Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16.7h
- Value
- $0.54/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 (2GB VRAM) or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (4GB VRAM), 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate.
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 $8.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 22 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $8.99 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 56 at list, 67 today.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SteamWorld Dig 2 ($2.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats GRIME ($24.99, scores 57).
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 18 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 525 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
56% start to 29% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
About 100 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
One of the best games I've ever played. Combat and movement are unbelievably good, and the overall game is very well done. Literally the only good thing Ubisoft has ever done. Highly recommend.
Ubisoft's best game in years, and you probably didn't even know it existed. They basically buried it with almost no marketing and a release limited to Ubisoft Connect and the garbage Epic Games Store. Still, you found it, and it's a remarkably strong metroidvania with solid puzzles, challenging platforming, and rewarding combat that absolutely deserves your attention. Highly recommended.
More frustrating than fun. Jumping puzzles involve a lot of memorizing precise patterns and starting over if you mess up. Feels less like a game of skill and more like a game of memory.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown scores 67/100 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/2751000/prince-of-persia-the-lost-crownReviews 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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