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King’s Bounty: The Legend is a fan-favorite classic fantasy adventure and an early entry into the modern King’s Bounty era, built around tough battles, smart decisions, and turn-based tactics.

King's Bounty: The Legend is a rpg, strategy and turn-based strategy game developed and published by Fulqrum Publishing.
Released on May 01st 2009 is available on Windows and MacOS in 10 languages: English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Hungarian and Polish.

It has received 3,317 reviews of which 3,013 were positive and 304 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 6.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.13€ on Eneba.

The Steam community has classified King's Bounty: The Legend into these genres:

RPG Strategy Turn-Based Strategy Fantasy Turn-Based Adventure Hex Grid Singleplayer Tactical RPG Tactical Turn-Based Combat Atmospheric Great Soundtrack Classic Open World Addictive Comedy Strategy RPG Exploration

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows® XP/Vista™ 32-bit
Processor: Intel Pentium® 4 2.6 GHz or Athlon 64 +2800 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or Athlon 64 +3200 recommended)
Memory: 1 GB RAM under XP and 2 GB RAM under Vista (2GB recommended)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256MB or ATI Radeon X800 256MB or better (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 512MB or ATI Radeon X1900 512MB or better recommended)
Sound: DirectX version 9.0c-compatible sound card
Hard Drive: 5.5 GB
DirectX®: DirectX version 9.0c (included) or higher
Input Devices: OS-supported keyboard and mouse

MacOS

OS: Mac OSX 10.6 or higher
Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
Memory: 1 GB
Hard Disk Space: 2.54 GB
Video Card: ATI or NVIDIA video card with at least 256Mb VRAM
Additional:15" or larger display is recommended

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March 2026

King's Bounty: The Legend was not a game I expected to enjoy because it's so different from what I was expecting. I have an appreciation for turn based games, mainly because I am slow and boring, but the first few times I tried King's Bounty's battle system I was left feeling put off. Easily the biggest annoyance comes in learning your limits; it's far too easy for enemies to absolutely decimate your forces, and you'll spend a lot of time running back to places to buy more. The game is extremely unforgiving if you enter battle unprepared with the wrong types of forces, and developing the habit to save before every encounter should be a top priority. It's true that a little cunning will get you far, but battles can be won or lost in a single turn, and that can be hard to swallow. But over time, you get the hang of things. You know what spells work best in any situation, you learn how to work the battlefield, and before long, you're running towards fights rather than away. Not only is there a tremendous variety of creatures to be discovered and destroyed, but there's also a big, satisfying expanse of treasure to find and upgrade. (By fighting inside the item, of course. How else?) Oh, and if you want, you can marry a frog princess. Or a zombie queen. Or... well, you'll see. In fact, if you can handle the combat, really the only other issue with King's Bounty is its dialogue, which tends to be either painfully dull or unintentionally hysterical, and is delivered by characters that are weird and bland at best. It feels like it was lifted straight out of a twelve-year-old kid's Dungeon and Dragons fanfiction, and if you can handle your stalwart hero of the land proclaiming "OK I am ready!!" before he plunges into battle with a necromancer lord, or even crack a smile at it, you'll do just fine. For your patience, you're granted a massive world teeming with interesting creatures, and quests that generally revolve around slaying them. The visuals are big, bright, and cartoonishly enjoyable, and it's impossible to not enjoy trampling around the overworld with your big, stampy-hoof'ed horse, running down brigands and chasing shiny treasure. It definitely is a game that takes a while to become adept at, but once you do, you'll find it's got a lot of charm and potential. You'll never call the characters memorable with a straight face, and it's never going to inspire any poetry, but King's Bounty: The Legend is tremendously fun and addictive, as long as you don't try to take it seriously.

March 2026

King's Bounty: The Legend is by far my favorite in the series. It's so good. This year, 2026 at the time of this writing, they have improved support on modern PCs and Steam achievements are on the way. Nice to see this 2008 game getting more attention!

March 2026

Devs recently started releasing fixes and updates to the extend they even added achievements, such a w

Dec. 2025

Do not necro old games just to add adware launchers to them. This game was great before; leave it be. UPDATE: They listened! So for an actual review: It's a tactical turn-based game with a whole lot of charm. You can tell the original devs (1C) put a whole lot of love and hard work into it. Maybe not the most polished game ever, but it's great in its own special way. Also, you can choose to turn a lady into a zombie so she can be with her lover forever. 10/10

Sept. 2025

Hi, I'm a 17-year-old Italian guy who first played the game in 2014, when I was just 6. I'm writing this review because I'm very fond of this game; I think I'm one of the most played users in the world, having played about 20 full games. I think it's an incredible game, with a crazy story, a game that never gets boring and keeps you glued to the screen for hours. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it an 11, the first, and in my opinion, best, title in the King's Bounty series.

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King's Bounty: The Legend is currently priced at 6.99€ on Steam.

King's Bounty: The Legend is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 6.99€ on Steam.

King's Bounty: The Legend received 3,013 positive votes out of a total of 3,317 achieving a rating of 8.73.

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King's Bounty: The Legend was developed and published by Fulqrum Publishing.

King's Bounty: The Legend is playable and fully supported on Windows.

King's Bounty: The Legend is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

King's Bounty: The Legend is not playable on Linux.

King's Bounty: The Legend is a single-player game.

King's Bounty: The Legend does not currently offer any DLC.

King's Bounty: The Legend does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

King's Bounty: The Legend does not support Steam Remote Play.

King's Bounty: The Legend is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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