Review: Tiny Little Kingdoms (Android/Mobile)

Tiny Little Kingdoms is a mix of a board game and a kingdom building strategy game, in which you can create your very own tiny kingdom!

Pros:

• Nice hand-drawn graphics.
• 49.95mb download size.
• strategy gameplay.
• Has its own in-game achievements.
• Tutorial pop-ups that can be toggled on and off.
• Boardgame presentation.
• full touchscreen control.
• Upbeat soundtrack.
• Can play in landscape or portrait mode.
• Show a framerate option.
• Big screen mode. (Acts a bit like zoom in on my Samsung S9 plus)
• Two game types: Campaign and sandbox.
• Sandbox has everything unlocked and no tutorial tips.
• Game-You must place the initial castle piece and then you build places like woodcutter and then the needed sights like forests near the woodcutter to generate resources.
• Has a Carcassonne feel to it.
• In the campaign, you have set goals to achieve like harvest x amount of wood or rock.
• Road network. Once completed you can then auto-complete the board or continue doing it manually.
• The game doesn’t end until all parts of the playboard are filled in.
• You get random tiles given to you as you play.
• Treasure chest-Every game you get given a few random free cards to play. (optional)
• Castle-Spend resources on particular tile pieces and the price increases as you play.
• 3-star rating system for each level.
• You can replay and restart any level.
• Local high score leaderboard.
• At the game end, you can press the eye button for a no hud screenshot.
• Drag and drop control system.
• Every run is randomized.
• Clear pop-ups of resources being generated.
• Very easy to learn.
• Various map sizes.
• Over 20 campaign maps.
• Over 15 sandbox maps.

Cons:

• No online leaderboards.
• No cloud save,
• Doesn’t have Googleplay achievements.
• Save is tied to the game so if you uninstall the game you lose your save.
• Difficulty spikes.
• The initial learning curve on the later resource management.
• Doesn’t say about the building only taking resources from 3 set locations so you can waste time and resources.
• Tutorial text can get small and hard to read with bad formatting.