Pocket Kingdom

Pocket Kingdom

Fair · Narrative · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
4.1h
Value
$1.70/hr
Reviews
90% positive
It needs 9% off ($6.36) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
4.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
6.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.70
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$6.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
263 reviews, as of Sep 29
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2016

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Any card with at least 256MB, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Islands sometimes appear out of the blue in the clouds. The mysterious Pocket Kingdom is one of them. Wander around its districts, solve puzzles and listen to the weird stories told by the locals. Unveiling the place's mysteries depends on it. So does getting out of it.
Description from the Steam store page.

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
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$1.71/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length4.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds0 of 107 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $0.76. That was September 2024. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 77 in the 10 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Mind Over Magnet ($2.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Squishy the Suicidal Pig ($5.99, scores 65).

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

29% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Pocket Kingdom scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/462620/pocket-kingdom
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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 29, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer08 Games
PublisherPlug In Digital
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Achievements16