How to Play

Cookie Run Kingdom, at its core, is a gacha game, auto battler during the story and between the fights, base building, and upgrade mechanics. You build your kingdom by doing missions, upgrading your buildings to gain resources, and unlocking more powerful Cookies in the gacha systems.

Players start by choosing a server; the newer, the better, as you will be on the same footing as everyone else. Play an initial couple of days following what the game tutorial tells you, like erecting buildings, finding new Cookie Heroes, upgrading your base, and fighting through the story missions.

Your home base building should support your Cookies by generating resources and Toppings(gear for the cookies) so you can fight more challenging monsters. Don't forget to place your defensive and stronger Cookies in the front to tank while fighters and high-damage dealers are at the back.

Keep updating the Treasures in each mission or Run that will grant you benefits to fight bosses. You get Treasures by completing these missions. Also, Cookie Soulstones is the premium resource for getting more powerful Cookies, which you can get through various game modes and daily objectives. Before searching for New and featured Cookies, check online to see if they are worth your premium currency.

Finally, when your Cookies have gained a lot of Toppings and are leveled up, you can start competing in the PvP Arena. This is the end game which you should strive for. Start competing with others and slowly climb the leaderboards.

Pros of Cookie Run Kingdom

• The game throws a lot of events at you so that you can earn premium currency in the game through these events. These events push you to play more almost daily to earn great rewards. It's a massive plus in F2P games.
• Compensation during maintenance and updates is excellent and generous, allowing you to do more upgrades and constantly pull on better heroes.
• The art style all over the game world is impressive and top-notch, with fun voice acting and jokes thrown all around.
• The game receives regular updates and patches with new content and characters you can pull through the gacha system.

Cons of Cookie Run Kingdom

• The gameplay, though fun, and its parts that fit with city-building great, are shallow at their core. Not much strategy is involved in the missions as it is basically an auto battler.
• As long as you have the meta Cookies and meta Toppings, you can quickly steam the role through the game content.
• There is a paywall, but it comes in quite a bit longer than most games in this genre, but it is still there. That is where the grind actually starts. So get ready to grind shards to make Cookies more powerful.
• Although there is much to do and tons of awards to gain via the gameplay modes, you need a lot of free time to complete them. This is one of the biggest gripes in gacha games, as if it is a second job.