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The King Is Watching 2025

Video game · July 21, 2025

Developed by HypnoheadPublished by tinyBuild

The King Is Watching is a 2025 video game that blends real-time strategy and city building elements within a roguelike framework. Players control a castle, arranging structures to gather resources, train forces, and defend against waves of attackers. The game was originally crafted by Hypnohead as a submission to the October 2023 Ludum Dare 54 game jam. It evolved through additional development, shifting genres before being released by tinyBuild for Windows in July 2025. Critics praised its core mechanics and loop structure, with the title selling more than 500,000 copies. The game earned a nomination for "Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year" at the 29th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards.

Crew

Music

Innata Vita

Details

Developer

Hypnohead

Publisher

tinyBuild

Modes

Single-player

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