Enchanted Realm is an addictive city, or rather kingdom, building game with a magical twist. As the designated king of a land ravaged by an evil sorceress, you must rebuild your resources and go through various quests to further advance the storyline and, in the end, be able to defeat your enemy and restore your kingdom to its former glory.
Gameplay
Enchanted Realm lets you control all aspects of your kingdom. You can buy land, houses, and businesses. From these, you can collect coins and well as crops that you can use to further expand your territory. There are also a series of quests available that you must perform in order to advance the story within the game. You can design your kingdom based to your liking, building structures and adding decorations for the production of crops, the running of businesses, and the housing of your population.
Currency
Gold is the primary currency used in Enchanted Kingdom. With these, you can purchase upgrades and structures that you would use. At specific intervals, built housing and businesses generate coins that you must collect at specific intervals. Gold can also be earned by leveling up and by completing quests throughout the game.
Crystals, on the other hand, are used for purchasing premium items, as well as energy refills. These are much more valuable than gold, and much more scarce, and you are only provided with one crystal each time you level up. More crystals can be purchased using real life currency, which you can use to your advantage to further improve your kingdom.
Housing
Gamers can build houses where his citizens would be able to live. Each house has different prices, and can accommodate a varying number of citizens. Housing takes time to build, and it can generate gold for you which you must collect from time to time. There are, however, limits as to how many houses you can build, depending on the allowed population of your current castle. You can purchase castle upgrades in order to increase the allowed population of your kingdom. Collect rent periodically so that you may maximize coins collected.
Goods
Goods are created by purchasing farms and crops. These would generate the crops that are required in order to keep your businesses running. Collect crops at specific intervals and make sure that your businesses are well stocked so that they would continually generate income. Upgrades are available where you can store excess crops for future use. Otherwise, these would remain unused. Thus, make sure that you are planting crops that your businesses do use, and that they are of a balanced amount.
Crafts
Crafts are the businesses that you will be building in order for your kingdom to generate income. Different businesses can produce a different number of coins over time, and they would also require different kinds of crops or stock in order to continue running and generating income. Decors can also be purchased to provide income businesses to nearby businesses, enabling you to earn more over time.
Leveling Up
Whenever gamers perform actions within the game, they gain experience points. When these experience points reach a certain point, the player will level up. Leveling up unlocks many items in the store, such as new options for housing or businesses. Your energy levels would also be increased and replenished. Play the game constantly in order to steadily level up and be able to perform more actions and further unlock options available within the game.
Energy
Energy is used whenever you perform certain actions such as collecting gold or building houses. Each gamer is provided with an energy gauge with a capacity depending on your current levels. When your energy is depleted completely, you would have to wait until it is replenished, which it would gradually do by itself over time. Gamers can buy energy refills using crystals, or they can wait until they level up where their energy would be completely refilled and its capacity would increase.
Quests
Quests are simply tasks that a gamer must complete in order to get bonus items, get additional gold, and earn a lot of experience points. These would help the gamer perform tasks or objectives that he might not be able to do if left to play on his own. Complete all quests in order to get the most out of your playing experience.
Book of Histories
The Book of Histories provides you with tasks and objectives to further advance the storyline in the game. This can span from expanding your kingdom, to fighting an evil witch bent on invading your castle. Going through the Book of Histories is a great way to add value to your game, as well as to provide a back story as to why you are doing certain tasks in the first place. Additionally, going through the objectives here would earn you bonus items, gold, and experience as well.
Collections
Collections are rare items that are part of the set. When collecting from buildings, collection items can be retrieved from time to time. These items can also be acquired when performing quests or specific objectives from the Book of Histories. A complete set of collections can be traded in for special bonuses that would further improve your gameplay.
Castle Upgrades and Land Expansions
Castle upgrades are available when there is no more space in your kingdom for buildings or your people. Castle upgrades and land expansion can be purchases, but these can tend to be expensive, so gamers are advised to save up on their gold and collect regularly in order to make these purchases possible. Getting castle upgrades and land expansions allows you to build more structures as well as have a larger population within your kingdom.
Strategy
Constant playing and collecting is encouraged and rewarded in Enchanted Realm. You will begin with a few gold coins, and you will have to build your empire from that. From humbles houses, save up enough coin to create crafts and goods. Make sure to balance out your production of stocks and the businesses that you’ve put up, in order to maximize output. Also, do not forget to collect regularly, as uncollected items would certainly go to waste.
Once you have built up a respectable level and number of coins, then it’s time to go through the quests and the Book of Histories. Still, do not forget to collect your produce and coins. Not only will you be able to get bonus items, but completing quests will add value into your play. The Book of Histories will also provide additional interest into the game, as players would be eager to see how the story plays out, making gaming that much more enjoyable.
Lastly, do not forget to improve on your kingdom, should it reach its limit. Save up and purchase castle upgrades or land expansions. Expansions will give you the opportunity to build more, and consequently earn more. Every piece of gold is important as these are necessary in order to increase your assets.
Keep leveling up to further improve on your character, and don’t forget to purchase premium items whenever available, as these would further improve your kingdom. Do not be stingy with your crystals if the rewards are just as good. Also, do not let your energy go to waste, deplete it completely, before leveling up, as this will be replenished completely once you’ve increased your levels.
Lastly, simply enjoy the game. Feel immersed in the vibrant medieval environment as you control your kingdom and perform tasks to further expand on and improve your rule. Have fun playing, and reap the rewards of your actions while you see through the expansion of your empire.
Conclusion
Albeit the simulation building genre has been prevalent in the past few years, Enchanted Realm takes it one step further by providing an interesting storyline for gamers to follow. It adds an intricate line of stories and plot points that a player can follow, which deviates greatly from the mindless building and collecting tasks that other similar games expect gamers to do.
The graphics and soundtrack are very vivid and enticing, and you can design your kingdom according to your wishes. There are a wide variety of structures to build, so no two kingdoms would ever be exactly the same. Players can customize their own strategies in order to maximize gold collection and to further advance through the quests and storylines.
Enchanted Realm is perfect for those who dream of building a kingdom of their own. They rule every aspect of their empire, and the game allows the player to do their every whim, as long their current gold and energy allows for it. Enchanted Realm can be played over and over again, and the ability to employ different and better strategies with every iteration of the game further increases its playability and value. It is an addicting game that can also improve your planning and strategizing skills, in a fun and enchanting environment that everyone will surely enjoy.
Enchanted Realm was released last March 28, 2012 and is developed by Game Insight for the Android OS.