The King is Watching

RTS, or “Real Time Staring”
So, what is The King is Watching all about? The game has one main mechanic: nothing happens in your kingdom unless you’re watching it. 
 
From wheat-picking peasants and gold-digging miners to blade-swinging soldiers preparing for battle, your subjects will only work when you are watching them.
 
Thus, your eyes become the kingdom’s greatest resource… but they can’t look at everything at the same time! Will you nurture your crops or train your troops? Only the sharpest sighted monarchs shall thrive!
 
 
Eyes on your Kingdom!
The King is Watching it’s a roguelite kingdom builder where no two reigns are ever the same. But how does the game ensure that?
 
Aside from gathering resources and fending off waves of goblins and beasts, you will:
Face one of many villainous Bosses each run, drawn from a pool of mighty fiends like dragons, necromancers, and goblin warlords, each bringing unique tactics to overthrow you.
Increase the challenge through ever-tougher Threat Levels, where enemies gain new powers, demanding new royal strategies and split-second ruling.
Adapt thy plans to random blueprints, artifacts, and spells found during each run: with this you will forge unique builds instead of relying on a single path to victory.
Choose from multiple Kings, Advisors and unlockable Upgrades, providing always a new challenge to face!
 
Thus is forged the true royal challenge: every run is gonna be a brand-new royal tale!
 
 
 
A Kingdom for Both New and Veteran Kings
Whether you're a fresh-faced monarch still learning which end of the sword is which, or a hardened ruler with battle-scarred robes, The King is Watching welcomes all. It’s easy to pick up (no scroll-reading required!) but has enough cunning strategy and challenge to keep even the most seasoned sovereigns on their toes for generations!
 
Ready to Rule?
The King is Watching is officially out, with many updates already being whispered in the castle halls!
 
Want to meet your fellow nobles? Join us on Discord to share strategies, screenshots, and argue politely over which advisor is the best (it’s Gustav the duck, obviously).
 
A Note on Localization: Some parts of the current localization were translated but have not yet gone through final editing. You may spot a few lines that seem out of context or a bit rough around the edges.
If you do, please let us know in the #bug-reports channel on the Discord! Your help is invaluable, noble ruler! 👑
 
So wear your best crown, gaze nobly and carve your legacy into the annals of royal history!
HUZZAH!!

📜Here’s what’s new in Update 1.0.2:

Bug Fixes and Technical Improvements
Fixed a crash that caused the game to close unexpectedly without an error message.
Significantly reduced the memory leak issue.
Optimized unit animations, allowing more units on the battlefield while consuming fewer resources from your PC.
Arachnor's Brother no longer transforms into a different unit after certain encounter decisions.
Adjusted Russian localization by decreasing text size in some instances, ensuring text remains properly within buttons.
Quality-of-Life Improvements
You can now sell blueprints directly from the trader window.
Upgrades for sold blueprints will no longer appear in rewards.
Powerful random seals will now prefer empty tiles rather than tiles already occupied by seals.
We are actively working on the highly requested mid-run save feature and hope to launch public tests for it later this week. Stay tuned for updates!

The Problem with Leo
We’ll be honest: we didn’t balance King Leo the Wise properly. He was simply too strong. Here's why:
His first ability had an extremely short cooldown, enabling frequent blueprint sales.
Selling blueprints rapidly boosted morale, which in turn greatly increased unit damage and resource production.
Players could bypass early-game resource management entirely, a system that’s supposed to be a core part of the challenge.
On top of that, Leo has one of the best Gaze upgrades and can spawn free units on cooldown.

We want each King to offer unique bonuses and a meaningful challenge. Some will naturally be stronger than others. And we love seeing you break the game with wild builds, whether intentional or not. But Leo was on an entirely different level. Not just compared to existing Kings, but even those we’re planning to introduce in the future.

"Why Not Just Buff Everyone Else?"
Trust us, we considered it. But buffing everything to match Leo would cause runaway stat inflation and break the balance of the game in other areas. It would also make it far harder to design future content. So a nerf was necessary.

We hate nerfing things. And our goal was to do it just once. But after reviewing your feedback, we agree: we went too far. This update includes a revised, more balanced version of Leo and several other changes to improve the experience overall.

Patch Notes
King Leo the Wise’s third ability resource costs have been reverted:
1st use: Wheat 200, Wood 200 → Wheat 100, Wood 100
2nd use: Wheat 400, Wood 400 → Wheat 200, Wood 200
3rd use: Flour 250, Metal 250 → Flour 100, Metal 100
4th use: Flour 600, Metal 600 → Flour 300, Metal 300
First ability cooldown reduced from 40s → 30s.
Improved the functionality of artifacts applying productivity seals for Threat Level 8+ runs.
Added Steam achievements for completing the game on Threat Level 10 with each King.
Made various localization and text improvements across multiple languages.