Unlock The King
BANGER · Strategy · 2019
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.99.
- Length
- 2.3h 2.4h to 100%
- Value
- $0.43/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 404 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 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
An originally designed puzzle game inspired by chess. Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics card supporting DirectX 9.0c, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 60 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Linelith ($2.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Patrick's Parabox ($19.99, scores 74).
$4.34 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Unlock The King
None of the 287 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
88% start to 31% rarestNo 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Unlock The King scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1172510/unlock-the-kingReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.