Kingdom Two Crowns (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.20 Update + DLC

Kingdom Two Crowns is a 2018 strategy video game developed by Thomas van den Berg and Coatsink and published by Raw Fury. It is the third entry in the Kingdom series. Players control a mounted monarch as they attempt to defend their kingdom from a race of monsters called the Greed. The monarch can recruit villagers to perform certain jobs while building defenses such as towers and walls to fend off waves of Greed attacking the kingdom at night.

Kingdom Two Crowns features single-player and cooperative multiplayer modes, with cooperative play enabling two monarchs to join via a split screen. The developers originally designed Kingdom Two Crowns as an expansion pack for Kingdom: New Lands (2016). As the expansion grew, they decided to release it as a separate game. The series’ creator, van den Berg, wanted to develop a new experience centered around defending structures.

The developers chose to lessen the difficulty of the previous games’ roguelike mechanics and used a pixel art style to reduce the time between drawing and implementing new designs in gameplay. Kingdom Two Crowns was released for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One on December 11, 2018, and iOS and Android on April 28, 2020.

It received positive reviews, gaining praise for its strategic gameplay, artwork, and cooperative play, though its slow pace was criticized. The game attracted over 300,000 players within six months of launch and was supported by Raw Fury with several updates and downloadable content.

A side-scrolling micro strategy game with elegant minimalism, wrapped in modern pixel art. Play as a monarch on horseback, recruit loyal subjects, construct your realm, and guard it against insatiable creatures after your coins and crown. In the new campaign, build a lasting kingdom and conquer the Greed. Unearth mounts and secrets in diverse environments.

Enlist a friend through unique cooperative play, locally joining or departing at will. Post-release, Kingdom Two Crowns will sustain exploration, discovery, and strategy with distinct themed settings that reshape rule and captivate the eye. Brave the challenge, whether novice or aficionado, for Two Crowns shall triumph!

GAMEPLAY

Kingdom Two Crowns is a 2D strategy and resource management game presented from a side-scrolling perspective. Players control a mounted monarch who must build their kingdom and defend it from the Greed, a race of monsters. The gameplay takes place across a day-night cycle, with the monarch exploring and building during the day and fighting Greed at night. Expansion is facilitated by spending gold coins, which the monarch collects and stores inside a bag. Camps, where the monarch can spend coins to hire new subjects, are located outside the kingdom.

Once recruited, villagers remain idle until the monarch buys equipment for them, leading them to perform a specific job. Typical hires include builders who clear land and construct defenses, farmers who grow crops for gold, and archers who hunt animals for coins and attack enemies. The kingdom is located in the center of the procedurally generated level, and at night, the Greed attacks it from the left and right. Monarchs have no means of self-defense but can spend coins to build walls, construct towers, and hire archers to hold off the increasing waves of enemies.

If the villagers are not protected by walls, the Greed can steal their coins and equipment, and they must be recruited again. Furthermore, the Greed can take coins from the monarch, and if the player has no remaining coins, the Greed can steal the monarch’s crown, causing a game over. Unlike previous Kingdom games, the kingdom is not destroyed if the crown is lost. Instead, the player continues as a new monarch called the “heir”, who inherits a partially destroyed version of the player’s previous realm. As the monarch explores, they can encounter portals that spawn Greed and treasure chests containing coins or gems.

The player uses gems to purchase upgrades for the kingdom, such as mounts that the monarch can ride on, hermits who can be hired to make new buildings, or statues that provide benefits for subjects. Each level has a shipwreck that the monarch can repair, allowing for passage between five island levels. As the monarch expands their kingdom across the islands, they can discover and unlock new technologies that allow for the construction of better defenses and buildings. Eventually, the technological improvements allowed the monarch to create a bomb to destroy the source of the Greed, a portal located at the far end of each level.

The monarch must assemble an army to attack and destroy the portal; their goal is the extermination of the Greed on all five islands. Kingdom Two Crowns can be played in single-player mode, or through cooperative multiplayer (co-op), in which two monarchs can join via a split screen.

In co-op, both players act independently and can share their coins by throwing them at each other. If one player loses their monarch’s crown, they lose the ability to build but can continue collecting coins for the other player. The game only ends if both players lose their crowns.

FEATURES

Beyond the medieval setting, Kingdom Two Crowns offers:

• Dead Lands: Explore this gothic realm, embodying the Shardbinder Miriam from the action RPG Bloodstained. Employ the beetle steed for traps, the undead mount to obstruct Greed, and the mythic demon horse “Gamigin” for potent charges.
• Shogun: Roam feudal Japan, playing as the Shogun or Onna-bugeisha, supported by ninja and battling on the Kirin. Navigate bamboo forests to face hidden Greed.