‘Kingdom Eighties’ Overcomes Hazard by Constructing Bases With Childhood Buddies

Kingdom Eighties is an 80’s-inspired base-building recreation the place it is advisable to defend your city towards greed whereas serving to your folks and studying extra about your loved ones.

You play as a younger character referred to as The Chief who rides their bike, transferring shortly from one facet of the display screen to the opposite, recruiting kids that can assist you construct bases. These bases may be upgraded, weapons may be cast, and instruments may be made in your child helpers to make use of.

At first, there isn’t actually an evidence as to why the Greed are showing or why they’re destroying the land that you just reside on, however you have to to cease them anyway. Recruiting kids is simple, however they typically get captured by the Greed, so having larger children to assist your mission is what you’ll find yourself needing to do. Every of the extra, key characters within the recreation have a quest that must be accomplished in order that they are going to enable you.

These varied characters additionally include a narrative to present you extra of an perception on who these individuals are and the way they’re associated to you and your journey. This, I’m informed, additionally dives into the lore and worldbuilding of the earlier video games within the collection, providing you with a brand new look on what you’ve got beforehand seen within the different video games.

I had an opportunity to play a restricted demo of Kingdom Eighties, the place I actually fell in love with the visible and the fantastic thing about the sport, however caught round for the items of story that may be uncovered by means of rising your base and serving to your folks. Kingdom Eighties appears like a really effectively polished, balanced, enjoyable to play recreation – and it’s not even out but! It’s very a lot value maintaining a tally of.



Kingdom Eighties is presently in growth, however within the meantime, you possibly can add it to your Steam Wishlist.

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Large Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and plenty of extra, all with a deal with smaller indie gems. She covers 1000’s of recreation jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each recreation have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of the entire recreation jams happening on this planet, judges many jams and occasions. Jupiter can be the Adept Video games Wizard at Armor Video games.