King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame
Skip · RPG · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 34h
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 69% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Nvidia 6600 (256Mb) / ATI Radeon X700 (256Mb), 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Welcome to the lost age of chivalry, where magic and myth is alive, and you are destined to be one of the living legends: Arthur, the son of Uther Pendragon, the Once and Future King of the prophecies. Fulfill your destiny and claim your rightful place on the throne of Britannia.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was April 2017. 99 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition ($3.59, scores 53) and Tower of Time ($24.99, scores 63) both outscore it.
34 hours to finish it, 83 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
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What players say
Think purchasing this I was expecting something like heroes of might and magic but its more like crusader kings I think. Honestly all a bit dry and bloated. Does work on steam deck though "cutscenes" are completely broken. Skip them and you can play fine.
"On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place." ~King Arthur What's cool about King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame is that it's its makers' dream project. Let's get back to the late 2000s for a moment. The initial craze that started with Braveheart (yes, it was a movie-based game that started it all; deal with it) and was popularized in the legendary Shōgun: Total War was pretty much over. It...
In the age before Total War Warhammer, the gamers yearning for a Total War like game but Fantasy. Their cry had been answered by King Arthur - The Role-Playing Wargame. Despite all the janks that one could expected from a European game. It did a good job of what it set out to do.
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 Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/24400/king-arthur-the-role-playing-wargameThe 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 4, price as of Sep 24.
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