The Knight Witch

The Knight Witch is a fast-paced and extremely fun Metroidvania/shoot ’em up. You play the role of knight-witch-in-training, Rayne. The action takes place in

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The Knight Witch is a wonderful metroidvania shoot 'em up game that runs beautifully on the Steam Deck!

The Knight Witch is an beautifully chaotic metroidvania shoot ‘em up. Sounds incredible, right? But is The Knight Witch any good? We asked ourselves the same question. Keep reading The Knight Witch review to learn everything you need to know about Team 17’s latest release.

The Knight Witch makes a strong case for itself with its simplistic gameplay and charming writing. The overall balance between development and gameplay feels a bit too weird to ignore. Still, this twin-stick shooter-meets-Metroidvania has a quirky intrigue about it that makes it a worthy purchase for any fan of the genre.

The Knight Witch is a game that has a lot to offer both fans of twin-stick shooters and Metroidvanias. Its moment-to-moment action is enjoyable and exciting as you avoid enemy bullets and try to counter them with your own attacks, and there’s a great sense of exploration. It’s a shame that some systems perhaps don’t quite hit the mark as they should, but anyone who can appreciate a game that takes some risks will very much enjoy this quirky adventure.

The Knight Witch is excellent in a lot of ways despite its forbidding difficulty, the kind of game you'll be glad to have beaten even if the journey to completion is sometimes a bit much. Rayne's journey from coulda-been to savior goes through a number of twists and turns, the metroidvania levels are filled with a great amount of variety, and other than the occasional trap room that locks you in, the choice to shoot everything or zip on past is rarely taken away. The sky is broken and the underground is getting more dangerous than the anyone is comfortable with, but the survivors have a new kn...

If the idea of a twin-stick shooter Metroidvania sounds good to you then here's The Knight Witch; let's see if it blends the genres well.

A decent release, just before 2022 vanishes.

The Knight Witch could have been fantastic. It was so dang close to being something very special thanks to its fantastic visuals, great gameplay and compelling story, but it's instead plagued by frame rate issues and awful difficulty spikes rearing their slappable faces to ruined the fun. Fingers crossed Super Mega Team takes the time to thoroughly patch The Knight Witch and make it the game that it deserves to be.

A game seemingly fighting its own presentation and message, The Knight Witch instead alienates the player with smug self-awareness, milquetoast cynicism, and some truly awful genre meshing.

After completing The Knight Witch, I felt like I had scratched a great big, satisfying itch thanks to the amazingly unique concept of a deck-building bullet hell game where you could fly anywhere. The completionist in me felt satisfied with getting all the achievements in the game and didn’t feel like I was ever wasting any time I spent pursuing them. Though be warned, one of the best choices I made while playing was choosing to use a controller and not a keyboard and mouse. The precise analogue movement afford by two sticks proved to be one of the most vital parts of making the game feel as g...