Rats killed my run... i had 12 rats plot level 200 and i got the splicing perk, now the game crash every time i try to continue the run. I want to finish the run ill try to log in the game in the supercomputer of a friend of mine and try to check the stats of rats Rats

I had about 4000 rats and each rat was doing a billion damage per attack and they were attacking 300 times per second and then the game crashed

Game for a busy person. The wife said not to spend anymore money because I own a Harley and I did it anyways. now I have 48 Hours in this game and Motorcycle parts still in their packaging.

Rats, Royalty, and RAM Overload

Came for the kingdom-building. Stayed for the rats. Lost my PC to 12 million attack-speed spearmen. Worth it. Played a normal run: “Oh cool, towers, units, some synergies.” Played endless mode: “What if I made a palace that attacks faster than light?” Game: violently crashes Yes, it’s a roguelike. Yes, it’s a builder. But mostly it’s a science experiment where you see how many layers of broken combos you can stack before the game begs for mercy. (Answer: 6 layers, 1 rat, and a dream.) Pros: Deep strategy with a 3x3 grid. Each king has a totally different, busted playstyle. “Lab Rats” exist and yes, they are a lifestyle. Performance updates are improving things (RIP supercomputers). Cons: – Endless mode isn’t just endless—it’s existential. – Occasionally your units forget how damage works. Or physics. Or numbers. – Game crashes more than your favorite crypto. Wishlist features: A combat replay/debug tool so I can understand how my 5M DPS rats got outdamaged by a sentient bush. Some kind of "what just happened" log for battles. More optimization so I stop judging my GPU like it's a prisoner on trial.

Final thoughts:

It’s like Slay the Spire had a fever dream after watching Age of Empires, then woke up screaming about rats and battle palaces. Also, where are the other 2 kings? Are they hiding with the frame rate? Final rating: 9 rats out of 9 kings. Will crash again.

Bought the game in early access called "9 Kings". Only 7 kings. Lies. The game is a lot of fun and an interesting take on a rogue like. Will be waiting for it to live up to its title of "9 Kings".

This game is already quite successful, so my middling review is going to land on the negative side to give people like me some context that might otherwise not be present in the huge pile of positive reviews. This game is just really, really easy. Its not deep, its not tricky, its not complex. It is, at most, a cute distraction and a fun way to viscerally understand how compounding interest works and why rich people have more money than you. I beat the game on every difficulty up to the "progressive difficulty" levels (read: infinite procedural scaling) without losing once. The only times I lost were when I was trying to force myself to use bad strategies with weird cards, and even then I could ususally get it to work by highrolling. I wouldn't pay more than $10 for the game.

I've wanted this game for years, and didn't even know it. The rats scale infinitely bro, they just keep scaling. The rats consume all. This is what Progress demands.

Fully stacking percentage-based increases. Uncapped numbers. I'm glad the game crashed before my CPU exploded. 10/10

This review is also based on 10+ hours of the demo, which has basically all of the same problems here. I assumed some would be remedied in the main game, but here we are. If there was a "Netural" Review, I'd give it. 9 Kings is very much a good game, and sets out exactly what it wants to do. It's polished, well made, looks/plays well, and has a lot of cool ideas. But there's also some negative parts to it. I want to make it clear that even though there's alot of DIFFERENT 'bad things', that doesn't mean the game itself is bad. Its like a statute with a bunch of tiny chips/cracks, but they're still there. Let's get into it:

Infatuation on 9

Haha. The game is called '9 kings'. so There will be 9 of everything! 9 select-able kings 9 cards per king 9 perks per king This sucks. I'll just say it, it sucks. This force of 9 on everything is very clearly stiffling the game. Besides the fact that it seems to be a hard-limit on the content, the specifics just blow. Not every king has an equal spread of spells, units, and structures. Some kings feel like they need more than their 9 cards to play well. The solution? The game lets you use other cards from other kings. This, however, leads into the next problems:

Give Me My Fucking Cards

The way this game works is that when you defeat an enemy, you get one draw from their 9 cards. One enemy is guaranteed to be the 'Rebellion' version of your king, and they are the main way you get your own cards. However, you can have anywhere from 2 to 4 enemies. Do you see the problem? At any given moment, you either get your cards every other round, or every 3-4 rounds. This fucking sucks. If I really like one king, I'm forced to deal with all this other bullshit that I dont want or dont care about. This then leads into the next problem:

King Synergy (or lack thereof)

Every king is clearly designed with their own cards in-mind synergy wise, obviously. The problem comes in that you're getting most of your cards from other kings who ARE LIKELY TO NOT have synergy with your king at all. There's some general synergy but that comes in more from cards that can affect everything no matter what. The thing that grinds my gears is when Im trying to run a specific build and keep getting cards that dont relate to it at all, like playing Stone King (who specializes in defensive structures) and I keep getting cards that apply spells to UNITS only. On the topic of kings, thats also the next part:

Your King is Irrelevant

Remember how I said that every King has 9 perks? I lied. They share 6 general perks, and have 3 unique ones. This means that the only thing, fundamentally, changing your king gameplay is: - 3 perks - What cards you start with - What rebellions you have The 6 general perks are fine. But good god, the 3 perks make me want to die. Almost every king has a perk which provides a buff when you lose a life. You shouldn't even be losing lives otherwise you're losing anyways, so thats a wasted perk. And some of them are very specific playstyles or just straight up bad. This wouldn't be a problem if perks were decided to only allow 9 per king but hur hur 9 kings!!!!!!! So stupid.

Smaller Things

Just a random assortment of things that still matter but cant be talked about much cause they're self explanatory - Gameplay is all about damage. Any strat that isnt 90% based on damage doesn't work because the enemies DO have damage and will kill anything you have in seconds. - Anything that cannot scale infinitely is worthless because enemies scale exponentially and you're meant to as well. Things like Walls, Mycellium, etc, those things keep flat numbers and thus become useless. - I really wish units were more unique? Like, they don't even get unique abilities or movement or behavior 99% of the time. They all dogpile into 1 pile and then one side dies within seconds. IF ONLY THERE WERE MORE THAN 2-3 UNITS PER KING TO ALLOW MORE SPECIALIZED UNITS (IF ONLY THERE WAS ALLOWED TO BE MORE THAN 9 CARDS PER KING) - Leveling takes unreasonably long. I only leveled up from 3 -> 4 after a half-hour long run. - Gameplay takes way too long. A good 40-50% of your time is wasted in animations/cutscenes between turns. Ive lost entire minutes to watching the stupid plot expander come up and down.

Solutions?

If you bring up a problem without proposing a solution, that's just hating. So I will propose a solution to what I believe are problems. I'm aware that many of the things I listed either cannot be fixed or are purposefully chosen to not be changed for design purposes, but still how I'd personally go about it: Infatuation on 9 Just add more things? It's literally that easy. If we HAVE to stick with 9 no matter what, then allow players to 'swap' cards. Have a bank of unused cards/perks that players are able to arrange into their kings however they want. Could be serve as unlockable extra content. You'd still only bring 9 into runs, but more than 9 could exist in total. Give Me My Cards You should either be given a draw of your cards EVERY time you beat ANY enemy, or it should be 'easier' to obtain them. Maybe some specific phase or shopkeeper where you can obtain/purchase only your kings cards? King Synergy Think more about relations between kings. If a king doesn't have good synergy at all with another king, then maybe don't make them forced to pick their hands? (Stone/Demon for example). This would be remedied by fixing the previous point since you arent forced to pick cards you dont have a use for anymore.

Your King is Irrelevant

This would be helped by all the previous points, but also I feel like Kings could have some more focus. Maybe give them global buffs like stone king having stronger structures, demon king spawning more shit, etc etc. Like automatic king-specific decrees, basically.

Smaller Things

In the same order as the 'Smaller Things' above: - Maybe make damage scale less? I'd rather face more enemies with more stuff going on than enemies that deal 9999999 DPS after a few rounds. This doesn't even need to apply to enemies in general, damage should honestly just scale less. Yes, I understand having huge numbers is apart of the fun, but when it blocks out any other strategy from working, kinda sucks. - Try and give EVERYTHING a way to scale. I cry when I see shit like Mycellium or Walls not being affected by buffs - More unique units would be allowed to exist if kings werent limited to only 9 cards. - Make levelling scale more with longer runs? It feels like you're rewarded for doing alot of short runs more than a few long ones, which feels wrong. - Make settings to skip/speed up all the stuff inbetween battles like expansion, draws, messages, etc. 9 Kings is great, but it can be so much better.

