Prince of Persia®

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Mostly Positive · 79%Mostly Positive · 79%2008

$9.99

US Steam price, checked 2 h ago

The verdict

A gorgeous, easy, relaxing cel-shaded parkour adventure with great banter, but repetitive, light-seed grinding, QTE combat and a flaky PC port. Skip it if you want Sands of Time challenge.

Great for

Players who want a relaxing, stylish, easy platformer with charming character banter and music

Main risk

Repetitive light-seed backtracking and simple QTE combat, plus a PC port that may not launch

What players love

Stunning timeless art style

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews

“It holds up incredibly well for its age, due to phenomenal art direction accompanying its cell-shaded graphical style.”
Steam review · 10.7 h played ↗

“The main thing carrying the game is the awesome visuals, which haven't aged a bit thanks to cel-shading.”
Steam review · translated · 0.1 h played ↗

Smooth, satisfying parkour and traversal

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“this was because of the parkour/traversal. It scratched an itch in my brain I didnt know I had”
Steam review · 11.7 h played ↗

“Running along walls, chaining jumps, sliding down pillars, it all flows together in a way that’s smooth, stylish, and surprisingly ahead of its time.”
Steam review · 10.2 h played ↗

Charming Prince and Elika chemistry

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“The Prince (voiced by Nolan North) and Elika (Kari Wahlgren) make such a great duo. Love the chemistry between the two.”
Steam review · 58.9 h played ↗

“the banter between the two leads is electric”
Steam review · 11.9 h played ↗

Beautiful soundtrack

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews

“that soundtrack had no business going that hard”
Steam review · 10.7 h played ↗

Relaxing, easy with no fail state

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews

“love the parkour in this game, not difficult at all. Just what I want when I want to switch my brain off and spend some time”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗

“the absence of a fail state legitimately works in this game's favor”
Steam review · 10.7 h played ↗

Runs fine on modern hardware

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews

“The game works flawlessly on modern hardware/drivers at 4k60fps.”
Steam review · 41 h played ↗

What players complain about

Shallow QTE-based combat

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“I'm not even sure if I can in good conscience call the combat system a combat system, it's more like a QTE system.”
Steam review · 27.4 h played ↗

“both combat and platforming devolve into a game of Simon Says.”
Steam review · 8.4 h played ↗

Repetitive light seed grind and backtracking

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“The worst part of the game is the constant backtracking to collect a bunch of blue orbs just to pad out the game.”
Steam review · 6.7 h played ↗

“To finish the game you must upgrade skills, and for that you must collect light scattered across a location you've already jumped through.”
Steam review · translated · 3 h played ↗

Port won't launch or freezes on loading

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“You know something is messed up when people are linking on forums ~18 step or 600+ word guides on how to launch the game.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗

“now it just freezes on the loading screen.”
Steam review · 0.4 h played ↗

Clunky controls and poor PC support

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“no native controller support. cannot shift+tab to open steam overlay.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

No fail state removes tension

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“There is no tension at any moment in the game since it's not possible to die.”
Steam review · 19.1 h played ↗

Epilogue DLC missing on PC, weak ending

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews

“Ubisoft made a conscious decision to make the ending unavailable on the PC version.”
Steam review · 11.9 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows® XP/Windows Vista® (only)

ProcessorDual core processor 2.6 GHz Intel® Pentium® D or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 3800+ (Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or better recommended)

Memory1 GB Windows XP/2 GB Windows Vista

Graphics256 MB DirectX® 10.0–compliant video card or DirectX 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list)*

Storage9 GB

OSWindows® XP/Windows Vista® (only)

ProcessorDual core processor 2.6 GHz Intel® Pentium® D or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 3800+ (Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or better recommended)

Memory1 GB Windows XP/2 GB Windows Vista

Graphics256 MB DirectX® 10.0–compliant video card or DirectX 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list)*

Storage9 GB

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