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Cave to Kingdom

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32%Game Brain Score
gameplay, graphics
story, grinding
32% User Score Based on 362 reviews

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Cave to Kingdom is a multiplayer casual strategy game. It was developed by Iubisoft System SRL and was released on December 18, 2019. It received negative reviews from players.

Cave to Kingdom is a cross platform 3D online medieval management & strategy game, featuring a single persistent universe with player driven economy, war, and taxes.

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32%
Audience ScoreBased on 362 reviews
gameplay6 positive mentions
grinding8 negative mentions

  • The game has a unique concept of building a kingdom in real-time, allowing players to see the construction process piece by piece.
  • The graphics and attention to detail in animations are impressive, making the gameplay visually appealing.
  • The game offers a relaxing experience, as players can log in periodically to manage their kingdom without the pressure of constant engagement.
  • The game is extremely slow-paced, with building and resource gathering taking an impractically long time, leading to player frustration.
  • Progression is heavily gated by a paywall, requiring players to spend real money to obtain necessary resources and upgrades, making it difficult for free-to-play users to advance.
  • Many features and mechanics are still incomplete or poorly explained, leaving players confused and unable to fully enjoy the game.
  • story
    52 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's story revolves around a series of missions that players must complete to progress, but many find the pacing frustratingly slow and the reliance on in-game purchases for essential resources detracts from the experience. Players often feel trapped by the mission structure, which limits creativity and forces them to follow a linear path, leading to a sense of being stuck in an unfinished state. While some appreciate the potential for future improvements, the current narrative and gameplay mechanics leave much to be desired, with many expressing dissatisfaction over the lack of freedom and the overwhelming need for real money to advance.

    • “Absolute riveting gameplay, ever intriguing story, and everything I could ever hope for in a video game.”
    • “But I will admit that it's weird that a runaway prince found this new land and has not come in contact with whoever is the owner of the land and is already being taxed. For story-wise, it would be best if they waited until you at least have a source of food coming in before they start taxing you.”
    • “You're given a series of basic cutscenes setting the story.”
    • “The game seems to be in a perpetually unfinished state with a lot of bugs and rough edges, and there seems to be no path forward after trying to complete the military mission.”
    • “The missions are basically the tutorial, took me about a week or more to do them because of issues with the economy and glitches within the game.”
    • “You cannot create your own kingdom as you have to follow the missions religiously.”
  • gameplay
    27 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is characterized by a slow-paced, idle experience where players primarily watch AI characters build and manage a village, often leading to frustration due to lengthy construction times and a reliance on pay-to-win mechanics. While some players appreciate the building realism and detail, many criticize the lack of engaging interaction and the game's unfinished feel, with significant barriers for free-to-play users. Overall, the gameplay offers potential but requires substantial improvements and content to enhance player engagement.

    • “Absolute riveting gameplay, ever intriguing story, and everything I could ever hope for in a video game.”
    • “I love how they did the step-by-step process with the game mechanics; watching them build, gather, and fish is pretty good.”
    • “The gameplay is slow-paced, and you will log in every so often to set up tasks for your workers and manage for a bit. It's a fun in-between, and it's amazing to come back hours later to see what your citizens have done while you were sleeping.”
    • “Gameplay is slow and boring; it's basically an idle/AFK game.”
    • “It's an unfinished, hardly legible, and poorly developed mash of game mechanics that are so aggressively built against any F2P player making any degree of progression, that I honestly would have felt better playing if it had given me a price tag up front if it meant being able to do something beyond clicking two buttons every 24-48 hours and logging back out.”
    • “Slow-paced gameplay (now this may be considered a hyper-realism game, but even still it takes way too long no matter your placement. The time requirements for construction, training, etc. are based on real-life time. So if it takes 10 hours to train one person, then you will have to wait 10 hours in real life. Same goes with everything else. There is no speed up or faster options. This aside from being a P2P game, it's a play it once every 24 hours game, like one of those mobile games that have the energy bar).”
  • graphics
    17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics of the game receive mixed reviews, with some players praising their stunning medieval style and overall quality, while others criticize them as outdated or reminiscent of low-budget titles. Many agree that while the visuals are appealing, they could be improved, and some feel that the graphics were compromised for gameplay mechanics. Overall, the graphics are seen as a strong point for the game, but not without room for enhancement.

    • “The graphics are superb and stunning, and the concept of building a medieval town and exploring the world is great.”
    • “I like the graphics and the medieval style of the game, and I was glad to discover such a game.”
    • “It looks really good; I mean the concept, graphic forms, and animation. I really want to play with this.”
    • “The game is extremely slow (first tutorial mission will take hours to complete), the voice actors sound like the Google Translator voice, and the graphics are made of standard assets from Unity 4 and 5, making it look like any cheap hobby game from 5 years ago.”
    • “Graphics were certainly sacrificed in favor of game mechanics, and it is an amazing and slow-paced MMORTS approach.”
    • “For a browser game or a mobile game, this might be okay, if you don't care about the insanely bad voice acting or the horrible graphics, I guess.”
  • grinding
    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The grinding aspect of the game is described as extremely demanding, with players needing to invest significant time or money to progress. While some find the challenge entertaining, many criticize the pay-to-win mechanics that heavily favor those willing to spend real money, making it difficult for free-to-play users to advance without extensive grinding. Overall, the game may appeal to those with patience or financial resources, but it poses significant barriers for casual players.

    • “Tried this game and the developers have pushed it to the point you need to purchase 'coins' to progress even if you do the long haul of grinding out resources to sell on the market. The tax system is designed to drain your resources, so the only way is to purchase their coins.”
    • “Farming buildings require 'seeds' that can only be bought through the market using 'cave coins', which can be bought in-game (for an extreme amount of gold which is currently unattainable by free-to-play players) or bought on the game developers' website with real-life money.”
    • “While an interesting idea, this game is far too pay-to-win. The current cost just to buy a seed for farming is around 22k in-game gold for the 8.5 'cave coins' needed to buy it, which will take someone not paying to win a couple of months or more to earn.”
  • stability
    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's stability is heavily criticized, with users reporting numerous bugs, frequent freezes, and glitches that hinder progress, such as issues with mission completion and cursor functionality. Overall, players describe the experience as frustratingly unstable and slow, significantly impacting gameplay.

    • “A buggy mess.”
    • “Game freezes on 'select your kingdom location'.”
    • “Glitches that will not let the game move forward.”
  • humor
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The humor in the game is derived from its absurd mechanics, such as the AI's comically inefficient building process and the amusingly bad voice acting, which consistently elicits laughter. Players find joy in naming their citizens with funny names and appreciate the game's ability to blend frustration with humor, making it a lighthearted experience overall.

    • “The best way to play this is to log in once or twice a day to check in on your kingdom, set some new building goals, and give your new citizens funny names.”
    • “And if all this still hasn't convinced you to play, I would just install it because of the terrible and hilarious voice acting; it just doesn't stop putting a smile on my face :).”
    • “Considering so far the entire gameplay is watching the AI build up a house, it's almost comically funny to me that the literal core mechanic keeps breaking.”
  • music
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is generally praised for its calming and relaxing qualities, making it suitable for creating a soothing atmosphere. However, some players find the repetitive nature of the soundtrack tiresome, leading to mixed feelings about its overall impact on the gaming experience.

    • “The relaxing soundtrack is sleep-inducing.”
    • “The soundtrack is so calming and relaxing.”
    • “- I got tired because of the same music over and over.”
    • “Music is alright.”
  • monetization
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The monetization aspect of the game is heavily criticized, with users labeling it as a blatant cash grab that detracts from the overall experience. Players express frustration over high in-game taxes and server issues that hinder gameplay, while also voicing concerns about the inclusion of microtransactions, which they believe undermine the game's potential.

    • “This game has so much potential! Please keep working at it; I want to see something cool like this come to fruition, but it won't happen if you add microtransactions and all this other mobile game nonsense.”
    • “It is an obvious cash grab that continually fails to connect to its own server, so you cannot build resources which are used to pay the exorbitant taxes incurred right out of the gate.”
    • “What they say is true, this is just a cash grab; not a fun game to play, nothing really to do but watch the people like sea monkeys.”
    • “This game has so much potential; please keep working at it. I want to see something cool like this come to fruition, but it won't happen if you add microtransactions and all this other mobile game nonsense.”
  • optimization
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game is widely criticized for its poor optimization, causing excessive heat and high resource usage on powerful hardware, such as GPUs and CPUs. Players report significant performance issues, indicating that it requires a substantial amount of RAM and overall feels unpolished and frustrating to play.

    • “This game is not the most optimized and takes a decent amount of RAM.”
    • “On a second note, this is either the most unoptimized game ever or a bitcoin miner because it was running my 2080 to nearly 100°C and my 9700K to around 90°C.”
    • “Lastly, this game is not the most optimized and takes a decent amount of RAM.”
    • “I will probably keep updating this game (it is a simulation, a very slow - very poorly optimized feudal simulation) for a few more days and see if things get better, but as it is - it is really a waste of time and not very enjoyable.”
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Cave to Kingdom is a casual strategy game.

Cave to Kingdom is available on PC, Windows and Linux.

On average players spend around 6 hours playing Cave to Kingdom.

Cave to Kingdom was released on December 18, 2019.

Cave to Kingdom was developed by Iubisoft System SRL.

Cave to Kingdom has received negative reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its gameplay but disliked it for its story.

Cave to Kingdom is a multiplayer game.

Similar games include Rise of Cultures: Kingdom game, Forge of Empires, Sea Port: Cargo Boat Tycoon, Life is Feudal: MMO, Stronghold Kingdoms and others.