want; allowing different play styles to be successful. 3. Graphics and music set the mood nicely. The Bad: 1. The game starts slow. This is by design to allow players to set up a small kingdom before a real threat comes in, but once you become familiar with the game the beginning is sometimes boring and is usually the reason I choose to play another game rather than start a new kingdom. 2. The game is not very challenging. This is mostly because of the previous point, the game essentially gives you a head start where you can build a strong foundation. 3. Not particularly a story driven game. Final Recommendation: Overall I really enjoy this game and think it was worth purchasing twice (once on old comp and now on Switch). Not a great game for players only looking for action based games but for if you're looking for something to play on a trip or you only have 30 minutes to an hour to play a game then Kingdom: New Lands could be a great purchase. »