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Knights Within
Knights Within is a hack&slash horde shooter with roguelite elements. Design custom loadouts, navigate procedurally generated levels and utilize random power-ups. Either solo or with friends, can you survive endless waves of enemies to ensure humanity's survival?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-15.
“Support the dev so the game can grow, this has a lot of potential. Really fun”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“great game, glad the dev is sticking with it.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“This game lands for me. A true *horde* shooter AND hack and slash in an environment that not many games fill, which is third person. Everything feels fluid, fresh and responsive. For one guy, it's very very impressive. Not made it very far yet, but even on the third difficulty,…”
— a player, Steam review · 64 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2025-09 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Gadgets 3.0 - Patch Notes (388)
It’s clear that gadgets is one system I’m still not happy with and trying to improve. This update aims to improve these things: While cool in theory, I really didn’t like how unlocking blueprints, and
Patch Notes (387)
Fixes Fixed one instance of clients in multiplayer causing a hang during boss arena loading (Trying to) fix one instance of not being able to join a friend’s lobby
Patch Notes (386)
Updates While an objective is active, other objectives’ 3D markers only show within TacInfo Menu visual updates Landscape texture improvements Increased Archers, Gunners and Sorcerer’s accuracy reduct
Boss Maps & Optional Objectives - Patch Notes (385)
This was another large code update that sets things up for the future. Multiple things I’m excited about in this update Originally, I thought it would be really cool to integrate all the bosses into t
Patch Notes (384)
Updates The Hud tips system has been re-enabled Tips aren’t shown until the training checklist has been completed The tips covered by the training checklist system have been removed Tips don’t pause t
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Action Roguelike · Hack and Slash · Third-Person Shooter · Replay Value · Difficult · Rogue-lite · PvE · Shooter · Zombies · Third Person · Post-apocalyptic (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Camera Comfort · Color Alternatives · Custom Volume Controls |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 38 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows Processor: TBD. Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 950 / RX 560 (still testing for lower) DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 7 GB available space Additional Notes: Steam Deck can play a mix of Low and Medium settings @ 40 fps