PR: As the presumibly despotical, potentially divine king presiding over this 25 grid fortress, you must force your subjects to work by staring at them, kinda like you're the parent of some annoying kid that doesn't wanna do his homework.
Despite the most reasonable thing to do being just doing what you're told because otherwise you get razed by goblins, though I suppose that "logic" and this game don't go really well together.
To examplify, one of the most relieble strategies I found was to spam madmen onto the battlefield, being them cheap and quite deadly. The implicances that you're unable to send in madmen before constructing a madhouse, and that said madhouse only increases the number of madmen while active does raises some concerning questions about whether the madmen are just walking around the fortress at their laisure until you build the madhouse or that they're some kind of experimental soldier product of the asylum, kinda like Outlast. Actually, exactly like outlast but legal and less effective.
One of the things I resent the most of "the king is watching" is that one of the craftable of units is Guts from Berserk, and while I'm not really a fan and haven't actually watch or read anything about Guts, it was my impression that he was pretty much indestructible (mostly thanks to Battle Beast, a power metal band. Oh, and memes). In the game he is very destructible, in fact is probably safe to say that it's literally the worse unit in the game considering how costy is to craft him.
After going through a three or four runs the game runs out of new content to offer, and honestly the meta-upgrades are both too expensive and have little impact on the playthrough. As much as I appreciate the pixel graphics and the Neron reference, I think that The King, etc, is only a slightly above average game and doens't deserve more than a 6/10
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