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Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster
A kingdom-rebuilding adventure filled with action and strategy! Kingdom's Return is an action RPG where you'll adventure to restore your fallen kingdom. Collect materials in 2D side-scrolling adventure stages, then use them in the strategy part to rebuild your kingdom and power up your characters!
Details
- Released
- April 22, 2026
- Developer
- Inti Creates
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Strategy
- Publisher
- Inti Creates
- Platforms
- PC · Switch · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S · Switch 2
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Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster Reviews
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I've been enjoying Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster quite a lot so let's see what this 2D action game is all about.
It’s easy enough to get sucked into a sort of loop with Kingdom’s Return. You smash your head against a stage until you succeed, slowly levelling up your chosen warrior. Meanwhile, your kingdom takes shape, and the story inches along. It’s comfortable, but I’m not sure how fun it actually is. The graphics are lovely, and the combat is reasonably deep, for sure. But the plot only pokes its head in once in a while, and the city-building is just a reimagined menu screen. If you’re looking for a pixel art side-scrolling action game, you’re in luck. But if you want anything more from the experience...
Despite its beautiful pixel art graphics, the game suffers from repetitive missions.
The once and future kingdom.For the past 30 years, developer Inti Creates has been synonymous with two things: action-platforming and pixel art. [...]
Kingdom’s Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster is a remake of an older mobile game. In adopting a "less is more" approach, however, Inti Creates fails to embrace a key characteristic: player immersion.