It is time to rejoice, Your Highness, for your kingdom has grown and is now encompassing even more lands. Will you conquer them all, or succumb to the darkness" It is time to find out! Last year's Kingdom was a bit of a smash hit, catapulting "unpublisher" Raw Fury and developers Noio and Licorice into the limelight. The aptly titled Kingdom: New Lands is a free upgrade for owners of the game and also marks its console debut as an Xbox One exclusive. It adds new content including different mounts, mysterious new characters, a revamped endgame, and the introduction of seasons.

Once again, you play as a monarch whose only means of interacting with the environments is by spending money. Want to recruit some workers" Toss them a coin. Want a structure to be built" Pay up and your subjects will get to it. Better be quick with fortifying your settlement though, as monsters will attack your village every night. There is now a ship to be built in each land, which transports you into the next, bigger area. Compared to the original approach of "just try to survive somehow" this sets a new direction for your efforts and adds more purpose to the early game.
Even if you've already played Kingdom for hours upon hours, there's lots of new stuff to discover here. If this is your first foray into royalty, you're in for a treat of lovely pixel graphics and an amazing electronic soundtrack. It's not an easy game, but it's easy to fall in love w...