The King is Watching
Hypnohead · tinyBuild · 2025-07-21
SteamPlayStation Store
Modes: Single player
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 an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 10296 reviews).
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.
Health check
- · 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 5% of 18,214 Indie games in the census by review count.
Review-multiple estimate from 10,296 total reviews — how this is computed.
All-time low: $8.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal
12-month high $14.99 · on sale 72 of 115 observed days (census price snapshots)
Review momentum
Price history
Attention
Completion
- · 96.8% of players earned First Blood
- · 6.1% of players earned Lords of Volcano
- · 0.4% of players earned Lords of Shifting Sands
Global achievement rates from Steam.
Details
10 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil
Console footprint
| Platform | Players tracked | Completion | Trophies/achievements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam (Steam) | 5,919 | 1% | 47 |
| PS5 (PlayStation) | 223 | 2% | 31 |
| Xbox Series (Xbox) | 22 | 0% | 30 |
| Switch (Nintendo) | 10 | 0% | 0 |
Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.
Where its players are
- English36% · 3.6k reviews
- Chinese (Simplified)35% · 3.4k reviews
- Russian12% · 1.2k reviews
- Spanish5% · 461 reviews
- German4% · 352 reviews
Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.
Census log
- 2025-07-21First review activity on record (week of 2025-07-21).
- 2025-07-21Biggest review week on record: 1,875 reviews (week of 2025-07-21).
Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.
Recent updates
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Similarity via IGDB.