The best Kingdom Builder expansions 2025

The Kingdom Builder: Big Box includes the first four expansions: Nomads, Crossroads, Marshlands, and Harvest, along with three Queenies: Capitol, Caves, and The Island. Players create their own kingdoms by strategically building settlements to earn the most gold by the end of the game. With a variable board featuring nine different types of terrain, players play land cards and place settlements while aiming to fulfill specific conditions outlined by the game’s cards to maximize their gold earnings.

Kingdom Builder: Nomads expands Donald X. Vaccarino's original game by introducing four new boards, each with unique powers that offer more strategic options. Players can block empty fields by placing stones from a quarry and earn points by placing settlements in specific configurations. Additional point cards and red houses enhance gameplay, allowing for new scoring opportunities and strategies during sessions.

New locations and challenges are what the kingdom needs! The Crossroads expansion introduces four new landscapes with two different locations, offering fresh opportunities for kingdom building. Players face specific tasks to build their settlements in particular ways to earn more gold by the end of the game.

The 2014 Big Box edition of Kingdom Builder includes the first two expansions and two of the three Queenies. Players create their own kingdoms by strategically building settlements to earn the most gold by the end of the game. The game features a variable board with nine types of terrain, and players play terrain cards to build settlements, with special actions that can be unlocked by building next to specific locations.

The Family Box includes the base game, the Nomads expansion, materials for a fifth player, and two mini-expansions: the Caves and the Capitol. Players create their own kingdoms by strategically building settlements to earn the most gold by the end of the game. The variable game board features nine terrain types, and players can gain additional actions and victory points through careful planning and fulfilling specific objectives.

Kingdom Builder: Kapitol includes two Capitol building boards and rules. Players place a Capitol building on a castle when the harbor or oracle sections are in play. At the end of the game, players earn 1 gold for each of their settlements within two spaces of a Capitol.

Kingdom Builder: Marshlands is the third expansion designed by Donald X. Vaccarino. It introduces 24 location fields, 8 new abilities, and 12 overview cards for the game board edges, along with 4 new board quadrants featuring marshland terrain. Unique bonus abilities are added with this expansion, allowing players to unlock special actions by collecting specific abilities multiple times.

Kingdom Builder: Island is a mini-expansion designed for Kickstarter backers, with plans for separate availability later. It includes a double-sided tile featuring an island, with one side showing a rope bridge for relocating a settlement to the canyon, and the other side depicting a treehouse for moving a settlement to the forest. Both sides also feature a city.

Kingdom Builder: Caves includes four cave tiles and rules. Players place each cave tile in a quadrant on any mountain field that is not within two fields of a town, castle, or nomad field. Once per turn, a player may move one of their settlements adjacent to a cave to any empty and suitable space next to any cave on the board.