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The King is Watching

Hypnohead · tinyBuild · 2025-07-21

SteamPlayStation Store

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jul 29, 2026 (PlayStation 5), Jul 29, 2026 (Xbox Series X|S), Jul 29, 2026 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 21, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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

The King is Watching is an Indie and Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $14.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 10439 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

89%
positive of 10k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
58/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
8
Nexus mods (1.3k downloads)
4.45★
PlayStation Store rating (241 ratings)
13h
to beat · rushed 3h · completionist 45h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)
The King Is Watching is a 2025 video game, where the player manages a castle, placing buildings to generate resources, produce units, and ultimately fight off enemy invaders. The game combines elements of real-time strategy and city builder games, with the run-based pseudorandom structure of a roguelike.

Trailer

The King is Watching trailer thumbnail

The King is Watching - Official Update Trailer | TinyBuild Connect Showcase 2026

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 435 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~54/week).
  • · Review velocity up 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,875 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 50,068 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 209k–470k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 10,439 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.24 at GameBillet (2026-09-02)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 68 of 106 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.5k1.5k20252026Week of 2025-07-21: 1,520 positiveWeek of 2025-07-21: 355 negativeWeek of 2025-07-28: 1,016 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 262 negativeWeek of 2025-08-04: 496 positiveWeek of 2025-08-04: 166 negativeWeek of 2025-08-11: 312 positiveWeek of 2025-08-11: 36 negativeWeek of 2025-08-18: 226 positiveWeek of 2025-08-18: 42 negativeWeek of 2025-08-25: 153 positiveWeek of 2025-08-25: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-09-08: 110 positiveWeek of 2025-09-08: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-09-15: 79 positiveWeek of 2025-09-15: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-09-22: 89 positiveWeek of 2025-09-22: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-09-29: 142 positiveWeek of 2025-09-29: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-10-06: 119 positiveWeek of 2025-10-06: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-10-13: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-10-13: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-20: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-10-20: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-27: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-10-27: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-03: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-11-03: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-11-10: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-11-10: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-17: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-11-17: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-24: 421 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-08: 160 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-12-15: 147 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-12-22: 164 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-12-29: 172 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-01-05: 111 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-01-12: 91 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-19: 67 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-26: 70 positiveWeek of 2026-01-26: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-02: 86 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-09: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-16: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-02-16: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-23: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-02: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-09: 94 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-03-16: 183 positiveWeek of 2026-03-16: 23 negativeWeek of 2026-03-23: 90 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-03-30: 76 positiveWeek of 2026-03-30: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-04-06: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-13: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-04-13: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-20: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-04-20: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-27: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-04: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-05-04: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-11: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-18: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-25: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-05-25: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-08: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-15: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-22: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-29: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-07-06: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-13: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-20: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-07-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-27: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-07-27: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-08-03: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-10: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$8.992025-07-102026-08-152025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-07-23 — best price $11.452025-07-29 — best price $11.992025-08-05 — best price $14.992025-08-15 — best price $11.292025-09-29 — best price $9.982025-10-09 — best price $13.012025-10-24 — best price $11.992025-11-05 — best price $9.982025-11-13 — best price $13.492025-11-27 — best price $13.492025-12-02 — best price $11.992025-12-09 — best price $9.742025-12-19 — best price $11.992026-01-10 — best price $14.992026-01-21 — best price $14.992026-01-31 — best price $12.892026-02-11 — best price $10.492026-02-24 — best price $11.992026-03-10 — best price $10.492026-03-27 — best price $11.992026-04-08 — best price $9.952026-04-24 — best price $12.492026-05-02 — best price $12.632026-05-12 — best price $9.442026-06-01 — best price $12.892026-06-18 — best price $14.992026-06-30 — best price $10.112026-07-13 — best price $11.582026-07-27 — best price $12.002026-07-31 — best price $11.892026-08-05 — best price $12.142026-08-09 — best price $12.882026-08-15 — best price $11.22
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

14982026-07-14 — 8 pageviews2026-07-17 — 48 pageviews2026-07-20 — 48 pageviews2026-07-23 — 55 pageviews2026-07-26 — 67 pageviews2026-07-29 — 129 pageviews2026-08-01 — 149 pageviews2026-08-04 — 96 pageviews2026-08-07 — 82 pageviews2026-08-10 — 66 pageviews2026-08-13 — 54 pageviews2026-08-16 — 55 pageviews2026-08-19 — 45 pageviews2026-08-22 — 28 pageviews2026-08-25 — 39 pageviews2026-08-28 — 30 pageviews2026-08-31 — 28 pageviews2026-09-03 — 31 pageviews2026-09-06 — 31 pageviews2026-09-09 — 20 pageviews2026-09-12 — 23 pageviews2026-09-15 — 95 pageviews2026-09-18 — 46 pageviews2026-09-21 — 61 pageviews2026-09-24 — 42 pageviews2026-09-27 — 38 pageviews2026-09-30 — 26 pageviews2026-10-03 — 25 pageviews2026-10-06 — 37 pageviews2026-10-09 — 20 pageviews2026-10-12 — 26 pageviews2026-10-13 — 34 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
96.8%
earned "First Blood"
6.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

10 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2025-09-03, latest 2026-03-16 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,9191%47
PS5 (PlayStation)2232%31
Xbox Series (Xbox)220%30
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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