Kingdom Two Crowns News

Monarchs! The free Conquest Update arrives Tuesday, Nov 16th, bringing with it a host of updates and improvements to all the settings of Kingdom Two Crowns (original, Shogun, and Dead Lands). Once installed, all changes will be in effect from both new games and existing saves. Here are some highlights to get you excited for and thinking about your next reign.

Firstly, the Citizen House. This new structure provides a solution for recruiting new citizens after clearing out a vagrant camp. Maybe you want to make a clean-looking kingdom. Perhaps you accidentally cleared around your last camp. Whatever the reason, vagrant camp ruins can now be rebuilt into a Citizen House. Once constructed, it will provide a ready source of new citizens, albeit at a higher cost.

Next, Archers! We told them to stop wandering out to towers at night. While we were at it, we encouraged them not to man towers that were really far from the borders either. They'll now abandon towers that end up too deep in your Kingdom and look for something useful to do. We kindly instructed them how to take advantage of their height to shoot farther, and they'll also hunt from their tower during the daytime now, making better use of their spare time. Don't get too overconfident in their improvements, as an all-archer army might not stand up as well as it used to.

Lastly, balance changes. Catapults and ballista towers have improved accuracy and damage (very satisfying in action). We refined the way Blood Moon and Retaliation waves work. They'll no longer clear incorrectly, leaving your Kingdom defenceless and vulnerable. Enemy waves will cycle between Blood Moons and recovery waves more consistently; expect Blood Moons to get more frequent as the game goes on. Greed now defend Portals with more fervour as well, and you can expect them to ramp up their response as you get further into the game: you're going to be needing those trusty knights!

Those are just a few gameplay highlights that we believe will vastly improve your experience. On top of gameplay changes, we have tech updates and upgrades. Let's just say players with wide and ultrawide monitors will get an improved overview of their Kingdom. Monarchs, prepare to reign over your best Kingdom ever.

Until next time, safe travels.

Welcome royalty, one and all. Dismount and take a seat by the hearth where we shall tell tales of adventures past. Hopefully, you will be wiser once you leave. We want to thank you for taking this journey; you and 10,000 new travellers have quickly entered our lands!



We really hope you'll enjoy what you see and, if so inclined, make the journey to our Norse Lands on the 16th of November. Perhaps even take a peek at what's in store with our game demo.

Not ventured forth but are interested? Well... There's a 60% sale on steam right now; what would be a better time than now to check it out, especially with Norse Lands out next week. If you don't wish to go alone, invite a friend. Two Crowns can be played co-op; share your experiences together.

Looking for folks to play with? Well, look no further as we'll be setting up a system on our official Discord where you will be able to create chat and voice rooms for your session and ping folks who're interested in playing. More information on how this will work will be released later this week.

You can check out our tomes of knowledge on our events page (especially if you're hungry for more details about Norse Lands and The Conquest Update). We welcome you to share with us your excitement on the Steam forums and across social media.

Until we talk soon, safe travels.

Raw Fury und das von Gordon Van Dyke ins Leben gerufene Entwicklerstudio Stumpy Squid haben den Releasetermin für die erste Premium-Erweiterung zur Strategie-Simulation Kingdom: Two Crowns bekannt gegeben. "Norse Lands enthält viele Verbesserungen und neue Features, wie eine nordische Spielwelt, neue Gameplay-Elemente bis [...]

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Norse Lands comes as a big moment for us. Living and working in Sweden the Scandinavian spirit runs strong. Its cultural heritage for survival and exploration felt like such a natural fit as we continued to explore new settings and cultures for the game. Everything finally aligned and we set about making a complete Viking experience drawn from those influences that keeps the core of what makes Kingdom fun.

The result is Norse Lands, a new full campaign inspired by the Viking culture of 1000 C.E.. Players can look forward to leading a strong people where everyone takes up arms to join the fight, unleash powers drawn from the legends of Norse gods, command mighty units, build Viking-inspired armaments, solve challenging puzzles, and face a new enemy type that has joined the Greed.

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During the development of Norse Lands we went through all your feedback and added it to our own wishlist for improvements to make in the game. This work resulted in a number of welcome changes and improvements that we wanted for all the settings in Kingdom Two Crowns. We’re calling it the Conquest update. It is a free update available to everyone with the game at the same time that Norse Lands comes out.

Here are some things to look forward to. There is the new Citizen House that can be built on the ruins of a vagrant camp that gives you a ready supply of new citizens - at a cost of coin. The townspeople received coaching to address some of their annoying habits. As a result, they are now better at their jobs. Battle also sees refinements, including the pace of enemy waves, unit balance, decay, and this is just to name a few. Check out developer blog posts if you are interested in more details about the gameplay updates. The complete patch notes will be available shortly on the forums so keep an eye out for those as well.

Get ready, Monarch, your best Kingdom yet awaits.

For Norse Lands we wanted the monuments to feel more epic and fantastical. The pixel art for these by Franek breathes life into this in such a special way!