Kingdom for Keflings initially sounded like a teeny bopper game that I usually wouldn’t touch with a 10 yard pool but thankfully has turned out to be a real gem and a nice original title to add to XBLA and it’s heavily addictive.

The basic concept of the game is something much similar to the Civilization series but a lot simpler. This is the first game that utilizes your avatar from the new dashboard update. Your avatar acts as a giant that can interact with the Kefling people and help them out with duties such as chopping down trees, carrying them around etc, it’s quite like the giant pets you have in ‘Black and White’ and works very well. Due to using my personal avatar I felt much more attached and involved than using a pet.

So the basics of this game are resource gathering and building your town up. You can assign tasks to different Keflings by picking them up and then dropping them off say at the forest and then they will chop and gather wood. You can upgrade your resource gathering by building a lumbermill that turns logs into boards and then later a woodcarver who can make carve the planks to make more intricate designs for your buildings. Once your town is built and populated you become the mayor and then need to complete quests to improve your giant and enable him or her to move faster, build quicker etc.

Overall I found this game pretty good, I am quite into complex strategy games but I still managed to enjoy this and highly recommend it.