Cookie Run: Kingdom

World Exploration - This adventure will comprise exploring world maps and unlocking the story. Players must form a raid team to collect rewards to upgrade cookies. If the checkpoint is more difficult, the reward will be even greater. Some stages require items from the kingdom to unlock it.

Kingdom Arena - This adventure is a challenge for each player, where it can be an attacker or defender. Players must form two types of teams: the attacking team and the defense team to collect trophies to unlock rankings. The arena mode rewards crystals are used to random the Gacha Cookies and based on the player’s rankings.[3] Players will receive rank rewards at the end of the season. The higher rank achieved, the better the reward received. If the player attacks the opponent and wins, the player receives a trophy, but if the player loses, the player eventually loses a trophy. Whether the player is the winner or loser, the player will earn Arena Medals to use in the Medal Shop.

Today's Bounties - The adventure goal is to go through levels and collect resources, and the resources are to increase the cookies' skills. The first level is unlocked at first before players can collect the resources at the next level. The player should first clear the current level.

Tower of Sweet Chaos - The goal of this adventure is to receive rewards through attacking the towers. There are plenty of levels to choose from, from easy to difficult levels. To pass a level, players should follow the rules of that level. Therefore, the higher level gives greater rewards. The rewards are EXP Star Jelly, which can be used to level up characters, Coins, and Chaos Cake Pieces, which could be used to buy kingdom decorations and building upgrades, which enhance passive abilities with cookies.

Tropical Soda Islands - In this adventure players should collect Caramel Spyglass and Map Fragments to unlock areas. When successfully unlocked, players will receive one among two types of items: Islands or Treasure Chests, both of which will have cookie upgrade items.

Guild Battle - The goal of this adventure is to fight the Red Velvet Dragon boss by taking the help of guild members. The higher-level dragons that players can defeat give better rewards. And there is a guild random system in this mode, where items obtained by defeating dragon bosses are used to random Gacha Guild.

General Events - The activities will be held for a limited time on special occasions. Players must complete activities only during the allocated time. The reward depends on the nature of the event, the rewards will take various forms. Special rewards will be limited-edition items that can only be received during the event, such as the Sonic Cookie at Sonic's Green Hill activity.

Illustration of five cookies: Pure Vanilla Cookie, Hollyberry Cookie, Golden Cheese Cookie, Dark Cacao Cookie, and White Lily Cookie

In the past, 3 witches have tried to come up with a great recipe for making magic cookies with ingredients such as Colorful Sugar, Butter, Moonlight, Whisper's powder, and Life's powder. Witches mix all these ingredients and bake them to create a living cookie. At first, the cookies were delighted to have happened. But the witch ate the cookies with great taste, so the cookies escaped with all their lives that only some cookies could escape. Over time, the witches left with a large amount of unbaked flour. Coincidentally, these batters were exposed to sunlight for a long time, turning them into cookies. Continent later, made Cookie Civilization happen. In the Cookie Kingdom, there is an Ancient. Cookies include Pure Vanilla Cookie, Hollyberry Cookie, Golden Cheese Cookie, Dark Cacao Cookie, and White Lily Cookie. These cookies have what is known as the Holy Spirit Jam of their own power. These cookies make the cookie kingdom happy and prosperous. When the happy hour passed, the witch didn't just leave the cookie dough. but still left Life's powder as well. These Life's powders cause Cake. Monsters that arise from the darkness as well. Thus, causing the Leader of darkness. The Leader of darkness was born called Dark Enchantress Cookie. Monsters have attacked the Cookie Kingdom and over time they become more and more powerful. The Ancient Cookies join forces to fight the Leader of darkness, but the power of darkness is too strong, causing the Ancient Cookies to be defeated and hijacked by the Holy Spirit Jam. At that moment, Pure Vanilla Cookie uses his last remaining power to attack the Dark Enchantress Cookie, causing a clash of energy and becoming a huge explosion. After that, no one knows what happened that day, Ancient Cookies and Dark Enchantress Cookie without a trace, Cookie Civilization that flourished to its peak fell. As a long time passed, the dark energy began to fade and a miracle happened. In an old hut, a GingerBrave was born. A new cookie civilization began again from now on.[4]

