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The King is Watching

The King is Watching

The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run

Released Jul 21, 2025 Developer Hypnohead Publisher tinyBuild Platforms Windows RoguelikeBase BuildingTower DefenseRTSDark Fantasy
View on Steam ↗ $9.74 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

88.7%positive10,594 reviews
Recommended · 27 found this helpful

“A fun RTS TD game. I've glanced through a lot of negative reviews and most of the points they brought up have since been fixed. They added mid-run saving, (limited) rerolls for buildings and artifacts, options to banish certain rewards from being offered, they rebalanced some of…”

— a player, Steam review · 85 hrs played
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“The King is Watching kinda simple base defence game that requires some more intricate combinations in order to proceed past initial levels. Gameplay is 99% combat phase - you have castle consisting of a bunch of empty tiles that could be built on and one road leading to your…”

— a player, Steam review · 31 hrs played
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“★★★★★ I absolutely love this game. The gameplay is simple, easy to understand, and yet incredibly fun. It reminds me a lot of the old Flash games I used to play on Kongregate back in the day, and I mean that as a huge compliment. One of my favorite things about The King is…”

— a player, Steam review · 62 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

17,860all-time peak
0 10k 20k 2026 10.3k avg · Jul 2025

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

47achievements
6.4%median completion
0.5%rarest: Lords of Shifting Sands
96.8% of players 72.7% of players 45.1% of players 39.5% of players 36.1% of players 36.1% of players 33.9% of players 30.3% of players 29.0% of players 25.9% of players 23.6% of players 18.7% of players 13.3% of players 13.3% of players 12.8% of players 12.5% of players 10.5% of players 10.1% of players 9.5% of players 8.0% of players 7.7% of players 7.0% of players 6.5% of players 6.4% of players 5.4% of players 4.9% of players 4.2% of players 3.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.8% of players 2.8% of players 2.7% of players 2.5% of players 2.3% of players 2.2% of players 2.1% of players 1.9% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.6% of players 1.6% of players 1.4% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.5% of players 96.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
96.8%First Blood — Kill your first enemy
72.7%Peasant — Achieve victory for the first time
45.1%Militia — Achieve victory on Threat level 3
Rarest badges of honor
0.5%Lords of Shifting Sands — Beat each boss of the Shifting Sands
0.7%Crown of the Rebirth — Achieve victory on Threat level 10 with Queen Cleopatra
0.8%Crown of the Exalted — Achieve victory on Threat level 10 with King Xerxes

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$9.74−35% right nowcurrent · sampled 2026-09-26 21:12 UTC
$14.99base price
$9.74lowest since tracking began2026-09-26
US9.74 USD−35%
EU9.74 EUR−35%
UK8.31 GBP−35%
Australia14.26 AUD−35%
Canada12.66 CAD−35%
Japan1,105 JPY−35%
Brazil25.99 BRL−35%
China31.85 CNY−35%

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$4.7 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia UK EU≈$11

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

Latest official news

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

Sep 16, 2026
Hotfix version 1.3.5 is released

Noble Kings! We’ve just released another hotfix. Improvements Building Reward cards are more informative, providing additional details about the rewards you’ll receive. Fixes Fixed multiple cases wher

Sep 14, 2026
The King Has Been Watching. Now, The Crab is Walking.

Noble Kings, The King has been watching. Now, The Crab is Walking . From the developers of The King is Watching comes a new roguelite city builder where your capital sits atop a giant creature crossin

Sep 13, 2026
Steam Deck & Gamepad Support Is Here! + Roadmap Update

HOTFIX 14.09.2026 We have just released a hotfix to address the following issues: We temporarily turned off V-sync by default. We recomend to turn it off for the time being, because it may cause an in

Sep 02, 2026
The Royal Score Expands with New Tracks

Noble Kings, Every grand reign deserves a fitting score... and every spectacular downfall could use one too. New tracks from The King Is Watching have joined the official soundtrack , ready to accompa

Aug 07, 2026
The Royal Encounter Contest

Noble Kings, In The King Is Watching , familiar memes are reimagined as medieval pixel-art encounters filled with difficult decisions, unexpected outcomes and rewards for the Crown. Now, one of your i

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresIndie, Strategy
Player tagsRoguelike · Base Building · Tower Defense · RTS · Dark Fantasy · Fantasy · Strategy · Resource Management · City Builder · Roguelite · Pixel Graphics · Medieval (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil
Achievements47
Official sitehttps://hypnohead.studio/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10, 11 Processor: 2.0 Ghz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 1Gb Video Memory, capable of OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable) Storage: 1 GB available space