Kill King 2D

Kill King 2D is currently 10% off on Steam — down to $5.39 from $5.99.

This is a modest 10% cut. Unless you want Kill King 2D now, holding out for a seasonal sale usually pays off.

That works out to $0.60 off the Steam list price of $5.99.

As a recent release, discounts this early are relatively uncommon.

Genre: Action, Casual, Indie, Strategy · Developer: Dmitriy Shchepetkov, Anton Katkov, Nikita Gavrilchik · Release: Nov 4, 2026.

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Kill King 2D is a two-player tactical game that takes chess-style movement, strips out the patience of a slow board game, and replaces it with something closer to a bluffing contest. You and your opponent each write a secret plan, then watch both plans collide. The goal is simple: kill the enemy King before yours goes down.

How it plays

Each round starts with a planning phase. You can see every unit on the 8×8 board, but you can’t see what the other player has ordered. You queue up moves, attacks, and abilities for your pieces, put them in the sequence you want, and pay for them from a limited pool of Action Points. That budget matters, because it forces you to pick which units get to do something useful this turn and which ones sit it out.

Once both sides lock in, the game takes over and plays the orders out automatically, one at a time, alternating between you and your opponent. You aren’t steering anything in the moment. Your units simply do what you told them to, even if the board has shifted since you wrote the plan. A move that looked brilliant when you queued it can fall apart because an earlier enemy action changed the situation. Or it can land exactly where the opponent didn’t expect.

The prediction angle is the part that gives the game its identity. If you attack a square before an enemy steps into it, the hit can become an instant kill, and that includes the King. So the game is less about reacting and more about reading your opponent’s habits and setting traps ahead of time.

Pieces take their movement cues from chess, but they also carry health, combat stats, abilities, buffs, debuffs, and cooldowns, with terrain effects thrown in. Units earn experience during a match and can branch into upgrades that change their stats, abilities, look, and role, so the board you finish on won’t match the one you started with.

Who it’s for

This suits people who enjoy outguessing a human opponent: fans of chess variants, tactics games, and anything built on hidden information and double-bluffing. If you like the moment where you realize your opponent predicted your predictions, you’ll probably get a lot out of it. The automatic resolution also makes it a nice fit for players who like planning more than twitch execution.

It’s probably not for you if you want a big single-player campaign, since the focus here is competitive one-on-one play. Anyone who likes full manual control of every action may find it frustrating to watch a plan play out without being able to step in. And if you only have patience for quick reflex games, the planning-heavy structure could feel slow.

Is it worth it?

For the right player, the idea has real staying power. Hidden orders, limited resources, and mid-match upgrades give matches room to differ from each other, and a competitive game like this lives on how well you enjoy the loop of guessing and adjusting. It’s an indie release from a small team and it launched in November 2026, so how it holds up over time is worth checking in recent Steam reviews before you commit.

Because it’s a game that goes on sale on Steam, it’s the sort of title where waiting for a discount is a reasonable move if you’re curious but not sure. If the premise already has you hooked, there’s little reason to hold off. Otherwise, putting it on your wishlist and grabbing it during a sale is a low-risk way to try it.

Quick facts

Genres: Action, Casual, Indie, Strategy. Developers: Dmitriy Shchepetkov, Anton Katkov, and Nikita Gavrilchik. Publisher: self-published. Platform: PC (Steam). Release date: November 4, 2026.