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Kingdom Two Crowns: Challenge Islands represents the greatest challenge ever seen for hardened veteran monarchs. Can you survive long enough to claim the Gold Crown?

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Kingdom Two Crowns: Challenge Islands is a free update. There are three different Challenge Islands to begin with, each tailored for the lonesome monarch as there’s no co-op to help lighten the burden of the difficult challenges ahead. We plan to add additional Challenge Islands further down the road.



With the new Dire Wolf mount as your aid, protect its pup at all costs. No crown, no monarch. No pup, no monarch! Now build the boat and try to escape as you run to as many islands as possible before the inevitable.



Time is running out and you must destroy the Greed Lairs, that’s right “Lairs”, PLURAL! With a Greed Lair on each side and several Greed Portals in between this challenge is fit for only the gods that walk amongst Monarchs. And don’t forget about the volcano that is waiting to explode!



This land has been overrun and on the brink of succumbing to the Greed… FOREVER! And now a fearsome pandemic is transforming citizens into Greed. The only thing you can do is try to survive as long as possible until your Kingdom is nothing but Greed.

Can you survive the toughest obstacles to claim the Gold Crown on each Challenge Island? We doubt it!

Kingdom Two Crowns: Challenge Islands represents the greatest challenge ever seen for hardened veteran monarchs. Can you survive long enough to claim the Gold Crown?

Kingdom Two Crowns: Challenge Islands is a free update coming on August 29th! These themed islands offer an alternative experience to the campaign with tougher roguelike gameplay and each with its own custom rules. Drawing inspiration from Kingdom: Classic and Kingdom: New Lands, each challenge takes place on a unique land with a single attempt to conquer it. If you lose your crown, you lose the game.

Each Challenge Island has associated goals to overcome and rewards you with a Bronze, Silver, or Gold Crown when you reach their milestones. The acclaimed Gold Crown is very difficult to obtain, you’ll have to be a very strategic monarch with plenty of experience to survive long enough to even be within reach. These are truly formidable challenges for the most experienced of monarchs!

There are three different Challenge Islands to begin with, each tailored for the lonesome monarch as there’s no co-op to help lighten the burden of the difficult challenges ahead. We plan to add additional Challenge Islands further down the road.



With the new Dire Wolf mount as your aid, protect its pup at all costs. No crown, no monarch. No pup, no monarch! Now build the boat and try to escape as you run to as many islands as possible before the inevitable.





Time is running out and you must destroy the Greed Lairs, that’s right “Lairs”, PLURAL! With a Greed Lair on each side and several Greed Portals in between this challenge is fit for only the gods that walk amongst Monarchs. And don’t forget about the volcano that is waiting to explode!





This land has been overrun and on the brink of succumbing to the Greed… FOREVER! And now a fearsome pandemic is transforming citizens into Greed. The only thing you can do is try to survive as long as possible until your Kingdom is nothing but Greed.



Can you survive the toughest obstacles to claim the Gold Crown on each Challenge Island? We doubt it!

Challenge Islands will launch as a free update to Kingdom Two Crowns in late summer.

You will find a new Steed on one of the Challenge Islands. What does it mean?

We know for sure that it will be one of the greatest challenges ever seen for hardened veteran monarchs…

Hello Fellow Rulers! Small update to the previous beta build. Now that we've tackled some of the more difficult issues and the big winter changes we've starting getting towards the pace of new updates. Beware though, these are for the more adventurous to test and will at times have new features in an incomplete state. You'll also typically need to delete all campaign saves between updates. If this sounds exciting to you the reward is a sneak peek into what is coming. :)

Features: These will be very vague to get feedback from a blind perspective.

• Dock Greed is less passive
  
• Expanded tutorial
  
• Blazon editor
  
• Shogun Blazon
  
• Denser feeling forest
  
• New Save Slot Art
  

Known issues: These we know about

• Foliage not correctly aligned in shogun biome.
  
• In local coop foliage layer for player one shows for player two.
  
• Hints only in English (Loc for all other languages will be added)
  
• Emblem buttons still activated in blazon editor when playing in shogun biome.
  

Fixes: Would love to get feedback if these are fixed for players experiencing these in the Winter Update

• Potential fix for players experiencing broken save issues. 
  
• Fix for boat getting stuck due to greed snatching hermit(s) right before the player sails away with the boat.

Key Things to Look At: Below are areas we need extra focus on to find as many possible bugs or issues with to fix before going public.

• Expanded tutorial
  
• Blazon editor
  
• Denser feeling forest
  
  

How to Access the Public Test Branch:

1. Right Click Kingdom Two Crowns in your Steam library.
   
2. Go to properties.
   
3. Go to the “BETAS” tab.
   
4. Select “public-test” in the drop-down menu.
   
5. Restart steam.
   

Dear Monarchs!

We’d like to thank everyone that eagerly built their kingdoms spanning across many lands, each filled with secrets to be discovered. As your kingdoms expanded for each passing day, the seasons were passing as well. Eventually winter comes, which can be very harsh if your coffers are empty, making you hunker down behind safety of the walls as the Greed descend upon your Kingdom to pillage during the night. In the previous game Kingdom: New Lands, the intention was to escape the land with winter being the end state. In Kingdom Two Crowns however you must persevere through winter to spring and end the Greed. However, there is good news, the citizens have discovered new ways to be more active during winter allowing for more options to continue your plight against the Greed. Read below for more details:

• Hunting during winter: While the smaller animals go into winter hibernation, there’s other animals that suddenly appear as the snow starts falling on the ground. But beware that you must first find this menacing animal deep in the forest, and once confronted it’s much tougher than the regular small game that roamed outside the walls of your kingdom during spring, summer and autumn.
  
  
  
  
• Foraging during winter: Since the farms can’t harvest during winter, the Farmers have discovered foraging to bring in a bit of extra income. It’s not much but every bit helps.
  
  
  
  
• Shinobi: Who says being a stealth warrior at night is all we’re good for?! During long nights of waiting in ambush the Shinobi came up with a brilliant way to pass time during the day instead of just sleeping.
  
  
  
  
• Introducing the Gem Chest: Those gems sure are a heavy burden to carry around while you explore for valuable upgrades to use gems on. Now you can lighten your purse and store the gems in a stone chest. This appears by the Wharf once you’ve upgraded your Kingdom to a Stone Castle. Storing gems is a costly business, so it won’t be free for the Monarch to offload those precious gems.
  
  
  
  
• Other updates: In addition to the above there’s also fixes and changes such as an upgrade to the Stable to make switch Steeds more affordable, improving appearance of shops on the edge of your kingdom walls as you expand, and optimisation of save data compression, to mention a few. We have also included Brazilian-Portuguese as a language option and improved the Russian text.
  

SteamOS (Linux)
Kingdom Two Crowns is coming soon to Linux. For eager monarchs, there’s a beta branch that can be tested on Steam. Please provide us with feedback and reports bugs by using this form.

What holds the future for Kingdom Two Crowns?
In the immediate future there will be more quality of life updates like this Winter update. We promised new locations similar to the Japanese setting in Shogun. These will be coming later down the road and all we can say is that it will be worth the wait! But before venturing into completely new lands, there will be an update with Challenge Islands. These offer an alternative experience to the campaign with a tougher roguelike gameplay and custom rules. More on that later. Now venture forth and overthrow the Greed!