Players design and build a town and play through levels, gathering rewards that can be spent to roll and try a player’s luck at unlocking new characters.
There is actually a lot to do in this not-so-tiny, free-to-play gacha game for mobile. If it sounds like a lot, that’s because it is. A spinoff from the larger Cookie Run franchise, the latest iteration of the series combines classic town-building gameplay with a platformer that has real-time combat elements. Created by Devsisters, the mobile game has become a runaway hit - at the moment it is the number one game in the Apple App store’s RPG section, and it also has a thriving community of fan artists. I couldn’t stop thinking about Cookie: Run Kingdom.
The first time I saw my tiny gingerbread cookie run for its life, with its even tinier legs, the image stuck in my brain.