Ancient Kingdoms
2D pixel-art RPG with dungeon exploration and four-player co-op
Ancient Pixels · Released Jan 15, 2025 · Early Access
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 87% of 502
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 92% of 14 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 26
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 3 days ago
- Sep 20, 2026
What is Ancient Kingdoms?
A 2D pixel-art RPG set in Eratiath, where you choose a race and class, explore towns and dungeons, take quests, and fight monsters for gear using targeted abilities and spells. You can play alone or in a cooperative party of up to four.
For you if...
- +you enjoy old-school RPG quests and dungeon exploration
- +you like choosing classes and developing a character
- +you want to explore with a cooperative party
Not for you if...
- −you dislike slow progression and repeated farming for drops
- −you prefer fast-paced combat over targeted abilities and cooldowns
What players say
87% of 502 reviews are positive · 92% of 14 in the last 30 days
Players praise the dungeon exploration, quests, and old-school RPG progression. The most common complaint is a slow late-game grind caused by rare quest and gear drops. Players also report uneven class balance and unreliable mercenary behavior.
Screenshots and trailer
Ancient Kingdoms system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11
- Processor
- x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support.
- Graphics
- DX10, DX11, DX12 capable.
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11
- Processor
- x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support.
- Graphics
- DX10, DX11, DX12 capable.
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, Linux
- Achievements
- 38
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English.
Tags
- Early Access
- Exploration
- CRPG
- Dungeon Crawler
- PvE
- Action RPG
- Action-Adventure
- RPG
- 2D
- Cute
- Dragons
- Pixel Graphics
- Open World
- Swordplay
- Story Rich
- Fantasy
Recent updates
- Sep 20, 2026 · Ancient Kingdoms v0.9.33.0 - Progression Update
- Sep 15, 2026 · Ancient Kingdoms v0.9.32.4 Hotfix 🛠️
- Sep 13, 2026 · Ancient Kingdoms v0.9.32.3 Hotfix 🛠️
- Sep 13, 2026 · Ancient Kingdoms v0.9.32.2 - The Bard Update
- Aug 28, 2026 · Ancient Kingdoms v0.9.31.1 Hotfix 🛠️
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