Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 24.4h
- Value
- $1.23/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Rise Against Ruin - Unite a party of League of Legends Champions, explore Bilgewater and set sail for the Shadow Isles to uncover the secrets of the deadly Black Mist in this immersive turn-based RPG.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 21 in the 5 years tracked, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 13 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition ($39.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition ($19.99, scores 69).
80 from critics against 89 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 19 percent of players ever finish it. On a 24.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 821 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
77% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
46 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
In the first try of this game I hated so much the battle system...but I used with it because I was curious of the story behind and the story it's just WOW...this game style it's not so fun but the story it's amazing. So much lore for a League of Legends player :D
Great game especially if you are interested by League of Legends lore. Even if it is a turn based, there are a few additional original mechanics.
''Ruined King'' is a wonderful game, *severely* held back on the technical front. The game's narration, visuals and gameplay are stellar. The combat has a lot of depth, even though in terms of difficulty the game is relatively forgiving (I found consumables to be largely useless, besides revival potions). The voice acting and visuals are wonderfully done, but where the game shines most are the characters. They're...
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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Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™ scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1276790/ruined-king-a-league-of-legends-storyThe 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 19, price as of Sep 24.
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