King's Bounty: Dark Side
Skip · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $1.94.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.05/hr
- Reviews▼
- 74% of 1,943
- Critics
- 73 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 33% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 35.6h
- To 100%
- 101.2h 2.8x the story
- Finish
- 9% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 37
Price and sales
- Sales
- 78 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.94 December 2021
- Sale every
- 48d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 134 now
- Cheaper than
- 31% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 51% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
54% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 78 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $1.94 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Its score sits in the top 33 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, King's Bounty: Warriors of the North ($1.49, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats King's Bounty II ($3.89, scores 10).
More about King's Bounty: Dark Side
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 35.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 459 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 124 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
35.6 hours to finish it, 101 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
King's Bounty: The Legend and Armored Princess are two of my all-time favourites and I simply can not recommend them enough. I've re-played both a couple of times and enjoyed every bit of them both times. Unfortunately this is not any near close to them, or even to Warriors of the North, which left me with mixed feelings, but I still mostly enjoyed it. Dark Side feels mostly as a wasted opportunity. The premise is...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I have three pet peeves with this one: 1. Quests are very, very annoying. For whatever reason, they are never straightforward. Ever. Instead of an interesting story and maybe giving a player the choice of doing things the right way or the lying conniving way (after all, you're the dark overlord, beware, maidens and peasants!), it's just 20 steps of going back and forth between the same places, and then gathering...
Да бывают и такие жемчужины выходят из под пера наших разрабов. Легенду о рыцаре играл еще школьником и плохо помню, знаю что не прошел. Вот принцесску не допрошел в стиме когда-то потому что там на ласт боссе отобрали имбодракончика. Здесь тоже всё гадал будет ли такая подстава от разрабов и таки да имбоприемы на ласт босса отобрали. Хотя ласт босс оказался лёгким довольно. Да и вообще игра ощущается намного легче...
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About the game
Time has come to begin a Dark Journey to the other side of Teana and explore a mysterious region never before seen by royal bounty hunters. King’s Bounty: Dark Side lets you play as the villains in a full standalone campaign with new heroes, dark factions, and a fresh tactical perspective.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 6600 with 128 Mb VRAM or similar AMD card, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
King's Bounty: Dark Side scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/289520/king-s-bounty-dark-sideReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.