Kingdom Shell
Fair · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $17.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.3h 14h to 100%
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 286 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.47 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
About the game
Kingdom Shell is an atmospheric 2D platformer with a captivating storyline. Explore the local lands to stop the invasion of nightmarish creatures and unravel the mysteries of the Kingdom.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
23 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Haiku, the Robot ($6.79, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Owlboy ($19.99, scores 52).
More about Kingdom Shell
Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
At 8.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
87% start to 28% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Yay. Another crappy platformer with sluggish, unresponsive controls and a character who controls like a bowling ball on ice skates. Yay, another crappy action game where your only weapon is a toothpick and you have to hit a boss 850 times with it and you get killed in two or three hits. So much fun. Yah, another Metroidvania where a plague has stricken the land -- how original! Yay, another crappy Metroidvania story...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kingdom Shell scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1154090/kingdom-shellReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.