Episode 1: Land of Little Big Dreams To begin with, GingerBrave tries to escape the Cake monster in the jungle, but a stalemate forces the GingerBrave to stand up to fight. The GingerBrave wins, but the Cookie Courage has fainted from exhaustion. When GingerBrave wakes up, he finds 3 Sugar Gnomes, a Strawberry cookie, and a Wizard cookie. Strawberry cookie is a cookie that escaped from the witch's hut as well. Cookies and Sugar Gnomes are starting to build their empire all over again. After the cookies started to build their kingdom for a while, in a forest a sign of danger caused the cookies to start exploring. Then when the cookies explore the forest, they meet the Special Cookie Cutter. A Special Cookie Cutter is used to make new cookies. The cookie that players will get into the party is Chili Pepper Cookie. Later the Cookies explore the treasures in Cookie Castle, where they meet Suspicious Cookie and Bat-Cat in search of the legendary crown and Cake Hound has stolen the crown into the Roll Cake Forest. While chasing the Cake Hound, the cookies encounter Custard Cookie III and join the team. As they continue their journey, they encounter a village of Bear Jelly, which is struggling to produce jelly. The cookies help to solve these problems and can bring out the Maestro Sugar Gnome, Artisan Bear Jelly, and Jolly Bear Jelly that were captured by Suspicious Cookie. The cookies were able to solve the problem of Bear Jelly Village but were unable to chase the Cake Hound to retrieve the crown.[5]

Episode 2: Dragon Hill

The cookies meet White Lily Cookie for the first time

The cookies start chasing the Cake Hound and Choco Werehound Brute that trouble Bear Jelly Village, but the bridge that needs to be used is broken. This wastes time and resources on repairs. When the bridge was repaired, the cookies entered the Dragon Hill area where there was a field of lilies. Suddenly, the cookies met White Lily Cookie who had lost their memory for unknown reasons and disappeared in front of them, so they went after White Lily Cookie. Along the way, the cookies discover a sculpture of a cookie with clues about Cookies' past being strong, protecting them together, and defeating dragons. After that, White Lily Cookie reappears and gives clues about the Choco Werehound Brute, White Lily Cookie is said to be looking for traces of her memory and has disappeared. After a while, White Lily Cookie has returned and asked to join the Cookies journey to learn new things that make the cookie group add one more member. The cookies in search of the Choco Werehound Brute are thwarted by the work of the Suspicious Cookie group, Jelly Wyrm. But the blockage was unsuccessful, and the cookies encountered a Suspicious Cookie named Licorice Cookie. Then the group of Licorice Cookies escapes again.[6]

Episode 3: Pilgrim's Path

After the Cookies found clues in Dragon Hill, it was concluded that not far from here was the once prosperous Cookie Kingdom. On the way to the Cookie Kingdom meets Pilgrim Village but a group of Ginkgoblins is blocking the way but they can't do anything with Cookies. Arriving in Pilgrim Village, the Cookies who had been traveling for a while rested for a while and found evidence that the Cookie Kingdom they were looking for. The kingdom was named the Vanilla Kingdom and there was a condition that one had to pass a test before going to the Vanilla Kingdom. So, the cookies set out to take the test. Along the way, they encounter a sculpture of the Ancient Cookies and fight the Ginkgoblins. Boss, of course, the victory belongs to the cookies. But Ginkgoblins had an accident, and the route was cut off. Once again, the cookies wasted time and resources to repair. The Licorice Cookie group has appeared in front of the Cookies again and it seems that something is planned. When the cookies arrived at the entrance of the trial, at the entrance there was a Brown Sugar Guardian Golem, and the first trial was to win a battle against the Brown Sugar Guardian Golem. The cookies were able to pass the first trial and enter the door that leads to the Vanilla Kingdom.[7]

