Game of Thrones: Kingsroad Review: White Walkers, Bright Graphics, Dark Costs

Game of Thrones: Kingsroad is an open-world RPG from Netmarble. The game was announced back in November 2022 and released recently in May 2025. It features a huge open world map of Westeros filled with tension and adventure. In this Game of Thrones: Kingsroad Review, I will cover the corners of the game and tell you the exact feedback I got from it.

For this review, I played the game on my Google Pixel 5, which is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G. The phone has 8 gigabytes of RAM and can handle anything new without overheating. Although I enjoyed Game of Thrones: Kingsroad at thirty-ish FPS, I was still able to extract everything I needed to write this review.

If you’re new to Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, you can check our beginner’s guide and redeem code articles to gain a kickstart in the game. Besides, you can also check the complete currency guide for efficient use of the resources, and if any complications arise, you can contact the customer support team.

Explore the vastness of Westeros with three unique character classes

Game of Thrones: Kingsroad has a huge map to get your attention. When you step into the game, you will start at Castle Black, and you’re on a mission. But after hearing your father is ill, you head back home. Now, you gotta do the only thing you never wanted to do, that is, to take the lead.

But things aren’t easy, as you’ll have to crawl through a spread story where almost everyone talks and fights. The story takes place during season four of HBO’s Game of Thrones series. But the game creates a different world inside the original story and characters. However, you have three classes to choose from, and you can check our comprehensive Class guide on the same.

After selecting your character, you will complete the story missions, and side missions will pop up frequently. As you continue with the story, there will be events as well, so you will have the chance to earn something that will help you craft some items, maybe.

The exploration begins just after a few small missions, and takes you quickly to unlock the skills and traits section. As you unlock these options, you’ll get extra abilities, and your attack, defense, and support systems will increase as well. I found that the Knight can progress faster than the other two classes.

I don’t know what the real issue here but spending the same amount of hours on each character took the Knight afar. But I’m eager to see if this is the same for everyone. Let’s put these aside. Game of Thrones: Kingsroad gives you some advantages. Like when you ride a horse, you can activate auto travel, and the game will be a visually soothing cinema for a moment, taking you through the greenery of Westeros.

Besides, there is fast travel, bandit camps, beasts, and mythical creatures, so you won’t get bored soon. I almost forgot to mention that you can switch characters in-game, but each character will save its progress separately. Indeed, this is a very appreciable feature as you can taste different gameplay styles.

Traverse into some of the series’ iconic locations in an original setting

I dislike gloomy and dark weather in games, as I’m more into bright and colorful gameplay. The action sequences should be as clear as daylight, and the effects should be visible and felt entirely. The sound should hit as hard as the action sequences.

This is where Kingsroad marks a distinction. This is an insanely curated world, portraying almost an exact copy of Westeros. As I already mentioned, the map is huge, maybe more than what you can expect from a mobile title. But it has a PC version, so it makes sense to have a really big map.

The game features snow-capped Winterfell to the sky-high towers of King’s Landing, and even to the wealthy fields of Highgarden. I saw some reviews saying the game is polished at an early stage, mentioning Winterfell and Castle Black, while it lacked consistency in creating other places.

Yes, you will notice that while exploring, but my question is, who will check if a grass field is rendered well in a display below seven inches? If you’re complaining after playing on a tab, does this sound mobile? I would hang the question here, won’t start a debate here.

Heavy grinding leaves little time to explore in King’s Landing

Though the title is open-world, your world will only shrink if you’re after the missions. The multifold missions, blending with a complex progression system, require a heavy grind. There will be little time left for you to explore; rather, the focus will be on managing your armour and weapon upgrades, levelling up skills, unlocking new traits and upgrading them, etc.

The requirements for each of the activities will cost you heavily, as there’s little you’ll be able to do with a F2P-focused gameplay. The movements of your character will feel and ring a Déjà Vu, even if you unlock high skills and learn new moves. Nothing will add much except for a slight change in ultimate takedown sort of movements. One tip for you: unlock the parry early so your fights will be a bit smoother.

You can be a Bastard, but you will still need a high-end device to enter Westeros

I tried the game on two of my devices. Both are old but can handle any games decently. For my iPad 9th gen, the game was unplayable as it kept crashing from the day I tried to enter and play. Till now, the problem hasn’t been resolved.

Though the game has been solving each issue that raised a concern by providing regular patches, I’m not the only one facing an issue like this. Given the size of the game, my dinosaur-aged phone was capable of handling the game, but the Bionic chip showed its back. So far, I could only enter the character selection screen.

I’ve been saying this over and over again: if a game aims to cover decent numbers, it must be device-compatible. I know it is hard given the size and features of the game, but the consumer market is dominated by moderate devices. And if the aim is otherwise, it establishes that fact that you’re only after those who will share a few bucks.

The Iron Bank makes your chances of survival slimmer against the White Walkers

While the game has been impressive in almost every segment of the ranking scale, the biggest enemy hides within the title itself. The continuous and relentless push notification by the title to get you on a paid train is funny, and, yes, irritating.

The disparity between F2P and P2W is visible in every title that doesn’t let you enjoy it much. But Game of Thrones: Kingsroad took it way farther and set a trap in a way that you won’t go far without paying them something. At that, something will never stop but keep growing.

But how does the game make you spend so if it have an F2P progression system? It’s hidden inside the complex currency system of the game. The premium currency, Iron Bank Mark, in Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, is truly a blue-blood entity (I don’t know how to define it otherwise!), and the only road to join the elite club is by shelling out some cash.

Since you will need the Iron Bank Mark to exchange and extract other currencies and tokens, don’t expect much; either you spend some cash. Not always need to spend, at least I won’t advise you to do so. I’m just here for the fun, not diving any deeper. But that doesn’t mean I’m not a GoT fan, believe me, I’ve watched a whole season in a one-day exam gap before the next one.

Final Verdict

When it comes to choosing between nostalgia and its recreation as a money-hungry game, it is tough to make a strict and constant decision. I feel like I’ll go with the gamers, the community that makes a game breaking records and setting milestones.

I’m not overwhelmed by my feelings, and I’m not persuaded by the shiny graphics and features. The game could have adopted a better monetization system. No wonder this game is what fans were looking for: a so-far-perfect mirroring of A Song of Ice and Fire.

But isn’t the decision regarding monetization hurriedly taken just as the producers did to the original story? No, it isn’t a “decision hurried, game buried” title. I believe the game will perform better, but why am I scratching my back if it isn’t itching?

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