The King is Watching

The King is Watching is a rogue-like strategy game where players manage their tile-based city while defending against waves of enemies in a generic fantasy world.
During a run, players construct production tiles, barracks, and kingdom enhancements in the limited spaces within their walls. To add a further wrinkle, only the tiles currently in the King's Gaze will actually do anything. The King's Gaze is represented by a movable L-shape of three tiles, though can (and should be) upgraded to encompass a bigger area. With automated armies, the player's primary job is to manage the kingdom and their Gaze to keep their kingdom upgraded and protected until completing the final boss wave.
Production tiles include wheat farms, wells, clay mines, and sawmills, while different troops can be produced via peasant's huts, madhouses, hunter's lodges, and bone pits. Production tiles produce finite resources and must be replaced, moved, or changed. Troops automatically engage enemy forces to defend the walls, and if the walls are reduced to zero, that run ends.
Players earn progress by playing runs, and use it to acquire permanent upgrades for future runs, such as different Kings and advisers (which provide their own unique powers and buffs), expanding the buildable city, and acquiring new types of building tiles.

The game only saves after a wave of enemies has been defeated, but waves occur quite frequently.

The King is Watching is fairly easy to play, but difficult to optimize, master, and win. Players must manage their resources, and their limited tile spaces, while being at the mercy of random rewards that grant new buildings, upgrades, and one-time use spells. Thankfully, players can make progress after failing to complete a run, by purchasing permanent upgrades and additions.

• Do you find the gameplay stress and challenging, or a steady ramp in difficulty?
• Which units and combinations do you prefer to train in your armies?
• Are you excited to unlock new Kings, advisers, and upgrades?