Review: A Kingdom For Kelflings For Xbox Live

Written by:  • Edited by: Michael Hartman
Updated Mar 31, 2010
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An easy, breezy, relaxing kingdom that your Xbox Avatar creates by hand...and of course with the help of a mini colony of Kelflings. Finally your Xbox Avatar can do something besides sit there looking pretty!

What Exactly Is A Kingdom For Kelflings?

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Imagine your Xbox Live Avatar getting thrown into a pretty little world with nothing more than grass and trees. Your job is to build this vacant land into a large kingdom for Kelflings.

Kelflings are small people who will work to your commands to help you turn this vacant land into a busy, bustling kingdom. The best thing about this game though is the fact that you can work at a slow pace, or speed things along by inviting friends on the Xbox Live in to you kingdom to help you build it at a much faster rate.

A Kingdom For Kelflings is a game that is designed to be relaxing. There are no wrong doings, nor punishments. You can't really mess up. The goal is to create a custom Kingdom to your likings by placing buildings, homes, a places of business in your kingdom. As time goes on, the land area expands giving you more than enough room to build to your hearts content. The more you build, the more new buildings appear in your blueprints section to create.

You can unlock up to 200 achievements and consider the game complete; however continuing to go back to your kingdom to build more homes and more buildings is self satisfying, and mainly that is what the game is all about. Self satisfaction.

Game Play
Rating Good

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Game play in A Kingdom For Kelflings is very relaxing. You will find that your main character will be walking back and forth quite a lot to gather resources from the surrounding areas. Those resources include crystal, rocks, and trees. These resources are gathered and as the game goes on more and more buildings will be built in order to turn these raw resources into other things such as ply-wood, stone, brick, and much, much, more.

It is easy to get drawn into game play due to the non-stop itch in the back of the mind that will keep telling you 'build more, build one more', and before you know it you have managed

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to wither away a good solid 3 hours building and creating things for your kingdom.

Once you have every building made though that the game has to offer game play can and will after some time get a little repetitive. You will want to perhaps move some buildings around, add special little touches such as special trees, monuments and walls. However once you have fully customized your Kingdom there is not much else to do after that in your Kingdom.

You can however take gaming online to help others build up their kingdom, or you can begin a new kingdom that you can take online and recruit others to help you build it.

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