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Pocket Kingdom
Developer 08 Games
Islands sometimes appear out of the blue in the clouds. The mysterious Pocket Kingdom is one of them. Wander around its districts, solve puzzles and listen to the weird stories told by the locals. Unveiling the place's mysteries depends on it. So does getting out of it. From the Steam store page
96 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 2, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
88
LovedLoved
80 positive · 11 negative
95% range 80–93%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 80 | 11 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
5 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
238 of 263 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 96 · most liked firstWhat a fantastic little puzzle game. I found Pocket Kingdom while aimlessly scrolling through my library, and I’m glad I gave it a try. The background of the story is that you were searching with your airship for a mysterious flying Island, that is supposedly inhabited by an old god, to prove its existence and bring the breaking news back home. After crash landing on the island by accident, you find yourself stuck there and the objective is to find a way to escape, while also unraveling the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game full of promises that are cut short when you suddenly reach the end You enter a world and see the lore building up, and that piques your interest and makes you want to move further and find out more. You see hints of a foreign language that you'll probably have to decipher and meet people and deities that make the game looks exciting to unveil. While you do all that, you move through a world with an interesting mechanic where, in all rooms, up and down warp to each other, and the same…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” ― Leonardo da Vinci Foreword I was gifted Pocket Kingdom by a friend, due to it being on [url=chrono.gg]chrono.gg's coin shop for 3000 coins. Special thanks to the devs/publishers for making that possible. Quick Review Pocket Kingdom was an absolute delight to discover, unveil and figure out. I had low expectations about this title…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I open the game. I try to set the controls. I cant. Almost all the keys of the keyboard are taken and you cant unbind them. I then assign one of the few non taken keys to an action. The game crushes. I decide to play with the default controls. I try to navigate through the menus in the game but they are a complete mess. While navigating the map, I get the following message, and I quote: "READ THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MANUAL". I could not believe my eyes. After that distasteful cherry on the top of such a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review copy provided by publisher Story is a bit of an optional feature in puzzle games. Some of my favorite puzzle games have none at all, and even classics like Professor Layton keep the plot and puzzles almost entirely separated. Pocket Kingdom surprised me because on the surface it looked to be an assortment of very pretty puzzle rooms and little else. But those rooms are populated by an entire society of characters ready to explain the history and workings of their little world. You’ll be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you don't have a controller, don't bother. Mouse does almost nothing, keyboard bindings are undocumented and unintuitive, and a request for info on the Steam forum was ignored.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I did not edit this screenshot from the N-Gage game Pocket Kingdom.
unlabelledView post →Old-school platformer with puzzles. + Nice soundtrack and sound effects. + Pixel graphics with low resolution to immitate NES and pre-NES games. + There is a story that isn't half-assed and rushed like in most games. - Short.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Critics were mixed over Pocket Kingdom's potential. EGM's three-way review in their March issue from 2005 didn't care much for its menus, unit permadeath, or online ambushes. On a more positive note, Game Informer's Andy McNamara found the gameplay and its l33t speak charmingly addictive.
unlabelledView post →a hidden gem. gives me intense nostalgia, I remember playing this during a melancholic time in my life a decade ago. great puzzles, nice art and a catchy soundtrack. it's just a high quality experience from start to finish.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- Clearly primarily intended for mobile, and ported to PC - Buggy - Poor English translation - Pretty neat puzzles - About 2 hours to complete, 1-2 hours more for 100%.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Truly an Indie Gem. Puzzles are well-designed. You really have to think out of the box as the laws of physics work in particular ways in the Pocket Kingdom. There are simple gadgets in the game (gun to push objects and grappler to pull) and remarkably, if a puzzle can be solved without gadgets, then bringing those tools from another level doesn't really help you. So, no sneaky "cheating". Really well thought out level design. It also feels like you found a little gem because the community…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It has promise, but Pocket Kingdom is clunky, unintuitive and lacks some serious QOL features. The map is hard to read, the game has tons of strobing laser lights you can't turn off that hurt your eyes if you sit in the dark and the gameplay itself is a bit too simple to be fun. The pixel art is pretty at first, but it makes puzzles very hard to read and take in, so you kind of just do random things until something happens - most of the puzzles consist of moving or shooting boxes as well as…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Introduction Pocket Kingdom is an interesting mix between puzzle game and metroidvania set in a steampunk city above the skies. Pros & Cons Pros: + Imaginative puzzles + Beautiful pixel art + Complex map with lots of secrets Cons: - Lore is too cryptic for me to understand - The ending feels abrupt Story You take control of Tim Tom, an airship pilot, who takes on a job of finding a mysterious flying city and bringing back a proof of its existence. As soon as our protagonist locates the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A well balanced mix of puzzles, story and exploration, a formula that's always been scarce on the market. Puzzles are just the right level of complexity, never unsolvable, always rewarding. The low-res graphics may put off at first, but soon gets accepted as a reasonable ingredient of the atmosphere.