King's Bounty II
Last updated: 2025-03-31
- Engaging quests and puzzles present.
- Tactical turn-based battles on hex-grids.
- Exploration and questing are emphasized.
- Poor balancing and limited unit variety.
- Clunky controls and character movement.
- Unfinished, lacking content at release.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 434
- Helpful reviews
- 85%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 13%
- Protest reviews
- 2%
- 46%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 54%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 673
- Negative points
- 1330
- Gameplay points
- 289
- Perf. points
- 62
- Rec. points
- 346
- Misc points
- 56
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Engaging quests and puzzles | The game features engaging quests and puzzles, with multiple solutions and interconnected storylines. Side quests are a major highlight, offering unique stories and character development for the NPCs involved. The game world is full of quests around every corner, and town portals for fast travel. | 19% |
| Generally enjoyable and acceptable | These clusters express general enjoyment and acceptability of the game, but lack specific details. They mention the game being enjoyable initially, decent, and stable, but don't provide concrete feedback on gameplay or features. Therefore, the importance score is reduced. | 9% |
| Balanced and appropriate difficulty | The game offers a balanced challenge, with a learning curve that is appropriate for a strategy game. The difficulty is well-designed, making players carefully consider each piece of equipment and spell. The game can be tough, especially on the hard difficulty setting. | 8% |
| Improved mechanics and quality-of-life | The game includes quality of life improvements and well-designed mechanics. The ability to buy back lost units immediately after combat if even one survived is a huge time saver and makes the game more enjoyable. The changes in game mechanics work well. | 8% |
| Well-executed progression systems | The hero progression system is well-executed, and the combat progression feels great. The game features a decent equipment set system. The unit leveling system is a great idea, with some units gaining new active skills upon leveling up. | 3% |