In September, a board game app based on the 2007 game Kingsburg took the gaming community by surprise. We often hear about upcoming board game ports way in advance of their release, but Kingsburg appeared so suddenly on the App Store [for US$4.99] that someone submitted it as Kinsburg, which made it kind of hard to search for in the early weeks of its release. The typo has now been fixed, so if the game sounds interesting to you after reading this review, you know it’ll be easy to find.
What is Kingsburg (subtitled “Serving the Crown”) all about? It’s a light, fun strategy game with plenty of luck and a good helping of “screw-your-neighbor” involved. You play an advisor to the king – or maybe a duke with his own duchy, something like that – and you spend five “years” gaining resources, erecting buildings, and preparing for invasions of evil armies with things like barbarians and zombies. It’s fun once you know what you’re doing. Continue reading for more.
App Review: Kingsburg (née Kinsburg) rolls strategy and frustrating your opponents into one fun game originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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