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommended if you want to try something a little different. Had my eye on Pocket Kingdom for quite a while, and finally went for it after playing a few other puzzle+X hybrids recently. Pixel graphics are quite nice, soundtrack crawled into my head and made itself at home, and puzzle designs are solid. If you like the look of it, go for it -- it delivers. If you're on the fence, read on. You wander around looking for something that will help you escape the island after crash-landing, and find…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple, fun and cute. I thought it would be a bit shorter and less content; turned out to be longer and a lot more content than I expected. I still have a few things left to do but I haven't figured out how to obtain them yet. Music is really good, I like the art style, very retro and reminiscent of Mario Bros. it actually has a couple references xD. Puzzles are fairly easy, though some may take a while to figure out (at least some of them took a little while to me) but I think it was well…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The art, the atmosphere, the soundtrack (despite looping issues), and the price, it's all perfect. The story is simple but filled with intriguing lore that leaves you investing. Sadly, expansion of this IP seems unlikely.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pocket Kingdom 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very good puzzle metroidvania similar to Toki Tori. What's a bit lacking is the visuals and sound design. It's very low res to the point where some rooms are hard to read for puzzle purposes. Especially at the edges of the screen it's not obvious what is and isn't a wall which is very bad considering walking out on one side and coming back on the other is a core mechanic. And sound wise there just isn't any. Barely anything has sound effects which makes it all feel unresponsive. At least…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay may seem to be stiff from the beginning, but the wonderful soundtrack can keep you playing to see great puzzles with balanced difficulty (it's not easy, but also not frustrating). Hidden gem.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →decent puzzle game, even though I'm beyond the "retoru pizel art" thing so common these days. Still this was fun to play around in on sale. No regrets.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game. Well thought out puzzles, good graphics, great story, absolutely worth playing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such a nice game. Labyrinth, keys, story, pixel art, oldschool music, some fancy story. Everything needed for nice spending time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A relaxed retro-inspired puzzle game with an interconnected world filled with puzzles, characters, quests and secrets. Full completion of the game is around 5-6 hours. Puzzles fit in a single screen and use only a handful of mechanics, and very efficiently so (Braid definitely comes to mind). But somewhere in the later half of the game new mechanics stop being introduced, so some puzzles rely on creating difficulty by having a bit scary number of moves you have to think ahead (e.g. Recursed…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My old game "Pocket Kingdom", store.steampowered.com/app/462620/P... I've been dreaming for a long time to rework it - expand the lore and story, redraw most of the assets, add a house that the main character can upgrade, etc. I have a lot of ideas, but no time for it 😭
unlabelledView post →A bit of background for those subscribers who aren't familiar with what "Pocket Kingdom" is. The game is a mix of puzzles and world exploration in steampunk/fantasy setting. It follows Tim Tom, an employee of newspaper, for which he took pictures of distant lands while traveling in a small airship.
unlabelledView post →8/10 I was really impressed with the quality.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's been a LONG time since I owned an N*Gage but I do remember that game. My favorite game on the system was Pocket Kingdom. Oh what a treasure of a game that was. Took advantage of what the N*Gage was all about, and minized its limitations.
unlabelledView post →Pocket Kingdom is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. This mobile app is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. There's some heavy puzzle elements to this platformer, which might work well if they were paired with high quality delivery (even Hollow Knight did well despite the 2D graphics), but the delivery…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A really nice puzzle game in which you are trapped in a magic island and must complete challenges to find your way out. The game features nice pixel art and chiptune music, well designed puzzles, charming characters, good humor and I found it quite fun. Recommended.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fantastic experience so far, with very simple controls the game offers so much. I didn't get stuck thanks to this simplicity of design and the puzzle were enjoyable and I'm not into puzzle game. The arts and music are both beautifull and unique. What I like the most is how puzzle and story are imbricated, each room can be both and the whole map works like a puzzle too as the story seems to be a puzzle to solve as well. It's very clever and cute!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pocket Kingdom is a gem. It brings together elements of metroidvania and platform puzzle games with a charming soundtrack and visual style. The player explores a large map, filled with interconnected rooms. Some areas are initially restricted. The solution might be found in another room: tools provide new player mechanics, npc's offer some guidance, keys open doors. In the process, the game provides a sense of place and direction. So far, so Metroid. But there are no boss fights - or any…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That`s funny, interesting puzzle game, with metroidvania elements
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →У меня есть гарпун и ракетомет, я сейчас... буду решать задачки на логику. [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/akhsavirusreviews/discussions/0/1733210552652447486/]Читать далее [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33439212/]Страница куратора I have harpoon and rocket launcher, I'm going to... solve puzzles. [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/aENGreview/discussions/0/1734336452567244137/]Read Full Review [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33441949/]Curator Page
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Heck yeah, this is a great little puzzle game ^_^b
