Crown Wars: The Black Prince
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 6, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 16.3h
- Value
- $1.23/hr
- Reviews
- 60% of 713 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
The War of Crowns rages on. Knights and brigands run rampant throughout the land, sowing destruction. From your castle base, rise to become the lord who leads the battle against the forces of evil in this turn-based tactics and strategy game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, 2 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB or Intel Arc A380, 6 GB, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
20 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. On the same math The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos ($5.24, scores 76) and King's Bounty II ($39.99, scores 9) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Crown Wars: The Black Prince
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 16.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 12 of the 472 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 149 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 5 of the 12 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review.
The drop-off
87% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 92 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 08:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is weird. Too many missions are similar to each other, but I still kept playing. Almost every aspect of the game could be deeper, but I still kept playing. What is wrong with me?
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I am by no means complete the game but the experience with it so far has been much better than the reviews led me to believe. As other reviews have stated, this is essentially medieval XCOM. Is the game as polished as XCOM, no, but that does not impact the enjoyment of the game and it is much cheaper to boot. Could the game have offered more, absolutely (it would have been great to see chests or items dropped by...
XCOM meets medieval France sounds like an absolute dream on paper, but gameplay-wise it's just aggressively okay. Positioning your squads, managing class abilities, and executing tactical combat have their moments, but repetitive mission objectives and stiff animations make the combat loop get old pretty fast. Wait for a heavy discount if you need a turn-based strategy fix.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Crown Wars: The Black Prince scores 6/100 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/1658920/crown-wars-the-black-princeReviews 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.