Hold Your King news & patch notes

New Features

• Voice chat now uses 3D positional audio. Player voices change based on their position and distance.
• Added a new Roadmap Features menu where you can follow upcoming content and planned improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the world from saving correctly.
• Fixed an issue that could leave players stuck on a black screen after resetting.
• Fixed several minor gameplay and user interface issues.
• Fixed various localization and text display issues.

Improvements

• Improved several areas and visual elements in the game levels.
• Improved localization quality across supported languages.
• Improved overall performance and stability.
• Reduced minor frame drops in certain areas.
• Added various small quality-of-life improvements.

🗺️ Hold Your King Roadmap

Hello everyone! First of all, thank you so much for all the support you've shown since launch. ❤️ We've been listening to your feedback, reading your suggestions, and working hard on the next major updates for Hold Your King. Today, we're excited to share our current roadmap and give you a look at what's coming over the next few months!

📅 July

Our primary focus for July is making the game even more fun to enjoy with friends.

💎 LAN Multiplayer

Play together over your local network without needing an internet connection.

🎮 Split-Screen Mode — Couch Co-op

One of the most requested features is finally coming! Grab a controller, invite a friend, and play together on the same screen.

🏆 Global Score Table

Compete against players around the world with a brand-new global leaderboard covering all game sessions.

📅 August

August focuses on expanding the gameplay experience and giving players more ways to enjoy Hold Your King.

⚔️ Easy & Ironman Modes

Whether you're looking for a more relaxed experience or the ultimate challenge, new difficulty modes are on the way.

👒 More Character Customization

More cosmetic options are coming, giving you additional ways to personalize your royal carriers.

📅 September

We're saving some surprises for September!

⭐ Brand-New Map

A completely new adventure featuring fresh obstacles, new challenges, and plenty of opportunities for hilarious co-op moments. And... a few more surprises that we'll reveal as we get closer to the update. 😉

💬 Your Feedback Matters

This roadmap represents our current development plan. As always, your feedback plays a huge role in shaping Hold Your King, so features and release timing may change as development continues. Keep sharing your ideas and suggestions—we read every comment! Thank you once again for supporting us and being part of this journey. See you in the next update! 👑 The Hold Your King Team

Thank you so much for your support, your feedback, your wishlists, and for following our journey all the way to launch. Today, we are incredibly excited to finally open the castle gates and invite everyone into the chaotic, physics-based world of Hold Your King.

In Hold Your King, you and your friends must carry the King and Queen through dangerous, unpredictable, and often ridiculous obstacles. Every step matters. The stretcher reacts with physics, the environment can betray you, and one small mistake can turn a royal rescue into complete disaster.

Whether you are carefully coordinating with your team or laughing as everything falls apart, Hold Your King is built around chaotic co-op moments, teamwork, panic, and fun.

What Awaits You in Hold Your King

Here are some of the key features you can experience at launch:

• Chaotic Physics-Based Co-op Carry the royal stretcher together, balance your movement, and try to survive unpredictable situations.

• 2–4 Player Gameplay Play with your friends and coordinate every step, jump, turn, and recovery.

• King and Queen Rescue System Protect both royals, place crowns at checkpoints, and push forward through each stage.

• Dangerous Obstacles and Traps Walls, stairs, terrain, moving hazards, and physics-based objects can easily ruin your perfect run.

• Checkpoint Progression Reach checkpoints, place crowns, and continue your journey without losing all your progress.

• Funny Co-op Moments Panic, mistakes, bonks, last-second saves, and unexpected failures are all part of the experience.

• Steam Achievements Unlock achievements as you master the chaos, survive challenges, and complete objectives.

• Multiple Difficulty Options Choose how punishing you want the royal rescue to be, including harder modes for players looking for a serious challenge.

• Different Endings Your performance matters. Finish faster, fail less, avoid too many bonks, and try not to make the King too angry. If you do well, he may forgive you and let you stay close to the throne. If not… you’ll find out what happens. :)

Carry the King. Protect the Queen. Don’t Lose Control.

Hold Your King is not just about reaching the end. It is about communication, timing, and keeping your team together under pressure.

The stretcher can get stuck, slip, collide, rotate, bounce, or completely ruin your plan if you are not careful. You will need to adjust your position, move together, recover from mistakes, and keep both royals safe.

Sometimes the best strategy is careful coordination.

Sometimes it is pure chaos.

Usually, it is both.

Built for Friends, Fails, and Funny Moments

Hold Your King was designed to create memorable co-op moments. The kind of moments where everyone shouts at once, someone makes a terrible decision, the stretcher flips, the King flies, and somehow the team still manages to recover.

Or doesn’t.

Either way, we hope the game gives you plenty of funny clips, close calls, and unforgettable runs with your friends.

Thank You From Our Team

Creating Hold Your King has been a huge journey for us. Every wishlist, every piece of feedback, every playtest, and every message helped us improve the game and push it further.

We are a small team, and seeing players support the game means a lot to us. This launch is only the beginning. We will continue listening to your feedback, fixing issues, improving the experience, and exploring new ways to make Hold Your King even more fun after release.

Join the Community

If you enjoy the game, it would help us a lot if you:

• Leave a Steam review

• Share the game with your friends

• Post your funniest moments, clips, and screenshots

• Join our community and send us your feedback

Your support directly helps us continue improving Hold Your King.

The Royal Rescue Starts Now

Hold Your King is available now on Steam.

Gather your friends, grab the stretcher, protect the crown, and do your best to keep the King and Queen safe.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

Long live the King! 👑 Long live the Queen! 👑

-Next Big Game Studio

Hold Your King officially releases on June 10th on Steam!

To celebrate, we’re sharing our brand‑new launch trailer so you can see just how chaotic carrying a royal can get.

In Hold Your King, you and a friend team up in local or online co‑op to carry your grumpy monarch across dangerous medieval courses. 

Every step, jump, and tilt of the stretcher affects his balance, so you’ll need timing, communication, and a little bit of luck to keep him from hitting the floor.

Here’s what you can expect at launch:

• Physics‑based co‑op where two players must stay in sync while carrying the king

• Handcrafted stages filled with traps, moving platforms, and environmental hazards

• High “just one more try” factor as you chase cleaner runs and faster completion times

• A lighthearted tone with plenty of slapstick moments when everything goes wrong

We’re incredibly excited to finally give you a release date.

If you’d like to support the game before launch, please consider wishlisting Hold Your King, sharing the store page with a friend, and letting us know what you think of the trailer.

See you on June 10th—and try not to drop the king!

The Queen has joined the journey, and she’s not going anywhere without the King. More players means more balance to manage, more traps to dodge, and more moments where everything can fall apart in the most spectacular ways.

🆕 New in This Update

• 4-Player Co-op You can now play with up to four players. Gather a full group and tackle the courses together.

• The Queen The King is no longer traveling alone. You must now carry both the King and the Queen safely to the throne room.

❤️ Thank You for Playing the Demo

We want to give a big thank you to everyone who has tried the demo so far. Your feedback, bug reports, and gameplay videos have been incredibly helpful and motivating for us. Seeing people struggle, laugh, and succeed together is exactly what Hold Your King was made for.

Your support helps us improve the game and push it closer to the full release.

Hi! Our dearest friends, we have some exciting news to share with you—

The hilariously fun *Hold Your King* invites you and your partner to experience laugh-out-loud moments together with its free demo!

This is a humorous and slightly wacky puzzle-platformer where you can explore nearly one-fifth of the full game in the demo! Dive into a variety of meticulously designed levels and enjoy the奇妙 and humor of physical interactions. Team up with your partner in real time, building a unique默契 amidst the delightful chaos! Dress up your characters in a range of fun outfits, and get a taste of the game’s playful "malice" right from the start.

And this is just the beginning! The full version will include even more creatively mind-bending levels!

Hi everyone!

The free demo of our physics-based co-op platformer, Hold Your King, is now available on Steam!

In this physics-based co-op platformer, you and a friend must carry your short-tempered king through deadly medieval courses. Dodge traps, maintain balance, and work together to reach the throne room. One wrong step, and the king might crown you with his rage!

This is an exciting moment! Thank you for all your love and support so far! We will keep moving forward and strive to live up to the expectations of every player!

Hey everyone! We're thrilled to share that Hold Your King has officially passed 1000 wishlists on Steam! 👑 This means the kingdom is growing strong, and more brave players are getting ready to carry the king or, well... drop him occasionally. 😅 From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for the support so far. We're just getting started, and your enthusiasm means the world to us. 👉 If you haven’t already, add Hold Your King to your wishlist to be notified the moment we launch! Big things are coming soon — stay tuned!