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Crown Wars: The Black Prince

Artefacts Studio · Nacon · 2024-05-23

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 23, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 23, 2024 (PlayStation 5), May 23, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Nov 28, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

The War of Crowns rages on. Knights and brigands run rampant throughout the land, sowing destruction. From your castle base, rise to become the lord who leads the battle against the forces of evil in this turn-based tactics and strategy game.

60%
positive of 648 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$39.99
steam price (US)
Crown Wars: The Black Prince is a 2024 turn-based tactics video game developed by Artefacts Studio and published by Nacon. Players battle a cult that is attempting to use the Hundred Years' War for its own purposes.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 88 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~11/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 35% of 11,901 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–29k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 648 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$3.76-91%
IndieGala$3.99-90%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 0 of 23 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
919120242026Week of 2024-05-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$3.99$3.402026-08-062026-09-012026-08-06 — best price $3.992026-08-07 — best price $3.992026-08-08 — best price $3.402026-08-09 — best price $3.402026-08-10 — best price $3.402026-08-11 — best price $3.402026-08-12 — best price $3.402026-08-13 — best price $3.402026-08-14 — best price $3.402026-08-15 — best price $3.992026-08-16 — best price $3.992026-08-17 — best price $3.992026-08-18 — best price $3.992026-08-19 — best price $3.992026-08-20 — best price $3.992026-08-25 — best price $3.762026-08-26 — best price $3.762026-08-27 — best price $3.762026-08-28 — best price $3.762026-08-29 — best price $3.762026-08-30 — best price $3.762026-08-31 — best price $3.762026-09-01 — best price $3.76
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing5 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)2464%31
Steam (Steam)2261%30
Xbox Series (Xbox)1342%30
Switch (Nintendo)20%0
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGFantasyViolentMedievalStrategyTacticalAdventureTurn-BasedDark FantasySingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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