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King of the World

King of the World

King of the World is the gameplay from RISK in a Real-time strategy setting. Fight up to 12 players at once while scheming, backstabbing, making shallow alliances or simply conquer to become the last man standing.

Released Oct 22, 2018 Developer Contec Games Platforms Windows StrategyIndieFree to PlayMultiplayerRTS
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

83.3%positive138 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“King of the World approaches territorial strategy with a clever mixture of board-game-inspired conquest and real-time competition. Rather than focusing exclusively on rapid unit production and mechanical micromanagement, it places considerable importance on controlling…”

— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“King of the World is a real time strategy game that takes the basic idea of RISK and speeds it up quite a lot. I am taking control of a country, expanding into nearby regions and trying to take over the whole map while managing money, reinforcements and technology. The main…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2021-05 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

11all-time peak
0 2 5 2018 2019 2020 2021 No data collected for this period 2 avg · Apr 2019

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

12achievements
12.9%median completion
10.0%rarest: Grand Emperor!
29.1% of players 19.9% of players 18.1% of players 14.6% of players 14.4% of players 14.3% of players 12.9% of players 12.5% of players 12.3% of players 11.3% of players 11.1% of players 10.0% of players 29.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
29.1%Learning the basics! — Complete the tutorial
19.9%Starting from scratch! — Complete chapter 1
18.1%Master strategist! — Kill 400 enemy units in a single match
Rarest badges of honor
10.0%Grand Emperor! — Reach top 1 on the leaderboard
11.1%A god among men! — Complete chapter 6
11.3%Conquerer of the lesser! — Complete chapter 5

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Nov 19, 2025
Announcing Ludus Magnatus: Gladiator Manager Simulator

I am very pleased to finally announce my second game! This time around taking you to an alternative Ancient Rome, where Gladiator matches is an established sport. If this sounds like something up your

Apr 17, 2023
New update is out!

Hello everyone, New update is here! We felt the game could use a little bit of work and that the old menu has become rather outdated - Hope you enjoy :) -Completely reworked the main menu as well as a

May 15, 2021
The Campaign is now fully voice acted!

Hello all, In this update the campaign has been the primary focus, we felt for a while it was a bit rough around the edges so it was time to touch it up a bit :) -Added voice over to the tutorial (tec

Feb 17, 2021
All content is now available for everyone!

Hello everyone, Before going forward and explaining what we've got for you this time around, we want to explain the thought process behind it. A while ago we made the game "semi" "free to play", by op

Jan 24, 2021
New update is out!

Hello all, First of all we hope you've all had a happy new year, and wish you nothing but success in 2021. Before we get to the patch notes we want to highlight something very special. Because in Dece

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresIndie, Strategy, Free To Play
Player tagsStrategy · Indie · Free to Play · Multiplayer · RTS · Real-Time (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements12
Official sitehttps://www.contecgames.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64-bit Processor: Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Geforce GTX 580 DirectX: Version 10 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 5 GB available space