Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Fair · Multiplayer · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.6h
- Value
- $1.84/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher. 512MB VRAM., 7 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Besiege castles and raid villages in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, a fast-paced medieval first person slasher with a focus on multiplayer battles
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in June 2015. 89 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 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 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pirates Vikings & Knights II (free, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats MORDHAU ($29.99, scores 56).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 5,431 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 13.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 172, 13 times as much.
The drop-off
30% start to 2% 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
32 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
The multiplayer isn't completely dead - it has evolved into two distinct ecosystems. One server is medieval carnage where heads, limbs and any notion of teamwork are separated at alarming speed. The other is basically a private fencing club for giant warlords who spend twenty minutes circling each other before delicately touching tips and calling it "honourable combat." Introduce a third player and things escalate...
I really enjoyed playing this back in my high school days! I also miss some of the late nights playing with randoms and talking sh!t to them. Fantastic combat game with a lot of gore. It will take some time to get use to the combat gameplay but once you learn, you will have ball of a time. I would also wait until it goes on sale due to it being an older game. Definitely one of my personal favorites.
Everything is horrible: ping, online, animations, classes, movement, hotkeys rebinding, dodge. The game is absolutely abysmal
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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Chivalry: Medieval Warfare scores 63/100 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/219640/chivalry-medieval-warfareThe 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 10, price as of Sep 24.
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