Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones – A Balanced Finale with Some Rough Edges

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (2005) is the third and final installment in the Sands of Time trilogy. After the dark and brutal tone of Warrior Within, Ubisoft attempted to find a middle ground, combining the mysticism of Sands of Time with the expanded combat of Warrior Within.

While it doesn’t revolutionize the series, The Two Thrones is a refined experience, improving on some mechanics while still suffering from technical limitations and repetitive gameplay.

A Story of Redemption and Inner Conflict

The game picks up directly after Warrior Within. The Prince, believing he has escaped his cursed fate, returns to Babylon with Kaileena, only to find his kingdom in flames, occupied by an old enemy, the Vizier. The Vizier, now transformed into a godlike being, has taken Kaileena’s life and unleashed the Sands of Time once again.

However, the Prince isn’t just battling external threats—he also struggles with his own darkness. The Sands of Time corrupt him, leading to the birth of the Dark Prince, a cruel, power-hungry alter ego. This internal conflict plays a major role in the narrative and gameplay, as the Prince must fight against both the Vizier and himself to reclaim his kingdom.

Gameplay – A Hybrid of the First Two Games

From a gameplay standpoint, The Two Thrones combines elements from both Sands of Time and Warrior Within.

✅ Platforming & Puzzle-Solving – Remains tight and satisfying, with classic wall-running, trap-dodging, and puzzle mechanics.
✅ Combat – Keeps the free-flow combat of Warrior Within but refines it with stealth-based Speed Kills, allowing the Prince to eliminate enemies with cinematic executions.
✅ Dark Prince Mechanic – At certain points, the Prince transforms into the Dark Prince, who loses health over time but has a powerful chain weapon. Players must smash crates and vases to regain health, but this mechanic feels too scripted and is used too briefly to add long-term variety.

While the combat is fun, it eventually becomes repetitive, as there’s no skill progression or new weapons to experiment with.

Graphics & Technical Issues

Visually, The Two Thrones doesn’t significantly improve upon Warrior Within. The art direction returns to a golden, Middle Eastern aesthetic, which is a nice contrast to the previous game’s dark and gothic visuals.

However, the PC port still suffers from issues, such as:
❌ Weird camera sensitivity, causing jittery up-and-down movement.
❌ Game-breaking bugs, occasionally forcing reloads or resets.
❌ Low-resolution cutscenes, which look blurry by today’s standards.

On the plus side, the fully 3D-rendered cutscenes are well-directed and engaging, even if their quality is outdated.

Sound & Atmosphere

One of the biggest improvements over previous titles is the sound design.

✅ Voice acting is much better, with the Prince’s personality feeling more nuanced.
✅ The soundtrack blends orchestral and Middle Eastern themes, fitting the tone well.
✅ Fewer sound bugs than Warrior Within, making for a more immersive experience.

Level Design – More Engaging, Less Repetitive

Unlike Warrior Within, which suffered from constant backtracking, The Two Thrones introduces more varied environments. Each section of the game feels distinct, preventing the repetitiveness that plagued its predecessor.

The city of Babylon, with its rooftops, dungeons, and palaces, offers a better sense of progression, making exploration more enjoyable.

Final Verdict – A Solid Yet Flawed Conclusion

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. It refines many aspects of the previous games but still carries over some flaws.

✅ Great platforming and environmental puzzles.
✅ Satisfying Speed Kill mechanic.
✅ Improved storytelling and voice acting.
✅ Diverse and well-designed environments.
❌ Buggy and outdated PC port.
❌ Combat gets repetitive over time.
❌ Dark Prince mechanic is underdeveloped.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐☆☆☆ (7/10) - Good 😊🎮

A worthy sequel with some frustrating flaws.

Tbh even the psp version is better than the pc port by far.

a little buggy but overall a great game

Prince of Persia Two Thrones is quite old, it is released in 2005 but even in 2025, this game is still decent.

Positive:
1. Great gameplay, mc is flexible, he can parkour many types of platform, and fight in many ways, defend, roll, etc
2. Graphic was good for 2005.
3. OST pretty good, it moves to middle east music from the 2nd, rock n roll
4. New gameplay of horse cart, stealth, and dark prince.
5. Prince's character growth is interesting.

