Kingdom of Night

Item: Kingdom of Night
Rating: 81
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-12-04

Summary

Highly enjoyable retro action-RPG experience
Appealing, high-quality pixel art style
Generous and fantastic loot rewards
Engaging story and memorable characters
Rewarding world exploration and quests
Poor Keyboard and Mouse controls

Emotions

Satisfaction35%Disappointment21%Excitement19%Frustration14%Nostalgia5%

Reviews (sample size): 39
Helpful reviews: 69%
Unhelpful reviews: 31%
Protest reviews: 0%

81%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
19%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 177
Negative points: 63
Gameplay points: 38
Perf. points: 1
Rec. points: 28
Misc points: 11

Sentiment × Playtime

review counts

Bucket	Neg	Pos
≤ 2h playtime	512.8% Avg playtime 0.8h	12.6% Avg playtime 1.2h
> 2h playtime	00% Avg playtime 0h	3384.6% Avg playtime 9.7h

Velocity

review pace

Avg/day	20.6 rev/day
Last 30d	1.3 rev/day
Quarterly	0 rev/qtr
Days covered	1.9 days

Point	Description	Importance
Highly enjoyable retro action-RPG Description Players find the game to be a highly entertaining and addictive action-RPG that successfully blends retro atmosphere with horror elements. The clear developer passion shines through, creating an experience that appeals even to those outside its usual genre. Importance 97%	Players find the game to be a highly entertaining and addictive action-RPG that successfully blends retro atmosphere with horror elements. The clear developer passion shines through, creating an experience that appeals even to those outside its usual genre.	97%
Appealing and high-quality pixel art Description The game's pixel art style is consistently praised for its quality and appeal, with reviewers noting the excellent sprite animations, background work, and overall visual design. It effectively draws the eye to the environment and UI. Importance 66%	The game's pixel art style is consistently praised for its quality and appeal, with reviewers noting the excellent sprite animations, background work, and overall visual design. It effectively draws the eye to the environment and UI.	66%
Generous and fantastic loot Description Players highlight the abundance and quality of loot available throughout the game. The inclusion of engaging flavor text for items further enhances the satisfaction of discovery and progression. Importance 64%	Players highlight the abundance and quality of loot available throughout the game. The inclusion of engaging flavor text for items further enhances the satisfaction of discovery and progression.	64%
Engaging story and memorable characters Description The game features a well-written, engaging story and excellent, concise dialogue that draws players in. Interactions with the game's interesting and often goofy characters are consistently highlighted as enjoyable. Importance 50%	The game features a well-written, engaging story and excellent, concise dialogue that draws players in. Interactions with the game's interesting and often goofy characters are consistently highlighted as enjoyable.	50%
Rewarding world exploration and quests Description The game offers a surprisingly large, immersive, and interconnected map that is a standout feature. Players are rewarded for their curiosity with numerous secrets, dungeons, and well-paced side quests. Importance 44%	The game offers a surprisingly large, immersive, and interconnected map that is a standout feature. Players are rewarded for their curiosity with numerous secrets, dungeons, and well-paced side quests.	44%
Diverse and engaging combat Description Combat is largely praised as engaging, fun, and serviceable, with enjoyable enemies and boss fights. Players appreciate the distinct mechanics offered by various melee and magic classes, allowing for diverse build strategies. Importance 41%	Combat is largely praised as engaging, fun, and serviceable, with enjoyable enemies and boss fights. Players appreciate the distinct mechanics offered by various melee and magic classes, allowing for diverse build strategies.	41%
Strong 80s horror atmosphere Description The game brilliantly evokes a classic 80s horror movie atmosphere, reminiscent of VHS aesthetics and Stranger Things. This immersive ambiance is significantly enhanced by an excellent 80s synth soundtrack and cleverly unsettling environmental design. Importance 38%	The game brilliantly evokes a classic 80s horror movie atmosphere, reminiscent of VHS aesthetics and Stranger Things. This immersive ambiance is significantly enhanced by an excellent 80s synth soundtrack and cleverly unsettling environmental design.	38%

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