Shady Knight
BANGER · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $11.99, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 30%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 40% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($13.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($11.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 660, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Shady Knight is a first-person skill-driven melee action game centered around swift swordplay, acrobatic archery, and fluid platforming that seamlessly blends combat and parkour skills into a stylish dance of death full of creative chaos.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in August 2026. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 19 in the 2 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $11.99 at 40 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell ($14.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats DeadCore ($9.99, scores 58).
The math says it holds its tier up to $20.68, and you are being asked for $11.99.
5 of the 358 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.2 hours; clearing it takes 45, which is 11 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
37% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 08:54 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is some of the most fun combat i've ever seen in a good while. The devs are definitely fans of Dark Messiah and it shows. Price is a bit steep though, not worth it. Wait for a sale. Update: might be a skill issue on my part, but trying to get around in the later levels is downright infuriating. Still recommend it tho, as the workshop has some fun player made levels and a level editor that it's pretty easy to...
Insanely Goated game. I'll never get tired of well timed pogo's and powerful ground smashes.
The movement tech in this game is insane, it is so much fun. The combat is also very satisfying and feels great. My only gripe is that the game seems small for the gameplay it offers, it has the potential to be a full story driven campaign. At first I thought the levels were training leading up to something but realized the levels were the game. Still very fun regardless.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shady Knight scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1155650/shady-knightReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.
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