Negative:
1. Sometimes guide to next destination is not that clear.
2. Camera should be improved, I made some mistakes on jumping etc since camera view is not that clear.
3. Wall Spring bug. At final area, there was a wall spring bug that throw mc just to the right of knife slot, then mc felt to death. This is almost a game breaking bug for me, until forums told me a trick to hit jump just when mc start falling down from wall spring, then it throws mc pass the knife slot but near the next entrance.
4. There is no subtitle option.
5. This is minor and subjective. Some puzzles and platforming such as platform puzzles seem made to just extend the gameplay....and become bit annoying and out of balance, PoP 1 and 2 were not like this. Beside those, dark prince constant health drain also quite annoying mechanic.
6. Enemies do not realize mc at higher level...a bit silly when it is bright and enemies just simply need to look up. This is not realistic...at least make it dark places instead higher place that enemies would not realize prince sneaking.
7. This is minor and subjective, but I disagree a bit with the ending. Kaileena is the Empress of Time, although at end she mentioned that this all for the best, I think as empress of time...there should another optional ending where mc could choose Kaileena or Farah to be with.

Until this point, I would grade this game to be 7.5 out of 10, pretty good...but the least of Sand Trilogy.

Technical issues:
1. During loading save point, game sometimes freeze, I resolve this by turning off and on V sync.
2. Cannot jump wall to wall Descending, since game option does not have FPS setting, I resolve this by setting my NVIDIA setting to lock 60 FPS for this game.
3. No resolution available for big and wide screen resolution.

I did not try controller since controller was not properly supported in Prince persia Warrior Within, and get used playing pop with keyboard mouse.

Overall for this old build with tech issues, I still recommend but with lowered grade 7/10 due to technical issues, Recommend to get this on sale...

Nostalgia. Good memories - good story with fun gameplay.

GOOD GAME, BUT MINIM CHECKPOINT, SO DIFFICULT WHEN FIGHTING FINAL BOSS WITHOUT REWIND

Very nostalgic, i absolutely love this. unfortunately its very buggy but not unplayable. The only thing that is very annoying is that changing keyboard controls crashes the game, well it doesnt really crash you just lose control of everything and you'll have to force close the game and replay since the last save.

This game is my favourite game in POP series. Storyline is nice. Graphics are also OK. I don't have problem with that. Combat mechanism and overall controls are also easy to use. Totally worth it.

great to comeback time (badum tsss)
nostalgic for me
but still an amazing game that deserves to be played by the newest generations

Game consistently crashes when attempting to load a save file...man, Ubisoft sucks.

Timeless classic! The first time I played this one I used to be a child with an original Xbox console as a gift from a 2005 birthday. And I fell in love with this game so easily. Good and lovely memories. 10/10

The game has a game breaking glitch in the temple in this PC port. There is a launch pad after 2 chain wall runs that sends you into another spring board on a pillar. The secondary spring board does not activate and you fall to your death. unplayable

Badass game. I suggest you buy before the tariffs hit....

Nice ending to Prince Saga

Probably my favourite and most replayed Prince of Persia back in the day. Seeing these old titles get a remaster would be amazing....

My GOAT, One of the first games I ever completed. It will always have a special place in my heart

this is one of the best prince of persia games i have played. wonder why ubisoft went the way it did. this game is playable on newer hardware but u need to download the unofficial patch from nexus mods or else the mouse will not work. tried to play with a playstation controller but guess what it also doesn't work. 10/10 game.

Two Thrones is a solid sequel to Warrior Within.

I really enjoyed the new mechanics, refined gameplay tweaks, and the improved ledge-grabbing system. However diagonal jumps still feel a bit unreliable. While there are some minor bugs, they don’t take away from the overall experience.

As for the story, it was decent—not groundbreaking but still engaging. Witnessing Prince’s journey firsthand was a treat bringing back that classic old school Ubisoft magic.

Definitely recommended!

It is really difficult to beat the vizier ( monster man) in THE AREANA it is difficult to move around using keyboard.. prince does not move as you would thought ie: left,right, forward and backwards...
iI have given up on this game after 1 hour of trying...

This game is better than the previous one, but still not as good as the first one.
If it won't start on your machine follow this guide https://steamcommunity.com/app/13500/discussions/0/3711558744927261483/

If your controller has the slightest drift, you better configure a dead zone on a third party software, because the game sure as shit doesn't allow it, and it gets VERY frustrating to die or miss critical shots because your controller is slightly turning away.


---{ 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

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Farah is back!

Played it when i was kid, it is pretty good

Still a very good game but unfortunately the weakest entry in the trilogy. They brought in a lot of new systems like extra platforming stuff, an option to stealth, and the Dark Prince's transformations. Stealth and the Dark Prince especially feel way too rigid and scripted, which makes sense given that they were trying to make an open world game at first and scratched that project. The skeletons of that idea are very visible and it's such a shame they remain unexplored. They did the best they could, but Warrior Within and Sands of Time are by far more polished and soulful.
Also, the fact that when you're playing with a controller but the game has no idea what diagonal movement is, so it registers as walking very slowly either forward or to one of the sides got me killed so many times.
Again, still a very good game, but playing it back to back with its two predecessors in 2025, it's severely overshadowed.

