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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 634: 9 Kings

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Len, Mike Williams, Luke, and Jon roll out the red carpet for 9 Kings, a tile placement base defense game with roguelite elements. It's hard to describe, honestly. But trust us: it's worth a look.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Len. I'm your host. I'm here with Aftermath's Luke Plunkett.

0:08.9

Hello, everybody.

0:10.7

With freelance writer John Bolding.

0:13.7

Nine kings in this economy?

0:16.9

You knew it was coming. And with our friend Mike Williams.

0:21.7

Oh, I don't get a cool title other than I just get our friend.

0:25.6

Well, you're three, well, you are three moves ahead's Mike Williams also.

0:29.3

Okay, that works.

0:30.5

That works.

0:30.7

You're core cast at this point, you know.

0:34.4

I'll have it known that I made that joke in our slack before John did, but John took it live to the people first.

0:42.8

Did you really make it?

0:44.5

Well, you know, years ago, years ago now, I tweeted, what if I became the kind of guy who only had one joke?

0:55.6

And ever since, I just got the one joke.

1:02.2

Yeah, yeah, there have been some good ones. We should do it in this economy, John

1:07.5

Bowling compilation. Oh, God. Like a gift book at some point.

1:13.6

You know, that'd be fun.

1:15.9

But we're here today to talk about, in fact, Nine Kings, which is the latest from the horse,

1:25.0

from Hooded Horse and Sad Socket is the developer.

1:28.3

I don't know what else they have made.

1:33.3

It looks like this is probably, this is actually their first Steam game.

1:36.3

They have another one that's upcoming.

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