For The King
Worth it · Roguelike · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Length
- 11.8h
- Value
- $0.34/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 77% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 8800 GTX (768 MB) / Intel HD 4600 / Radeon HD 3850 (512 MB), 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
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
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 87 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 66 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $3.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pit People® ($19.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats For The King II ($8.49, scores 29).
The press gave it 79; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 77 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 1,214 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 11.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 72, 6.1 times as much.
The drop-off
79% start to 6% rarestNo 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
Players
428 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
Miserably unbalanced, horrible quality of life, and realistically only playable in multiplayer with a group of 3. Losing is frustrating and unfair; winning is unsatisfying and feels more like luck than strategy. For The King wastes your time and spits in your face for having the gall to play it. I'll start with my multiplayer complaints, because that's why I was excited for it. For The King is balanced around having...
This game is designed for you to fail it. It skews HEAVILY on the AI. The healing mechanic in the game is ABYSMAL. You have to fight monsters to earn gold to buy the only healing item in the game, but fighting the monsters causes you to have to use your existing inventory of it, and there's a finite supply at each location that you can buy it from. The focus points is the only way to use most of the higher attack...
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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For The King scores 70/100 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/527230/for-the-kingThe 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, price as of Sep 24.
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