The game starts out decently fun and promising at lower difficulties, but at higher difficulties it just sadly doesn't hold up to the premise. The only trick it has up its sleeve to make fights more challenging is to make enemies scale faster and harder. Your card rewards are based on the enemies you face. You can't reroll the starting enemy pool. You can't reroll or influence your starting hand. And the enemy scaling eventually winds up so absurd that it's not about making the best out of what you have, it's about getting up the best your chosen character can feasibly pull off; what does this result in? "I didn't get the enemies I need, I didn't start with the card I can scale to absurdity, I might as well restart". This isn't helped by the fact that the balance is, for lack of a better term, atrocious. Certain units have notable downsides, and certain units just don't. They just don't. Certain enemies just absolutely hardcounter certain unit styles, and if you don't get the units you need to deal with it, that's it. Run over. Meta-progression isn't enough to carry it either. Each king can level up to 9 times, each level giving one perk point, and there's 9 perk options - 6 of which are generic, 3 are related to the character, and with precious few exceptions, none alter your gameplay enough that you'd look forwards to them. Meta-progression has been overhauled in favor of a new system that fits better within the game's mechanics, making this point moot. Staying at lower difficulties extends the grind, which further cements the difference between kings that are just allowed to coast by easily, and the ones that get random nonsense that doesn't help them in any meaningful way. The King of Blood gets two of their core units as well as two scaling towers at the start; the King of Progress gets 2 cards that increase the damage per level gained, which is useful if - IF - you draw one of your units that scale well into the late game. In short; the current state of balance doesn't properly incentivise going up in difficulty, because the only reward is less grind, which in turn unlocks stuff that is only interesting for some kings. And with the disparity between good units and bad units, with percentile-based and hence ever-escalating limitless scaling that only SOME units and towers can exploit in SOME ways, it feels like the current way to go is that you either break the game, or you don't play at all. And that just kinda sucks the fun out of a roguelite. If you can't make the best out of any given situation, if your player input feels like it matters so precious little, if the rewards for levelling up feel so unimpactful because getting to level 9 means getting another point you can put into a perk you could've gotten at level 1 already... It all just feels like it doesn't fit together as well as it could. It feels like a great game in the making, but the final sum is somehow a little less than the individual parts. However, it's also still early access - and balancing isn't a core problem that can never be fixed. The game may very well yet blossom into something great, but for now, it's just kind of-... eh for the price. EDIT: I'm not wholly convinced just yet, but the devs are clearly working on it, having just handed out buffs to units and areas that were previously struggling or underwhelming. The perk system has also been overhauled in favor of something vastly more interesting, also leaning on similarities to the base game's building system. There's a still a few rough patches, but... We may be getting there and the dev is putting in a genuine effort.

Game bangs Reached year 183 and game froze with my archers at half nearly half a centillion damage and my castle at trillions of map wide boulders per second REALLY strong gameplay loop and build paths Also 1005 lab rat levels game is all you could want from it and is being further fleshed out it freezing at year 183 is reasonable with thousands of calculations per second; aint' meant to go that far yet number go brr

Got to year 238. I have lvl 857 rats, their damage has been NaN since year 87, each has 4,4E+34 hp. Hits per second is 1,41E+11. They number 2571 and have a total of 380 spells cast on them. I did not lose. i have killed everyone. No one is attacking. My screen is blood red from my 19 chaos. My polices goes beyond my screen. Every single tower turns white from their attack speed, the buffing period takes longer than combat and my screen freeze for 10 seconds when i fight, i pray every single time that i win and every single time i do. This is my first game.

