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

Kingdom Eighties is an 80’s-inspired base-building sport the place you must defend your city in opposition to greed whereas serving to your mates and studying extra about your loved ones.

You play as a younger character known as The Chief who rides their bike, shifting rapidly from one aspect of the display screen to the opposite, recruiting youngsters that will help you construct bases. These bases might be upgraded, weapons might be solid, and instruments might be made in your child helpers to make use of.

At first, there isn’t actually a proof as to why the Greed are showing or why they’re destroying the land that you simply reside on, however you will want to cease them anyway. Recruiting youngsters is straightforward, however they typically get captured by the Greed, so having greater children to assist your mission is what you’ll find yourself needing to do. Every of the extra, key characters within the sport have a quest that must be accomplished in order that they’ll allow you to.

These varied characters additionally include a narrative to provide you extra of an perception on who these persons 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 sequence, providing you with a brand new look on what you will have 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 via rising your base and serving to your mates. Kingdom Eighties seems like a really effectively polished, balanced, enjoyable to play sport – and it’s not even out but! It’s very a lot price keeping track of.



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

Jupiter Hadley

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