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Hard to be a King

Hard to be a King Steam metadata

tyx | Jun 29, 2020 | game

Released

0players observed · 23 September 2026 - 04:32:27 UTC

IndieSimulationStrategyVoxelBuildingSteam Store

  • Latest observed playersNot available
  • SteamPulse tracked peak1
  • Units sold (VGI)330
  • Revenue (VGI)$1,763
  • Review score64% positive

Hard to be a King metadata records Steam app facts, developer and publisher details, platform support, store categories, language support, and reference links.

  • Latest observed playersNot available
  • SteamPulse tracked peak1
  • Units sold (VGI)330
  • Revenue (VGI)$1,763
  • Review score64% positive
  • Total reviews11
  • Release dateJun 29, 2020
  • Developertyx
  • Publishertyx

Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy

Company pages: Developer: tyxPublisher: tyx

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Hard to be a King Steam metadata

Hard to be a King metadata records Steam app facts, developer and publisher details, platform support, store categories, language support, and reference links.

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Reviews, pricing, and metadata

Review summary

Mixed

64% positive, 7 positive, 4 negative

Price and discount

$6.99

Platforms

Windows

Categories

Single-player, Family Sharing

Achievements

Not available

Platform releases
  • Steam 22 July 2019

Latest Steam announcements

  • Fix - 7 August 2020

    Fixed an issue about female names

  • Update - 29 July 2020

    Some task descriptions show more details It shows currently resources when you assigning tasks for peasants.

  • Update - 27 July 2020

    Higher probability to create skeletons Safe area won't show border anymore Added some tips of UI elements Designing panel would show how much resources currently you have

  • Fix - 23 July 2020

    Fixed a problem of texts

  • Winter is Comming - 17 July 2020

    Seasons would change as time goes by. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, there are different views in different seasons. In Autumn, field grass would stop growing, unharvest crops would die one by one... This means it's harder to get food. When forager gather the last berry, when farmer harvest the last brunch of wheat, oh your majesty, do we have enough food to keep alive? Details: Material of Terrain / Plants would change in different seasons. Field plants would stop growing in Autumn and Winter. Crops' growing stage changed to 8 (5 before). Crops can be plant in any season except Winter, and harvest in late Autumn. Farmer would get resource when they harvest crop in different stages: Wheat: 0/0/0/1/2/4/8/16 Cotton: 0/0/0/1/2/3/4/5 Unharvest crop would turn it stage to 0 in Winter. Leftclick blueprint would show its required resources and stored resources currently. New food: bacon (it w…

  • 1.0.0.1 FIX - 2 July 2020

    Fixed a problem of shadows

  • PUBLISHED! - 30 June 2020

    PUBLISHED 40% OFF! After one year developing, the name changed to "Hard to be a King" and did a full release. Updating won't be stopped. Plannings There are unique characters in game. One of them would give player some hints about next plannings. Currently, the next planning is Seasons. Crops will be planted in Spring and be harvest in Fall, Wield plants disappear in Winter... Food would become more important... Author's words I'm tyx(Ethan). I used to develop games in a game company. I don't like the games which is commercialized, and I love open-world games. So I finally quit my job and develop inde-games. It's not easy to do a transformation from a server-developing engineer to a client engineer. I spent nearly three years to write codes and create models. It's a hard experience but I enjoy this. I hate the situation the designers break my work very often when I worked in the game co…

  • 0.8.6.3 Update - 28 June 2020

    Fixed: Abnormal behavior while peasant hanging

  • Version 0.8.6.2 - 21 June 2020

    When there are no campfire, peasant who are in idle will search for the closest banner. Special characters are now unique. Fixed: population ui mistakes. Two new easter eggs.

  • Name changed! - 20 June 2020

    Hello I'm Ethan. After one year developing, I did a lot of beautification and optimization works, new version finally finished, and it got a new name: Hard to be a King Full version will release soon. Developing won't be stopped.

  • 0.8.6.1 Fix - 16 June 2020

    Fixed: Arrow material lost Fixed: Skeleton data won't be saved Fixed: A problem of blurred screen in some machines Fixed: Craftman won't work in some situations

  • 0.8.9.0 Fix - 14 June 2020

    Version 0.8.9.0 Peasants would restart AI Logic when they fall in wrong situation Soldiers guard with certain direction Dirt under pathstone never change into Grass Optimization of peasant navigation Idle peasants would gather together around well and campfire only

  • 0.8.5.6 Fix - 13 June 2020

    Fixed: A problem of screen flicker Fixed: Item or cube cannot place at illegal position anymore Fixed: Setting options cannot be persistant

  • 0.8.5.5 Update - 12 June 2020

    - Added: soldiers would say something when lord approaches. - Added: Crown would shine with a soft light. - Added: A limit of window size - Added: Few texts - Optimized: better progress bar - Optimized: description of civilian's working effect - Fixed: miner always shouts that he need a pickaxe - Fixed: abnormal music playing - Fixed: crush when quit

