Indie

9 Kings

92% positive of 21,609 Steam reviews

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: Steam

Made by Sad Socket. Published by Hooded Horse, Sidekick Publishing.

About the game

A fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder. Grow your empire and fight massive battles against powerful rival kings. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to become the King of Kings.

What sets it apart

Roguelike Deckbuilder
Auto Battler
Deckbuilding
Card Battler
Card Game
Roguelike
Turn-Based Combat
Roguelite
Dungeon Crawler
Procedural Generation
Difficult
Fantasy

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Indie

9 Kings

92% positive of 21,609 Steam reviews

See it on Steam

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: Steam

Made by Sad Socket. Published by Hooded Horse, Sidekick Publishing.

About the game

A fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder. Grow your empire and fight massive battles against powerful rival kings. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to become the King of Kings.

What sets it apart

Roguelike Deckbuilder
Auto Battler
Deckbuilding
Card Battler
Card Game
Roguelike
Turn-Based Combat
Roguelite
Dungeon Crawler
Procedural Generation
Difficult
Fantasy

What players say

Recommended
When I discovered this game, all it had was single player modes, you work your way through the kingdoms learning their combos and synergies and it was really fun! If that was all this game had, I would gladly recommend it. I think I got something like 30 hours out of the single player. Once I finished it, I moved on to other games. Then I heard that they released multiplayer, and I had no idea how this type of game…
107 h played when written. 31 found it helpful.
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Recommended
RECOMMENDED I bought 9 Kings expecting a fun little strategy roguelike. Hundreds of hours later, it's easily one of my most-played games on Steam. What sets this apart from other deckbuilders isn't just the core gameplay loop (which is brilliant), but the trajectory of the development. The transition and polish on the multiplayer modes have been fantastic to watch unfold. The devs consistently deploy iterative…
248 h played when written. 10 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
In a word: Balance issues. Randomly go from wiping enemies out in a blitz to being wiped out by the next enemy just as easily, only to go back to wiping the floor with the enemy after that. Doesn't let you understand how or why. It just is. The game is fun. I enjoy it. Not great but good. Needs a little more to it and to fix the balancing issues. I wish you were fighting against an enemy base instead of just an…
14 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.
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