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How is Kingdom Two Crowns So Addictive?!
A love letter to a game with just one button, a slow horse, and some wooden walls that somehow hijacked five hours of my life.
No, seriously. How?
You’re telling me traveling from place to place on horseback, stopping only here and there to hold A to deposit some coins is somehow addictive and that I just played 5 hours of this shit? Now I have brain fog. I don’t know why I didn’t take a bath today. Or yesterday? I don’t even want to go out anymore. Or talk to anyone.
Who designs a game like that?
It takes so long to get to each place too. A whole in-game day even to go from the left edge of this camp-turned-kingdom to the right. You don’t wanna give me some kinda button to boost this retarded donkey? Maybe just one button if you time it right and boom! Suddenly lord huffs-a-lot gets some pepper up his ass.

I don’t even know why I want to get where I’m going, faster. It’s just so I can press and hold A so some stacks of wood turn into stone walls, and then when I have more money, the stone walls turn to rock walls, oh look there’s a mound of mud there, that can be another stack of wood, and if I get enough money I can turn it into a stone wall and…
What the hell is wrong with me? Why?
Can’t you add some action for god’s sake. Let me have some more buttons at least? I like pressing buttons. I’m good at it. I’m pressing them now. Tap. Tap. Tap. (Is this meta humor?)
I don’t know. I really don’t. The art looks pretty I guess. The little builders look cute with their hammers somehow cutting down trees so I can add a mill to my little continent spanning empire.
And what’s with that water reflection? It’s so calm and beautiful. Every wave has this parallax effect in motion that I just can’t ignore how serene it makes me feel.

I mean I get that I don’t sound serene right now. Senile more like.
I don’t even know why it’s bothering me so much. It’s a cozy game. You’re supposed to relax and expand. Like me on my birthday.
I don’t like feeling happy, game! So don’t try your little tricks.
Demand more of me. Make me do more things. Make me press buttons in order, in time, in the correct place, I want to feel like I matter. But you are just treating me like…
Like I am a king.