9 Kings

I like the game, got it on sale for 9$. I find it a wonderful game to sit and enjoy, no rush and no need to stress over the little things. The game runs fairly smoothy for an Auto-battler, isn't crazy intensive and plays uniquely enough that most players won't get bored if it immediately. Do I think its going to be a long term game, no. This i'm fine with much like other indie games I play (Against the Storm, Graveyard Keeper, Peak or The Last Spell) who all reached an end point and no longer need to give live updates every week, I feel this will get to that point. Only thing I'd like is if they added the Chaos and Random cards to the Compendium. Also I see they're releasing it on phone and tablet, not sure we need that but I'm not against it, it is a simple enough cardgame I could see myself playing it on those platforms.

Softlocked the game because one of my units had 11,5k models, 4,8E+11 hp and 6,8E+11 dmg and the game struggled to continue. 11/10 great for inbetween shenanigans :p

最开始几个小时还挺上头的，但是玩法单一，很容易玩腻。玩到后期画面会很卡。玩了几小时后就不想再打开了，也无法申请退款了。从价格看性价比低，不推荐。

9 Kings succeeds in building a fun and fast paced deckbuilder that is intrguing and engaging. I love the single player mode of placing units and buildings to get crazy synergies and multiplayer sounded like an exciting mode to try once I had gotten better at playing at higher difficulties. Ultimately my negative review comes from my experience with the offline scenarios mode called 'Quests' where the player is given a king to play with modifiers that change the original formula of the game to give them unique and interesting scenarios to conquer. I am not against a challenge and have beaten many roguelikes and deckbuilders on their highest difficulties. I understand that randomness is baked into the formula. However, I ran into multiple scenarios that I could not complete even after lowering the difficulty all the way down because it felt like said scenarios were so unbalanced that I needed to get supremely lucky to even stand a chance. The enemy AI scales up incredibly fast in health, damage, and unit numbers and I would frequently get steamrolled if I didn't find the perfect cards to keep up. It didn't feel like there were multiple strategies to use to win these scenarios and I felt relief rather than satisfaction from completing them. They did not feel like cleverly crafted challenges that I could out-wit but instead an expertly crafted series of stone walls for which I was invited to bash my skull into. I hope to return to the game again someday if and when the scenarios mode gets tweaked because the game is fun. I was hoping to 100% the game by beating all quests, leveling up all the kings to max level, and beat the game on the highest difficulty with each. But at this time, I had to stop because I stopped having fun with the quests mode.

This is nice, interesting and different. The downside is that you get around the bloc pretty fast. Still, I got a good 15h out of it, and it happened very intensely, as it was fairly addictive and the "one more run" syndrome was very present. But yeah, once I understood what worked and what didn't, I eventually found the broken combos that took me to year 600+, and then that was that. Get it on special if you are interested.

I am a fan of autobattlers, and 9 Kings scratches the right itch for me. Making crazy combos is fun. After a point, I did feel that the novelty wore off and I didn't have much left to explore. But I'll chalk it up to the game still being in early access. Will definitely come back to it after release.

I love this game. Single player: ok this is pretty cool, lots to try and unlock Then they added Quest Mode: this is pretty cool and some are really challenging. Out of nowhere, A-sync multiplayer with a casual mode (no rank points lost): this is pretty cool and fun! Until you get stomped by someone with the busted combos or portal spam (or even a few hackers). Still fun to mess around with no consequences. And it gets updated with new/different rainbow combinations, so it's not always the same meta. Look forward to 1.0!

I have played this game for quite some time and am torn. On one side the concept is really great. I love the mix between chess and tower defense. And on Singleplayer it is so much fun. Though after various patches and content updates i still think the game is heavily unbalanced. Winning is still too much luck-heavy. Of cousre you need to know your king(s), their perks, their strengths and weaknesses. Without that you can´t win. But knowing what card or perk would be best doesn´t prevent that you simply don´t get it. You need to pray to RNG-esus to get exactly the card, blessing, whatever that you need to advance enough to win the next round or the playthrough. This is no fun for me. i could accept that in SP and maybe also for the quests. Though in Multiplayer is where the game could shine the most and fails greatly. It is not really Multiplayer, just to make that clear. The game just copies the decks from real players and applies them as it deems best when you play. I assume it also manipulates the deck to increase difficulty. If the game wouldn´t do that, it would be an up and down if you win or loose, depending on what deck of what player is chosen. But as it is, some decks have paladins with 50k+ health at year 16. King of time is crushing your greed-soldiers with hundreds of units in year 9... and so on. Either its cheater-decks or the game is manipulating existing decks in a wrong way. One way or the other - the game is still heavily inbalanced and that spoils the fun greatly. Still a great idea this game, awesome concept but right now (august 2026) a very bad execution.