Tzar: The Burden of the Crown
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 17.5h 53.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 566 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 175 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Tzar: The Burden of the Crown is an RTS classic by Haemimont Games, originally released in 2000
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, 143 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 17 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 25 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Knights of Honor ($9.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Age of Empires: Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 69).
More about Tzar: The Burden of the Crown
1 of the 345 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 17.5 hours. Doing everything runs 54, 3.1 times as long.
Players
- Players online
- 24 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 17:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game has one of the hardest campaigns and offers many different strategic options. Units have hidden bonuses against certain types of units: for example, priests can kill a stone golem in few shots, while mages can hit priests harder. This is also why spearmen are so defensive against archer towers. Thanks to mods, you can play the game in high resolution and in one of nine different languages (at least it...
2 more reviews
Tzar: The Burden of the Crown, developed and published by Haemimont Games, is a real-time strategy title that emerged during a fiercely competitive era for the genre, yet managed to carve out its own identity through a mix of familiar structure and unconventional ideas. Originally released in 2000, it sits alongside the giants of its time while quietly experimenting with systems that give it a different rhythm and...
Childhood game, the nostalgia is great. it's a little annoying to get to work initially, but still works really well. For over 26years old game, one of the top RTS games of its time despite not achieving the massive mainstream success like Age of Empires or Warcraft it's a hidden classic, considered legendary by many, it combines and elevates economic complexity of Age of Empires and unit variety of Warcraft while...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Tzar: The Burden of the Crown scores 78/100 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/825730/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crownReviews 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.