  • Update - 11 June 2020

    Features: Unique lobby and progressbar Better AI More infantry types New items and cubes New profession: Chef Food would be rotten Packs of wolves, Groups of deer, Crowds of dead... Task System (Guide) Peasants would hangout and chat when they are free. New audio effects

Patch notes and updates

S.noRelease datePatch nameGID number
17 August 2020Fix3667572003462318269
229 July 2020Update3664193578954297189
323 July 2020Fix3978319116836106420
42 July 20201.0.0.1 FIX3444639924519006004
528 June 20200.8.6.3 Update3444639924504328771
616 June 20200.8.6.1 Fix3309530667993581589
714 June 20200.8.9.0 Fix3309530667987773556
813 June 20200.8.5.6 Fix3309530667982495796
912 June 20200.8.5.5 Update3309530667979482578

Complete SteamPulse Game Data

Full game metadata

FieldValue
Steam app typegame
Steam App ID1104690
Live current players0
SteamPulse tracked peak1
Live count (today's peak floor)0
Price$6.99
Free to playNo
Discount0%
Original price USD$6.99
Current price USD$6.99
Release dateJun 29, 2020
Developertyx
Publishertyx
Owners estimatedNot available
SteamSpy owner estimate minimum0
SteamSpy owner estimate maximum20,000
Review typeMixed
Positive review percent64%
Positive reviews7
Negative reviews4
Total reviews11
Steam recommendationsNot available
AchievementsNot available
Average playtime forever17 minutes
Windows supportYes
macOS supportNo
Linux supportNo
Parent gameNot available
Store URLhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1104690/

Short description

Hard to be a King ( Realm Guardian ) is a voxel strategy game. You will play a role in a fantasy world and become a lord, rule the land, and protect your people. Keep your people stay away from starving, build a stronghold to resist the dead army.

About this game

Hard to be a King ( Realm Guardian ) is a voxel strategy game. You will play a role in a fantasy world and become a lord, rule the land, and protect your people. Assign tasks to everyone. Gathering, hunting, farming, keep your people stay away from starving. Crafting, constructing, build a stronghold to resist the dead army. Terrain The terrain of Realm Guardian is voxel based. One kind of cube correspond to one kind of resource. You can DIG a cube to collect its resource ( miner ), or consume resource to BUILD a new cube ( builder ). Environment Deer will eat plants when they are hungry. If there are no plants to eat, they will starve and die. So do wolves. As the bottom of the food chain, Plants will keep growing in a slow rate. Of course if men kill all the wolves and protect deer, all the plants would be ate, and deer finally die for starving. Besides, water is another problem. Wolves from different packs may fight for the only water source. ( Don't worry, human beings won't fell thirsty because the author didn't finish this function :P ). Just like the true nature, sun raise up and fall down every day ( Seasons are in planning ). Deer are more active in daytime. The King The king won't do most of works. All he has to do are rebalancing resources, assigning works ect. The King can talk to one to assign task for him. Of course it will break their current work ( The author feel unhappy when he worked in a game company, he interrupted by designers very often ) Realm Flag banner to claim regin. Flag more banners to enlarge the realm. Most of works ( e.g. mining, building ) can only do in realm. Banners would also support population limit. Peasants Peasants would sleep when they are sleepy ( If free bed exists ). Peasant who lack of sleep will get low work efficiency. Nighttime also bring bad influence ( So does author, he hate overtime work ). When peasants in danger, they will run into the safe area the king designed. Professions: Chamberlain could report to the king and auto assign tasks to civilians Builder could build blueprints designed by the king Chopper could cut down trees and carry logs into storage Craftsman could craft items or stuffs Forager c…

Supported languages

English * , Simplified Chinese * * languages with full audio support

Steam categories

Category IDCategory
2Single-player
62Family Sharing

Regional ratings

BoardRatingDescriptors
dejuslViolência fantasiosa
steam germany6Fantasy-Gewalt
igrs13Kekerasan

Steam marketplace comparison data

Price History Overview

USD uses SteamPulse's own locally recorded daily store snapshots, so this overview reflects the exact regional price history that SteamPulse has captured for this currency.

Coverage And Tracking Window

  • Snapshots: 1
  • Coverage: Sep 23, 2026 to Sep 23, 2026
  • Lowest observed: $6.99
  • Highest observed: $6.99

Hard to be a King's USD price history spans from Sep 23, 2026 to Sep 23, 2026, with 1 recorded snapshot across 1 calendar day. Each row records the available final price, listed base price, and discount metadata for that observation. Within this coverage the lowest recorded price is $6.99, the highest is $6.99, and the first visible tracked price is $6.99. These comparisons apply only to the snapshots SteamPulse holds; missing observations can contain changes that are not represented here.

For USD, SteamPulse uses locally captured regional storefront snapshots and does not reconstruct older prices with exchange-rate conversion. The chart and table show the values recorded for this exact currency from the stated coverage start. Additional snapshots extend that record, but they do not fill unobserved days or prove what the storefront displayed between observations.

