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Kinghill fuses the strategy of a worker placement game with the drama and tension of a deck-building card battler to create a fantasy game like no other.
Two rival kingdoms are locked in a deadly battle for survival – play on your own or with a friend to determine who’s worthy of the Moonstones’ incredible power!
Train your workers, gather valuable resources, and recruit legendary heroes as you muster your forces for battle. Then – when the time’s right – take the fight to their castle! But be careful you don’t leave yourself open for a powerful counterattack…
Your decisions unfold over nine turns to produce a rewarding campaign that can be enjoyed in 90 minutes or less.
There’s much to learn if you want to succeed, as the tides of battle shift around you. Adjust your tactics accordingly to come out on top, with many possible routes to victory. Some secrets will only be uncovered after multiple playthroughs, with dozens of powerful card interactions, devastating spells, and mighty units awaiting discovery.
Lead your kingdom to victory in Kinghill!
Kinghill: Discussion
- Low price point
- Lot of variety in units to buy
- Worker placement is a strong core mechanic
- Good replayability due to randomized events and varied cards
- Can build differently and get different builds
- Thematic mining locations make sense
- Living Wall building adds castle health and regenerates
- Innovative combination of worker placement and 1v1 skirmish
- Combat can be too random or too slow
- Healing mechanics can lead to slow games or stalemates
- Too much replayability can make cards overwhelming
- Difficulty understanding what cards do due to variety
- Card options can feel cheap or annoying
- Too many choices on cards
- Engine building can quickly lead to dealing damage
- Can snowball into dealing damage
- Spells can be too powerful or offer uncounterable healing
- No dedicated healer unit
- Combat can be anticlimactic and not interactive enough
- Defender can sometimes 'win' by just preventing damage
- Rulebook is atrocious and lacks clarity
- Units are not equally costed or powerful
- Heroes feel weak and unimpactful
- Market cycling can be detrimental to builds
- Defeating your opponent's castle
- My Realms
- Key Forge
- Everdell
- Lost Ruins of Arnak
- Doom Imperium
- Magic: The Gathering
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Implied by the goal of attacking and defending a castle.
- Deck Building — Players acquire cards that provide various abilities and actions.
- Engine Building — Players can build up their resources and abilities to create an efficient system.
- Resource Management — Players must manage resources like gold and magic crystals to perform actions and hire units.
- Skirmish — The game involves direct combat between opponents, aiming to defeat the other's castle.
- Worker Placement — The core mechanic involves placing workers to gather resources and perform actions.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- fine tune it fix your damn rule book because that is atrocious
- the best part about this game I think is the work replacement stuff oh yeah but that's because it's work Replacements and work replacement is the best anyway
- we don't really seem to like the Spells I think the Spells kind of are my biggest complaint because they they add in a sandbag of healing right which is dumb