9 Kings

Changes 5

1.0 release 1

1. Four Unique Game Modes 4

• – I. Singleplayer: break the game in the classic style in dozens of difficulty levels.
• – II. Multiplayer: fight builds from all over the world and climb the ladder to become the king of kings.
• – III. Quest Mode: travel across the 9 lands and beat unique challenges as you crack new puzzles.
• – IV. Joker Mode: a much-requested custom mode that allows you to customize your deck and game rules.

2. 130+ Cards 1

3. 140+ Decrees 1

4. 110+ Perks 1

5. 80+ Quests 1

6. 300+ Vanity Items 1

• – A huge new batch of vanity items for multiplayer will help you customize (and maybe break) your king's profile in unimaginable ways.

7. Improved Gameplay 1

8. The Joker 1

9. Kings 1

The Joker: 1

Daily mayhem 1

New record system: 1

• – You can now challenge yourself every run by trying to beat your own record on each of the 9 end-game stats!

Random mode: 1

• – If you don't know which king to pick in single player mode, just click the die on the right corner of the screen and the RNG gods will pick one for you.

King lore: 1

New Visuals: 6

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  Animated buildings!

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  New scenario FX

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  Dedicated tome FX

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  Dedicated card sounds

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  Polished menus

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  New intro cinematics

New Rainbow cards: 10

• – We're introducing 9 new, gamebreaking, rainbow cards.
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  Reflector

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  Reactor

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  Factory

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  Leech

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  Great Hall

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  Singularity

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  Accumulator

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  Mantra

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  Hound

New Blessings: 3

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  Cornucopia

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  Reclamation

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  Yes, we finally have 9 blessings.

New Decrees: 27

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  Sectarism (All)

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  Splurge (All)

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  Minimum Wage (All)

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  Demolition Crew (All)

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  Upcycling (All)

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  Grace (All)

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  Rapine (All)

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  Archaeology (All)

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  Imports (All)

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  Men-at-Arms (Nothing)

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  Nativism (Nothing)

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  Purification (Spells)

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  Polemology (Spells)

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  Foreclosure (Greed)

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  Golden Hour (Greed)

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  Blight (Nature)

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  Overgrowth (Nature)

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  Necromancy (Blood)

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  Prime Meat (Blood)

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  Travel Boots (Nomads)

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  Gigasaur (Nomads)

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  Bulldozers (Stone)

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  Perforation (Stone)

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  Jumpstart (Progress)

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  Repurpose (Progress)

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  Power Grid (Time)

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  Debris (Time)

New Perks: 6

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  Prodigious (All)

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  Entrepreneur (All)

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  Quick (All)

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  Vigilant (Multiplayer)

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  Vain (Multiplayer)

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  Ambitious (Multiplayer)

300+ New Vanity Items: 4

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  9 haircuts for each king

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  9 eyes for each king

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  9 faces for each king

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  9 backgrounds for each king

45 New Achievements: 1

• – We now have a total of 99 achievements.

Dragon's Den damage was mildly increased.Mangler damage was mildly increased.Mangler meat trolls now get both HP and DMG whenever it mangles a unit.Diversification decree no longer removes rainbow cards from rainbow encounters.Pillage decree now works with Razing, Offering, Chaos Offering, and Chaos Mortgage. 5

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  Regression is no longer playable on level 1 plots (useless interaction).

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  Broken plots are now level 1.

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  When you Randomfy your base, your old base's decrees are removed from the decree pool.

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  Universe 25 (Quest): you now start with one Mantra card.

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  Nature Total War (Quest): enemy scaling was decreased.

Fixes: 22

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  Regional rank points are now displayed properly.

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  Display when viewing your own rank stats are now aligned properly.

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  Fixed ranking display on 4:3 resolution.

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  Gacha card selection now works properly when using controllers.

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  Fixed enemy Flametower behavior on Multiplayer.

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  Fixed Mangler pop up numbers.

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  Fixed Swords and Shields description when using related perks.

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  Fixed a crash caused by fighting the Blood army using troops Carnage.

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  Stronghold towers are no longer super loud.

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  Fixed Chaos Swords and Chaos Shields pop-ups.

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  Fixed year 99 UI interaction with controllers.

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  When switching to AUTO, the first subsequent base shot is no longer at the corner of the screen.

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  "Ghosts left" UI is now removed when you Randomfy a Pagoda.

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  Fixed high number alignment inside UI elements.

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  Fixed a soft-lock on year 99 when using controllers.

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  Fixed a soft-lock when selection the Expander perk using controllers.

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  Cards are no longer leaving the screen on Steamdeck when using Diversification or when you have too many cards in your hand.

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  Steamdeck scrollbars now work properly.

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  Several other controller fixes.

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  Several other Steamdeck fixes.

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  Main Menu UI fixes.

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  Fixed several localization issues.

1.0.1 Hotfixes: 11

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  Implemented a "Disable building animations" option.

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  Fixed a glitch that caused broken decrees to not appear properly on multiplayer.

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  Fixed a soft lock UI interaction between chest events and the expansion tower.

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  Fixed a soft lock caused by sabotaging your last enemy king in multiplayer.

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  Reduced the intensity of the champion death animation blink.

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  Fixed a big number issue on French localization.

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  Fixed several minor localization issues.

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  Fixed minor controller navigation glitches.

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  Fixed minor text bleeding issues.

• – After downloading the patch, please start a new run, as your previous run won’t have the updates stored and they may cause conflicts. If you experience any issues, please email us at report@sadsocket.com
• – Thanks for joining us on this very special day. 1.0 is here, but we're only getting started.

Steam Reviews: Your Feedback Matters 4

• – We've been reading through all your Steam reviews, and we appreciate the feedback we've been receiving. Please continue sharing your thoughts so we know what to focus on for each upcoming patch and make 9 Kings the best game it can be. It's really important to us!
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• – Sad Socket team