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Vertical Kingdom
There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally reaching for the sky with each city. Lead expeditions to gather resources, construct metropolises, and build ever upwards!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“So I'm gonna give this game a thumbs up because it does what it sets out to do in a fairly competent addictive way. It's not just a city builder game. It's also a kind of puzzle game with luck based mechanics heavily fused in there. In this game you draw cards and on those cards…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“After playing this off an on the past few months, I am happy I bought this game. I would argue this game is less a "city" builder and more a "building placer" What this game is: -Pick a building category, then draw cards you have unlocked from that category. Each card let's you…”
— a player, Steam review · 42 hrs played“Unfortunate non-recommend from me. The game is lovely, looks gorgeous, plays well nice enough at first and bogs down into itself the farther you go. It does not evolve, quite the opposite really - the exact same mechanics you used on your first hour of playing you will use on…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedAchievement 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.
Latest official news
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Vertical Kingdom: 40% Off in the Steam Summer Sale!
Vertical Kingdom is 40% off in the Steam Summer Sale, June 25 to July 9. Grab your copy and check out other great indie games on sale during the Summer Sale to add to your collection. https://store.st
Updates and Fixes 16
Greetings, Great Architects! Here is your High Technocrat again, ready to serve you. Here are more fixes and updates: Fixed a bug that caused a crash when loading a save during the tutorial and transi
Updates and Fixes 15
Greetings, Great Architects! Here is your High Technocrat again, ready to serve you. Here are more fixes and updates: The game is now fully compatible with Steam Deck. Improved readability in cards an
Updates and Fixes 14
Greetings, Great Architects! Here is your High Technocrat again, ready to serve you. Here are more fixes and updates: An alert message has been added when starting a game if a saved game is detected,
Dynamic Card System / Deck Boost Update
Greetings, Great Architects! Here is your High Technocrat again, ready to serve you. We've been hard at work preparing a brand-new update for Vertical Kingdom, and we're thrilled to share what's comin
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | City Builder · Card Game · Rogue-lite · Base-Building · Building · Turn-Based Strategy · Pixel Graphics · Strategy · Retro · Resource Management · Management · Survival (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 10 |
| Official site | https://www.farlightgamesindustry.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: AMD FX-4350 / Intel® Core™ i3-3210 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon™ R7 260X (2GB VRAM) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750(2GB VRAM) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 5 GB available space Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system