Разработчик: Little Worlds Interactive
Описание
Writing simple spells, brewing bubbly potions… yesterday was just another day in your life as the Wizard’s Apprentice. Today, a horde of angry monsters is attacking The Counting Kingdom, and only you can defend the castle towers! Using your spells, potions, and the mighty power of mathematics, you must banish the monsters and save the kingdom!
Take up your tome of spells and save the castle in this tactical puzzler, featuring strategic tower defense gameplay across an expansive world map.
- Each monster has a number: add them together to cast your spells
- Rack up points with powerful combos and well-timed potions
- Challenging tower defense gameplay that's entertaining for gamers of all ages
- Encourage excitement about math with addition challenges made for family fun
- Explore a colorful world with 30 levels of gameplay in five distinct regions of the kingdom
- Dynamically-generated game levels create high replay value and guarantee a fresh math challenge
- Serious gaming! This clever math game requires real strategic thinking
Ready with your spells? The Counting Kingdom needs you to save the day!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain, japanese, portuguese - brazil, russian, simplified chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista/XP, Windows 7, Windows 8
- Processor: 1.5 Ghz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphics Card made within the last 4 years (Pixel Shader 3.0, Vertex Shader 3.0)
- Storage: 350 MB available space
Mac
- OS: 10.6
- Processor: Intel based Macs only
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphics Card made within the last 4 years (Pixel Shader 3.0, Vertex Shader 3.0)
- Storage: 350 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Really good game for 5 and up. Gets harder in high levels but not too difficult if playing as a team. Best I’ve found on steam.
I downloaded this for my kids to practice their early math. They love it, I love it. It's cute, it's simple enough to understand and the way it introduces new concepts of the game is very well done. The graphics and gameplay are straightforward. It feels rewarding and we're having a lot of fun. I hope there are more games like this in the future to teach my little ones with!
Very cute and I experienced no bugs. Sound effects and music are fitting and decent. Has several difficulty levels but these are mostly just different sizes of numbers (it never strays beyond adding, subtracting, and some extremely minor multiplication). Wholesome ending. Quite low stress.
I do recommend this game for children, especially smaller children with an older child or adult helping them.
I love this math game. Fun to play. Sometimes I even play it, myself, just to see how high a score I can get with a single "spell". My kids like it and I like it. I really really want them to come out with Level 2! and 3 too!
Perfect for my kindergartener whose school is closed. The game's bright, fun, lets her challenge herself, but also gives her a gentle nudge when she's struggling.
Much better than I expected. Very good math game. My daughter finished it and immediately asked to do it again at a higher level. You can't ask for more than that.
There's nice progression and in each castle battle allows 1,2 or 3 star victories. The number generation algorithm they are using is very good. It's not just random numbers where maybe you find what you need or maybe you don't. There is always a path to victory but as you get higher you get fewer paths. Each progression has been foreshadowed. So what starts as a nice path to bonus points becomes necessary to not lose towers at the higher levels. It builds very well and as more math is required you also get more spells and more options. So it rewards the player very well.
Well worth the price. I look forward to more games like this coming to steam.
A cute little game for the kindergarteners to play to learn about adding and subtracting. Makes them realize that there are numbers greater then twenty (20). Worked with both of my kids as they were growing up.
I just finished playing The Counting Kingdom with my two second graders. At the core, it's a simple game that asks players to practice addition and subtraction, but wrapped in a fun, entertaining mechanic. My kids enjoyed everything about the game -- the animations, the different potions, and the sense of accomplishment when they made a particularly clever combination. I'd nudge them in the right direction every once in a whilte, and it was fun to see the flash of insight when they saw how to clear the entire board. I highly recommend this game to anyone with kids taking their first steps into mathematics. We had a great time playing it together.
So, up the top of your head, how much is 8 + 9 +17? Add big numbers for big damage, don't go for easy stuff like 2 +3 or 5+15, that'll lead your kindom to ruin! Relearn how to Math fast and have fun at the same time.
Don't, but I mean don't play this with your kids or any kid. Like games with online, the rating goes to M really fast as you curse at them for being so stupid and slow. You might even smack them... hard. I know I did. I regret nothing.
Extra Credits recommended this game, so I bought it.
I am an educator, and I made my 10 year old brother who is in year 4 play this game. He likes it. This game allows him to practice numeracy interactively.
Unfortunately, we do feel that it's only mildly fun due to high engagement competition from the already massive gaming market. I suppose all games have huge competitions nowadays.
It is still fun, nonetheless, especially if it can be integrated with other digital or online learning management. I do think the game deserves a sequel.
This is my first time using it, so I will offer further, more useful feedback after we venture further into the game. :)
I got this game to play with my 6 y/o and it's been great so far. She really enjoys it (although I wish we could customize the avatar to at least switch the gender, but hey this is progress). It's a challenge to find educational games that are entertaining to play and don't feel like shovelware. So this game is great.
