- Save 50% on 9 Kings - 1 October 2026
9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse Autumn Publisher Sale. 9 Kings is 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. Hooded Horse Autumn Publisher Sale
- 9 Kings - 1.0 Releases on November 12, 2026! - 16 September 2026
Kings and queens, the big moment is finally here: we're happy to announce that 9 Kings will finish its Early Access and launch into 1.0 on November 12, 2026. Check out our very sick release trailer below!What will be in 1.0?Here's the full scope of the official launch. 1. Four Unique Game ModesI. Singleplayer: break the game in the classic style in dozens of difficulty levels.II. Multiplayer: fight builds from all over the world and climb the ladder to become the king of kings.III. Quest mode: travel across the 9 lands and beat unique challenges as you crack new puzzles.IV. Joker mode (NEW!): a much-requested custom mode that will allow you to set the rules like a real king.2. 130+ cardsInitially, the game was supposed to have 81 cards, but look at us now: thanks to you, we've managed to expand by 9 Kings more than we could ever imagine. For 1.0, our special card pool keeps growing, and…
- Patch #30: Rainbow Content, Perk Rework, QoL, Balancing! - 15 September 2026
A new set of rainbow cards is now yours to break the game. A long overdue rework of neglected perks is finally here. Key balancing tweaks will help us make overlooked builds more competitive. Exploits were identified and removed from multiplayer. And of course, QoL, performance improvements, and bug fixes are also in order as always, thanks to your support and constant feedback. We hope you have fun with patch 30!Update 0.9.6:Perk reworkIn this patch, we're tweaking several perks. Besides buffing some neglected perks, we also replaced some effects so they'd synergize with the card's effects in more interesting ways. Perks like Arcane and Sorcerous, for example, now interact with the Wizard and Warlord's passive abilities instead of just adding mindless 10% initial stat buffs. NEW:Trashy (Progress): Adds +1 Trash card to your hand every time a Recycler is destroyed. Note: this perk is re…
- 9 Kings News Roundup at the Hooded Horse August Publisher Sale - 28 August 2026
Hey everybody! The 9 Kings devs have been hard at work working towards the 1.0 update with a new large patch that brought several meaningful changes to 9 Kings. This patch brought design changes inspired by player feedback, new QOL features, more balancing tweaks, and, as always, addressed bugs. Check out the full Round Up below to get a quick look at Patch #29. 9 Kings is also part of the the Hooded Horse August Publisher Sale at 50% off. Check it out, and check out the other games on sale during the Hooded Horse August Publisher Sale. Hooded Horse August Publisher Sale 9 Kings News Recap Patch #29 is the newest patch to come to 9 Kings and includes new cards, new features, better QoL, and more fixes. Let's get into it! The largest change to come in this patch was the card, perk, and decree reworks, which added, rebalanced, and reimagined the decks from the King of Blood, Progress, Sto…
- Save 50% on 9 Kings - 22 August 2026
9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse August Publisher Sale. 9 Kings is 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. Hooded Horse August Publisher Sale
- Patch #29: The big deck rework! - 29 July 2026
1.0 update is on the way but we still have time for more major updates before that and we couldn't be more pumped. In this patch, we're making several meaningful design improvements based on your feedback. Our ultimate goal for 9 Kings is that you have fun no matter how you choose to play. This means we want to get rid of any F-tier cards/decrees and make sure every mechanic in the game is comprehensible. With the data we've gathered over the last 12 months, we're now implementing big changes we believe will be undeniable improvements across the board, always keeping simplicity and fun in mind. We're also adding several new QoL features, implementing new balancing tweaks and addressing bugs as usual. New cards, new features, better gameplay. Let's go.0.9.5 patch:Card reworkBlood Deck:Oblation (NEW CARD): When you throw this tome into the pit, all your troops get +1 unit. Oblation's effe…
- Save 50% on 9 Kings - 9 July 2026
9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse July Publisher Sale. 9 Kings is 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. Hooded Horse July Publisher Sale
- 9 Kings News Roundup at the Hooded Horse Summer Sale - 2 July 2026
