King of the Bridge
BANGER · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.24, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 25%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 1.3h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 25% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 25% ($2.24)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($1.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce GT 710 1GB+, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Face off against the bridge troll in his bizarre game of chess! Decrypt, Twist and Enforce the rules as your devious opponent attempts to break them in King of the Bridge!
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
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in December 2024. 16 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $2.24 at 25 percent off still sits 50 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 89. With it, 92.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Tactical Breach Wizards ($19.99, scores 83) and Scribblenauts Unlimited ($19.99, scores 68), are both worse buys on this math.
$3.64 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $2.24.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 379 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 634 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.3 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 4.2 times as long.
The drop-off
91% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
As small indie games with a singular great gameplay mechanic goes, this is a very good one. Playing chess but you don't know the rules is great fun and trying to master all the strange rules is a very engaging experience. However, once you have mastered the in-game game and it's time to put that knowledge to use and win, the game falls apart a little and turns into a little bit of a grind. Perhaps though, it's okay...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
King of the Bridge scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2523120/king-of-the-bridgeReviews 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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