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70/100
Players9 ratings
78/100
Critics2 reviews
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76/100
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73/100
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2008 · Visceral Games · Life simulation · Puzzle

MySims Kingdom

Nintendo console exclusive

A New Chapter to the MySims Kingdom Story - Help King Roland defeat the plans of Evil in a far flung corner of the Kingdom. Play 9 new minigames and do your best to show your worth!

Released
28 October 2008
Platforms
Nintendo DSWiiWindowsmacOS
Genres
Life simulationPuzzleSimulationStrategy
Developers
Visceral GamesTose Co.
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Series
MySims
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Third personBird view / Isometric
Themes
Comedy
Engine
Havok
Country
United StatesJapan
Age ratings
ESRB E
Languages
English
Entry
#2 in MySims
Time to beat
9.5hmain story19hcompletionist

About

MySims Kingdom is a video game developed by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts as a spin-off to Maxis' The Sims franchise for the Nintendo DS and Wii in 2008. MySims Kingdom is a follow-up to MySims, which was released in 2007 and was followed by MySims Party, MySims Racing, MySims Agents and MySims SkyHeroes.

MySims: Cozy Bundle, which contains MySims and MySims Kingdom, was released for Nintendo Switch on November 19, 2024 and released on Microsoft Windows via Steam and Epic Games Store on March 18, 2025. On November 6, 2025, the bundle was released on Apple Arcade and soon followed up with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S releases later on in the month on the 18th.

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Gameplay

The Wii version of MySims Kingdom takes a departure from The Sims franchise and begins with a character living in a run-down kingdom with a king desperate to bring happiness back. The kingdom's Wandoliers, wand-equipped Sims that worked to keep the kingdom in order, have long since retired or moved away and it is up to the player to become the new Wandolier and restore order. The player's job is to rebuild, or remodel, homes and other structures for the characters using scrolls given to them by the islanders, and complete tasks that the islanders assign. Players must collect essences to unlock these scrolls and gain new items from them, and collect "mana" used to create furniture and structures and in return the player is given essences, scrolls, King Points (occasionally) and outfits for their Sim.

As the kingdom's happiness increases, new islands are unlocked. To unlock more places, the player runs errands until they collect enough "King Points". A second set of missions are handed out before reaching the end of the game and achieving a special award.

Reception

The Wii version received "generally favorable reviews", while the DS version received "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the Wii version was ported for release under the name Boku to Sim no Machi Kingdom (ぼくとシムのまち キングダム, Boku to Shimu no Machi Kingudamu) on October 30, 2008, followed by the DS version on December 4, 2008, Famitsu gave it a score of one seven, one eight, and two sevens for a total of 29 out of 40 for the former, and 27 out of 40 for the latter.

MySims Kingdom debuted at 25th on the United Kingdom physical sales chart for the week ending November 2, 2008. the game later ranked 22nd for the week ending November 9, 30th for the week ending November 16, 31st for the week ending November 23, and again 31st for the week ending November 30.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Wii28 October 2008North America · Europe 31 October 2008 · Australia 6 November 2008

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