Hey Ubisoft....I have a problem with this game on my computer! "unknown amd processor" Could you please take care of this problem?

childhood game,still good!

The first one was a masterpiece
The second one was a jigsaw with the coolest bosses but storywise unnecessary!
But this one had the best story (however pointless if the first one didn't exist!)

2 Prince 1 Throne

Absolutely loved the game overall but it's not without it's flaws...

I replayed it after many many years having played it on my PS2 way back when. It might be the nostalgia but I enjoyed the game the entire way through. It's not a very long story.

The good:

- I think the game still stands up after almost 20 years of release. The graphics all though not the best ever, are pretty good even today in 2025.
- The story is very linear but a fun play-through nevertheless.
- The action sequences are very cool and fun to play out.
- Some of the puzzles are challenging enough to require a some thought and reflection.

The bad:

- The controller support is horrible. I had to use the steam binder in order to bind keyboard keys to my xbox one controller in order to play it. A little bit of a pain in the backside to initally setup but once you've played with those binds for a few mins it feel good. Yet not the best. Some of the keybinds have to be a little awkward. This is my worst gripe with the game.
- The port isn't the greatest, quite a few glitches here and there. For example, some of the hits in combat don't register properly and even though the animation shows it, the hits don't count.
- A little bit repetitive but I think that's to be expected.
- The graphics settings require some mods in order to play the game in higher resolutions. And I found the action sequences a little laggy at higher resolutions.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Prince_of_Persia:_The_Two_Thrones

I highly suggest looking at the mods and settings options that you might want to use in order to improve your experience with the game play.
If you get this game for cheap, i think it's totally worth burning 10 or so hours to play through it at least once.

One of my favorite childhood game

useless game developer

Dark Prince: All that is yours rightfully, and mine it will be,
Prince: Nuh Huh

Cool Game 👍

Still holds up and is just as fun as it was when I played it on the ps2. some minor bugs here and there, but nothing that cant be fixed by setting the max frame rate to 60 (which fixes most of the bugs people have been running into), turning off fog, or just restarting the game. A childhood favorite of mine that I was able to replay after over 10 years. A great conclusion to this trilogy's story with a great OST and unique designs accompanying it.

P.S: if you're playing with controller, you'll sometimes need to re-customize your inputs upon loading it up as the game doesn't always recognize that a controller is being used. if that issue persists, just exit and relaunch the game. otherwise, spending a minute to get the controller config to work is small price to pay to enjoy this blast from the past.

nice game, but their are to many glitchs in this game

Best one so far

this game have lots of glitch ,i played that game in my childhood time this game is very awsome but on steam game didn't work properly ,so don't buy this on steam

Ah yes, when the Prince still had balls.

Reliving childhood memorys…and nevertheless still sucking at this game, great times.

SoT is like a child, WW is like a teenager, TT is like an adult.

The prince of Persia games, everyone remembers at least one of them, right? I had a flashback the other day, I was in my first year of highschool, it was the mid 2000’s and things were looking up for me, I had good friends, I had a girlfriend and out of school activities.

I grew up in a poor household so I didn't have many things back then. I had a crappy computer with 512 mb of ram with a crt monitor and like 64 gb of hard drive, I was stuck with the cheapest internet connection my dad could afford which was a 512 kbps from the local phone company, downloading games wasn’t like it is today at all and as a poor Greek teenager in highschool I didnt really have money to buy games and neither did my parents, enter the video game forums.

That was like a paradise for me since there were lots of games uploaded in .rar files of 10-20 parts roughly, now 99.9% of these games I couldn't play because of my very very limited hardware but I grabbed the ones I could run, among these was PoP: the two thrones.

It was one of the first 3D assassin styled games I had ever played and I had such a blast doing so, it was the most exciting thing to sneak around the little levels and stealth kill every enemy, the kill animations (even though there were only like 2 or 3 variations of it) were the best.

I felt like such a professional assassin playing it, the boss fights were epic and felt rewarding because I had such a hard time beating them (not that the boss fights were difficult it was just that my really bad computer had a hard time running the game at all and would lag a lot all the time so even pulling off a steal kill clicking the left mouse button at the right time was hard enough already).

Skip forward 17 years and I felt the itch, and I noticed that game I pirated back in the day was on sale for like 2 dollars on Steam, so I thought to myself: Time to get drunk on some nostalgia.

Then I installed it, 5 minutes download 1.2 gb, nothing compared to the 2 days it took me to download it on my previous internet and computer. Amazing! Let's drown in nostalgia or so I thought.

