2026-08-28 14:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Patrick (HoodedHorse)
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 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/448
2026-08-22 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Patrick (HoodedHorse)
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
2026-07-29 17:03 UTC · Community Announcements · Sad Socket
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
2026-07-09 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Patrick (HoodedHorse)
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
2026-07-02 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Patrick (HoodedHorse)
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 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44897639/aad7799ac6bc9c0f878b2ce4213aee1b4c00bf57.png 9 Kings Ne
2026-06-26 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Sad Socket
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
2026-06-25 17:01 UTC · Community Announcements · Patrick (HoodedHorse)
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
2026-06-05 18:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Sad Socket
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 incentiviz
2026-06-01 20:30 UTC · Community Announcements · Patrick (HoodedHorse)
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 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44238280/93a3b7f6c23db6bd25fee769d327544e93d2c25f.png 9 Kings News Recap Pat
2026-05-30 15:57 UTC · Community Announcements · Sad Socket
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 abo
2026-05-26 20:09 UTC · Community Announcements · Sad Socket
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 y
2026-05-25 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Patrick (HoodedHorse)
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.
2026-05-25 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Sad Socket
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 nex
2026-05-22 18:13 UTC · Community Announcements · Sad Socket
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
2026-05-08 00:05 UTC · Community Announcements · Sad Socket
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.Patc
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