Age of Fear: The Undead King
Worth it · RPG · 2015
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 12.1h 15h to 100%
- Value
- $0.41/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 368 positive
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What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Play as either Sir Edward, a noble Knight defending the Human Kingdom, or Krill, a wicked Necromancer with an unearthly lust for power! The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.24, set in October 2015. It has been discounted 63 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 4 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark ($29.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Horizon's Gate ($19.99, scores 59).
The drop-off
37% start to 3% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 09:57 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's First Edition Dungeons and Dragons laid out for you, but with a DM who takes no prisoners and gives nothing away. It's a combination of RPG and Wargame in which you can take the glory when everything goes right, but you also get a kicking when it all goes pear-shaped. You can choose to buy the entire package at a suitable discount during a sale, or pick at the individual adventures. Either way, you get a huge...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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Got some nice touches and undead are fun but humans are dull and combat is just too simplistic, every battle becomes very similar quite quickly.
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Cite this score
Age of Fear: The Undead King scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/351480/age-of-fear-the-undead-kingReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 11. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.