The King is Watching

Item: The King is Watching
Rating: 62
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-07-22

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Summary

Addictive and engaging gameplay experience
Innovative genre blend with strategic depth
Rich content and progression systems
Frequent crashes and no mid-run save
Unbalanced difficulty and tedious gameplay
Grindy meta-progression and repetitive runs

Emotions

Satisfaction27%Frustration21%Disappointment14%Excitement10%Enjoyment6%

Reviews (sample size): 316
Helpful reviews: 81%
Unhelpful reviews: 19%
Protest reviews: 0%

62%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
38%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 563
Negative points: 449
Gameplay points: 147
Perf. points: 9
Rec. points: 109
Misc points: 48

Point	Description	Importance
Addictive and Engaging Gameplay Description Players find the game highly addictive, engaging, and fun, often losing track of time while playing. Its strategic depth, replayability, and unique blend of genres contribute to a compelling gameplay loop that encourages continuous play. Importance 100%	Players find the game highly addictive, engaging, and fun, often losing track of time while playing. Its strategic depth, replayability, and unique blend of genres contribute to a compelling gameplay loop that encourages continuous play.	100%
Innovative Genre Blend & Strategy Description The game successfully blends multiple genres, including roguelite, tower defense, city-builder, and RTS, creating a fresh and innovative strategic experience. Its unique mechanics, such as soldier management and resource gathering, are well-implemented and offer deep strategic considerations. Importance 39%	The game successfully blends multiple genres, including roguelite, tower defense, city-builder, and RTS, creating a fresh and innovative strategic experience. Its unique mechanics, such as soldier management and resource gathering, are well-implemented and offer deep strategic considerations.	39%
Full Game Improves on Demo Description The full version of the game significantly improves upon the demo, offering much more content, better balance, and incorporating player feedback. This substantial upgrade has greatly enhanced the overall experience for players who enjoyed the demo. Importance 29%	The full version of the game significantly improves upon the demo, offering much more content, better balance, and incorporating player feedback. This substantial upgrade has greatly enhanced the overall experience for players who enjoyed the demo.	29%
Rich Content & Progression Description The game boasts a vast amount of content, including numerous units, buildings, kings, advisors, and a deep meta-progression system. This variety ensures high replayability and offers many different strategies and playstyles to explore. Importance 23%	The game boasts a vast amount of content, including numerous units, buildings, kings, advisors, and a deep meta-progression system. This variety ensures high replayability and offers many different strategies and playstyles to explore.	23%
Improved Difficulty Curve Description The game's difficulty curve has been refined, making it more accessible for new players while still providing a significant challenge for experienced ones. The ability to choose difficulty levels further enhances this balance. Importance 19%	The game's difficulty curve has been refined, making it more accessible for new players while still providing a significant challenge for experienced ones. The ability to choose difficulty levels further enhances this balance.	19%
Charming Art Style & Humor Description The game features excellent pixel art, stunning visual design, and charming animations that contribute to its unique aesthetic. Players also appreciate the game's humor and quirky character, which adds to its overall appeal. Importance 14%	The game features excellent pixel art, stunning visual design, and charming animations that contribute to its unique aesthetic. Players also appreciate the game's humor and quirky character, which adds to its overall appeal.	14%
Fantastic Soundtrack Description The game's soundtrack is highly praised for being fantastic, subtle yet powerful, and perfectly conveying the game's atmosphere. The music significantly enhances the overall player experience. Importance 6%	The game's soundtrack is highly praised for being fantastic, subtle yet powerful, and perfectly conveying the game's atmosphere. The music significantly enhances the overall player experience.	6%
Great Value for Price Description Players feel the game offers excellent value for its price, citing the high quality and abundant content as reasons for its worth. Many believe the game is underpriced given its offerings. Importance 6%	Players feel the game offers excellent value for its price, citing the high quality and abundant content as reasons for its worth. Many believe the game is underpriced given its offerings.	6%
Strategic Wave Selection Description The mechanic of choosing upcoming enemy waves is a standout feature, allowing players to strategize and adapt their approach based on their current composition and desired rewards. Importance 5%	The mechanic of choosing upcoming enemy waves is a standout feature, allowing players to strategize and adapt their approach based on their current composition and desired rewards.	5%
Unique 'Gaze' Mechanic Description The 'King's Gaze' mechanic is a unique and engaging core feature that adds a clever layer of tension and micromanagement, making every decision impactful and challenging players to multitask. Importance 5%	The 'King's Gaze' mechanic is a unique and engaging core feature that adds a clever layer of tension and micromanagement, making every decision impactful and challenging players to multitask.	5%
Minor Save Feature Issue Description While some players note the absence of a save feature, it is generally not considered a major issue. The game is also praised for being largely bug and glitch-free. Importance 5%	While some players note the absence of a save feature, it is generally not considered a major issue. The game is also praised for being largely bug and glitch-free.	5%
Balanced Luck and Skill Description The game strikes a good balance between luck and skill, where losses feel like a result of player shortcomings rather than bad luck, encouraging continuous improvement and strategic thinking. Importance 4%	The game strikes a good balance between luck and skill, where losses feel like a result of player shortcomings rather than bad luck, encouraging continuous improvement and strategic thinking.	4%
Accessible for All Players Description The game is accessible and suitable for a wide range of players, from casual to hardcore, and can be enjoyed at a relaxed pace. Its simplicity does not detract from its depth. Importance 3%	The game is accessible and suitable for a wide range of players, from casual to hardcore, and can be enjoyed at a relaxed pace. Its simplicity does not detract from its depth.	3%
Helpful Tutorial, No Hand-Holding Description The game provides a helpful tutorial to ease players into its mechanics, but it does not hold the player's hand, allowing for self-discovery and strategic depth. Importance 3%	The game provides a helpful tutorial to ease players into its mechanics, but it does not hold the player's hand, allowing for self-discovery and strategic depth.	3%