9 Kings Steam Charts & Stats

Numbers get bigger. eventually they got too big for my computer. Would crash again 10/10.

fun strategy game with tower defense and rpg elements

Wonderful Tower Defense/RTS style strategy game that also has elements of Rogue Like to. Unique game that has fun gameplay and a retro indie look to the graphics/art style. Runs on my Steam Deck and on my Desktop, will be playing lot's of this the next while forsure. One of the more unique games of the year so far. Only played 1 hour but I can see myself coming back to this often in the future. I have done 2 runs so far and had a blast! Already one of my favorites of 2025 so far.

This is one of those games that you think might grab your attention for a few days and then it sits in your Steam Library untouched for the rest of time. You might think it gets stale or old after a certain point, as many rouge-like / roguelite games sadly do. You might even think that there's nothing that really sets this apart from the rest of the games in its genre. But you should probably stop thinking and start playing 9 Kings. Turns out that it's a criminally underrated, genuinely replayable, flexible game that has lots of win conditions and even more synergies. Even when you beat the 'hardest' difficulty, it KEEPS GOING with difficulties BEYOND the game's 'maximum'. Now, do those later difficulties make some builds impossible to use; yes, it does...but that's because you're pushing past the limits. But there's a certain thrill in seeing a run take off when all odds are against you. This game is NOT for everyone, however. Especially people that believe that any synergy should be viable or that any difficulty should be beatable without exploiting some broken combos. That is simply untrue. Eventually, you WILL lose an endless run. You WILL find a difficulty level that you can't beat. But it sure is worth the attempt. Let it be known that not all Kings are created equal. Some are objectively not as good as others, but all of them ARE fun to play and demand different strategies to maximize their capabilities. Possibly my favorite aspect? A successful run takes anywhere from 10-30 minutes...perfect for a lunch break at work or something to do while you wait for an appointment. It's very easy to pick it up and play a round or two! I've sunk lots of my recent weeks into 9 Kings, and it only gets better and better. Frequent updates that add new things (as of June 20, 2025), the devs seem to really be paying attention to player feedback, and there's even a little community growing for the game. It's all deserved. Stop reading this comment, go buy this game, and have fun.

The game is fun but its really RNG based. Once you get leveled things are pretty easy but you can literally have entire runs screwed because the game just feeds you crap selections over and over.

9 Kings! What a great game for card and strategy players. Well, 7 Kings. There are 7 Kings to pick from. I suspect the other 2 will come soon. It starts out incredibly easy, but as the difficulty scales up each King brings his own challenge to use his own powers, plus the powers of the Kings the player is fighting. In my 20 hours I've not 'mastered' this game, but I've beaten King difficulty with one of the Kings and I'm now trying to challenge myself to do the same with the other Kings. It's much more difficult (and probably reliant on RNG) than it appears. I'm very happy with this game. Happy I bought it, happy I'm still playing it, and elated that there is so much runway with this premise. It's a good time to get in on 9 Kings, but if you wait I have a feeling it'll just get better and better. Hooded Horse publisher? They have a good eye, I think. And Sad Socket is a dedicated team* to this product. * may only be one or two people Balancing is needed. Kings are needed. Expansion will be needed but in due course. Wishlist this game if you like card-driven strategy games that tend to play out for themselves, similar to Heretic's Fork.

I really, really want to love this game so much. The premise is fantastic, the general game play loop is incredible, but the simulation engine and it's math is beyond broken and unfair. You are never rewarded for your decisions due to a fundamentally buggy simulation. For example, the King of Greed's special starting power is a building that, each time it attacks, does Infinite damage to a single unit. This means it insta-kills a single unit. It starts off with a pretty low attack speed, once every few seconds. However, via another building's power, you can speed up this main building to the point where it attacks billions of times a second and beyond. By the simple numbers, it should wipe out an enemy army of 1000 units instantly. What it does instead is slows down the simulation significantly, making it so you don't attack anywhere near as fast as the numbers say you do. The game needs a better mechanism for scaling unit and damage numbers overall, without trying to render each individual unit. This would mean a single on-screen unit would initially represent 1 unit, then maybe 10, then 100, etc. This would "scale" the game without crushing the CPU for animations, and in turn would allow for a decoupled simulation engine. It's a fun game, but ultimately, until simulation is fixed, you are punished for being too good at it. I'd wait until it's fixed before you buy.

9 Kings is simply amazing, probably my favorite game from a Brazilian studio to this date! In this strategy roguelike, you need to defend your kingdom from the attacks of other kingdoms, and to do that you have to use cards to place buildings that either generate units to fight for you or towers that can decimate enemies from afar. Even though 9 Kings is a roguelike with cards, it is not a deckbuilder roguelike as there is no deck (or rather, the deck is fixed so there's no actual deck building), but it still has the common sinergies between combinations of kingdoms and such, and it is incredibly fun. The only pet peeve, at least from the last time I played, is that the game is way too reliant on the Blacksmith card to upgrade the damage of adjacent units, probably the most overused card in the whole game. I do think that things should be balanced a little bit more throughout, but my experience was great so far! If you're feeling like you're totally in boredom and wanna try something fun and cheap, I cannot recommend 9 Kings enough, king!

[h1]Rats, Royalty, and RAM Overload[/h1] Came for the kingdom-building. Stayed for the rats. Lost my PC to 12 million attack-speed spearmen. Worth it. Played a normal run: “Oh cool, towers, units, some synergies.” Played endless mode: “What if I made a palace that attacks faster than light?” Game: [i]violently crashes[/i] Yes, it’s a roguelike. Yes, it’s a builder. But mostly it’s a science experiment where you see how many layers of broken combos you can stack before the game begs for mercy. (Answer: 6 layers, 1 rat, and a dream.) [b]Pros:[/b] Deep strategy with a 3x3 grid. Each king has a totally different, busted playstyle. “Lab Rats” exist and yes, they are a lifestyle. Performance updates are improving things (RIP supercomputers). [b]Cons:[/b] – Endless mode isn’t just endless—it’s [i]existential.[/i] – Occasionally your units forget how damage works. Or physics. Or numbers. – Game crashes more than your favorite crypto. [b]Wishlist features:[/b] A combat replay/debug tool so I can understand how my 5M DPS rats got outdamaged by a sentient bush. Some kind of "what just happened" log for battles. More optimization so I stop judging my GPU like it's a prisoner on trial. [h2]Final thoughts:[/h2] It’s like Slay the Spire had a fever dream after watching Age of Empires, then woke up screaming about rats and battle palaces. Also, where are the other 2 kings? Are they hiding with the frame rate? [b]Final rating: 9 rats out of 9 kings. Will crash again.[/b]

Game for a busy person. The wife said not to spend anymore money because I own a Harley and I did it anyways. now I have 48 Hours in this game and Motorcycle parts still in their packaging.