Hey everybody! The 9 Kings devs have been hard at work launching two new patches since the last Round Up, bringing new content to the game, focusing on the multiplayer experience, reworking systems, and bringing better quality of life to all aspects of the game! Check out the full Round Up below to get all the news you may have missed. 9 Kings is also part of the Hooded Horse Summer Sale at 50% off. Check it out, and check out the other games on sale during the Hooded Horse Summer sale. Hooded Horse Summer Sale 9 Kings News Recap Patch #27 (a multiple of 9, fun side note) is a very exciting patch adding big new multiplayer features, new cards, and fixes throughout the entire game. Sabotage was added as a new event in year 25, allowing players to eliminate an enemy king from their run forever in multiplayer. Allowing players to clear annoying enemies and giving them more tools to strateg…
- Patch #28: Decree Reworks, Huge QoL improvements, Mac Fixes - 26 June 2026
In this patch, we're introducing several QoL and balancing improvements. We've been taking notes of all the suggestions you've been giving us and we're stoked to be able to share some of them with you today!0.9.3:Perk build slotsYou can now store three separate perk configurations for each king. This has been a community request for a long time and it will make experimentation smoother and more fun.Decree ReworksIt was about time to do a second pass on some decrees that have been around for a while but felt a bit underwhelming. Our ultimate goal is to make every decree equally powerful in the right context.Glass Staffs: Wizards now get +100 damage instead of having their damage set to 100.Burglary: Not only your current troops will gain 3 stacks of Midas Touch, but also any new troop that you place for the rest of the run.Abracadabra: it's now working as intended.Loan: Gives you +9 gold…
- Save 50% on 9 Kings - 25 June 2026
9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse Summer Sale. 9 Kings is 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. Hooded Horse Summer Sale
- Patch #27: Sabotage! Rainbow Content! Casual mode! New Rankings! - 5 June 2026
Very exciting patch today! Not only is patch 27 a multiple of 9, but we're also adding big new multiplayer features, new cards, and fixes throughout the entire game.Update 0.9.2:Sabotage!Assassinate one of your enemies with this new event: in year 25, you can now eliminate an enemy king from your run forever in multiplayer. This will help you deal with annoying enemies and give you more tools to strategize across each run.Rainbow rotation!Multiplayer now has a rainbow card rotation every season. Each season will have a pool of 9 rainbow cards. This is gonna be a pretty fun change to incentivize new strategies every season and to make sure there's no perpetual meta in the game. You can check this season's pool by clicking on the deck on the bottom left corner of the multiplayer menu.New rainbow cards!To celebrate the new season and the rotation system... we're adding 3 brand new Rainbow…
- 9 Kings News Roundup at the Hooded Horse May Publisher Sale - 1 June 2026
9 Kings has been popping off lately, launching three new patches in just the last few weeks. From a patch focused on balancing quest mode to the long-awaited multiplayer update, the development of 9 Kings is in full bloom with lots of new changes, features, and balance changes. Join us for the full roundup below! 9 Kings is also part of the Hooded Horse May Publisher Sale at 55% off. Check it out, and the other games on sale during the Hooded Horse May Publisher sale. Hooded Horse May Publisher Sale 9 Kings News Recap Patch #23 focused heavily on balancing, quest difficulty, and preparing for the multiplayer update! There is now an option to select the difficulty of quest mode: Knight (easy) King (medium) Chaos (hard) This patch also addressed the balance for a few quests that were making them harder than they were meant to be. There were also several gameplay adjustments, fixes, and QO…
- Patch #26: Multiplayer improvements (pt. 2) - 30 May 2026
You've given your feedback, we've studied the data, and a big improvement is coming to multiplayer today. In this patch, we'll tweak some key design decisions on the multiplayer loop to game the game more fair and straightforward. We restructured a few things, keeping the core of what was working and improving what wasn't. As always, we're also adding new QoL features and fixing reported issues!0.9.1:A better multiplayer flowOne of the things we heard the most in this first week of Multiplayer was the lack of clarity on the interactions between you and your enemies. The other was questions about fairness regarding year 33 and The Angel battle. Our main goal is to make things more fair and to make sure people understand exactly what it takes to win a game. And with that in mind we're introducing a new loop that we're really excited about. Here's how the new flow works: Enemies now only l…
