A Kingdom for Keflings is a fun game that left a bad taste in my mouth. Finishing the game was such a letdown—“That’s it?”—that it was hard not to let that disappointment color the fact that for ten hours or so, I liked picking up and ordering around the little Keflings quite a bit. I ended up giving the game a “B,” which might have been a little on the kind side, but letter grades are tough.

My wife watched me play Keflings a bit and deemed it “SimCity with slaves,” an accurate line that I nonetheless thought better of appropriating for my review. (It’s more like Populous without fighting, anyway.)

The comment thread is made up mostly of sniping over my use of the word “addicting” in the review (rather than “addictive”). I found it irrelevant and entertaining. Rest assured that both “addictive” and “addicting” are both perfectly cromulent words. Used in the same context, they mean the same thing, which people hate, but that stuff happens all the time. What’s weird is that people only make a stink about it in certain instances. For example, nobody would blink at this sentence:

I cast the deciding vote.

Except why didn’t I say this sentence instead?

I cast the decisive vote.

Obviously, either one is fine. Language is messy.