9 Kings
Worth it · Roguelike · 2025 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 6 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9950% off
- Cost per hour
- $3.84/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 23,738
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Roguelike
Holding it back: Early access, Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 5.2h
- To 100%
- 23h 4.4x the story
- Finish
- 26% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 54
Price and sales
- Sales
- 15 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $8.99 October 2025
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 828 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 9% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
95% start to 3% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 15 times in the 18 months tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Shogun Showdown ($14.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers ($4.79, scores 54).
More about 9 Kings
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,544 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 23, 4.4 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 25 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
9 Kings is a strategy game that is easy to play, but difficult to master. It might look like a cakewalk if you watch some videos showing you the gameplay on the lowest of levels, but once you start the more challenging ones, you'll be in for a surprise. The difficulty gets higher and higher, and even higher than that! The good thing is that (in my opinion) this makes it fun. You learn new strategies, combination of...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 (2 GB) / AMD Radeon HD 6670 (2 GB), 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
9 Kings scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2784470/9-kingsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.