Kingdoms Reborn
Worth it · Strategy · 2020 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 20h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Dedicated graphics card, GTX 750 Ti 2GB, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $15.99. That was May 2023. It has been discounted 18 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. 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 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Prison Architect ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Northgard: Definitive Edition ($34.99, scores 72).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 400 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
45% start to <1% 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
Players
191 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
I have a love/hate relationship with city builders. On the one hand, I really love the feeling of progression as you develop your small community into a bustling civilization. But some games, like the Civilization series, can overwhelm my poor ADHD brain and I lose interest long before I can see it through. I was happy to try out Kingdoms Reborn, but I wasn't sure I was going to stick with it. 80 hours later, I can...
I have only played 6 hours and its been really fun to play this type of game cooperatively with friends! I cant think of many cons right now. The card system is interesting, not sure if it was needed or what the intension was, but I don't necessarily hate it. I think the only thing my friends and I have been gotten confused by, was that certain buildings that produce something (Fish from the Fishing Dock for...
I don't like the card system. Buildings should be in a tech tree, not some random card choice. And the game doesn't open half the time. It takes 2-3 times before it works.
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 Reborn 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/1307890/kingdoms-rebornThe 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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