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Average strategy game pushes purchases, guild politics.
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Lords Mobile: War Kingdom
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What's It About?
LORDS MOBILE: WAR KINGDOM is a free-to-play fantasy mobile game that combines world-building, role-playing, and real-time strategy. In the world-building part, players build kingdoms from scratch: Starting with nothing but small plots of land, they construct buildings, gather resources, train armies, and vanquish enemies, expanding their kingdoms as they go. Each activity has a countdown timer -- anywhere from a minute to several hours -- before it completes. As structures are built and upgraded, players are offered higher amounts of raw material as well as special trading, crafting, and training options. In the role-playing part of the game, players collect a party of heroes with different abilities and guide them through a series of dungeon battles. Heroes become more powerful with experience, and dungeon runs earn them special equipment and other useful items like timer accelerators. Finally, in the real-time strategy part of the game, players (either alone or within cooperative guilds) attack other kingdoms in hopes of winning additional land and resources.
Is It Any Good?
Like other popular strategy apps, this has a fantasy setting, world-building mechanics, player-versus-player combat, and timer countdowns, but its play is dominated by purchases and politics. Anyone who's played this kind of app knows Lords Mobile: War Kingdom is all about watching timers. Everything has a timer: construction, training, research, resource gathering, monster killing, you name it. Though you can speed these timers up with special boosts, most of them must be bought from the in-app store. Another thing about these games: Cooperation is key. The idea is to build a kingdom powerful enough to withstand outside aggression, and that needs to be done quickly and efficiently if you don't want to be picked on by gangs of online bullies. Cooperation's the only way to do that, and it comes in the form of a guild.
You can either join a guild or start your own, combining your strength with that of other players. But there's a price for such alliances. Some guilds view membership as a contract requiring consistent play times, resource commitments, and set hours in-game. On top of that, guild politics can become a commitment in itself as guilds insist on communicating outside the game via text, chat, and email. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but food for thought if you're worried about your kids being overwhelmed or getting friendly with strangers. That said, guilds are the core of this genre, and fans would likely argue they're what make these games great. Certainly, without player-versus-player, these games would mostly consist of tapping buttons and watching timers tick down. Of course, Lords Mobile: War Kingdom does offer a bit of a break from that with its hero system. Heroes can be leveled and skilled up, equipped, and swapped out, and new ones can even be recruited. Ultimately, though, they offer only a temporary respite from the larger competitive game, and your enjoyment of that depends largely on your tolerance for timers, teamwork, and frequent wallet taps.
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App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android
- Pricing structure : Free (Contains optional in-app purchases.)
- Release date : February 26, 2016
- Genre : Strategy Games
- Topics : Fantasy ( Magic ) , Adventures
- Publisher : IGG.com
- Version : 1.93
- Minimum software requirements : Requires iOS 7.0 or later; Android 4.0.3 and up
- Last updated : September 30, 2025
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