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<span class="bold">Kingdom</span>, a stunningly beautiful and innovative 2D strategy sidescroller, is available now, DRM-free on GOG.com

It's pixel art taken to the next level, and a completely new kind of game. The Kingdom is yours. You must tend to it. Kingdom mixes 2D sidescrolling gameplay with resource management and strategy. With the crown on your head, you are responsible for the well-being, prosperity, and unity of your procedurally-generated domain. And when the darkness comes at night to take everything you have, you'll stand by your men's side until the very end.
And remember the saying:

Wise Rulers know their kingdom will fall,
Brave Rulers do not despair.
Great Rulers know their riches can rule,
And spend every coin with great care.

It looks as beautiful as it sounds - the <span class="bold">Kingdom Original Soundtrack</span> is also available. So lead your <span class="bold">Kingdom</span> towards the next day, DRM-free on GOG.com.
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jorlin: Hmm, looks a bit like A Valley without Wind, although the graphics are certainly prettier in Kingdom.
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IAmSinistar: Good comparison. I quite liked that game. If this is less permadeath-y and more like AVWW, then I probably will enjoy it.
Hey, you changed your avatar? Awww...
What I did not like about AVWW was the blandness of the graphics, the tedium, precise jumping and the one hit and it's over minigames.
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CharlesGrey: That's unfortunate. I've played some true roguelikes, but those make up for the lack of permanent in-game progress by providing you with dozens of character race/class combinations, and other factors, so each new playthrough feels truly different. I doubt that's the case here, at least not to the same extent. The game still looks interesting, but I think I'll pick it up during a promo, not right now.
Game seem to follow same general route with variance from procedual generation (placement of buildings, walls, defences etc.) and RNG (amount of huntable game, spawning of merchant and what tool it supplies, where attacks come from etc.). Longest survival I've seen is bit beyond day 30 (32 I think) that ended with the above mentioned disasterous raid on portal and subsequent zerg rush retaliation.
Post edited October 22, 2015 by Petrell
What are people so annoyed about other people complaining about regional pricing?! The point isn't that GOG gives us store credit, the point is that us buying regionally priced games will only encourage the practice.

GOG has established that in order for more games with DRM to come in they'd have to give in to the practice, but that doesn't make it alright. So stop being assholes and let people complain when they want to complain.

It's better than that one dude always saying "I got this shit on steam not buying lulz".
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Reever: What are people so annoyed about other people complaining about regional pricing?! The point isn't that GOG gives us store credit, the point is that us buying regionally priced games will only encourage the practice.

GOG has established that in order for more games with DRM to come in they'd have to give in to the practice, but that doesn't make it alright. So stop being assholes and let people complain when they want to complain.

It's better than that one dude always saying "I got this shit on steam not buying lulz".
I think people are annoyed about this particular user making, more or less, the same post on every release thread. Well, and the fact that he now proceeded to add "Oh well, I'll just torrent it lulz" to his usual standard reply.

And hey, anyone bothered by the whole regional pricing affair always has the option to simply not buy such games. Just as everyone else has the right to buy them anyway, as long as the price seems reasonable. Freedom!

Also, randomly calling people assholes doesn't make you look all that good.
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Petrell: You mean Kingdom? ;-p
Doh! I should have visited Raw Fury's website before posting. :D
I like how this game plays out. Been watching my favourite YTer play this, and the 'not holding your hand at all, figure it out for yourself' approach is fantastic. Probably not a big hit with the mainstream audience though, as there are plenty of complaints about 'is there an ending? why aren't you telling me?' or 'how come I can't do this? what am I doing wrong?' whaaa.

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CharlesGrey: I think people are annoyed about this particular user making, more or less, the same post on every release thread. Well, and the fact that he now proceeded to add "Oh well, I'll just torrent it lulz" to his usual standard reply.

And hey, anyone bothered by the whole regional pricing affair always has the option to simply not buy such games. Just as everyone else has the right to buy them anyway, as long as the price seems reasonable. Freedom!

Also, randomly calling people assholes doesn't make you look all that good.
Just imagine if we didn't have regional pricing. The majority of titles from the last year or two wouldn't be here. I'm willing to accept that SMALL compromise to have more games come to GOG.

Like you said, everyone has the choice to buy these games. In saying that, it seems they are selling just fine.
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Petrell: Expect to die a lot. For most youtubers game lenght is 1-3 hours before they're overun. Remember bloodmoon zerg rush happens every 5th night and each subsequent one is bigger and badder.
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NotJabba: Any idea whether there's a way to win, or do you just keep going until you die?
Well...

