A video of this review is available here https://youtu.be/0jDMkqsQTVM

Kingdom, the little game that could, 'now' with Two Crowns!!
Well I say 'now', the games been out for ages, there's a new Greek flavoured dlc I wanted to cover and it felt weird doing that without doing this first.
Anywho, here goes.....
Do you like the idea of riding left to right through Classic kingdom, fantasy ancient Greece, feudal Japan or a um, a sort of vaguely horror themed world,,
But now with a friend?!! AND assuming you both bought the dlc!!
Then this might be the kingdom game for you, and a friend!!
For the newbies....
Kingdoms gameplay loop essentially revolves around throwing money at the working class until they are willing to blindly die for you, (is that a satire?).
Exploiting their labour to build up your town and then resisting waves of baddies that attack by night - while expanding your kingdom to eventually defeat the evil from each island.
You travel between islands by absolutely smashing your ships into the next island like a Tesla product with broken brakes and then building up a new town on the next island to repeat the cycle.
All accompanied by delightful pixel art graphics and a surprisingly emotive soundtrack.
Aesthetically, the designers for the kingdom games evidently know what they're doing.

I'm a fairly committed fan of the Kingdom games, I've completed most of them solo, they sorta cant be beat for the almost meditative feel they elicit.
The feeling of the Kingdom franchise remains intact in Two Crowns even when arguing about who stole whose gold from whose farms.
This was always going to be a positive review, Kingdom always worked as a game but the most tedious part of the franchise was always the endless need to trot left and right,
across a fairly large map,
repeatedly,
with your mount frequently suffering from bouts of emphysema, ESPECIALLY at crucial moments when it would be more ideal if your mount hadn't stopped for a rest while you were being perused by all of the horrors of the night!!

Once you add a buddy though, this problem is solved, or more accurately halved.
So for instance your Yanky buddy could emulate America and take care of pushing far to far right, while your European buddy works out things moderately on the left- halving the walking burden of the whole game.
One of the things I most enjoy about two crowns is the countless opportunities to screw each other over by stealing magic items mounts and limitless gold from one another's farms, this probably says more about me than the game though so maybe you will teamwork differently.

With the simple controls and various difficulty levels and the wide range of environments in which to play the game, I think Kingdom: Two Crowns makes a great game to play with practically anyone, even if they don't usually game.
From younger family members to more competitive completionist types who wish to unlock all the achievements and solve all of the hidden puzzles.
Kingdom offers a co-op town management strategy like experience perfect to introduce a gamer to this type of genre or else a relaxing interpretation of the game type for a couple of experienced players.
So yeah. if you haven't yet. check out Two Crowns if you know literally anyone. which is nearly everyone!!

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