King's Bounty: Warriors of the North
Fair · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 50.9h
- Value
- $0.20/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 6600 with 128 Mb VRAM or similar AMD card, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North is a standalone entry of the beloved tactical RPG series set in the world of The Legend, generations after its events. You will lead a Viking hero, wield Rune Magic, command Valkyries, and defend the northern lands of Endoria from an undead invasion.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was March 2021. It has been discounted 79 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Banner Saga ($24.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Blackguards ($9.99, scores 11).
Steam's global achievement data says about 4 percent of players ever finish it. On a 50.9-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 490 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026.
The drop-off
64% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 50.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
34 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 will emphasize that I played the first game "Legend" on impossible difficulty, which I abandoned at the 40 hour mark due to the ridiculous constant tedium this difficulty involved, and then I played Crossworlds to completion on hard difficulty, which wasn't that much better than Legend was on impossible. This is where I realized these developers were absolutely HORRID at balancing the game. Especially considering...
Delete saves every once in awhile, improves stability, still crashes but less often. Other than that good as any other Kings Bounty game, just somewhat longer.
Kings Bounty 1 and 2 is one of my favorite games. Dark side is ok. BUT THIS... bug,lag,crash and broken. I tried it first 8 year ago and now. Same sh_t! Nothing fixed Without a crash and bug 5/10 Real 1/10. Realy bad. Sadly
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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King's Bounty: Warriors of the North scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/203350/king-s-bounty-warriors-of-the-northThe 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 6, price as of Sep 24.
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