Kingdom: Classic
Worth it · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it at free.
- Length
- 7.9h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
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
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Factorio ($35.00, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Mr.Mine (free, scores 77).
74 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 11 percent of players ever finish it. On a 7.9-hour game, that is a lot of evenings most people never spend. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 552 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.9 hours; clearing it takes 24, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
It is still busy. 40 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
60% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
40 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
Where it all began... Such a good Videogame and its for free! If you never played a Kingdom game, you shoudl try it!
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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Kingdom: Classic scores 81/100 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/368230/kingdom-classicThe 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 12.
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