Kingdom Eighties
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 5.8h
- Value
- $2.07/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 9 and Oct 22, at about $3.59 (70% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 46 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($4.79)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 70% ($3.59)
- Last discount ended
- 23 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX Series 8, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
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
The value story
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.59. It has been discounted 34 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 33 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Drill Core ($12.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats 下一站江湖Ⅱ ($24.99, scores 21).
11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 248 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 5.8 hours; clearing it takes 16, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
At 5.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
82% start to 6% 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
39 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 14:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It amazes me how different it is from Kingdom Two Crowns. I like the cutscenes and the story, the views are stunning and the gameplay is like always but this time it feels like it has a purpose so it's even better
I love the Kingdom games; anyone who has read my past reviews knows I find them to be the perfect fusion of Zen base-building, exploration, and survival crafting. The titles are deceptively casual, until they are suddenly not; while the early hours are slow and steady, there is an exponentially compounding difficulty curve. (It gets harder the longer you play). This, combined with the near permanence in...
Such a corny half baked story line that feels so left field and doesn't even feel like kingdom.It feels super superficial and feels like it lack any sincerity or care, almost as if someone who doesn't care about the game made the game then I saw sweet baby inc in the credits and it all made sense. I haven't played played two crows but this feels like a huge step backwards from new lands, super disappointed in the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kingdom Eighties scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1956040/kingdom-eightiesReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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