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Amidst the scorched sands of ancient Persia, there is a legend spun in an ancient tongue. It speaks of a time borne by blood and ruled by deceit. Drawn to the dark powers of a magic dagger, a young Prince is led to unleash a deadly evil upon a beautiful kingdom.

Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time is a action, adventure and parkour game developed by Kudosoft and published by Ubisoft.
Released on August 27th 2009 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 4,481 reviews of which 3,844 were positive and 637 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time into these genres:

Action Adventure Parkour Platformer Classic Third Person Singleplayer Time Manipulation Puzzle-Platformer Story Rich Time Travel Fantasy Great Soundtrack Atmospheric Hack and Slash 3D Platformer Controller Puzzle Retro Action-Adventure

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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
Minimum:
  • Supported OS: Windows® 2000/XP (only)
  • Processor: 800 MHz Pentium® III or AMD Athlon™
  • System Memory: 256 MB of RAM
  • Video Card: 64 MB GeForce™ 3 or higher, or ATI® Radeon™ 8500 or higher, Matrox Parhelia™. (GeForce4 MX not supported)
  • Sound Card: DirectX® 9.0 or higher compliant sound card
  • DirectX Version: DirectX® version 9.0c or higher
  • Hard Disk: 1.5 GB available hard disk space
  • Supported Peripherals: ThrustMaster FIRESTORM Dual Analog 3
  • Note: For an up-to-date list of supported chipsets, video cards, and operating systems, please visit the FAQ for this game at: .

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April 2025
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A full 5 out of 5 Stars ★ for Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time i completed this back in 2004 on PS2. So this is simply Nostalgia again. The graphics used to be the best for its time. The free running mechanism built in this would later inspire the Assassin Creed series for Ubisoft. The narrative is beautiful and It is just great fun jumping obstacles, fighting Sand Monsters and solving fantastic puzzles. Overall a must play for young people who would like to experience how gaming used to be during the PS2 era Cheers! Have Fun!
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Feb. 2025
Love this game. It seems easier now that I'm 32 compared to when I was 11... How weird! Good story, OK voice acting, nice puzzles and mobility - this game started the 'parcour' era of videogames! 2 downsides: it's a console game in the first place and yet the controllers are not supported by default(?!) also the camera can be annoying, which is bad for a game that relies on you making quick decisions and inputs to avoid death. PRO TIP: This game is sold for about 10 bucks but you can regularly get it for 2. Buy it anyway, it's great. Also disable the fog entierly, apparently it's buggy with some graphics cards. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10
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Dec. 2024
A classic game that needs to be played. I replayed this recently and this game is a masterpiece of well designed puzzles. The combat is a bit frustrating but thankfully there is not too much of it. Playing on a desktop with Nvidia cards means you will need to have V-Sync disabled in some sections when you are doing multiple wall to wall jumps. Even with those issues, I enjoyed playing it and recommend it wholeheartedly.
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Dec. 2024
One of my childhood games, I played this game many times but being too small I don't think I ever managed to finish it. So after 21 years I finally did it. 8/10 Good Game
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Aug. 2024
Honestly incredible on the OLED Steam Deck so far. Super optimized running at the 90Hz refresh, incredible attention to detail for the time, colors pop, stylistically over the top. Music is fantastic, character models look great, environments are immersive, and at some points you take step back and say wait a minute... This is Ubisoft. What happened? They used to create some truly inspiring titles that pulled you in and had some flare. Now its sticking to Division and Assassins creed for dear life and sales. This has aged incredibly well. Definitely pick up on sale.
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Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.

Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time received 3,844 positive votes out of a total of 4,481 achieving a rating of 8.29.
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Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time was developed by Kudosoft and published by Ubisoft.

Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time is not playable on MacOS.

Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time is not playable on Linux.

Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time is a single-player game.

Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time does not currently offer any DLC.

Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time does not support Steam Remote Play.

Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time 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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Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time
9.99€
8.3
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637
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Kudosoft
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Release 27 Aug 2009
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