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Warrior Kings: Battles cover art

Warrior Kings: Battles

Black Cactus · Strategy First · 2014-05-06

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 30, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Warrior Kings: Battles maintains the excitement that made Warrior Kings a leading RTS. It is a stand-alone title that adds a new strategic and tactical dimension to the series.

12
playing now
91%
positive of 333 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$8.99
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Warrior Kings: Battles is a real-time strategy video game developed by British studio Black Cactus and published by Empire Interactive in Europe and co-published with Strategy First in North America. It is a sequel to the 2002 game Warrior Kings and was released March 21, 2003 in Europe and September 30, 2003 in North America.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 51% of 5,944 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.3k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 333 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.19-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.19-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.50 at GamersGate (2018-04-19) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 95 of 97 observed days · $0.69 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1202026-08-11 20:00 — 8 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 6 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 10 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 8 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 9 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.13$0.592015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-12-01 — best price $9.992016-07-11 — best price $1.002017-06-22 — best price $0.992018-01-01 — best price $9.992018-04-30 — best price $1.992018-07-13 — best price $1.392018-11-01 — best price $9.992019-03-01 — best price $9.992019-10-07 — best price $9.992020-01-29 — best price $9.992020-06-01 — best price $9.992020-09-25 — best price $9.992021-01-04 — best price $5.992021-05-24 — best price $9.992021-11-03 — best price $5.992022-01-31 — best price $1.492022-06-10 — best price $1.802022-09-29 — best price $1.192023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-18 — best price $9.992023-08-14 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $1.192024-03-01 — best price $5.992024-05-16 — best price $8.992024-09-09 — best price $1.352024-12-05 — best price $1.352025-04-10 — best price $1.192025-08-02 — best price $5.992025-10-10 — best price $1.352026-01-19 — best price $1.792026-04-09 — best price $1.192026-07-15 — best price $1.192026-08-28 — best price $1.192026-08-30 — best price $1.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

RTSFantasyStrategyMultiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.