A very well-designed main game, a nice variety of mini games and a well-calibrated difficulty level - hard enough to be interesting but not especially frustrating. And the battle mode is great! I do have a couple feature requests: (1) please add a volume slider (or just a “quieter” toggle button) to the settings screen. It’d be AWESOME if I could listen to a podcast while playing and still hear the game sounds without their level drowning out the conversation. I want to be able to tell your game’s sound to be like half or a third as loud as it is and not have it maximize volume relative to the system set volume so it can be a *background* task without entirely turning the sound off. (2) please add a “colorblind” mode! I have difficulty telling apart the game’s green versus yellow. Not the gems themselves - those do have different shapes - but on other items. Like when you have color-changing crystals in a blue box or structural blocks to match next to - then there’s no shape cue so I’m stuck having to *guess* at which color I need to match. Ideally you’d change the *brightness* or the *saturation* of either the green or the yellow so there was a *non-hue* way to distinguish them…or maybe add small polka-dots or pinstripes to one of the colors? Get someone with red-green colorblindness on your QA team! Other than that, just keep doing what you’re doing - this is a great - and highly replayable - game!

TV commercials for Royal Kingdom proudly advertise that the game is completely free to play and does not require a WiFi connection. While it is true that no WiFi is needed to enjoy the game, the assertion that it is free to play is misleading. After spending a significant amount of time on a particular board, players often encounter obstacles that prevent them from advancing. This can lead to frustration and anxiety as you brace the desire to progress to the next level. Eventually, the game creates a sense of urgency that compels players to spend their own money on package deals just to move forward in the game. Many players, myself included, find it hard to resist purchasing these deals after investing so much time and effort, fearing that all that dedication would go to waste if they don't advance. This pattern of spending inevitably leads to a cycle of addiction, where players feel pressured to keep purchasing in order to see their progress continue. I am personally disheartened by this experience, especially considering that I have enjoyed many other games over the years without feeling compelled to buy expensive packages. As someone living on a fixed income, I find the tactics used in Royal Kingdom particularly disappointing. The game’s design and marketing seem intentionally misleading, creating barriers for players who simply want to enjoy the game without the pressure of constant monetary investment.

The game started out fine. Pretty easy and then got harder but still not bad. Then as you start getting into higher levels the game came incredibly luck based, hoping for the good drops to give you lots and I mean lots of power ups in order to even get close to beating the level. The amount of times a disco ball power up was 1 square away from combining with another power up was so high you started thinking they did this on purpose so you have to use a hammer. Streaks become non existent in the higher levels due to this nonsense. The amount of coins you get for beating levels and completing kingdom areas is minimal compared to the amount of coins it cost to buy 5 more moves. The amount of times that I was 1-2 moves away from finishing the level or spending real money to get more coins or just lose your streak making team event rewards very low. The levels that require a certain amount of a certain color to unlock other areas only work if you actually get that color to drop. I’ve had levels that I didn’t even have the whole board unlocked because I didn’t have enough colors to unlock it when I ran out of moves. That is a stupid way to end a streak and just incredibly frustrating to say the least. The adds you see for this game are also false advertisement and misleading.