Knights of Honor
BANGER · Strategy · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 31h
- Value
- $0.32/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 16 MB video card with 1024x768 resolution, 1.2 GB of storage. Windows only.
As King, it is your duty to lead your people in their struggle to raise your kingdom from its humble beginnings to a position of power and prestige. War, diplomacy and a burgeoning economy are the means by which you increase your power and expand your influence.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
October 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $1.50. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 99 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. The nearest things to it, Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 62) and Grand Ages: Medieval ($19.99, scores 0), are both worse buys on this math.
$24.17 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $9.99.
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 371 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 279 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 31 hours. Doing everything runs 63, 2.0 times as long.
Players
24 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
crush your enemies see them driven before you hear the lamentations of their women
Perfect in between for complexity of crusader kings and the combat of total war 100% recommend (PARADOX PLEASE GIVE THIS GAME SOME MORE LOVE IM BEGGING YOU)
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Knights of Honor scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/25830/knights-of-honorThe 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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