Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit

Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit

Skip · Narrative · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$19.99Skip

On its price record

$9.53Fair

Length
6.7h 9.6h to 100%
Value
$2.98/hr
Reviews
81% of 486 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.53 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$2.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews81% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 387 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Legends of the past come back to life in this charming point-and-click adventure. Pack your bags and journey with Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit through modern day Europe to uncover the conspiracy behind a cursed relic and the secrets of the King who was never crowned.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 44 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 34 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. On the same math Heaven's Vault ($24.99, scores 58) and Children of Silentown ($19.99, scores 52) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit

None of the 387 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

91% start to 11% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

I am a sucker for a good globe trotting adventure game where you go after some lost treasure from the past. This game follows our young protagonist as she travels to Lithuania to claim her late grandfather's home, and in doing so falls head first into a race to grab a mystical crown that is said to be magical. The point-and-clicking, puzzles, and story are gripping to anyone who enjoys a game in the vein of Broken...
Intendant SRecommendedafter 5.7hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Had a lot of fun playing this game! :D Laughed a lot, and had some shocks over surprising events that I didn't see coming. It allowed me to think creatively with what I had acquired throughout the game, although it sometimes was really difficult to understand what I was supposed to do with the things. Super nice to travel between European countries, it was a nice touch that I haven't experienced before in the games...
BlueRecommendedafter 6.5hAug 2026Read on Steam
Interesting story that absorbs the player, although it basically paints a vague picture of the mission. The settings are beautiful and help immersion. The game follows all the conventions of a successful point and click adventure game. The riddles are carefully designed; sometimes they are overly challenging but they are interesting enough to keep the player going. However, I got the impression that the game is...
valbarRecommendedafter 19hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1125910/crowns-and-pawns-kingdom-of-deceit
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+3
Critics78
Players81
Metacritic critics · 486 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTag of Joy
PublisherHeadup
GenreNarrative
Released2022
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements31