Kingsway
Worth it · Roguelike · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $1.92/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 256MB, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
Kingsway is the #1 operating system for daily tasks such as skeleton smashing and loot-organizing. Trouble sorting through all your potions and swords? Don't worry! Kingsway can help you manage, and with an easy to use interface you'll have time leftover for a peaceful stroll through the underworld.
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
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in March 2020. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 50 in the 9 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, UnderMine ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Swag and Sorcery ($12.99, scores 2).
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 342 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 186 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 42, 8.0 times as much.
The drop-off
47% start to 28% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 06:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Really awesome, comfy RPG roguelike - but MAN I wish it had more content. A run is ~2 hours long, and once you've finished 2-3 runs you've basically seen everything this game has to offer aside from some alternate endings. (note: I've played way more than 6 hours on someone else's account) Quests are repeated between each run, dungeons have basically no variance, the bosses are all the same, etc. Also, once you...
TLDR: 7/10. Decent enough, but has too many weak points for what it is trying to be. I wouldn't call it bad, but beating a roguelike on my first run is a bit of a bruh moment. You do get to unlock some challenge mode stuff and extra starting bonuses after beating it, based on your character's level, but I guess the transience of it all is the core point, because your character ceases to be no matter the ending you...
"No" is perhaps harsh. The theming is incredibly charming. I liked the main gimmick of it. But the main gameplay loop seems to quickly get tedious / trivialized in a successful run: I don't think I will keep playing more of it.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Kingsway scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/588950/kingswayReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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