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King's Bounty: Dark Side

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2014

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Quick resume

Time has come to join the dark side. Take a trip to the other side of Teana, to the part of the world that has yet remained unseen to the royal bounty hunters.

Global score

74/100

Genres

Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure, Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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    Pros

    • Engaging tactical combat
    • Humorous and interesting story
    • Multiple playable characters with unique units
    • Extensive quests and exploration
    • Good value for long gameplay

    Cons

    • Game bugs and crashes reported
    • Some quests are confusing or buggy
    • Repetitive battles and grind
    • Outdated graphics and engine
    • Limited social and multiplayer features

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Leadership, Survival, Violence, Strategy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Cooperation.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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