- Patch #25: Multiplayer improvements (pt. 1) - 26 May 2026
Multiplayer is just out. And now our goal is to spend the next days gathering feedback and fleshing everything out as fast as we can.This week also marks one year of 9 Kings EA release! And even though there was a patch yesterday, we just had to bring you another one today. So here it goes!0.9.0.2:Multiplayer perks After watching hours of live streams and analyzing our data, we've decided to improve the multiplayer perk system in a very simple way: instead of rainbow perks, you'll have access to unique multiplayer perks. Multiplayer perks play the same role as the rainbow perks you know. But you'll only see those that are compatible with this game mode. And they're all unlocked for everyone from day one.Here's why this is good:Reduced clutter. Keeping a bunch of locked perks in the perk screen was not doing anyone any good. You might've noticed we like to keep things as clean as possibl…
- Save 55% on 9 Kings - 25 May 2026
9 Kings is on sale at 55% off during its Steam Midweek Deal. 9 Kings is 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.
- Patch #24: Multiplayer! - 25 May 2026
Async. Multiplayer. PVP. The much awaited new game mode is officially here! Multiplayer Mode introduces a massive new way to play 9 Kings. Fight players head to head on async battles and experience the core game experience of the game while being challenged like never before. Fighting against players from all over the world, you will face endless new challenges and will need to reinvent all you know about your 9 Kings strategies in an ever-changing world of enemies. Seriously, we're super stoked about this patch. This is our most ambitious update yet and we're really looking forward to the next chapters of this journey. Together we hope we can make this a huge chapter that will make 9 Kings bigger than ever! :) Anyway, with no further ado...Patch 0.9: Multiplayer ⚔️ Async PVP battles👑 Fight against 9 real kings armies (and kingdoms!)💪 Climb 9 ladders, reach the top 9, and become the k…
- Multiplayer is Coming! - 22 May 2026
You asked for it, you waited for it, and now it's here: Multiplayer mode is coming on May 25th. The new game mode introduces a massive new way to play 9 Kings. This is gonna be our most ambitious update yet and we're really looking forward to the next chapters of this journey. Anyway, we just wanted you to save the date and we'll keep this spoiler-light. But here's a tiny preview!Yes, we're talking Async Multiplayer PVP. In this new game mode, 9 kings from all over the world will fight to find out whose kingdom lasts longer. But only one can climb up the ranks and become the king of kings. Be ready for short & intense runs and insane match ups. The new game mode creates a fresh and totally new way to play 9 Kings. There's much more in store. Stick around, the patch will be live on Steam this Monday!Also join us on Discord and Reddit!Love, Sad Socket team
- Patch #23: Balancing, Quest Difficulty, Preparations for Async Multiplayer! - 8 May 2026
Hey, everybody. It's been a while since the latest patch, but there's a good reason for that: we've been working VERY hard on the upcoming 9 Kings game mode. That's right, we're talking about our experimental async multiplayer. You can expect more news on this in the coming days! In the meantime, we want to make sure we're addressing community feedback and wanted to tackle a few issues and also add a few features that will hopefully improve the 9 Kings experience for everyone. This patch will not only address key reports but also set the stage for the upcoming multiplayer later this month.Patch 0.8.9:Quest Mode Difficulty:You can now pick between three difficulty options in Quest Mode! You can set the difficulty by clicking the button in the bottom left corner of the world map. King difficulty is the intended quest experience.Knight difficulty will be more forgiving to encourage experim…
- Save 50% on 9 Kings - 12 April 2026
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- Save 50% on 9 Kings - 19 March 2026
9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse Spring Sale. 9 Kings is 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. Hooded Horse Spring Sale
