The name of the game, especially when popularly abbreviated as "Two Crowns", is a clear mention of the co-op feature.Two Crowns, two Monarchs, two players in cooperation.This mention is related to the roots of the original project, made public at the Game Developers Conference on February 2017.At that moment, "Kingdom: Two Crowns" (then with colon) was intended to be a multiplayer expansion pack for Kingdom: New Lands.It was planned to be released by the end of that year, simultaneously with the New Lands edition for Nintendo Switch.