Kingdom’s Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster delivers a competent action RPG with good gameplay and four unique heroes to play, each with specific moves and abilities. All this in a beautiful pixel art world. However, these qualities don't support an uninteresting narrative, repetitive tasks that quickly become monotonous, and a lack of personality in the champions that makes them uninteresting and uncharismatic.

Not everyone will appreciate the deliberate combat in Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster but if you go in with an open mind and learn how to effectively fight, you'll be impressed with how skillful you can dispatch your foes while emerging unscathed.

A by-the-numbers action RPG from Inti Creates, Kingdom’s Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster shows flashes of potential but is ultimately dragged down by monotonous design and shallow systems. While its simple structure and occasional boss encounters hint at a more engaging experience, repetitive combat loops, lifeless exploration, and underdeveloped mechanics make progression feel like a chore rather than a reward.