Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
Skip · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 22.9h
- Value
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 86% over the last 30 days against 77% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 10 Feature Level AMD or NVIDIA Card with 1 GB VRAM, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
The hit RPG returns! Remastered with stunning visuals and refined gameplay Re-Reckoning delivers intense, customizable RPG combat inside a sprawling game world.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was November 2023. 39 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 27 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hogwarts Legacy ($59.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Dragon Age™ Inquisition ($9.99, scores 40).
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On a 22.9-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Players rate it 77 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 86 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. 14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 781 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 22.9 hours. Doing everything runs 103, 4.5 times as long.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
85% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 22.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
114 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
While it lacks mini games, the fact that you can play as a mighty warrior, a cunning rogue or an elemental mage, or something in between, gives the game some fun combat. Shame this game never became a franchise, while the RPG systems are weaker than Fable or the Witcher 3, the combat is very satisfying.
Amazing amazing game. and for such an old game it has so so so much content. hell you dont even need dlc its so big. And Lila Janick is my favorite npc of all time period. I dont recall any game ever where i wanted to just go back to a certain npc and just want to hear her voice again and again. Wonderful game. And thank you so very much for remastering this, although i have a physical copy of the original and i...
This has been sitting in my library for so long. Little did I know that it's awesome. Great game, having a great time playing it.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1041720/kingdoms-of-amalur-re-reckoningThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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