Planned Release Date: 7 Oct, 2026

About This Demo

One board a day. Everybody gets the same one.

King of Kingdoms is a quiet puzzle about laying land around a castle. Every day there's a new board, and everyone plays that same board. You get one scoring run at it. There's no clock, and nothing is chasing you.

How it plays

Your kingdom starts as a single castle in the middle of a 7x7 grid. Over 24 rounds you're offered three pieces at a time and take one of them: a two-square domino, or a single upgrade square carrying a big number. Turn it whichever way you like and set it down anywhere it touches what you've already built. The kingdom grows outwards from there.

The scoring is the whole game. There are six kinds of land - wheat, water, mountains, swamps, forest and plains - and each scores on its own. But only your single biggest connected patch of a terrain counts for anything at all, and it scores its number of squares multiplied by the total value sitting inside it.

So a sprawling forest with no numbers in it is worth nothing at all. One square with a big number on it is worth almost nothing. You spend the whole game doing two things at once: keeping a patch growing, and getting value into it - while the pieces you're offered quietly decline to cooperate.

Got two decent patches of the same land? Only the bigger one pays out. That's the ache, and it's most of the game.

The Daily

• A new board every day, the same one for everybody

•  Only your first run counts, so there's no grinding a board for a better number

•  Replay it as much as you like afterwards - practice runs are shown to you and to nobody else

• A daily leaderboard, and a streak for turning up

King of Daily Kingdoms

Every week is a season, and it resets on Monday. Your week is your best five days out of seven, so missing a day won't sink you, but turning up regularly still counts for something. Sit top of the table when the week ends and the title is yours.

Between demo launch and full launch, winning a week also earns you a free copy of the full game when it releases. Details are in the Discord - come and say hello.

What's in the demo

This is the daily puzzle and the weekly season: the whole loop, one board a day, for as long as you want to keep playing.

The full game adds a fresh puzzle whenever you want one rather than waiting for tomorrow, the full leaderboards, a history of every board you've played, challenges you can send to friends, and a standing crown table for whoever leads the most puzzles.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

This solo dev has used generative AI for coding.