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Just King

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2023

Should you play it?

Just King is an action auto-battler with roguelike elements. Assemble your party to venture into different lands fighting fearsome kings and their deadly armies. Use your loot to hire and upgrade mighty heroes... or the bard.

What works

  • Addictive gameplay with strong replayability
  • Unique hero synergies and item combinations
  • Charming pixel art and music
  • Good value for price
  • Active developer engagement and updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Short overall content currently
  • Some balance issues and difficulty spikes
  • Controls can feel awkward initially
  • Limited multiplayer and social features
  • Lack of meta-progression and longer modes

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Dicefolk

  • Prime of Flames

  • Skull Horde

  • Magicbook AutoBattler: Contract

  • Ajax’s Trial

  • Time Walker: Dark World

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Just King but with less leadership over others

  • The Braves

  • Machick 2

  • Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok

  • Time Wasters

  • Enter the Chronosphere

  • FLARE NUINUI QUEST

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Just King but with less of a community feel

  • Garden of Witches

  • Little Witch Survivors

  • Girls of The Tower

  • Knightica

  • Oaken

  • Chained Echoes

More social

Games that feels like Just King but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Ember Knights

  • Pebble Knights

  • Metaverse Keeper / 元能失控

  • Inkbound

  • Bounty of One

  • Noobs Are Coming

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Outpost

  • Harvester

  • Phantasmagoria

  • Leisure Suit Larry 1 - In the Land of the Lounge Lizards

  • Leisure Suit Larry 7 - Love for Sail

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Just King: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fellowship, Leadership, Experimenting.

Last update: 03/08/2026