9 Kings Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-30
- Extremely addictive and fast-paced gameplay
- Distinct king playstyles with strategic depth
- Multiple kings with deck-building options
- Easy to learn but hard to master
- Excellent value and highly praised quality
- Quest mode bugs and difficulty issues
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 23,383
- Positive
- 21,60392.4%
- Negative
- 1,7807.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,538,824
- Estimated revenue
- $30,761,092
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1010.95%
- Estimated copies lost
- 6,647
- Estimated revenue lost
- $132,874
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1021% Avg playtime 0.9h | 1621.5% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 8107.6% Avg playtime 43.1h | 9,59489.9% Avg playtime 48.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 21.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 12.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 1,553.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 494.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
10,668 total
Organic purchasers9,57589.8%
Voted up: 91%
Key activations1,09310.2%
Voted up: 91%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
10,668 total
First impression0-2h5214.88%
Voted up: 77%
Mid game2-10h3,52533.0%
Voted up: 92%
Late game10-20h2,47623.2%
Voted up: 93%
Endgame20h+4,14638.9%
Voted up: 92%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
91.0%
Global baseline 91.5%
277 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 23,383 total.