The King is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

Developer: Hypnohead
Publisher: Tinybuild
Platform: Windows
Release Date: July 21, 2025
ESRB Rating: N/A
Price: $15
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As satisfying as a successful real-time strategy game campaign can be, dealing with a complex RTS map can often be overwhelming. Keeping track of multiple far-flung resource-production bases, groups of units, upgrade trees, and surprise encounters with the enemy requires a level of attention-splitting that can strain even the best multitaskers.

Then there's The King is Watching, which condenses the standard real-time strategy production loop into an easy-to-understand single-screen interface, complete with automatic battles. The game's unique resource management system—combined with well-designed, self-balancing difficulty and randomized upgrades that keep each run fresh—makes The King is Watching one of the most enjoyable pick-up-and-play strategy titles I've encountered in a long time.

What is the king watching, exactly?

The bulk of the action in The King is ...