The UX is quite streamlined and feels targetted towards younger players. The tutorial levels are intuitive and gradual, as they should be. Even after the tutorial levels are complete, I feel like the game's AI is coordinating the presentation of available spells, potions and monsters to encourage abstract thinking and help the player, but I might be giving it too much credit.
Overall I'm very glad I got this game for my child. My only apprehension is that it's yet another game where the protagonist is a white boy. And we wonder why women and minorities avoid STEM, heh.
Just as simple, and just as complex as first-graders need it to be.
The difficulty is also rather self-paced, and seemless, which makes it easier for little children to digest.
UI is superb!
Bonus points: the game is almost a-lingual, so kids that do not know English (or any other of the supported languages) can enjoy it just as much!
I find it hard to decide whether to recommend this game or not, honestly. I picked it up when it was on sale for $5 because I saw it on Extra Credits. I figured it was a math game, and I like math, so it should be a fun little diversion. It was, but that's where the problem comes in. I beat the game in less than an hour.
In terms of mechanics The Counting Kingdom is quite sound-everything works together, complexity and difficulty are added in nicely as the game progresses. It all feels a bit same-y though. The difficulty I also found to be a bit low until the wizard was introduced: then it had the wrong kind of difficulty, and I lost 2 towers on the final level (the only tower losses I took through the entire game) due to the wizard hitting a doubling tile and not drawing any ways to make 30.
I wish you could cast spells greater than 30. That would have added a lot.
The game could have stood to be a bit longer, but I'm sure I'll get further playtime out of it with speedrun attempts.
Even after writing the above I'm still not sure whether to recommend: it was a fun hour, but it's hard to suggest $5, let alone 10 for an hour of gameplay. I'd suggest picking this game up if you see it 75% off or more, but I can't justify recommending it for much less than that in its current state.
I love this game. Cant wait to let my daughter try it to learn Math (she is in first grade)! Its adorable and fun to play.
my son seems to really enjoy this game, I enjoy it too but I wish it had harder and more complex levels. It is a good game for children wanting to practice addition with some small subtracting and ocasional doubling of numbers.
A great game for those of you with young kids. It nicely balances that delicate tightrope between compelling gameplay and educational content, which is sometimes a challenge if a child thinks the game is more classroom lesson than fun. Take a look. You will not be disappointed.
Great design encourages you to challenge yourself in order to be more efficient. The person(s) who made this game liked what they were doing, and it shows. Glad this went through James Recommends because I never would have found this otherwise. My 4 year old took to it immediatly and put a solid half hour into it and I saw improvement in her math skills clearly. I am going to keep an eye on whatever this company does in the future.
Brilliant educational game! Combines genuinely fun gameplay with reinforcement of basic math skills. Played it with my first grader, and he couldn't get enough of it. We enjoyed working together to figure out the gradually more difficult calculations, and he yelled "Boom!" every time we managed to clear the board. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to other parents of grade school kids, even at full price. Kudos to the developers.
Good game for your children, but that's it, for other people there's absolutely no challenge even on highest difficulty. Takes about two hours to completely beat if you are good with maths and can count to 50.
I've only had this game for a short time, but I've already managed to rack up hours of gameplay. It's just so wonderful!!
The game itself is a turn based, tower defense game involving math(addition & subtraction), and magic. The design is splendid; the art, the music, and gameplay are all kid friendly. For instance, some of the built-in mechanics will even gently guide younger children to the answers if they become stuck.
There are a myriad of ways to clearing the monsters though. You can add spells together, and chain monsters together in various ways. You're also given potions with varying effects as you progress through the game, so there's a lot of creativity in how you beat each level. That creative freedom is what really gets me addicted. My favorite thing to do is take big risks, and let the monsters stack up a bit. Then unleash all the potions, and big spells in an attempt to get 'full clears'. : )
Story mode itself has numerous levels to progress through, and while you can revisit them at any time; there's also 'free play' mode with scaling difficulties. Oh, and each level is generated on the fly; so there's never any sequence to memorize. It's always going to be a new, and exciting challenge!
A simply charming game for all ages; I definitely recommend it!
This game is incredibly fun! The simple premise of turn based tower defense type gameplay where numbered cards must be combined and discarded to match the number of a selected group of attacking monsters grows deeper as the game progresses. Potions to add or subtract numbers from a monster's power combined with spells to move them around, stop them, or get rid of them entirely will keep you on your toes.
As the numbers get bigger on enemies and cards, it gets tougher to make full screen clearing matches but it feels amazing when you do and you'll score tons of points as well! There is also a free play mode where you can jack the difficulty way up that is quite mind bending as well.
This game is highly recommended if you like numbers puzzles and/or have kids who need to practice good math skills. Can't wait to see what else ends up in the game!
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Little Worlds Interactive |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 18.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 98% положительных (44) |