Kingdoms is a German-style board game for 2-4 players designed by Reiner Knizia and released in 2002 by Fantasy Flight.

[1] Players take turns drawing tiles from a stack and laying them on an orthogonal grid, representing a kingdom being settled.

A special case is the mountain tile, which splits the row and column it occupies into two, so that each section is scored separately.

When the grid has been filled, the round ends, rows and columns are scored and each player earns points.

This requires tactical thinking; each player must balance the need to score points with the risk of having their valuable castles negated with a dragon or hazard tile later in the round.