The Monarch

The Monarch

Citadel Games · October 2, 2024 · Tower Defense, Survival, Base Building, Exploration, Roguelite

Buy The Monarch from Steam at $4.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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Mostly Positive72% · 1041playing now
Best price
$4.99
lowest tracked $0.74
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The Monarch price by region

The Monarch costs £2.14 in the United Kingdom, €2.40 in Europe (EUR), $4.99 in the United States, $4.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$8.99 in Canada, A$10.25 in Australia, NZ$10.49 in New Zealand, zł13.30 in Poland and R$23.50 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest The Monarch offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £2.14 −64% £5.89 £2.14 2
Europe (EUR) €2.40 −65% €6.89 €2.40 2
United Statesyour region $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Canada CA$8.99 CA$8.99 — 1
Australia A$10.25 A$10.25 — 1
New Zealand NZ$10.49 NZ$10.49 — 1
Poland zł13.30 −58% zł31.99 zł13.30 2
Brazil R$23.50 R$23.50 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About The Monarch


The Monarch is a Kingdom-like strategy game that has minimalistic control & smooth gameplay with power-up aspects. The gates of hell open each night, terrorizing the land. As the player, you must find a way to destroy the gates and defend your lands in the process!

Gather coins, recruit peasants, train units, build powerful structures, gain power-ups, and adapt!

Can you bring peace to the land?

New Player Tips

  • If you take a hit, you lose a coin. Hold a few extra coins in your pouch just to be safe!
  • Build and upgrade your walls as soon as possible!
  • Try to recruit at least 1 peasant every day!
  • The forest is dangerous at night; watch out!
  • If you expand your border enough, you'll get rewarded!

The Monarch — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Verified
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Partial controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jun 30, 2025
I was curious about The Monarch, since is heavenly inspired by one of my favorite indie game series, Kingdom, and they tried to follow the same formula, but in 3D instead of 2D. The Monarch has many problems, many bugs, and many stupid choices that made me quit this game for good: [list] [*]This game is tagged as rogue-lite, but all progress resets after dying in one run; [*]Softblock when playing with a controller: it could happen that on the level-up screen you can't select any power up, even changing to mouse and keyboard doesn't unlock the screen. Alt+F4 is the only solution; [*]Very often builders don't cut down a tree and they leave it hanging there for the rest of the run; [*]Motion blur can only be disabled by changing graphic settings from High to Medium; [*]Only one map, almost zero replayability; [*]The following is the most annoying bug: often enemies go through walls and kill all the units behind them, making the archers useless. [/list] Before playing The Monarch, I tried the demo and it wasn't as messy as the full game. Isn't it a little scummy? Don't buy this game, instead go play the first Kingdom game, available for free on Steam: https://store.steampowered.co…
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Not recommended Mar 24, 2026
Game is great and fun. But technical condition is terrible. While playing I had crashes, lost my progress several times, and it runs pretty bad on steamdeck. And the game is abandoned. No one will fix these things.
Not recommended Jul 22, 2025
This game is cool, but too many bugs and things that dont make sense, got stuck at a lvl up screen and lost my progress
Not recommended Jul 10, 2025
This is a 3D clone of a the Kingdoms games and it captures very well that spirit. It also adds meta-progression. While the game play is fun there are several critical issues I cannot go past: 1. keys cannot be changed in-game. I had to re-bind them using separate software 2. I had several instances where the game crashed and I lost all progression in a run. not fun at all. 3. after defeating the final boss it gave me no meta-progression for the run. 4. the path finding is terrible, quite often characters get stuck. Actually the main boss and its henchman were no treat for me because of the path finding issues.
Not recommended Jul 2, 2025
Cool idea to make the Kingdom game into 3d, but this is so buggy. The camera angles and hitboxes make it hard to know when you are safe behind a wall, and you die in one hit if you have no coins, so some random arrow can take you out instantly without you even realizing what happened. And when you die, your save gets deleted so you can't even try again from the start of the day. I'm not sure if the game is worth it even when bought from a sale, because of how frustating it can be. The game seems abandoned as well, so I don't think these issues are getting fixed.
Not recommended Jun 20, 2025
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