THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV STEAM EDITION
Skip · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Length
- 1.2h
- Value
- $49.99/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 16 GB of storage. Windows only.
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV finally hits STEAM! KOF XIV is back with its classic 2D gameplay and "3-on-3 TEAM BATTLE" game system but evolved to 3D! 58 charismatic fighters are about to clash in this new chapter of KOF!
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.99. That was August 2023. It has been discounted 61 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 38 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition ($19.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Mortal Kombat 1 ($49.99, scores 29).
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 587 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 726 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 565 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
1.2 hours to finish it, 246 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 205 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
72% start to 34% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
14 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 16:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The King of Fighters XIV Steam Edition First thing gotta mention is this game does not run (as in actually run) out of the gate. If you try to run it for the first time it will most likely immediately crash. This is due to the fact the installer does not include the necessary vcredist package. You'll have to manually track down and install the correct version on your own. I ended up mass installing and then trying...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV STEAM EDITION scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/571260/the-king-of-fighters-xiv-steam-editionReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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