I just died and I got to day 34 just as I managed to find an upgrade that let me build stone structures.
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Reever: What are people so annoyed about other people complaining about regional pricing?! The point isn't that GOG gives us store credit, the point is that us buying regionally priced games will only encourage the practice.

GOG has established that in order for more games with DRM to come in they'd have to give in to the practice, but that doesn't make it alright. So stop being assholes and let people complain when they want to complain.

It's better than that one dude always saying "I got this shit on steam not buying lulz".
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CharlesGrey: I think people are annoyed about this particular user making, more or less, the same post on every release thread. Well, and the fact that he now proceeded to add "Oh well, I'll just torrent it lulz" to his usual standard reply.

And hey, anyone bothered by the whole regional pricing affair always has the option to simply not buy such games. Just as everyone else has the right to buy them anyway, as long as the price seems reasonable. Freedom!

Also, randomly calling people assholes doesn't make you look all that good.
Well as they say, It's not a real gog release without the regional pricing post or the guy (once thought to be a bot) informing everyone they already own the game at that other location that we dare not speak of
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micktiegs_8: Just imagine if we didn't have regional pricing. The majority of titles from the last year or two wouldn't be here. I'm willing to accept that SMALL compromise to have more games come to GOG.

Like you said, everyone has the choice to buy these games. In saying that, it seems they are selling just fine.
Let me play the devil's advocate....
Just imagine if we didn't have an always online client needed to run games, the majority of titles wouldn't be available....

One price to all was one of the funding stones of GOG. If you have been here a long time, chances are you liked this and saw it as something other stores should follow, not the other eay around.

I'm also pissed when I see another nail in the coffin, specilally for indie games. If this is a practice you think it's wrong it's not unusual to be pissed to have to "support" this practice if you really want to play the offending game. Not diferent than say, buying a game which is only available drmed.

Regarding the game, i ser it as 10€ + 1€ in store crédito. I'm guessing it's the same value in Germany, but I don't earn the same as guys from there, so, please, forgive me when I sound pissed because of another game pulling this crap on me.
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WireHead: I'm also pissed when I see another nail in the coffin, specilally for indie games. If this is a practice you think it's wrong it's not unusual to be pissed to have to "support" this practice if you really want to play the offending game. Not diferent than say, buying a game which is only available drmed.
Regional pricing -- while it might suck for people forced to pay more than the baseline price -- is a one-time issue relevant only at point of sale; DRM lasts until and unless the developer/publisher/distributor decide to remove it. DRM is without a doubt the worse of the two problems from a long-term perspective, hence GOG's compromise. It's also worth noting that most of the "good old games" sold here are still flat priced except for the Russian/ex-Soviet state discount.
Wait... why was there a complaint about regional pricing for this when that's still a pretty damn low price for a game? Others with regional pricing were well over 30 dollars and some such.

Thinking about getting this one myself but waiting a while to see if there's anything else I need to be getting before the end of the month.


..to the one(s) just saying they're going to pirate this or other games because they aren't absolutely dirt cheap... go back to your corner and stay there. :/ Entitled little brats. Cripes. So sick of this shit.
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Petrell: I only know what I've seen in videos and read devs say on steam forums but here goes:

winning I already elaborated above but as I said I have neither seen it and devs are tight lipped beyond saying it exists and can be done

No progress between games, always start new game from zero.

One save (on exit), perma death ala roguelikes.
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CharlesGrey: That's unfortunate. I've played some true roguelikes, but those make up for the lack of permanent in-game progress by providing you with dozens of character race/class combinations, and other factors, so each new playthrough feels truly different. I doubt that's the case here, at least not to the same extent. The game still looks interesting, but I think I'll pick it up during a promo, not right now.
That's precisely how I felt. I had a lot of problems with Sunless Sea at launch because it felt a lot like that (thankfully its outstanding gameplay and presentation more than made up for that), but I've just about had it with games that don't recognize your invested time by at least offering the player some form of permanent progression. Even Sunless Sea had that, in some form.

What doesn't help is the fact that, from what I read in this game's Eurogamer review, there's practically no tutorial and no clear path to a win condition; you just have to figure it all out through trial and error.

I know a lot of people like this sort of thing, and more power to 'em for their preference. But I'll also likely end up waiting for a sale to pick this up.
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Zergoss: say, It's not a real gog release without the regional pricing post or the guy (once thought to be a bot) informing everyone they already own the game at that other location that we dare not speak of
Which one? One used to do that and another one use to go on about another store like it was the best thing since sliced bread...lol (both on a gog release thread)
Post edited October 22, 2015 by Niggles
I've played the flash version online, and it's pretty fun. This version isn't flash is it? I hope not.
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CharlesGrey: "Oh well, I'll just torrent it lulz"
This for me is the problem, very uncool.