The very first thing I noticed was that the characters didnt sound as epic as I remembered them, the voice acting was delivered in a very dry and very robot like tone, the lack of facial animation didnt help but that's understandable for the technology at the time. On the other hand the voice actors felt like they never really gave an F about the story, they were just reading the chapter of a book in class in front of the teacher because they happened to make eye contact with her when she asked. Completely subpar.

The gameplay, it felt beyond clunky, the camera is a disaster, the movement is unresponsive, the combat feels really strange, it does have somewhat of a combo system but that doesnt really matter anyway since the enemies have invincibility frames when you hit them x number of times and you dont, apart from that the combat is extremely easy and the stealth kills even more so, I think I'd regard it more like a puzzle platformer than an action game given how little variety there is in the combat.

The platforming CAN be good, but is not good all the time, especially in areas where you have to move the camera around or push your joystick / direction keys to a specific position and the character decides it wants to move sideways anyway because yes. The ambience in the game is decent and the variety is not much but the few levels where you get to go around more open areas are good.

My favourite was the music. Stuart Chatwood really outdid himself with this score. It was so climatic, it will stay in my heart forever.

Scenery was cool in T2T. Not so dark and grim like in WW and had some colorful spots like the Gardens and the Upper City. The Tower of Babylon that was always present on the horizon gave a great sense of scale of the city (even though it was barely a 2D sprite).

All in all, it was a good game when I first played it and I attribute that to the "first experience" effect and I'm glad I got to play the game before I got so critical of everything that comes my way, a time when everything was the best simply because it worked.

If there's one thing I've learned from all of this is that nostalgia should stay where it came from, buried deep inside out hearts as a beautiful memory of something good. And that in gaming no matter how good you remember a game to be, it is not worth it to really find out if it was as good as you remember, better let it stay as a memory, as a distant song of better times playing in repeat inside your head.

Now I’m all depressed but don’t go by my poor experience, there’s still some good gaming to be had here, but temper your expectations and remember unlike I did that this is a product of its time and now almost 20 years old.

Played this back in the day on the PSP and I even speedrunned this multiple times, this will be forever one of my favourite games that I have ever played. Totally recommended!

Love the game!

games well perfect

THIS is what PoP should be. Not the new stupid 2D stuff. The PoP trilogy (warrior within, the sands of time, two thrones) will always be the best PoP to ever be created, and they're runing the franchise with the new PoP games.

Ubisoft should learn from Sony and the team that created God of War.

The game itself is absolutely wonderful! I never get bored of it honestly. Quite glitchy, they haven't fixed the glitches and they probably won't, but I love this game.

Good stuff:
- platforming is good and fun
- time rewind mechanic is really nice. You can actually use it all the time if you want - there's always a vase or two that's guaranteed to drop a charge for a dagger if you're low on the stuff.
- story is not the greatest, but its not too bad or dragged out. Also fully self-sufficient, no need to know anything really. It was my first PoP game way back in 2007 and it was as interesting to me then as it is now.
- alternative form is really nice to spice up combat and force you into quick thinking when you need to go through platforming parts. Although breakables always drop sand when you're dark prince, so its not TOO hard.
- stealth is cool as a thinking challenge, but gets a bit dull due to same animations over and over again.
- Cinematics are good for their time.

Bad stuff:
- combat is really boring after few first encounters. Stealth is really helping here by allowing to skip it when you're in a "light" prince mode. Also you one-shot everything after getting sword of light.
- couldn't get it to work with any of modern controllers, even through steam input. Keyboard and mouse plays well tho, so not a big deal.

Kaileena being the victim sucks a bit but everything else is perfect,they kept the combat system of warrior within and added new fun mechanics and puzzles. aged like fine wine

The platforming is enjoyable, the story is ok, the combat is not as good as WW and the fact that there is no gore/dismemberment like in WW is a step back IMO. I very much enjoyed the dialogue between the prince and his alter ego.

popuwa 3 smiechuwa

Nostalgia hits diffrent

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It this is broken. When trying to go down the chains the player will get stuck in the down animation and not move. I had to brute force it by constantly going up and down. There is a point in the game where you need to perform a double chain wall swing, and a double panel jump. This part is broken and can not get past because the player doesn't animate the wall grab animation to perform the second jump. When down loading this game and trying to play it for the first time the game kept crashing.

Play it on 59 fps.

Um dos melhores jogos que já joguei e, sem dúvida, o melhor da trilogia. Suas mecânicas foram inovadoras para a época e influenciaram muitos games que vieram depois.
A história é muito boa, a jogabilidade é fluida, os puzzles são inteligentes e as batalhas são muito boas, não é simplesmente 'aperta qualquer botão e pronto' kkkk. Totalmente equilibrado em termos de dificuldade, é uma experiência memorável.