Without fanfare, Kingdom is a minimalist estate management simulator; nothing is really explicit about the identity of our lord, nor the world in which he evolves. This is undoubtedly the strength of the title, which plays the mystery card, benefiting from a careful artistic direction, both in the sprites and in the atmospheric chiptune. In the same way, the progression is done quite subtly: if all the tools and the map are given to the player, the learning process is done little by little. It appears that you have to maintain a subtle balance between the different professions, before militarising your domain to destroy the different portals. Accounting is not trivial; our purse offers only relative indications and it is often necessary to make long trips to consider the state of each side of the kingdom. Kingdom leaves it to the player to discover the basics for themselves. Lessons are sometimes learned the hard way, and starting a new game means starting the same routine again. Thus, halfway between a relaxing experience and tight micro-management, the title struggles to really impose a pace in the discovery of the mechanics, while avoiding too heavy a repetition. The experience, however, is not unpleasant.