Fact-checked up to the November 12, 2026 (1.0.1) full launch: explore all 9 Playable Kings, 95+ Cards, 90+ Perks, time-travel Decrees, and test optimal 3x3 plot geometry before your next Kingdom or Ranked run.
9 Kings launched into 1.0 on November 12, 2026. Track the remaining 50% Steam Launch Discount window (ends Nov 26, 2026 · 18:00 UTC) and the daily Daily Mayhem seed reset.
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Plan multiplicative Perk layouts and 3x3 adjacency geometry with verified 1.0 math.
Simulate 3x3 to 5x3 Perk boards, test adjacent doubling Perks (Expansionist, Careful Architect, Imperial Seal), and compute exact compound stacking across your chosen King’s Perks.
Drag or assign Base, Troop, Tower, and Building cards across all 9 plots, view active orthogonal adjacency links (Blacksmith, Forest, Quarry, Beacon, Cauldron), and estimate 9g Mercenary & Merchant budgets.
Each King introduces a unique Base card, 8 signature deck cards, 9 Perks, and distinct Diplomacy matchups.
Balanced Foundations, Shields & Adjacency Scaling
The starter ruler of 9 Kings and the most versatile all-rounder. Following Patch #14 ("Nothing Makeover"), King of Nothing gained his own dedicated Decree pool and special scaling traits: Soldiers gain +1% damage per unit added to their troop, and Paladins gain bonus HP whenever they receive a damage buff.
Enchantment Duplication, Chain Lightning & Tome Scaling
A magic-focused ruler built around creating small squads of hyper-enchanted super-troops. Wizards gain bonus damage for every Enchantment they carry, Warlocks gain HP for every Tome cast, and Libraries have a 50% yearly chance to duplicate an adjacent troop’s Enchantments.
Gold Economy, Mercenary Hordes & Dispenser Hyper-Speed
The premier economic powerhouse of 9 Kings. Every gold coin earned permanently accelerates Dispenser towers (+1% attack speed per 1 gold gained), while current gold stockpiles dynamically scale Mercenary troop counts (1 unit per 9 gold in Patch #29+, improved from 15 gold).
Sacrifice Loops, The Pit Synergies & Infinite Summons
A high-velocity swarm and sacrifice ruler. Reworked heavily in Patch #29, King of Blood pairs disposable Imps and Bombers with Cemeteries (spawns Skeletons when adjacent allies die), Manglers (summon Meat Trolls & sacrifice adjacent units), Demon Altars (+0.5% permanent strength per dead ally), and Oblation (pit-scaling troop count tome).
Exponential HP Scaling, Boar Riding & Troop Multiplication
The king of relentless biological scaling. Forests boost adjacent troops’ HP every year, Procreate adds +9 units instantly, Clone duplicates high-value cards, and Mycelium accumulates permanent fighting Spores across every battle. Boars can be mounted by adjacent troops, granting +1% stats per 1 Boar HP.
Fortification Walls, Tower Defense & Earthworks Card Loops
A tower-defense specialist designed to stall enemy waves behind Wallmaker barriers while Trebuchets, Ballistas, Flametowers, and poison-infused Cauldrons shred the battlefield. Earthworks unlocks adjacent plots while returning up to 3 copies of a target plot back to your hand.
Plot Level-Up Chains, Lab Rats & Pit Recycling
Built around industrial level-up dominoes. Lab Rats have no maximum level cap and automatically level up whenever any adjacent plot levels up. Concabulators level up your entire kingdom upon reaching Level 3, Overhaul destroys a plot to level up escalating numbers of random plots, and Recycler (Patch #29) buffs adjacent plots on every Pit discard.
Plot Migration, Raptor Mounts & Destruction Scaling
Introduced in Patch #13 (v0.8), the King of Nomads breaks traditional board rules with a mobile Troop-Base (Warlord) and Migration tomes that reposition plots across the 3x3 grid while granting +10% DMG and HP. Camp buffs adjacent plots whenever any card lands on an empty tile, and Dragon’s Den scales +20% stronger every time a plot is destroyed.
