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King's Bounty: The Legend

4.7 out of 5
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85% | Very Positive
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King's Bounty: The Legend is an adventure game with tactical turn-based battles and role-playing elements.
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About King's Bounty: The Legend

About this game

King's Bounty: The Legend is an adventure game with tactical turn-based battles and role-playing elements. In a fairy tale fantasy world of fearless knights, evil mages, wise kings and beautiful princesses the player controls a hero. Leading their character through the game world, exploring it, commanding armies in battle and accomplishing various quests can mean great reward or huge defeats.

Gameplay is divided into two major sections: adventure mode and battle mode. While playing in adventure mode, the gamer controls their character in real-time. With several classes available at the start of a new game, the player moves through the adventure map seeking various treasures, fighting monsters and accomplishing quests tasked to him by the local stewards. Once in battle mode the gamer assumes the role of a war chief, leading his troops in tactical turn-based combat. Battles take place on land or sea, in dungeons or castles or even in some items! The hero himself doesn't participate in the combat, but can assist his troops by casting spells or summoning different creatures.

Key Features:

  • Real-time (adventure) meets turn-based (battles) gameplay
  • Rich fantasy setting, storyline with a lot of twists and an unexpected ending
  • Three types of characters to choose from — Each of them with unique characteristics and abilities
  • Huge game world with dozens locations and battlefields — both on the surface and in the dungeons
  • The game world isn't static — enemies don't just sit and wait for the hero to arrive, they pursue their own aims and try to get into the player's way
  • Mac version is available in English, Russian, German, French, Spanish and Italian languages

Game Details

Platform:
steam
Release Date:
April 30, 2009
Developer:
1C Company
Publisher:
Fulqrum Publishing
Rating:
ESRB rating of 13
PEGI rating of 12
USK rating of 12
Supported Languages:
English
Franchise:
Kings Bounty
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Product Requirements

  • OS: Windows® XP/Vista™ 32-bit
  • Processor: Intel Pentium® 4 2.6 GHz or Athlon 64 +2800 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or Athlon 64 +3200 recommended)
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM under XP and 2 GB RAM under Vista (2GB recommended)
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256MB or ATI Radeon X800 256MB or better (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 512MB or ATI Radeon X1900 512MB or better recommended)
  • Sound: DirectX version 9.0c-compatible sound card
  • Hard Drive: 5.5 GB
  • DirectX®: DirectX version 9.0c (included) or higher
  • Input Devices: OS-supported keyboard and mouse

Product Requirements

  • OS: Mac OSX 10.6 or higher
  • Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
  • Memory: 1 GB
  • Hard Disk Space: 2.54 GB
  • Video Card: ATI or NVIDIA video card with at least 256Mb VRAM
  • Additional:15" or larger display is recommended

Critic Reviews

79

GameSpot

GameSpot
80 / 100
"King's Bounty is a great modern rendition of an old-fashioned formula."

Eurogamer

Eurogamer
90 / 100
"Rare are the games that have you muttering "Well, I didn't know that could happen!" after more than 30 hours, and the fact I could have written another 2000 words describing...

IGN

IGN
81 / 100
"Yes, the difficulty can be very unbalanced at times, and sure the tutorial needs work, but as it stands, King's Bounty is a great game for all types of RPG fans."
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King's Bounty: The Legend User Reviews

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User Rating

Average score from 11 ratings
92% of users would recommend this.
4.7

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Recommended

Sass Drake
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This game is spiritual successor to game called King's Bounty from 1990 which resulted in one of the best turn-based strategies, Heroes of Might and Magic. Gameplay: Similar to original KB and HoMM, player controls hero on adventure map and battles are fought on hexagonal battlefield map. Games also features RPG elements like quests, player experience points, skills, items and spells. Storyline is a bit a Cliché where King gives our hero quest to locate and rescue his child daughter but quests and battles makes up for it. If you are experienced HoMM player I suggest playing on Impossible difficulty but be aware, try to reduce cassaulties because there is limit of available creatures you can recruit in your army. Thing which makes this game more interesting is leadership which puts limit how much units of given type can be controlled by hero unlike HoMM games where level 1 hero could control legions of dragons and Rage abilities. Rage points (similar to mana) are accumulated during battle and can be spent using rage abilities which have power to turn battle into players favor. I've spent almost 200 hours trying to finish game on impossible and I was successful. However, there is too much fetch quests in this game which of many are not worth time especially if you are trying to get higher endgame score. Graphics: Models and overall design is a bit cartonish but still beautiful. Sound: Soundtrack is nice.
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Frequently Asked Questions

There are 4 editions. They are The Legend, Platinum Edition, Collector’s Pack, and Ultimate Edition
According to ESRB, King's Bounty: The Legend is suitable for players aged 13 and above.
Yes, King's Bounty: The Legend is not fully Steam Deck Verified but the publisher says it is "Playable" on Steam Deck. Valve’s testing indicates that King's Bounty: The Legend is Playable on Steam Deck. This game is functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure.
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  • This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
  • Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  • Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read
  • OS: Windows® XP/Vista™ 32-bit
  • Processor: Intel Pentium® 4 2.6 GHz or Athlon 64 +2800 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or Athlon 64 +3200 recommended)
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM under XP and 2 GB RAM under Vista (2GB recommended)
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256MB or ATI Radeon X800 256MB or better (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 512MB or ATI Radeon X1900 512MB or better recommended)
  • Sound: DirectX version 9.0c-compatible sound card
  • Hard Drive: 5.5 GB
  • DirectX®: DirectX version 9.0c (included) or higher
  • Input Devices: OS-supported keyboard and mouse
  • OS: Mac OSX 10.6 or higher
  • Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
  • Memory: 1 GB
  • Hard Disk Space: 2.54 GB
  • Video Card: ATI or NVIDIA video card with at least 256Mb VRAM
  • Additional:15" or larger display is recommended
81% of critics on Metacritic recommend King's Bounty: The Legend. The Metascore is 79 out of 100.
92% of Fanatical users recommend King's Bounty: The Legend. The average review score is 4.7/5
Yes, 92% of Fanatical users and 81% of critics on Metacritic recommend King's Bounty: The Legend.
King's Bounty: The Legend was released on April 30, 2009
Yes, King's Bounty: The Legend supports MacOS.
King's Bounty: The Legend is published by Fulqrum Publishing
King's Bounty: The Legend was developed by 1C Company
Fanatical users tagged King's Bounty: The Legend as RPG, Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, and Adventure
Yes, Fanatical users tagged King's Bounty: The Legend as RPG
Yes, Fanatical users tagged King's Bounty: The Legend as Strategy
Yes, Fanatical users tagged King's Bounty: The Legend as Turn-Based Strategy

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