King's Bounty: Armored Princess
Worth it · RPG · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 27.7h
- Value
- $0.36/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 6600 with 128 MB or equivalent ATI, 5.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
King’s Bounty: Armored Princess builds on the foundation of The Legend, expanding the classic formula with deeper turn-based tactics, a huge hand-crafted world, and new mechanics that change how you approach battles and progression.
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was December 2021. 83 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, King's Bounty: Crossworlds ($14.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark ($29.99, scores 75).
The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 27.7-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. None of the 349 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 121 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
27.7 hours to finish it, 73 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
2% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 27.7-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
47 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
Nearly as good as the MS-DOS version was for its time. This is high praise. For the record I still play the DOS version occasionally.
This is one of my absolute favorite games ever! The fairy-tale like graphics kept the game looking great even after so many years passed. Fantastic music, exciting battles, a cutie-dragon whats not to like? The only downside to this game is that the dragon is less exciting then the 'box' from the original, atmosphere is a bit less light hearted, but overall its a vastly imroved experience. It is a great shame that...
I guess I'm stupid. On hard difficulty I cannot complete the game without losses as a paladin and I've heard people do that on impossible. Pros: * The game is freaking amazing for King's Bounty and Heroes of Might and Magic fans, I love it. * Runs on a potato nowadays. * Amazing graphics and music What could be improved but I guess will never be fixed: * There are some spelling errors and text artifacts like...
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.
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King's Bounty: Armored Princess scores 82/100 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/3170/king-s-bounty-armored-princessThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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