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King Tongue – Casual Game Review
King Tongue is a Casual/Entertainment/Action game from Ankama, first launched in 18th November 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 2,440+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes King Tongue Stand Out
BANANABUNGA!!!
Since the BANANA KING declared war on the monkeys, thousands of bananas ARMED TO THE TEETH have come from all over to attack with everything they’ve got! BUT IT’S PAYBACK TIME!
You’re KING TONGUE, lord of the monkeys, a gorilla among capuchins, and you’re going to make these bananas go monkeys! You’ve only got one weapon against the high-tech military hordes waiting to strike: your TONGUE! It might not seem like much, but… it’s a real GRAPNEL! No mercy for bananas! You’re public enemy #1 in Bananaland! And one thing is for certain: you’ll give no quarter…
Features
• King Tongue is an old-school arcade game where you use jumps and combo sequences to try and get the highest score!
• Your tongue is one of a kind in the animal kingdom! This one-button grappling hook lets you hang, swing, and throw yourself to and fro with an ease rarely seen with a single finger!
• Take on the waves of bananasoldiers, each with more improbable weapons than the last (bananazookas, bananacopters, superbananas, and more)! It’s up to you to find and exploit their weaknesses…
• There are 30 magnificent and peaceful (before you got there, anyway) arenas in 3 worlds for you to drool over (and to make you suffer)!
• Unlock new monkeys! What’s after King Tongue? You can play with Ping Thongue, Hong Tongue and Queen Tongue! In addition to having their own style, each primate has a different specialty!
• The holy grail of this very lofty quest: an infinite mode to show who’s boss! This is where you want to score! Who’s the King of the kings!?
• The game is 100% playable offline, so you can play it wherever and whenever you want.
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, King Tongue is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th August 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
King Tongue is now FREE! No more monkey business: Play all levels unrestricted. Just what you need to go bananas!
-An embedded purchase to remove ads has been added!
-Banana panic for those who purchased it? Users who purchased the app will have no ads and therefore no in-app purchase!
-Purchases gone bananas: A button has been added to the main menu to restore your purchases.
-The game size has been optimized and is now compatible with the iPhone X®.
-iMessage stickers have been added so you can keep it bananas.
-Performance has been improved and the Everplay tool has been removed.
-World #4 has been balanced.
Download & Availability
King Tongue is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Some might say this game is actually really corny and really sus we for one actually think that the experience in this game is phenomenal.
This game released when we were 7 and we have had it ever since we have deleted it 4 times beating it every time since.
This game is incredible. The visuals not only look incredible, the soundtrack is one of the best of any game we have heard.
This is pretty self explanatory. This game is super fun but is pretty short.
We love this game so much it is so addicting and nice for road trips but please add more levels.
Who made this! Cuz we love it we played it when we were a kid (our beautiful memories) :).
Those circle enemies ruin the game they mess up your flow and you can be zipping around and then pow you die cause you accidentally grabbed one.
We LOVE IT THE THEME THE ART THE EVERYTHING AND 5 STAR RATINGS ARE VERY RARE ON MY AGENDA GAMES we REVIEW USUALLY GET A 3 OR 2 SO A 5!!? YEA ITS A AMASOME (amazing + awesome) GAME.
Level design and enemy variety takes what would otherwise be a simple game mechanic and draws out a surprising level of depth. The game is very easily picked up but can be difficult to master. Using Kings tongue to maintain a constant momentum and learn the most efficient way to deal with the different enemy types is this games bread and butter – a meal that will keep you fed until the credits roll. Designs and art style are SO charming and the finishers are dynamic and creative. This feels like the passion project of someone who genuinely loves and cares about their players. As more and more mobile games become derivative cash grabs aimed at the least discerning minds on the App Store, King Tongue is a breath of fresh air. Its $1.99 to remove all ads from the game and if you can spare the cash, Id HIGHLY recommend the purchase (after making sure you like the game of course). Games like this deserve all the support they can get. Mobile games dont have to be bad and this game is an amazing reminder of that. Could not recommend enough.
We love this game so much! It is incredibly fun, satisfying, and well designed. The controls are one of the most fun aspects of the game. Zipping around stages, predicting where enemies are and the best way to defeat them to get the best scores, accompanied by the extremely satisfying physics allows you to pull off some sick smackdowns. Plus, the visuals, design, and music fit so perfectly with the previously mentioned action. We can not express how much we enjoy the tiny details in protagonist and enemy animation, music and level design. The only thing that could make this game better is if it gave you extra points for defeating an enemy while the music hits a sting or crescendo. That would emphasize the kick-butt slow-motion pose and defeat even more feeding into the confidence of the player and their imagination of the take down of waves of enemies. Really love this game a lot. We wish it was on console so we could play it on a bigger screen but we dont know how the controls would work, you guys really nailed it.
We love this game so much, but could you add more levels and/or make the map for the infinite level bigger? Also, could you add a level creator.
It deserves a level editor please.
We really love this game! We beat all the levels on our iPod touch then we got a new phone and forgot about it for a while. We recently decided to pick it back up. Its still really fun and one of our favorite mobile games.
This game is super good but for us slot of adds but you should add co op and battle basically add online but besides this games super fun.
Its a good game with a lot of characters and enemys.
The second we got this game we were addicted and we also looked through the reviews and we saw one that caught our eye it asked to make a make your own level thing and agree if you could make that it would make the game 10x better.
Love this game so much we play it so much when Im bored or have no WI-FI and you swing around like spider-man and this game needs to be more recognize we cant wait if there are new levels and characters overall great game.
