Thronefall
Worth it · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.11.
- Length
- 8h
- Value
- $1.62/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX970, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
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
February 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $5.24. It has been discounted 28 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $10.11. The record reaches that level 15 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Kingdom Two Crowns ($19.99, scores 79) and Kingdom Eighties ($11.99, scores 36) both come in lower.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 24 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 2,683 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8 hours; clearing it takes 32, which is 4.0 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
99% 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
About 373 players at once, as of Sep 11.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
"Because of a fake mobile ad, I ended up finding the original game. King Shot can go to hell - Thronefall is the real GOATED game."
ive only beat the campaign so far and the game is very good theres a big variety of approaches and decisions that u can do in this game when it comes to your build or the way ur upgrading ur buildings and troops ect. but im pretty sure if you were to try and beat a certain level with every or a lot of modifiers you'd have a hard time unless you minmaxed your build to that specific level, but overall its cool. i dont...
The creator has an arachnophobia setting. Similarly, if a religious setting was added that changed the theme away from satanic elements, I would give it a thumbs up and love to continue playing. The satanic elements include pentagrams, summoning, sacrificing, spells, and false gods. (updated as of 9/10/2026) See below to read everything I love about this game. Best tower defense game I have ever played, great...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Thronefall scores 80/100 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/2239150/thronefallReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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