Kingdom Eighties Review – Never Gonna Give It Up

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The latest installment in the popular Kingdom series, Kingdom Eighties, has arrived like an Easter egg-filled blast from the slightly more recent past.

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It is also the first game in the series that I have played. The series was familiar to me but not something I had placed high on my priorities.

Kingdom Eighties comes from publisher Raw Fury and appeared on my social media radar. I am a sucker for 1980s media, and after following the game’s development for a bit, I decided to pick it up immediately.

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In the case of Kingdom Eighties, you are a teenager known only as Leader who takes up the hero’s mantle with a group of friends. Your friends are Champ, Tinkerer, and Wiz.

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KINGDOM EIGHTES INVOKES EVERYTHING I LOVE ABOUT 1980S CULTURE You grow your army by dropping coins to civilians in the Kingdom series. From there, your new recruits can take up several different jobs.

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Initially, only two jobs were available for civilians, archers and builders. The archers will go beyond your camp walls and hunt the wildlife, which will drop coins. Whenever the archers go past you, they drop the collected coins.

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In the original series, some farmers generate a lot of coins by harvesting crops. In Kingdom Eighties, there were other opportunities to generate precious coinage.

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KINGDOM EIGHTIES WEARS ITS INFLUENCES ON ITS SLEEVE Each level of the game is a different area of town. You start at the summer camp and make your way through the goop-covered and deserted streets of town toward the mall to rescue the adults.

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Kingdom Eighties Review – Never Gonna Give It Up

The latest installment in the popular Kingdom series, Kingdom Eighties, has arrived like an Easter egg-filled blast from the slightly more recent past.

It is also the first game in the series that I have played. The series was familiar to me but not something I had placed high on my priorities.

Kingdom Eighties comes from publisher Raw Fury and appeared on my social media radar. I am a sucker for 1980s media, and after following the game’s development for a bit, I decided to pick it up immediately.

In the case of Kingdom Eighties, you are a teenager known only as Leader who takes up the hero’s mantle with a group of friends. Your friends are Champ, Tinkerer, and Wiz.

KINGDOM EIGHTES INVOKES EVERYTHING I LOVE ABOUT 1980S CULTURE You grow your army by dropping coins to civilians in the Kingdom series. From there, your new recruits can take up several different jobs.

Initially, only two jobs were available for civilians, archers and builders. The archers will go beyond your camp walls and hunt the wildlife, which will drop coins. Whenever the archers go past you, they drop the collected coins.

In the original series, some farmers generate a lot of coins by harvesting crops. In Kingdom Eighties, there were other opportunities to generate precious coinage.

KINGDOM EIGHTIES WEARS ITS INFLUENCES ON ITS SLEEVE Each level of the game is a different area of town. You start at the summer camp and make your way through the goop-covered and deserted streets of town toward the mall to rescue the adults.

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