Time Travel (Year -1), Amplifier Replication & Battle-Duration Scaling
Added in Patch #15 (v0.8.5), the 9th King bends the calendar itself. Portal rewinds the run to an earlier year while keeping your board intact—allowing you to re-trigger Royal Councils, Diplomats, and Prophet Blessings, or even travel to Year -1 to face "emiT fo noipmahC". Amplifier copies every buff it receives onto all adjacent plots.
Game-Breaking Rainbow Cards & Cross-Faction Multipliers
The Rainbow Army is a special neutral boss army led by the Jack of Rainbows. Defeating this faction grants access to exclusive Rainbow Cards—ultra-powerful Tomes, Troops, and Buildings such as Echoform, Gigantify, X-Ray, Shrine, Slime, Golem, and the 9 new 1.0 Rainbow cards (Reflector, Reactor, Factory, Leech, Great Hall, Singularity, Accumulator, Mantra, Hound).
From classic Year 1–33 runs to Daily Mayhem, 81 Quests, The Joker, and Asynchronous Ranked Multiplayer.
Draft your chosen King from Years 1 to 33 across escalating difficulties (Peasant through King IX+ and Endless) with Prophet Blessings, Royal Council Decrees, and Jack of All Trades Merchants.
Unlock: Available immediately on launch
81 curated puzzle-strategy scenarios spread across all 9 Lands (9 quests per King), graded across Knight, King, and Chaos difficulties with strict starting rules and Victory/Defeat twists.
Unlock: Unlocked in core menu progression
Daily seeded runs on a dedicated map pitting every player against identical King draws, enemy schedules, and daily modifiers that reset at 00:00 UTC.
Unlock: Included in 1.0 Release
Special 1.0 endgame challenge mode unlocked once you master all 9 Kings, mixing unpredictable wild mechanics and Rainbow Army threats.
Unlock: Unlocked after beating/unlocking all 9 Kings (1.0)
Build your kingdom and pit asynchronous snapshots of your board at key year checkpoints against real human opponents’ builds in seasonal ranked brackets.
Unlock: Available online in main mode selector
Anchors front-row Paladins and back-row Archers around two Blacksmiths and Farms so flat percent attack and unit-count scaling compound automatically every year.
Core Cards: Castle · Paladin · Archer · Blacksmith · Farm · Steel Coat · Wildcard
Combines Shaman scaling with Library Tome-doubling and Spire attack-speed bursts to turn static backline casters into rapid-fire artillery.
Core Cards: Citadel · Shaman · Wizard · Library · Spire · Static · Combustion · Offering
Exploits Patch #29’s buffed 9g Mercenary hire cost and self-leveling Vaults alongside Dispenser and Over-Invest to overwhelm enemy waves with purchased army size.
Core Cards: Palace · Vault · Mercenary · Dispenser · Beacon · Midas Touch · Over-Invest
Feeds expendable Imps and Cemetery spawns into Demon’s Altar and Sacrifice while applying Patch #29’s Oblation enchantment for scaling life-drain survivability.
Core Cards: Pagoda · Demon's Altar · Cemetery · Imp · Bomber · Oblation · Sacrifice · Carnage
9 Kings exited Early Access and launched into Version 1.0 on November 12, 2026 (followed by hotfix 1.0.1). It is available on PC (Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store, Xbox PC / PC Game Pass), officially Steam Deck Verified, and released on iOS and Android mobile devices.
There are 9 playable Kings: King of Nothing, King of Spells, King of Greed, King of Blood, King of Nature, King of Stone, King of Progress, King of Nomads, and King of Time (added in Patch #15), plus the non-playable Rainbow Army faction enemy waves.
Version 1.0 introduced Daily Mayhem (seeded daily challenge runs resetting at 00:00 UTC) and The Joker / Joker Mode (unlocked after beating or unlocking all 9 Kings), alongside Quest Mode (81 scenarios added in Patch #19) and Asynchronous Ranked Multiplayer (added in Patch #24).
Patch #29 reworked King of Blood by replacing Vampirism with Oblation, reworked King of Progress by replacing Precision with Recycler and updating Reinforce to +2% HP/sec overheal, reduced Mercenary hire cost from 15g to 9g, made Vaults level automatically each year, and moved Bargain to the Universal pool. Patch #31 tuned difficult Quest Mode maps including Colorfoe, Universe 25, Slaughterhouse, and Mycotocracy.