This game is great but our music pauses when we play the game and it wont let us listen to the music even when we unpause it.
This game is really fun but section 4 level 8 is going to make us explode! We cant get past one level but we can only imagine what the rest of the game is like! Other than that this game is super fun. We like how everything feels like it has its own weight, makes the game really fun to play because you kind of start to get used to it after a while. The overall concept and plot is unique.
We used to play this game and it was one of the games we actually liked.we then deleted.we could never find it until now.This game was fun to us.
King Tongue is a Amazing! Hardcore Gameplay, Character Design, and Endless Mode keeps the game Fresh, Please tell Akama to add more stuff like a Level Editor, VS Mode and Bosses, Thats All, Overall Great Game.
Take the ball enemy out of the game, we hate them, we can play infinite forever until we get to a level with all balls, we lose our max and just die we hate them.
We thought the bad guys were lemons.
Im going to join in with the rest of the reviews Ive read and tell you how awesome this game is! We downloaded it on a whim when we were binge downloading games. At first, we were very put off by the mandatory ads when you die. (This is still the one thing we dont like about this game. More on this below.) However, the gameplay quickly got us hooked! Its so satisfying to fling around destroying the enemies! This game quickly rose up to our must play games and we are trying to get 3 crowns on every level. The devs need to take another stab at this franchise with a stronger marketing approach because this gameplay is top notch. (we dont have any idea how to develop and market a game fyi). To the devs: Thank you for your hard work on this game. Its fantastic! Its probably not worth the time, but if you ever want to update this game. You should take away the 5 second ads when you die and give the option to continue your run by watching a 30 second ad. Also, a sequel please.
We hope we can get a sequel at some point.
A monkey with a long tongue eats evil bananas. Genius. 10/10.
We really like this game good job making it and the editing.
First of all we love the idea of the game, its so fun just taking your tongue slamming it on a banana then slamming that banana on another banana! Its so fun to swing around the monkeys are funny and its so satisfying! Anyone who sees this text PLAY THOS GAME! You WILL NOT regret it.
We love this game and Ive recommended it to every friend we have, but after playing the endless mode for a while it starts to get a little repetitive. We think that a custom level designer (similar to Mario maker, though probably not as complicated) would make the game so much better. It would also be cool to be able to share levels with friends or maybe even publish them. Love this game and please consider this idea.
We get so happy when we have a some kills its so satisfying sorry this is so short this game is amazing.
King tongue is the best game why It has good graphics and really good game play and its really fun.
Can you guys mane a King Tongue multiplayer games so that people play with their friends.
We always thought they were lemons but they are bananas lol. Cool game.
Its a good game but can they add a boss at the end at every world and make new worlds. Also its need animation. Hope some day in youtube, they make an ost about king tongue.
We really like the monkey vs the banana people and how you use your tongue to move.
We havent even started playing,but we played this amazing game before then we LOVED it the only reason we deleted it was because we kept dying easily,over all its amazing.
It is awesome game but still a few glitches but yet we definitely think It very cool game and we recommend you get the game.
This game is great, the concept is genius, and the controls are smooth. The problems this game does have are small, but add up. For instance, we feel like the black hole creators' black holes shouldn't last as long as they do. If you payed this game more attention and worked on, it could be the next fortnite.
Best game ever made it was very fun and exciting we love it.
We've had this game on our phone since it was released. Even after beating the main campaign, we still keep it around for the Endless Mode. It's a FANTASTIC score chasing arcade game focused on some perfectly designed physics. Flinging yourself around stages with your tongue and grabbing enemies to chuck them at other enemies, or just bash them into a wall all while avoiding hazards:;: missiles, bombs and mines…. The graphics are top notch and the frame rate is super smooth. We've never experienced any lag, even while playing on our old iPhone 5. If you're into score chasing or arcade games, you should pick this up. If you're into physics-based games – you NEED to check this out! It's easily one of the best arcade games available on the iOS (which, with the MASSIVE amount of arcade titles available, is saying quite a bit). We really hope we get a sequel sometime in the future. It'd be awesome seeing this type of gameplay get made into a metroidvania (with unlocks and exploration and a massive world you can open up new areas in after you get new power ups!!!!! – we're drooling right now just thinking of it!!) or a platformer-like adventure with hints of a plot… Here's hoping.
Cant stop playing this game. Been playing it for years now. Ive been waiting for maybe a King Tongue 2 or something. Please :).
We absolutely love this game. The physics are fun and intuitive, and its so satisfying to grab an enemy from far away and swing him against a wall at the speed of light. The difficulty is a bit to hard but its okay. We would love to see a full-fledged game based off this mechanic instead of just a bunch of levels.
This game is super fun we love the boss battle.
The best game we have ever played.
Plz add multiplayer pleeeeaaaaaassssseeeeeee.
King Tounge Is Red, Some Are Blue, This Game Is Awesome, And So Are You. :> It's Still Great, But our Sound Isn't Working For us. Can You Do Some Other Players And us A Favor And Please Release A Simple Bug & Sound Fix Update? It Would Make our Day! :>.
It gives us memories from we were playing it on our tablet :).
We played this game when it first came out, and we loved it. A couple of years later, and we still enjoy it. The only thing that bothers us is that you only have one life. We think that you should have more than one life. Apart from that, this game is King.
This game will always bring back memories. Never gets old.
The best game ever but needs to have a creative mode so you can make your own lvl and challenge other players and that should become a new update. So other than that its very very very very cool and we recommend you get it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.0
- Size: 123.81 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Ankama]()
Last updated: 29th August 2018 | Genre: Casual, Entertainment | Developer: Ankama