Times of change - In Kingdoms Reborn, a building and economic simulation from the house of Earthshine the players take the sceptre in their hands and must create a magnificent civilization from a handful of settlers. Players must have a certain understanding of the world in order to advance the progress of the population.
The location, the location, the location
The cornerstone of every civilization is the area in which the first settlers are to settle. Kingdoms Reborn offers various biomes for this purpose, which differ greatly from one another and offer different advantages and disadvantages. If you start in a mixed forest, for example, you will have green meadows and lots of trees around you, providing fertile ground for new agricultural crops. In the sandy deserts, on the other hand, it is hot and dry, but there are more earth treasures. Snow landscapes again offer many fish and wild animals with thick skins that are easy to sell.
As the game world is always randomly generated when a game is restarted, players can never know in advance what fate has in store for them. Sometimes the initial areas are favorable to them, but the expansion is more difficult and in other rounds the beginning is difficult, but promises better prospects later on.
Become the master of all classes in Kingdoms Reborn
With Kingdoms Reborn it is not enough to nudge the settlers in the right direction so that they develop into a successful nation. The players must ensure that the settlers can provide themselves with food and raw materials and that they build up an economy over time. As soon as a civilization reaches a certain size, the citizens develop a need for politics, religion and the like.
As the leader of a nation, players must always keep an eye on what the citizens need and where their interests lie. If the inhabitants are dissatisfied, they can quickly rebel against the authorities and cause unrest and conflict. This can destroy a young civilization faster than a hurricane or a flood. Only the right hand in building and managing the Civilizations helps to enable the residents to lead a happy life.
Geopolitical duel
For players looking for an additional challenge, the developers of Earthshine have also added the option of multiplayer games to their game Kingdoms Reborn. This allows several players to come together on a map to compete in building and managing their own civilizations. Players can trade with each other, for example to help each other out with resources that may be scarce in their own areas. But they also have the option of slowing down their fellow players in their expansion, stealing land or resources from them or causing political conflicts.
A competition of the technological Progress can be the deciding factor. After all, the game offers large-scale research trees with which players can not only explore new ways to expand their civilizations, but also discover tactical ways to eliminate opposing players. The game does away with military units and the options of war. Instead, players collect influence points over the course of a game, which they can use, for example, to influence the population of other players in order to persuade them to take over peacefully. In the end, the players who have both their natural Resources as well as their influence in the most meaningful way.