Seriously, sometimes it's fun just to swipe around the lands you've conquered and look at them. There's a level of polish here that puts a lot of other games on the App Store to shame. It's like leading a force from a ramshackle group of peasants with pitchforks all the way to an impressive unit wearing crafted armour and waving fearsome weapons around. In a way though, that makes building your army all the more interesting. But, as you might expect, they take time to unlock.
There are cavalry units, archers, siege engines, and more to unlock. Churches give you different buffs and boosts, and you unlock more of these as you play. You have control over the placement of your troops to some extent, and there are QTE-style actions that let you perfect your charges. The early scraps are reasonably sedate, but they get much tougher. You need to build up an impressive array of soldiers, and learn which troop types fare better against which. These see you leading your army into skirmishes. Set all of your workers at a task and you can dive into one of the combat missions. It takes a while to complete any action, and while it's happening you get to look at a green bar filling up.īut there's never a point in the game where you feel like you haven't got anything to do. Tap a woodcutter to open up some options, choose what you'd like to do, then tap the area you'd like to do it in. You need to build dams to take back land, bridge rivers to connect towns, and cut down trees to clear land and gain building materials.Įverything is controlled with taps. You need to make the roads to connect the different parts of your ever-growing realm. You're trying to take over the world, nudging out rivals with force or arms or reputation.Īnd it's not just buildings you're placing. You're not just putting buildings within some walls and trying to defend yourself.
Well there's city building involved, but it's a lot more complex than that.
Yes, there are scraps, and they're more interactive than your usual free to play city building, but it's building, infrastructure, and God-like terraforming that you'll spend most of your time doing.Īnd you know what, it's actually really bloody good. You're flattening out the land, harvesting crops, mining rocks, chopping down trees, building roads, and making sure there are enough houses and slums for your population to live in. It's kingdom building that takes centre stage here. And there are battles, but they're not at the core of the game. There's war here, but it's not exactly total. Total War Battles: Kingdom has a pretty unwieldy name, but interestingly it's the fourth word that's the one you need to focus on.
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