King's Keeper

King's Keeper is a colony simulation and base-building game set in a medieval fantasy world where night is permanent. You manage a King and his workers as they survive, fight and build the foundations of a new Kingdom. If the King dies, the game ends.

Build and manage your base

Each new game generates a random map. You build a base, starting with places for workers to sleep, and gather and craft resources for the settlement and equipment for its workers. Powerful towers can help repel regular raids from enemies such as Goblins, Cyclops and Night Walkers.

Workers can take on jobs including miner, woodcutter, farmer, blacksmith, craftsman and clothier. You assign professions to each character using a priority system. Tasks earn workers XP in the associated skill, making them more efficient over time.

Keep the King and workers alive

You must manage the needs and sanity of both the King and the workers. Workers prefer to sleep in the dark and work in the light, while some enemies become invisible in darkness.

Planned features

Planned additions include reproduction, trade, prestige and quests. Reproduction would let you select two workers to have offspring when you need more manpower. Trade would allow you to export surplus production and import goods; prestige could be raised by upgrading your base and spent to unlock technologies or improvements, which may also attract attention. Quests would give the King demands for you to fulfil.