Warrior Kings

You are tasked with restoring the power of a kingdom to its former glory using innate cunning, military might and a fearsome will to win. Warrior Kings is an epic real-time strategy game that smashes the…

75 13 April 2002 from $1.80

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Strategy Historical

Warrior Kings is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Black Cactus, released 13 April 2002 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.80 at GamersGate.

Verified 23 Aug 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam

What Warrior Kings is

Warrior Kings is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Black Cactus and released in 2002. It was published by Strategy First. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You are tasked with restoring the power of a kingdom to its former glory using innate cunning, military might and a fearsome will to win. Warrior Kings is an epic real-time strategy game that smashes the mould. Using true 3D it propels you into a living, breathing and fascinating medieval fantasy world. Now it's all in your hands.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Warrior Kings holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 733MHz, 128 MB RAM and 16MB 3D card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.

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What it costs, and where

The cheapest verified price right now is $1.80 at GamersGate, 80% below its usual price.

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What it launched against

Warrior Kings launched on 13 April 2002, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International, Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

Official trailer

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

Warrior Kings — frequently asked questions

When did Warrior Kings come out?

Warrior Kings was released on 13 April 2002 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

How much does Warrior Kings cost?

The cheapest current price for Warrior Kings is $1.80 at GamersGate, which is 80% off its usual price. Prices on this page are checked daily.

What are the minimum PC requirements for Warrior Kings?

At minimum, Warrior Kings needs 733MHz, 128 MB RAM, 16MB 3D card graphics, 800 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Warrior Kings?

The PC version needs about 0.8 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("800 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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