Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Skip · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.3h 92.2h to 100%
- Value
- $3.77/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 1,407 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
67 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 49 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Before We Leave ($19.99, scores 48) beats it on value, while it beats Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder ($24.99, scores 6).
More about Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Critics scored it 60. Players sit 11 points higher at 71 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 460 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.3 hours. Doing everything runs 92, 17 times as long.
The drop-off
55% start to 2% 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
What players say
As much as I love and hold extreme nostalgia for townsmen, the pc version needs a fix. Prestige's value in this game is super misplaced because it used to be the p2w or the 'do this quick' currency. Granted in the mobile version there were more ways to get it and the problem is that on pc there isn't and you need it for a lot of stuff. Prestige doesn't carry over between scenario changes which is really silly and...
1 more review, not recommended
Annoying hand holding with frustrating pauses between messages, just long enough you think messages have finished so you start doing something, only for next message to block you and reset what you were doing. Wanted to play, looks charming and chill (I thought!!), but quit in rage! Maybe after 'tutorial' missions it gets better, will never know!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/938380/townsmen-a-kingdom-rebuiltReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.