The game has a lot of interesting ideas, but it feels like there is a major problem with player agency. Most of the scaling in the game occurs through buildings that buff units at the end of each round AND is often multiplicative. This means that in most cases you have to lock in a build relatively early in the game because you have to scale your units in order to keep up with the enemy. It also makes it very hard to ever pivot a build because your new units will be so far behind on the scaling curve it's nearly impossible to have them catch up. Because of this I found the late game is often spent not really doing anything. Either your early game was set up well enough that you can scale to win or it wasn't and there's nothing you can do about it. Thematically I think the game is supposed to be about more macro game play than something like Slay the Spire. But, I think there is a way to do that while still giving the player something meaningful to do at each point in the game. For example, perhaps adding more events or choices later in the game that allow the player to transfer stats between troops or give the player some big payoff if they can meet certain requirements. The blessings are an interesting mechanic that could be used for this, but the problem right now is they are simply just flat buffs if you happen to have the right building on the random square that is picked. It would be interesting to see more events that reward you for having buildings at a certain level, certain combinations of buildings, or other things the player has a little more control over.

More like 9 Wins. 1. Pretty and consisistent art style 2. Simple to get started with, no obnoxious mechanics, everything just works. 3. Very different play-styles/Cardsets for each king that combine for synergy based on opponents each run. 4. Cards from different kings can be used in ways that seem game breaking but are actually balance with the higher difficulties. 5. Fun perk system as incentive for experimentation. 6. Small numbers become big numbers and scale exponentially, we love compound interest (+ no rubber banding, if you manage an OP build, you get to enjoy it). 7. Easy to understand what's going on even when a lot is happening. 8. Updates regularly and already feels complete as an early access game (despite missing the 9th king, soon to come). 9. Kings.

I beat King Difficulty and felt like a genius... Then the game unlocked King Difficulty 2. Me: 😎 Game: "Sit down, peasant."

Honestly i am somewhat disappointed. Besides 2 new kings and the already shown (but not unlockable) perks of the kings (9 each, 3 each king unique, others very similar), there is not much different freom the Demo. The prophecy that you see in the game one time and one time only each run, does not add at all any new content. So for right now - play the demo, thus you will have like 90% of the experience. If no new, b ig, updates will come - i do not advice to spend money on the game now.

The ideas are neat, but the implementation is not, and leads to a fairly unfun, railroaded gameplay loop on higher difficulties. If the game shapes up well, I'll re-evaluate, but currently it quickly becomes bland and lacks decision-making. The multiplicative scaling of units obliterates build diversity; you essentially need to get a build with strong scaling started early on (like demons or golden gun) or it feels like you just have no chance on higher difficulties. Essentially, if you get your build online early, the game is a bunch of railroaded dicerolls, but if you get an unlucky board/hand on King IV+, you may as well just restart (depending on build). If the game were based around linear scaling (just increase % base stats), it'd allow for builds that don't rely on such extreme early scaling. King balance is a bit whacky. The King of Greed is a brutal enemy on higher difficulties; their mercenaries are extremely tanky and their thieves kill quickly. The King of Progress hard walls many unit builds early on at higher difficulties because it has massive tanks with thorns. It feels like the counterplay is just kinda lacking, especially due to how fixated your build has to be on specific, strong plots. King of Spells is an anomaly; their stuff just doesn't feel like it synergizes well with most others, as it's almost entirely centered around enchants which can only buff units. It also seems like they need a defensive enchant; it's strange that the King of Nothing has a shield buff instead of the King of Spells. There's also something strange where it says my tower/unit will shoot like 50000x per second and it clearly doesn't... and it seems like changing game speed changes the outcome of gameplay, which would be(?) a pretty bad bug.

Lots of combinations to explore under each king and is a blast when you find a new combo. Highly recommend. Main criticism would be that it becomes repetitive pretty quickly when it feels like you've already won 10 turns before the end of the game would be nice to have the higher difficulties go on longer and have chaos events before you beat the first final assault.

20$ is way too much for this, get it on sale. It's too simple at the moment. Each round is identical to the last and the strategy is always the same. They clearly tried to make each king distinct but in the end it all works out to be the same. \ Also, the 3x speed is the only way to play the game and truthfully it should be the 1x speed. The rounds end up taking so long just because you need to watch each animation play out every single time.

as some one who finished the game on hardest difficulties on multiple kings i tell you this. this is just a rng grind game and there's not much player agency, skill involved or strategy involved.

