Hero of the Kingdom is a casual resource-management adventure RPG where we fight forces of evil and complete other heroic deeds by supplying people in need with various resources, which we scavenge, craft, trade, or otherwise obtain.

The game features a semi-open world that lets us freely travel between locations to talk to people and complete quests that revolve around obtaining items. Gather apples and firewood for our farm, cure a wounded hunter with a healing potion, fix a broken watermill with wood and a hammer, and so on.

We gather resources by interacting with highlighted points of interest, which requires having the right tool, such as a basket for fruits or a knife for hunting. All actions require stamina that we must constantly refill at camps or inns by spending food or money.

Other interesting mechanics involve trading with NPCs and discovering hidden objects on the map. While I enjoyed the latter a lot, the game’s tiny sprites made it difficult. I recommend playing on a large screen, as the game is poorly optimized for mobile and lacks a zoom feature.

Despite the casual and easy gameplay, Hero of the Kingdom provides the thing I enjoy the most - a constant sense of progression that sparkles the desire to do "just one more quest", which in turn leads to a bunch of new, even more interesting quests.

The story of a young farmer searching for his kidnapped father and gradually uncovering a bandit conspiracy was nothing fancy, but it perfectly served its purpose of driving the gameplay forward.

Hero of the Kingdom is a $6.99 premium game without ads or iAPs. On Android, it has a separate free demo version.

I recommend it to people fond of adventuring and problem-solving that doesn’t require quick reflexes or meticulous calculations.