Royal Alchemist

Royal Alchemist

Worth it · RPG · 2020

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
10.1h
Value
$1.98/hr
Reviews
93% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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Length
10.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
28.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.98
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
93%
322 reviews, as of Aug 3
Players
10K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX or OpenGL compatible card, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Intrigue, betrayal, deaths! An Otome / BxB survival Raising Simulation in a high-fantasy royal court setting with RPG elements.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement42% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length10 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 293 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

April 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $11.99. 26 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Yes, Your Grace ($3.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall ($24.99, scores 30).

Steam's global achievement data puts 42 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 293 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026.

The main story runs 10.1 hours. Doing everything runs 29, 2.9 times as long.

The drop-off

63% start to 42% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Royal Alchemist scores 69/100 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/939790/royal-alchemist
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Reviews 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 Aug 3, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNifty Visuals
PublisherNifty Productions
GenreRPG
Released2020
Achievements48