Episode 4: Hero's Gate

White Lily Cookie meets the statue of Pure Vanilla Cookie

The cookies made their way into the cave that leads to the Vanilla Kingdom. Along the way, the Cookies saw 3 tapestries where the first tapestry was about the location of the Pilgrimage Village and the path to the Vanilla Kingdom. The second tapestry contains the contents of Ancient Cookies battling dragons. The third tapestry is about Pure Vanilla Cookie, the founder of Vanilla Kingdom. In addition to the tapestry, the cookies were met with a statue of Pure Vanilla Cookie, allowing White Lily Cookie to regain some memories. Before reaching the entrance to the Vanilla Kingdom, the Licorice Cookies group tried to thwart the GingerBrave group, but of course, they were able to defeat the Licorice clan and stand in front of the entrance to the Vanilla Kingdom. The cookies got the bad news that the Vanilla Kingdom has been sealed since the Black Powder War by Pure Vanilla Cookie. The War of Black Powder is the War of Dark Enchantress Cookies against Ancient Cookies. The reason why the Vanilla Kingdom was sealed and there were many trials before entering the Kingdom was because Pure Vanilla Cookie had sealed the Dark Enchantress Cookie. To prevent the resurrection of Dark Enchantress Cookies, Cookies had to check the situation and safety before entering the Kingdom. A strange situation arises where some cake monsters are moving in Pomegranate Village, so the cookies must set out to check the cleanliness of the place before finding a way to enter the Vanilla Kingdom.[8]

The cookies can be categorized into several levels:

• "Common" is the lowest grade when compared to other grades, it has the lowest HP or attack power.
• "Rare" is a cookie that has improved in various aspects such as more HP or increased ATK.
• "Epic" is popular since it is simple to gain from random gacha and has a diverse set of skills.
• "Legendary" is a cookie-based on the game Cookie Run: OvenBreak which has skill evolved from Epic grade and rate of dropping cookie is very low
• "Ancient" that is a mythical cookie from the story. The cookie has an ability that is equivalent to Legendary grade.
• "Special" is a cookie that comes from a special event. It can only be found at the specified time, but skills and abilities are equivalent to Epic grades.

Team will receive certain bonuses or bonus effects if collect multiple groups of Cookies that share a relationship.[9] The greater the cookie's level, the better the team's status.

Cookie details as of the 28th of October, 2021 patch update in game

• Cookies List

There are 3 types of treasures: Common, Rare, and Epic. When the grade is greater, the attributes are better and more valuable to the team. And can be divided into 2 types of use of properties: Passive and Active. Active must be activated on the treasure before it can be utilized, whereas Passive will be used automatically.

Treasure details as of the 28th of October, 2021 patch update in-game

• Treasure List

In 2007, a firm called "Extra Standard" founded in Seoul, South Korea, with CEO Ji-hoon Lee of Devsisters and co-founder, along with other companies. The goal is to create entertainment software. Since the company has lost, Ji-hoon Lee resigned and founded his own company. In 2009, the name was Mobiler, then in March 2010, the name was changed to Devsisters.[10] And started producing many famous games such as Cookie Run: Ovenbreak in 2016, CookieWars in 2018, Cookie Run: Puzzle World in 2020, etc. At last, on 21 January 2021 released the game Cookie Run: Kingdom. In just three days after its official introduction on September 4, Cookie Run: Kingdom became the most popular game on Apple's App Store in Japan.[11]

• In 2013 - Devsisters won Korea Association of Game Industry's 2013 Korea Game Award in the Game Character category[12]
• In 2015 - Devsisters ranked #1 in Deloitte's 2015 Technology Fast 500™ Asia Pacific
• In 2016 - Devsisters won GPTW's Korea's Best Companies to Work For Award