Software:Cookie Run: Kingdom
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| Developer(s) | Devsisters |
| Publisher(s) | Devsisters |
| Producer(s) | Ji-hoon Lee |
| Engine | Unity |
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| Release | January 19-21, 2021 |
| Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
Cookie Run: Kingdom is an action role-playing gacha game by Devsisters and the sixth game in the Cookie Run series. It was announced on November 28, 2020 and released worldwide on January 19-21 of 2021.
The game features new Cookies and over 200 levels. It tells the story of the cookies getting used to their new lives in their new Kingdom, after escaping from the witch that brought them to life. Cookie Run: Kingdom has an overarching narrative of the cookies setting out on an expedition to rediscover the lost Ancient Kingdoms, before Dark Enchantress Cookie possesses them.
Gameplay
Cookie Run: Kingdom is a free to play role-playing & city-building battle simulator. The game is mainly played by building the player's Cookie Kingdom and collecting Cookies using the game's gacha to fight in various game modes.
Gamemodes include PVP and Guild systems, Gauntlet Challenges in the form of the Tower of Sweet Chaos and Cookie Alliance, The Tropical Soda Islands, which provides more resources for each island completed, seasonal gamemodes that add strategy to the team-building mechanics, and Special Episodes that feature stories that tie into major side characters. The main story mode, World Exploration, includes 2 extra difficulties, Dark and Master, that provide rewards for lategame upgrades.
Story
In a world populated with anthropomorphized dessert items (created by witches using cookie batter and Life Powder), the Five Ancient Cookies - Pure Vanilla, White Lily, Hollyberry, Dark Cacao, and Golden Cheese - created their own kingdoms and were given Soul Jams, which granted them special powers and immortality. One day, White Lily Cookie wanted to know about the origin and creation of cookies, so she tried to contact the witches to seek an answer. Upon learning the horrible truth that cookies were meant to be eaten, she fell into the ultimate dough and was re-baked as Dark Enchantress Cookie, who planned to use Cake Monsters to create a new world order. Pure Vanilla was forced to seal Dark Enchantress Cookie away and have the Ancient Cookies fall into hiding, leaving their kingdoms in disarray.
A long time after Dark Enchantress Cookie was sealed away, GingerBrave was baked by a witch and escaped. He later learned that his friends Wizard Cookie and Strawberry Cookie, who had escaped from the witch too. They were found by the Sugar Gnomes and they started to rebuild a long-forgotten kingdom and explore Earthbread, the Cookie world.
Gingerbrave, with the help of his friends Wizard, Strawberry, Chili Pepper, Custard III, and others, must travel to the various cookie kingdoms to find the Ancient Cookies to convince them to help defeat Dark Enchantress. In addition, other characters seek out the Elemental Guardians (Sea Fairy, Frost Queen, Fire Spirit, Wind Archer, Millenial Tree, and Moonlight, the latter of which was convinced to fight) and the Legendary Dragons, of which Pitaya Dragon Cookie was recruited by their rival Hollyberry.
Pure Vanilla, Gingerbrave, Strawberry, and Wizard Cookie all travel to the continent of Beast-Yeast to find the last of the five ancients, White Lily Cookie, as she goes there to uncover more about the origin of Cookies. There, they discover that the Soul Jams were held by 5 primordial heroes before the current Ancients known as the Beasts (Shadow Milk, Eternal Sugar, Mystic Flour, Burning Spice, and Silent Salt), who became corrupted by its power and had to be sealed away by the Witches.
Reception
The game had gained massive popularity in the wake of Genshin Impact's anniversary rewards controversy and the similar free-to-play gacha model featured in both of the games.[1]
Cookie Run: Kingdom is ranked 31st in the Free Role-Playing Game category in Thailand.[2] In terms of free games, Japan ranked 1st on the Apple App Store and Google Play[3] and 3rd in the Free Role-Playing game category in the United States.[4] It was also ranked 1st in South Korea, 2nd in Taiwan, 3rd in Thailand, and 5th in Hong Kong in the Free Game on Apple App Store category in January 2021.[5] In South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, the game's revenue is ranked 1st on the Apple App Store, and in Hong Kong and Singapore, it is ranked 3rd in January 2021.[3] Cookie Run: Kingdom had 10 million downloads in the first two months after its release[3][6] and has been downloaded over 150 million times as of June 2021.[3]
Google Play Games for PC
On July 12, 2023, Cookie Run Kingdom was released on Google Play Games for PC.
References
- ↑ Ana Diaz (28 June 2023). "Cookie Run: Kingdom's sudden popularity, explained". https://www.polygon.com/22715486/cookie-run-kingdom-devsisters-mobile-gacha-fandom.
- ↑ Sensor Tower (31 October 2021). "Category Rankings of Cookie Run: Kingdom - Kingdom Builder & Battle RPG in Thailand". https://sensortower.com/android/US/devsisters-corporation/app/cookie-run-kingdom-kingdom-builder-battle-rpg/com.devsisters.ck/category-rankings?search=&start_date=2021-08-04&end_date=2021-10-31&countries=TH&category=game_role_playing&chart_type=free&device=android&hourly=false&selected_tab=charts&date=2021-10-31.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Devsisters USA (30 April 2021). "DEVSISTERS' HISTORY". https://www.devsisters.com/en/company/history/.
- ↑ Sensor Tower (31 October 2021). "Category Rankings of Cookie Run: Kingdom - Kingdom Builder & Battle RPG in US". https://sensortower.com/android/US/devsisters-corporation/app/cookie-run-kingdom-kingdom-builder-battle-rpg/com.devsisters.ck/category-rankings?search=&start_date=2021-08-04&end_date=2021-10-31&countries=US&category=game_role_playing&chart_type=free&device=android&hourly=false&selected_tab=charts&date=2021-10-31.
- ↑ Chateaw (25 January 2021). "Cookie Run Kingdom : Episode 1 Land Of Little Big Dreams Gameplay". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDB8j5MeWKo.
- ↑ Sensor Tower (31 October 2021). "Overview of Cookie Run: Kingdom - Kingdom Builder & Battle RPG". https://sensortower.com/android/th/devsisters-corporation/app/cookie-run-kingdom/com.devsisters.ck/overview.
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