Crowntakers
Skip · Roguelike · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.7h
- Value
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000/ATI Radeon HD 4650/Nvidia GeForce 2xx or higher, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in November 2025. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 12 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 9 weeks.
It is less well reviewed than 69 percent of its genre. On the same math NEO Scavenger ($14.99, scores 75) and Peglin ($19.99, scores 62) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 27, 4.7 times as much.
The drop-off
51% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Crowntakers scores 32/100 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/294370/crowntakersThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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