Knights of Pen and Paper 2
Worth it · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Length
- 9.6h
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Prepare to inhabit a world of chivalry, class warfare and off-beat pop references. Knights of Pen & Paper 2 is a turn-based, retro style, pixel-art adventure full of danger, intrigue, death, and saving throws!
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was April 2017. 95 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon Cliff ($9.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Choice of Life: Middle Ages ($4.99, scores 69).
This site sampled 428 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 139 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.6 hours. Doing everything runs 28, 3.0 times as long.
The drop-off
78% start to 7% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
12 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
Found myself farming achievements on this fun little piece of nostalgia. Then the game asked me for $5 to unlock an achievement. Uninstalled. Never looked back.
I would recommend it but the dragons expansion is just torture so many ♥♥♥ dungeons. The game is grindy as hell and then this...
An enjoyable Dungeons and Dragons-style adventure. Not too difficult and easy to build up your party. Made even more enjoyable with the storyline, side quests and sense of humour to never take itself too seriously.
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: critic score (Metacritic).
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Knights of Pen and Paper 2 scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/310060/knights-of-pen-and-paper-2The 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 21, price as of Sep 24.
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