Discount Windows And Sale Timing

  • Discount windows: 0
  • Discounted days: 0 days
  • Deepest markdown: No discount tracked
  • Latest sale window: No sale window tracked

Hard to be a King's tracked USD rows do not contain a discount window. This means no available snapshot in the stated coverage has usable discount metadata; it does not prove that the game was never discounted. Missing snapshots or archived rows without complete metadata can hide a sale, so SteamPulse does not infer pricing strategy from this absence.

If a later snapshot includes discount metadata, it will appear here with its recorded depth, price, date, and sale name when available. Until then, this section should be read only as a description of the available rows, not as evidence about the publisher's promotion policy.

Observed Price Changes And Stable Runs

  • Observed price drops: 0
  • Observed price rises: 0
  • Longest stable run: 1 day of uninterrupted daily tracking
  • Current run: 1 day of uninterrupted daily tracking

Outside rows carrying discount metadata, the tracked price has not recorded a separate price rise or drop yet. That means the observed undiscounted level has stayed stable across the snapshots SteamPulse currently holds. This is a statement about the recorded coverage only; it does not prove that an older or missing price change never happened.

The longest unchanged price stretch in the current record lasts 1 day of uninterrupted daily tracking at $6.99, from Sep 23, 2026 through Sep 23, 2026. Among rows without discount metadata, the longest unchanged run lasts 1 day of uninterrupted daily tracking at $6.99. The latest run records $6.99 for 1 day of uninterrupted daily tracking as the same recorded undiscounted price. Run lengths describe consecutive stored observations only and do not establish that a price is permanent.

Latest Snapshot And Sales Context

  • Current price: $6.99
  • Current list price: $6.99
  • Distinct observed prices: 1
  • Source mode: SteamPulse local tracking

The latest tracked snapshot records Hard to be a King at $6.99 in USD, with no active discount metadata. Across the available history SteamPulse has recorded 1 distinct final price in this currency. This supports comparisons with the lowest, highest, and most common values present in the retained record, subject to the stated coverage limits.

The live sales view and Steam sales record provide calendar context for these dates. A date overlap can be compared with a named Steam event, but it does not prove why a publisher changed a price. As new daily rows arrive, this overview recalculates its observed prices, discount windows, and run lengths automatically.

Regional Steam prices

CountryCurrencyFinal priceOriginal priceDiscount
United StatesUSD$6.99$6.990%
United KingdomGBNot availableNot availableNot available
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SingaporeSGNot availableNot availableNot available
Hong KongHKNot availableNot availableNot available
South AfricaZANot availableNot availableNot available
UkraineUANot availableNot availableNot available
KazakhstanKZNot availableNot availableNot available
IndonesiaIDNot availableNot availableNot available
ThailandTHNot availableNot availableNot available
MalaysiaMYNot availableNot availableNot available
PhilippinesPHNot availableNot availableNot available
VietnamVNNot availableNot availableNot available
United Arab EmiratesAENot availableNot availableNot available
Saudi ArabiaSANot availableNot availableNot available
IsraelILNot availableNot availableNot available
ChileCLNot availableNot availableNot available
ColombiaCONot availableNot availableNot available
Costa RicaCRNot availableNot availableNot available
KuwaitKWNot availableNot availableNot available
PeruPENot availableNot availableNot available
QatarQANot availableNot availableNot available
TaiwanTWNot availableNot availableNot available
UruguayUYNot availableNot availableNot available
ArmeniaAMNot availableNot availableNot available
ArgentinaARNot availableNot availableNot available
TurkeyTRNot availableNot availableNot available
PakistanPKNot availableNot availableNot available

Tracked regional price history

The tracked Steam price is stable at $6.99.

CountryCurrencySnapshotsFirst trackedLatest trackedChangeLatest discount
United StatesUSD1$6.99$6.99No changeNo discount
United KingdomGB0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
Euro AreaEU0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
AustraliaAU0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
CanadaCA0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
IndiaIN0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
BrazilBR0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
RussiaRU0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
ChinaCN0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
JapanJP0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
South KoreaKR0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
MexicoMX0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
NorwayNO0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
PolandPL0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
SwitzerlandCH0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
New ZealandNZ0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
SingaporeSG0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
Hong KongHK0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
South AfricaZA0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
UkraineUA0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
KazakhstanKZ0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
IndonesiaID0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
ThailandTH0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
MalaysiaMY0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
PhilippinesPH0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
VietnamVN0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
United Arab EmiratesAE0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
Saudi ArabiaSA0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
IsraelIL0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
ChileCL0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
ColombiaCO0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
Costa RicaCR0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
KuwaitKW0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
PeruPE0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
QatarQA0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
TaiwanTW0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
UruguayUY0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
ArmeniaAM0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
ArgentinaAR0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
TurkeyTR0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount
PakistanPK0Not tracked yetNot availableTracking starts nowNo discount

United States price history (USD)

Tracked price is stable at $6.99.

DateCurrent priceOriginal priceDiscountSource
2026-09-23$6.99$6.99No discountSteam Store

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