We’ve all been there: your boss isn’t looking so you extend your lunch break a little bit, play some games on your phone, or just enjoy some quality staring-into-the-middle-distance time on your own. Most of the time that’s fine, but if your job is to defend a kingdom from rampaging goblins, it can be a little more problematic. A new strategy game puts you in charge of a king building a stable stronghold, where the toughest part of the job is keeping a watchful eye on what’s happening within its walls.
The King Is Watching is a small-scale city building strategy game mixed with an auto battler. Within a small grid that makes up your castle, you place buildings that generate resources or train soldiers to sustain wave after wave of incoming enemies. Build an army strong enough to withstand each level’s final boss and you win, unlocking bonuses you can use to improve your next run or add other wrinkles to make it even more challenging. The hitch is that within your castle walls, the only tiles where any work will be done are those within your limited field of vision. Everyone else is slacking off.
