Cookie Run: Kingdom has two main game parts, namely building a kingdom and participating in battles. Your kingdom is where the player's cookies live, and where the player needs to continually use to create more resources. These resources, when collected, can be used to develop things where the player is building. Not only do players need to decorate the town they build, but they also need to assign roles to them by dragging cookies to create new resources and allow them to play on what the player drops. Players need to unlock a lot of things to do in the process of building a kingdom, so players will have a lot of new areas and game content to unlock, as well as exploration, adventure and wish fulfillment.

In Cookie Run: Kingdom, players can take part in battles in addition to managing their kingdom. Players need to set up their pattern team, make sure the team is upgraded to the level they need, have different gear, and keep the team in good shape before the battle. Cookie Run: Kingdom also has many automatic features, which are great for players who are not tactically skilled in manipulating their cookies. Players will see that these cookies have different powers and class types, and that these cookies can form a powerful team and work with each other. When it comes to combat, players can also tap the automatic feature. This lets their team fight on their own, or players can choose the actions each cookie makes. When the cookie makes an action, there is a wait timer ticking. Players can use them here until the timer expires.