Every Kingdom game, ranked
All 2 Kingdom games we hold, spanning 2015 to 2016: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 35,060 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Kingdom: Classic (GamingPickz Score 7.7), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For the money: Kingdom: New Lands gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Kingdom games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Kingdom games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
Kingdom: Classic
Best for: Trying the genre without spending anything
7.7GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceKingdom: Classic at a glance Released 2015 Studio Noio Player sentiment 91% positive of 22,707 Critics 74/100 Price Free Steam Deck verified Install size 0.5 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 91% shrinks to 90.9 on 22,707 reviews, then blends with the 74 critic aggregate, giving 7.7.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Free to download, so trying it costs only time.
- Small install at 0.5 GB.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 91 against 74. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- 2
Kingdom: New Lands
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
7.2GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceKingdom: New Lands at a glance Released 2016 Studio Noio Player sentiment 85% positive of 12,353 Critics No aggregate Price $1.49 Steam Deck verified Install size 1 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 85% shrinks to 85.0 on 12,353 reviews, giving 7.2. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Small install at 1 GB.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Kingdom game we can score is Kingdom: Classic at 7.7. The lowest is Kingdom: New Lands at 7.2, a 0.5-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Kingdom: Classic at Free. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Kingdom: New Lands, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Kingdom entries on Steam:
- Verified: Kingdom: Classic, Kingdom: New Lands
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Kingdom games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Kingdom series, game by game
Every Kingdom game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2015
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic. (Steam)
Reception
Reception Kingdom has received generally favorable reviews. Dan Stapleton of IGN gave the title a 7. 7 out of 10, and felt the lack of instruction combined with the tension of the various random attacks created a great experience for the game. (Wikipedia)
- 2016
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy. (Steam)
Reception
Reception According to the review aggregate website Metacritic , Kingdom: New Lands received "generally favorable" reviews for its Xbox One version, and "mixed to average reviews" for its Nintendo Switch release. Nintendo World Report praised the visual effects, lighting, and strategic elements of gameplay, but said that the frame rate had noticeable issues. Rating the game a 6/10, Nintendo Life similarly cited the pixel art and soundtrack as strengths,… (Wikipedia)
Kingdom, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Kingdom vs other series
How Kingdom stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Kingdom games are there?
We hold 2 Kingdom games in the catalogue, released between 2015 and 2016. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Kingdom game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Kingdom: Classic rates highest at 7.7. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Kingdom games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2015 to 2016. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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