I am committed to updating my Review for every Patch, keep in mind this is Early Access. I've 100%'d the game in both Patches at time of writing, so I feel this is a fair time to criticise. The King of Time Patch unfortunately seems like a pivot in a negative direction after what was a fun (but lovably janky) initial offering in the King of Nomads Patch. In cranking up the "difficulty" of the higher levels, the strategic floor has been raised tremendously by virtue of gutting unorthodox strategies into nonviability. Ironically, by limiting the diversity of viable interactions, the game might as well now present the player with a binary choice: "Do you want to Win or Lose?". Deep strategic approaches have vanished on all Kings but those for which were already powerful prior to the latest Patch. The Devs have taken a sandbox game and are now holding the player's hand, whispering "Nooo, play this way.". Part of the fun of tactics and builder games is embracing Bob Ross: nosediving into an imperfect, unorthodox strategy and still pulling out a win - limit testing your knowledge of what the game presents you with to see if you can come out ahead with your happy accidents. That fun evaporates when half of your high-level games end in the Menu, with the player selecting "Reset Run" because even playing against half of the enemy Kings renders you mathematically unable to reach Year 10. While playing as weaker Kings, you can be given the perfect set of starting cards and edict for your strategy and still wipe out because you're facing King of Stone. The game as it currently exists is more Paint-By-Numbers, and the canvas is ripped away from you if you dare use the wrong colour. I think the game can turn itself back around, and that's why I'm disappointed to give a negative review and committed to coming back for the next Patch. This, however, isn't the first Early Access strategy game I've seen choke out its build diversity in the name of "difficulty", effectively pushing away the active, buildcrafting playerbase.

内容过于稀薄，BD粗暴，多角色拆分更是加强了这一点，同时又削弱了单一BD的体验的流畅性，只有这个格子塔防本身尚有些新意——然而，使用了类似设计的RTS—TD社区玩法已经有了太多的佼佼者在前了，面对一个远弗如20年前的《守卫雅典娜》OR《兽人逃亡》的体验，很抱歉，我无法给你好评，超过六位以上的数值会彻底破坏玩家对数值认知的量级判断，做一下数值压缩或者科学计数，这甚至有助于你们的策划修正无尽玩法，另外加法乘区与乘法乘区也没有做很直观的区分，做个颜色字体并不难，这都是建立认知很重要的一环 此外，这会带来BUG，在设置数值的时候请考虑一下你游戏本身时钟周期下所能承载的计算上限，一个炮台打出的伤害略低于其一秒内的射速——这是我第一次玩就遇到的问题——我理解它的出现，但如果数值提前留好缺口，这种问题会更好解决 The content is somewhat thin, the BD and numerical design are coarse, and the King-characters split further exacerbates this issue, while simultaneously undermining the smooth experience of a single BD. Only this grid tower defense itself has some novelty—however, there have already been numerous outstanding examples in the RTS-TD community with similar designs. When faced with an experience that pales in comparison to 'Guardians of Athena' or 'Orc Escape' from over 20 years ago, I regret that I cannot give you a positive review. A greater than the million level values will completely disrupt players' judgment of the scale of the numerical perception. A numerical compression or scientific notation could even assist in adjusting your endless gameplay. Furthermore, the distinction between additive and multiplicative zones is not made very intuitive; it wouldn't be difficult to implement color-coded fonts, as this is a crucial aspect of establishing understanding. Furthermore, when setting values, please consider the computational limits that your game's clock cycle can support. The damage dealt by a turret is slightly lower than its firing rate for one second—this was an issue I encountered during my first playthrough. I understand the reason for this, but if a buffer is established in the values set in advance, this problem could be resolved more effectively. ：） (Perhaps, as a Chinese F2P mobile game designer, some of my feedback may seem less 'indie', but I believe these suggestions are valuable for a single-player game with a rigorous numerical system.)

Game is good, but 90% of the units and building are useless in later difficulties, making the game VERY boring. You basically need to restart until you get the proper enemy kings and starting cards or you literally cannot beat the first few fights. Either nerf the enemies a lot OR buff every single unit and tower to have at least double damage and HP so they can stand any chance

minha namorada me deixou pq eu fiquei a madrugada inteira jogando essa porra ao invés de ir dormir com ela, fiquei muito puto por ter perdido a run no dia 98 contra o king of nature

9/10 Kings recommend this game