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King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame

NeocoreGames · Paradox Interactive · 2009-11-24

Steam

RPGStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 24, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Welcome to the lost age of chivalry, where magic and myth is alive, and you are destined to be one of the living legends: Arthur, the son of Uther Pendragon, the Once and Future King of the prophecies. Fulfill your destiny and claim your rightful place on the throne of Britannia.

King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame is a 2009 RPG and Strategy game priced at $9.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (69% of 617 reviews) and an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000.

0
playing now
68%
positive of 620 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame is a real-time tactics and role-playing video game developed by NeocoreGames and published by Paradox Interactive in North America, Ubisoft in Europe, and E-Frontier in Japan. It seeks to blend elements of the real-time tactics, role-playing, and grand strategy genres into one. A sequel titled King Arthur II: The Role-Playing Wargame was released online in Europe on September 20, 2011, and then worldwide in 2012.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 13,917 RPG games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 25k–50k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 620 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$2.49-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.66 at GameBillet (2020-01-30) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 16 of 33 observed days · $0.83 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620172026Week of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 4 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
522Jul 2012Sep 2025Jul 2012 — avg 39 · peak 82Nov 2012 — avg 38 · peak 103Mar 2013 — avg 34 · peak 84Jul 2013 — avg 22 · peak 55Nov 2013 — avg 20 · peak 57Mar 2014 — avg 20 · peak 59Jul 2014 — avg 15 · peak 36Nov 2014 — avg 16 · peak 41Mar 2015 — avg 15 · peak 46Jul 2015 — avg 13 · peak 37Nov 2015 — avg 11 · peak 31Mar 2016 — avg 12 · peak 33Jul 2016 — avg 11 · peak 27Nov 2016 — avg 10 · peak 24Mar 2017 — avg 9 · peak 24Jul 2017 — avg 8 · peak 21Nov 2017 — avg 7 · peak 22Mar 2018 — avg 8 · peak 26Jul 2018 — avg 7 · peak 19Nov 2018 — avg 6 · peak 16Mar 2019 — avg 7 · peak 16Jul 2019 — avg 5 · peak 13Nov 2019 — avg 5 · peak 15Mar 2020 — avg 7 · peak 21Jul 2020 — avg 4 · peak 15Nov 2020 — avg 5 · peak 15Mar 2021 — avg 4 · peak 14Jul 2021 — avg 4 · peak 13Nov 2021 — avg 3 · peak 9Mar 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2022 — avg 3 · peak 11Nov 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Mar 2023 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2023 — avg 2 · peak 9Dec 2023 — avg 3 · peak 8Apr 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Mar 2025 — avg 2 · peak 9Sep 2025 — avg 2 · peak 7
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$29.99$1.992015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-04-09 — best price $9.992015-05-03 — best price $9.912015-05-29 — best price $9.492015-07-08 — best price $12.332015-12-23 — best price $2.492016-03-23 — best price $9.992016-09-05 — best price $9.992017-02-27 — best price $9.992017-08-14 — best price $2.592018-04-30 — best price $9.992018-10-01 — best price $9.992019-01-05 — best price $9.992019-06-04 — best price $2.492019-10-17 — best price $2.492019-11-28 — best price $9.992020-01-01 — best price $8.992020-02-05 — best price $9.892020-03-16 — best price $9.992020-05-01 — best price $2.492020-07-21 — best price $9.992020-09-18 — best price $2.502020-12-11 — best price $2.232021-02-08 — best price $8.992021-05-21 — best price $2.502021-08-20 — best price $9.992021-12-05 — best price $9.992022-03-07 — best price $2.492022-06-24 — best price $2.492022-09-05 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-07-07 — best price $2.502023-08-09 — best price $2.492024-02-02 — best price $9.992024-07-22 — best price $9.992024-12-08 — best price $9.302025-06-26 — best price $2.492026-02-23 — best price $8.992026-09-01 — best price $2.492026-10-14 — best price $2.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2432026-06-01 — 9 pageviews2026-06-05 — 19 pageviews2026-06-09 — 9 pageviews2026-06-13 — 13 pageviews2026-06-17 — 21 pageviews2026-06-21 — 14 pageviews2026-06-25 — 12 pageviews2026-06-29 — 21 pageviews2026-07-03 — 11 pageviews2026-07-07 — 24 pageviews2026-07-11 — 15 pageviews2026-07-15 — 19 pageviews2026-07-19 — 17 pageviews2026-07-23 — 11 pageviews2026-07-27 — 18 pageviews2026-07-31 — 9 pageviews2026-08-04 — 7 pageviews2026-08-08 — 8 pageviews2026-08-12 — 9 pageviews2026-08-16 — 15 pageviews2026-08-20 — 8 pageviews2026-08-24 — 13 pageviews2026-08-28 — 8 pageviews2026-09-01 — 11 pageviews2026-09-05 — 12 pageviews2026-09-09 — 12 pageviews2026-09-13 — 17 pageviews2026-09-17 — 10 pageviews2026-09-21 — 18 pageviews2026-09-25 — 6 pageviews2026-09-29 — 7 pageviews2026-10-03 — 11 pageviews2026-10-07 — 7 pageviews2026-10-11 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing4 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 4 DLC released, first 2011-02-03 (Steam store data)

Player tags

RPGFantasyMedievalStrategyTurn-BasedSingleplayerGrand StrategyTurn-Based StrategyReal-Time with Pause

Census log

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

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