Portal Knights
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 20.4h
- Value
- $0.15/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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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.
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!
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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 $1.99. That was November 2024. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 92 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 85 percent off still sits 50 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 63. The current cut is what makes it a 67.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games closest to it, Conan Exiles Enhanced ($39.99, scores 57) and RuneScape: Dragonwilds ($29.99, scores 53) both come in lower.
72 from critics against 83 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 20.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 1,396 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.
The drop-off
92% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 20.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
76 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
I found this game when I a kid and I still play now. I am not the biggest gamer, but if I want something more cozy, this game is at the top of my list. The music is one of my favourite parts of the game.
'Portal Knights' is a sandbox game with some light RPG elements. As a fresh Portal Knight you travel to different worlds via the titular portals, where you fight enemies, mine ores, and do little quests for the NPCs - 'Portal Knights' is divided into 3 zones with different biomes and a boss at the end of each. Nevertheless, 'Portal Knights', although promising at first, can quickly become repetitive and shallow ...
Keen games is also the developer of Enshrouded. At the back of the video player for Enshrouded they have placed Saint Peter's cross within a pentagram. I'm not sure what games they are playing but I don't appreciate it. If you are Chrisitian be careful of this developer
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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Portal Knights scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/374040/portal-knightsThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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