- April 23, 2026
- INTI CREATES CO., LTD.
Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster
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About Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster
Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster is a single player city builder game with fantasy and anime themes. It was developed by INTI CREATES CO., LTD. and was released on April 23, 2026. It received mostly positive reviews from both critics and players.
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!









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Reviews
- Charming and cute pixel art with well-animated sprites and a pleasant soundtrack.
- Fun and engaging combat system with multiple playable characters, each having unique playstyles and skills.
- Enjoyable city-building mechanic that provides some strategic element and stat boosts, making the gameplay loop satisfying for short sessions.
- Combat controls feel stiff, unresponsive, and repetitive, leading to a tedious and sometimes unfair experience.
- City-building and upgrade systems are underdeveloped and lack meaningful impact, with many buildings being purely decorative and limited stat bonuses.
- The game suffers from lack of content, shallow story, poor class balance, repetitive enemies, and excessive victory animations that hurt game pacing.
gameplay
27 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay offers a simple, skill-based action loop focused on attacking and blocking with modest variety across four characters, though it can feel repetitive and lacks depth. While the town-building mechanic adds a strategic layer, it often feels underdeveloped and largely inconsequential to overall gameplay. Overall, it provides casual fun but may not satisfy players seeking challenge, variety, or a richer gameplay experience.
“I enjoyed the knight character because they have a parry mechanic, and it feels great to play especially as you unlock more abilities.”
“The gameplay loop involves completing different quests by exploring procedurally generated 2D levels, allowing you to improve your city and your characters.”
“4 characters with each having their own gameplay style for better and for worse.”
“The gameplay loop gets old fast.”
“Its main mechanic is lobbing potions that have an arc that's just large enough to be annoying to use, only 2 of its chemical shots are any good, and its skills are all either impractical to use in stages because of their cost or useless for boss fights because of their very low hitboxes.”
“This game is like 2 hours of content stretched into 7-8 in the worst way possible, like genuinely the core gameplay is fine, not exceptional and they made some weird decisions about mobility, but it's way too simple for its length but it didn't have to be this long, if this was the 7-ish dungeons back to back with one of each of the boss fights sprinkled I'd probably tell you to play it but it's like every dungeon is split into 3+ quests and you have to walk back through the overworld every time you do another one, then redo a fist full of rooms before getting to the new ones, and it's like at every turn they try to milk what little content they have for as much playtime as possible and it's just profoundly tedious for no reason.”
Critic Reviews
Frequently Asked Questions
Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster is a city builder game with fantasy and anime themes. Common tags for Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster include trading, 2d, pixel graphics, action rpg and cute.
Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5 and others.
Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster was released on April 23, 2026.
Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster was developed by INTI CREATES CO., LTD..
Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster has received mostly positive reviews from both players and critics. Most players liked Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster for its graphics but disliked it for its gameplay.
Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster is a single player game.
Similar games include Dragon Marked For Death, Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune, Rogue Wizards, The Slormancer, Cuisineer and others.









