9 Kings is a roguelike city builder that’s actually just an excuse to launch rocks at people | Gaming

I very much recommend the Steam demo for strategy game 9 Kings, so it’s with no shade I say that I’m using ‘strategy’ here the same way a tube passenger might use a hardback of Ulysses to envelop their novelisation of 2 Fast 2 Furious. Griddy placement and tower defence tactics are involved, but this is primarily a game about launching rocks at dickheads. This is fine by me: launching rocks at dickheads is as solid a premise as any videogame needs to have.

You’ll start off with a 9 square grid surrounding a castle, then fill out those plots each turn by picking one of three cards. Some are buildings, like a cemetery that summons imps to fight in place of your slain units. Some are troops who’ll rush to the centre of the battlefield at the beginning…more

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