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a cute little puzzle game that takes 1 to 3 hours to finish, depending on how much you want to do. It's a clear mobile port and controls aren't great on controllers, but good enough for the type of game it is. The only complaint I have about the game is that there are a couple easter eggs that were hard to get to and felt like they were hooks to secret endings but in the end were just simply easter eggs. Note: I got it for 50% off. I don't think it's worth the full price but for four…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pocket Kingdom is a great underrated puzzlevania platformer, which reminds me of a mini-Fez. This is straight puzzle platforming - if you're wanting to shoot baddies, look elsewhere. The normal story room puzzles seem to have just the right difficulty for the most part. They aren't easy, but other than one time where I didn't realize that I could perform a specific task, I found they usually could be solved without finding a guide. The 'extra' puzzles (not required to finish the game) were…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great little adventure/puzzle game. Very nostalgic style. For under a buck on sale, you cannot go wrong.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/oSfUClj7fxQ Mixing a lot of elements, and a lot of plot, makes the puzzle play disjoined without a good progression flow to hook mechanics to.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This one lost me pretty quickly. It seems like it's going to be an adventure game, and then randomly it's a puzzle game. I hate puzzle games. Turns out I hate puzzle games even more when I randomly stumble upon them while exploring a world filled with ladders and a bunch of people who somehow talk forever but have nothing useful to say. Though they all talk about keys. Yes, I know how a key works, thank you. Tell me where to find them instead! I look for keys, only to get involved with some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wonderful game. Nice pixel graphics, good and challenging puzzles, and a bit of a story as well. Loved it from start to finish!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fairly good Metroidvania-y puzzle platformer. Doesn't really break the mold as far as this particular flavour of puzzle game goes (wraparound edges), but it does introduce enough content throughout to keep things fresh. While puzzles aren't as tightly knit as for it not to occasionally feel like you stumbled into a solution rather than having thought it through, many of the times you are limited you do feel like it was your fault for missing/forgetting something obvious. And sometimes the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →why'd nobody tell me there's a puzzle platformer hit hiding in my backlog?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't remember how this game got into my library but I'm really grad to have it – It's a real masterpiece! Game offers lost of places to visit and explore, various puzzles to solve and some really well-hidden secrets to find. Just download and enjoy!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well I've just completed the game (and gave in to insanity and checked to see if there were any other things I was missing) but for six hours, I find this was an amazing game! ALL achievements can be obtained in one go (Thank you developers!) death and restarting puzzles is annoying at best, but they're puzzles! Real puzzles with awesome mechanics. The only complaint I have in nearly six hours of gameplay is that I accidentally found a secret that was so well hidden, i wouldn't have found it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A charming little puzzle-gem with some Zelda/Metroid-like exploration elements. All in all a well made game. Glad that I found it. Highly recommended.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun little puzzle platformer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is actaully really good, at first it don't look like much but it's get better. Game is simple both in terms of pixel art visuals, simple calming music and even basic platforming and mechanics but every simple, little piece is used in the right way. There is just enough little bits of story, more and more challenging puzzles, feel of progression and learning new thing along the way, doesn't feel rushed or dragged it's just about right. Pretty well done I must say :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this game as part of a bundle, not on purpose. I tried the game despite the fact that this is not really the genre I go for because in my library it is one of the two games with 100% positive recommendations, and out of the two it has the most recommendations. This is a nice little game that is fun enough overall. I don't get why some things would be hidden with absolutely no clue as to how to find/get them though. It is a good thing these are not mandatory to finish the game. I had…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A soft recommendation for me. I found some of the puzzles a tad obtuse at times and trying to be to clever for its own good. Overall its not too bad.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A wonderful pixel art adventure and exploration game. I fell in love with the atmosphere and the soundtrack. Highly recommended.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Picked this up for just over fifty cents and finally got around to playing it. Worth every penny and quite a surprise the moment you start playing it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really fun little puzzle game with cool references that were fun to find. Puzzles were challenging enough to feel rewarding to complete without getting too frustrating. Chilled vibe that reminded me of the good old GameBoy days.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tiny kingdoms rise Heroes build beyond the clouds Dreams become your realm
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i really enjoyed this game. puzzles were challenging but totally doable. very pleasant very fun :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an awesome little metroidvania-style exploration game. I did hit a stalemate a little more than an hour into it though, and could not figure out for the life of me how to progress.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pocket Kingdom, developed by 08 Games and published by Plug In Digital and WhisperGames, is an indie puzzle-platformer that embraces a nostalgic, retro approach to design while building its own peculiar and imaginative identity. The game begins with a humorous yet intriguing premise: a financially troubled photographer is hired to document a sleeping god located somewhere in a fragmented, floating island kingdom suspended among the clouds. What follows is a journey through interconnected…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In-Depth and Positive Review of Pocket Kingdom (by 08 Games) 1. Concept and Creative Vision Pocket Kingdom is an indie adventure developed by 08 Games, released in December 2016. Blending steampunk aesthetics with detailed pixel art and an immersive chiptune soundtrack, the game serves as a heartfelt homage to classic Amiga-era titles, while also introducing modern twists that make it feel fresh and unique. 2. Setting and Mysterious Narrative You play as a struggling photographer sent to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good vibes and interesting puzzle ideas but the game lacks direction and doesn't make much sense. It's a cute mess.
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