Kill Knight

Kill Knight is one for the purists. A distilled isometric, arcade, shooter boasting thrilling, smooth gameplay that will keep you coming back for just one more run. What might quietly be one of the best this year, is loudly apparent once you start playing.

For those of us that love engaging with punishing mechanics and feeling a tangible sense of improvement with each failure, Kill Knight is simply excellent. It offers a constant barrage of split-second decisions for the player to make, greatly rewards both heat-of-the-moment reaction time and preparedness in remembering which enemies are coming up next, and wraps it all up in an atmospheric pixelated hellscape. The result is an addictive twin-stick shooter playing out at a breakneck pace, and ...

An outrageously bombastic slaughter-fest with a uniquely demonic presentation—KILL KNIGHT is the latest from Melbourne’s own PlaySide Studios, known for titles like Age of Darkness: Final Stand and Dumb Ways to Die 3. The game is a fast-paced isometric shooter where an onslaught of enemies will take over an evolving arena and it’s your job to fill them with enough bullets and puncture wounds to bring them down before they bring you down. With its grim-yet-appealing visual style and chal...

Kill Knight is easy to pick up and hard to master, but it's rewarding to do so thanks to the wealth of unlockable weapons and more that are on offer. Most importantly, it's devilishly fun to play, being fast-paced, responsive and full of variety.

KILL KNIGHT is a great top-down arena survival game, and it plays beautifully on Steam Deck.

An excellent twin-stick shooter that borrows liberally from the likes of Doom and Devil May Cry, to create a punishingly difficult but extremely rewarding arcade game.