Kingdom Crossing Game Review

Kingdom Crossing is the latest adventure from the folks at Sorry We Are French, still my pick for the best publisher name in tabletop and a team that also knows a thing or two about great games. Their last few titles have all been bangers: the IKI update/reprint, Galileo Project, Zhanguo: The First Empire, the In the Footsteps of… series, and the 2024 release Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon.

During my meeting with the SWAF team at SPIEL Essen 2025, I picked up a copy of Kingdom Crossing and was surprised to find a cover with art that made the game look cute and cuddly. The game is cute, but it is not cuddly. I noticed the names of the game’s authors on the cover: Marco Canetta and Stefania Niccolini, the same designers who brought both the original Zhanguo as well as the new SWAF edition to life.

Zhanguo: The First Empire is a very heavy strategy game, so I assumed that Kingdom Crossing was going to be a game with longer downtime and thinky turns.

Nope!

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