9 Kings — patch notes and updates
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| Save 50% on 9 Kings | 2026-04-12 | 9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse April 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 April Sale |
| Save 50% on 9 Kings | 2026-03-19 | 9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse Spring 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 Spring Sale |
| 9 Kings News Roundup at the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale | 2026-03-10 | 9 Kings has had some amazing content updates recently. In case you missed it, here's a look at what's new from the 9 Kings team! Full roundup below. 9 Kings is also part of the Hooded Horse Publisher sale at 50% off. Check it and other games out in the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale. Hooded Horse Publisher Sale 9 Kings News Roundup: Updates #20 - #22Update #20 Update #20 added an exciting Merchant change, giving the player more agency and clarity in the Merchant screen. The 9 Kings team also continued working on balancing, fixing bugs, and included a wealth of new QOL changes requested by the community. Some of the standout QOL changes are the i |
| Patch #22: Treasures, New Decrees, Balancing, QoL | 2026-03-07 | Today we're bringing you a much needed and requested patch. We're addressing many balancing topics, improving overall performance, and of course, adding new content. There are 22 new decrees in patch 22, and also a brand new cool mechanic!Treasure chests:You might now find mysterious treasure chests in your land! To get their loot, you must explore (unlock) the plot where it's buried. This mechanic will present yet another variable for your strategies and give you new motivations to expand your kingdom. A new decree and a new universal perk built around the treasure chests were also added! New decrees:It's time for a new batch of decrees. We' |
| Save 50% on 9 Kings | 2026-02-27 | 9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse 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 Publisher Sale |
| Patch #21: The Endless Patch (new deck, performance, controller support) | 2026-02-04 | It's time for a major patch in 9 Kings. One that will address things a lot of you have been asking for, expand the world even further, and introduce a definitive Endless Mode experience. We took our time to rework core backend features to improve performance, and we hope you like it!The Jack of ChaosComing from the depths of the realm of Endless Chaos, the Jack of Chaos is ready to invade 9 Land. Frustrated for never having been granted a crown of his own, this powerful Jack swore to wreak havoc on the real kings. The Jack of Chaos stole cards from all other kingdoms and made his own unique deck. A deck of corrupted cards that will help you t |
| Save 50% on 9 Kings | 2026-01-08 | 9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse January 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 January Publisher Sale |
| Save 50% on 9 Kings | 2025-12-18 | 9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse Winter 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 Winter Publisher Sale |
| Patch #20: Merchant, Screens, Balancing & more QoL | 2025-12-05 | Hey, everybody. This is a patch focusing on QoL, fixes, balancing, and last but not least: a very cool Merchant update!Jack of All Trades:We've improved the Merchant event to give you more agency. Those are simple changes, but that can make the event much more interesting.You can now re-roll the type of merchant you're buying cards from. There is a re-roll button below the Merchant's name. The shop type re-roll prices are persistent, like decrees.The Merchant is now called Jack of All Trades!There are 3 Merchant types: Jack of Arms (Troops), ack of Structures (Buildings/Towers), Jack of Magic (Tomes/Enchantments). *In case you haven't noticed |
| Get a 9 Kings plushie! | 2025-11-30 | Hey, everyone! Quick fun update for you: You can now get a King of Nothing plushie!We just partnered up with Makeship to start making a 9 Kings plushie collection! But we'll only actually make it if you're interested: so click this link to get the one and only King of Nothing. Get your plushie! I got mine last week and it's super cool. Also make sure to let us know which king you want to see next :) Massive black Friday discountMakeship is doing a massive Black Friday discount this week and they asked us to tell you guys! If you wanna get a plushie, the time is now 🙂 New patch coming in the next few days! Join us on Discord and Reddit. You c |
| Save 50% on 9 Kings | 2025-11-29 | 9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse November 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 November Publisher Sale |
