Apple Arcade review #99: King’s League II

This is not the type of game I enjoy playing. The idea of managing a team of fighters, training them and sending them on dungeon crawls where they automatically fight the opposing team (with some manual tactical input) and participate in league battles against other teams sounds…not great. I prefer action to strategy, direct control to auto play, and lots of micro-management is typically a turn-off.

Surprise! I enjoyed playing King’s League II. It’s beautiful, the art is colourful and cute and quirky (just look at it! It’s adorable!), the music and sound is tolerably cheerful, and it’s incredibly polished. It’s easy to learn, easy to get into, easy to like. I’m still not a fan of the genre, but I wouldn’t mind spending more time with this game. I think the user interface is too cramped and small for even a big iPhone, with tiny touch targets, and it wasn’t entirely obvious what I needed to do in the early stages of the game (owing a lot, no doubt, to my inexperience with the genre) but that’s nitpicking. King’s League II is an appealing game, and probably one of the best in its class on Apple Arcade.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/kings-league-ii/id1383687342