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Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster

A kingdom-rebuilding adventure filled with action and strategy! Kingdom's Return is an action RPG where you'll adventure to restore your fallen kingdom. Collect materials in 2D side-scrolling adventure stages…

74 23 April 2026

Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Inti Creates, released 23 April 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch.

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What Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster is

Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Inti Creates and released in 2026. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Inti Creates Co., Ltd. is a Japanese video game development company. Formed by ex-Capcom staff in May 1996, they are best known for developing games in the Mega Man series, namely the Mega Man Zero series and its follow-ups Mega Man ZX and Mega Man ZX Advent, as well as their flagship Azure Striker Gunvolt and Gal Gun franchises.
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How it plays

Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2500K or equivalent, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or equivalent. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 10GB.

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What it launched against

Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster launched on 23 April 2026, within three weeks of Pragmata, Replaced, Directive 8020 and Saros. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Pragmata, Replaced, Directive 8020, Saros.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster — frequently asked questions

When did Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster come out?
Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster was released on 23 April 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster?
At minimum, Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster needs Intel Core i5-2500K or equivalent, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or equivalent graphics, 10 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster?
The PC version needs about 10 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("10 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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