| Nominate 9 Kings for the Steam Awards | 2025-11-24 | Hey everyone, The 2025 Steam Awards have begun! And if you want to support our journey, we’d love it if you’d consider nominating 9 Kings for Game of the Year. 2025 was great for gaming, and the truth is that just being nominated by you means the world to us. Every single nomination helps spread the word about 9 Kings and introduces new players to the game we’re building together. We’ve been working really hard this year. And thanks to your feedback across the EA journey, we were already able to introduce: New kings Over 100 cards Dozens of new perks and decrees A fresh new game mode Several important revamps and improvements ...as we set our |
| Patch #19: Quest Mode (a massive new way to play 9 Kings!) | 2025-11-21 | It is time for a major addition to 9 Kings: Quest Mode is now here! (guess which shape 9 Land is) Enter the World MapQuest mode is a full continent to explore with 81 unique challenges. 9 challenges per kingdom. Unique spin offs on the base game that bring you dozens of hours of fresh gameplay with a hint of world building. Start as the King of Nothing, roam 9 Land in whichever direction you please, unravel all the 9 Kingdoms, and become the biggest crown collector the world has seen. ːsteamthisː To unlock quest mode, all you have to do is beat any run in the base game.81 unique challengesQuests were built from the core mechanics of the game |
| Patch #18: Rainbow content + Revamps + Blessings + More! | 2025-11-11 | Today, we're bringing you a lot of new content and improvements to 9 Kings!With this patch, we're setting the terrain for the new game mode that is coming later this month. But more than that: we're adding a lot of new content that will hopefully improve your gameplay (a lot). We're super excited about these updates!Here are the highlights:New rainbow content (cards, perks, decrees!)Blessing revampKing of Spells revampImproved calendar eventsBalancing & Other minor revampsBug fixes1. Rainbow content:A lot of new gamebreaking stuff here. We hope you have some fun with it! Decrees:Diversification: You can now pick between 6 loot cards but the l |
| Patch #17: The Agency Patch (New RNG Features, Balancing, QoL, Fixes) | 2025-10-18 | Hey, everybody. We've been working hard on new content but we felt it was important to take a beat to finesse what's already here. This patch contains new features that we hope will address your feedback. We made meaningful changes to give more agency to players, with QoL features, a lot of rebalancing, and bug fixes. Our key goals:Give all players more agency.Turn down difficulty a notch while providing a challenge to those who want it.Making sure King of Time is a sustainable king on high-end difficulties.Making sure reported bugs are fixed.New features/QoL:You can now re-roll the king you're facing in the next battle. The re-roll button ap |
| Patch #16: Hotfixes, New Perk and Decree | 2025-10-10 | Hey, everybody. Hope you're having a good time with the new king. With his ambitious deck, came your game-breaking reports we knew would arrive. And we're happy to say most of them are now fixed! We’re thrilled with the reception of the craziest thing we’ve released so far and are working hard to make sure it lives up to our vision. We’re only getting started, and we want to make sure you have the best experience possible with it. Your help in making that happen is essential. Please keep you feedback coming. We're reading everything.Today we're bringing you some new tweaks + a consolidated patch note with everything that has been going on in |
| Save 55% on 9 Kings | 2025-10-10 | Earlier this week, we dropped our biggest update yet for 9 Kings. The ninth king, The King of Time, has finally arrived on the battlefield. This king is a multidimensional traveler who can manipulate the time continuum to his will -- and his deck provides new ways to bend time and break the game. In addition to the new king, this update adds 10 new cards, 9 new perks (plus 1 new Rainbow Perk), 5 new decrees, 9 new broken decrees, 19 new achievements, and a new battlefield. Not to mention some visual updates, FX updates, and other quality of life changes. Check out the full changelog for more details! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/27 |
| Patch #15: King of Time (New cards, perks, decrees, and gamebreaking stuff) | 2025-10-08 | You've given us time. And now, we're giving you the King of Time. The 9th king that will finally make 9 Kings to live up to its name, and that will unlock dozens of new combos for your strategies and unprecedented ways to break the game. Seriously, it's our most ambitious (dare I say reckless) update yet. Who is the King of Time?A multidimensional gentleman who travels through the ages in search of more kingdoms to conquer, the King of Time joins our roster to break time continuum and the game like never before. His kingdom lies in the fringes of time, somewhere between magic, sci-fi, and steampunk technology. Which one is it? Only time will |
| Save 50% on 9 Kings | 2025-09-29 | 9 Kings is on sale at 50% off during the Hooded Horse Autumn 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 Autumn Publisher Sale |
| Save 50% on 9 Kings | 2025-08-31 | 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 Sale |