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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.

9 Kings is a strategy, rogue-like and rpg game developed by Sad Socket and published by INSTINCT3 and Hooded Horse.
Released on May 23rd 2025 is available on Windows and MacOS in 30 languages: English, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, French, Italian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Filipino, Malay and Slovak.

It has received 5,252 reviews of which 4,871 were positive and 381 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 7.99€ on Instant Gaming.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-750 (quad-core) / AMD® Phenom™ II X4 965 (quad-core)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 630 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 6670 (2 GB)
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
MacOS
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-750 (quad-core) / AMD® Phenom™ II X4 965 (quad-core)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 630 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 6670 (2 GB)
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

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May 2025
Got this game on sale for under £10 thinking it'd just be a small little time waster. Little did i know it would consume my game time for the next three days (at my time of writing this.) i'd HIGHLY recommend this to anyone who loves finding synergies in other card games E.G: Balatro or Slay the Spire. While the amount of cards is limited in comparison the way they interact and work together is really interesting and can get quite absurd once you get that lucky run on your favourite combo. I would also like to add that while right now there are actually only SEVEN of the aforementioned nine kings. They are all very unique and fun to play. If you were curious about getting this game i would. From what I've seen the devs are very active and i've seen three small updates to balance and such already. im very eager to see what the devs have in store and especially looking forward to the other two unreleased kings.
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May 2025
I love this game, I've been playing since the demo. Clocked in a lots hours. The good + New special cards are lots of fun + Added a lot of polish and good gameplay decisions since the demo (e.g. percent HP scaling). + Rats! + New kings are lots of fun What could be improved: + Game crashes a lot. It probably crashes once or twice per hour. + Performance becomes extremely bad at higher levels. I do not want new kings, I'd like them to fix these two issues first. Adding more kings and features on shoddy code is a bad idea.
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May 2025
It's... Fine. Pretty much the same as the demo. I think that realistically for this to be a really good game, each "king" needs to have roughly twice as many cards. Right now, playing them feels pretty much the exact same every time. The game just needs one extra layer of content to be something truly worthwhile. It's a bit barebones for now, and a lot of things are janky or just don't work intuitively (if at all). Some examples are attack speed, which simply stops working after some point in stacking, and, speaking of stacking, units will just stack together and become a giant pile with no visibility or visual feedback. Again, tentative positive, closer to a neutral, but with a lot of potential.
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May 2025
I've wanted this game for years, and didn't even know it. The rats scale infinitely bro, they just keep scaling. The rats consume all. This is what Progress demands.
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May 2025
Rats killed my run... i had 12 rats plot level 200 and i got the splicing perk, now the game crash every time i try to continue the run. I want to finish the run ill try to log in the game in the supercomputer of a friend of mine and try to check the stats of rats Rats
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Frequently Asked Questions

9 Kings is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

9 Kings is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.

9 Kings received 4,871 positive votes out of a total of 5,252 achieving a rating of 8.95.
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9 Kings was developed by Sad Socket and published by INSTINCT3 and Hooded Horse.

9 Kings is playable and fully supported on Windows.

9 Kings is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

9 Kings is not playable on Linux.

9 Kings is a single-player game.

9 Kings does not currently offer any DLC.

9 Kings does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

9 Kings does not support Steam Remote Play.

9 Kings is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for 9 Kings.

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9 Kings
9.0
4,871
381
Game modes
Features
Online players
5,891
Developer
Sad Socket
Publisher
INSTINCT3, Hooded Horse
Release 23 May 2025
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