Lords of Magic: Special Edition

Lords of Magic: Special Edition

Worth it · RPG · 2015

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $4.99.

Length
4h 50h to 100%
Value
$1.25/hr
Reviews
92% of 557 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$1.25/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 324 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

About the game

Urak, once peaceful, is now a land of darkness, chaos and death. The people yearn for a champion to drive away the forces of evil. That champion is you.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

56 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. The nearest things to it, Age of Wonders ($1.49, scores 51) and Age of Wonders III ($7.49, scores 46), are both worse buys on this math.

More about Lords of Magic: Special Edition

Of the 324 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to July 2026.

4 hours to finish it, 50 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 13 times the campaign.

Players

Players online
17 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 15:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

i remembered this cover art from when I was a kid and can not believe I have found this game again. Thank you for bringing it back!
HohibooRecommendedafter 61hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
save often is the no.1 rule. Find a strategy and someday someone will revive this game.
OrangeSpadeRecommendedafter 1504hJun 2026Read on Steam
dose not come with pach is un playable for the rase i want dont like it they need to pach it
redgie.remmerNot recommendedafter 3.2hMar 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Lords of Magic: Special Edition scores 82/100 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/404040/lords-of-magic-special-edition
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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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperImpressions Games
PublisherRebellion
GenreRPG
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate