Portal Knights

Portal Knights

Fair · RPG · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$2.9985% offFair

Cost per hourS
$0.98/hr
Reviews▼
83% of 22,421
Critics
72 players 11 higher
Genre rank
Top 9% RPG

Holding it back: Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
20.4h
To 100%
47.1h 2.3x the story
Achievements
40

Price and sales

Sales
93 on record
Typical cut
60% off
Steam low
$1.99 November 2024
Sale every
38d last October 2026
Lowest now $19.49 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.41 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
51 now
Cheaper than
10% of its genre
Better reviewed
84% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

92% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 93 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 9 percent. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Enshrouded ($39.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats RuneScape: Dragonwilds ($29.99, scores 58).

More about Portal Knights

72 from critics against 83 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 1,400 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 20.4 hours. Doing everything runs 47, 2.3 times as long.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds10 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Played this game on my nintendo switch before (with dlcs for the skin) with friends. While it's sitll nice for solo on pc (with muted volume overall and some other background music). It's a wholesome looking and calm sandbox block based game (alike mincecraft) with rpg aspects. And therefore suitable for a gaming session with kids as well, since its save and nothing rly extreme (even an crative mode and options to...
NxilikRecommendedafter 3.1h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
this game is very interesting, would be better if I have friend to play with :((, looking for a friend
kakgun911Recommendedafter 3.6h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
It's like a 3D, third-person Terraria. I never realized just how good this game was. I bought it on a whim because it was so cheap, and I can already say I got my money's worth. Basically, it was free! Only rated it negatively for the developers allegedly grotesque and despicable political stances. I deleted the unwanted trash that is "CS2" from my library and sold a few skins. Not only did I make back what I...
S̶E̶V̶E̶N̶F̶O̶L̶D̶Not recommendedafter 2.1h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 (1Gb VRAM) / ATI Radeon TM HD 6870 (1Gb VRAM), 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Portal Knights scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/374040/portal-knights
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+11
Critics72
Players83
Metacritic critics · 22,421 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperKeen Games GmbH
Publisher505 Games
GenreRPG
Released2017
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements40