Vivid Knight
Worth it · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 5.1h
- Value
- $2.94/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
"Vivid Knight" is a "party-building roguelike" game in which you collect friends who have been turned into jewels and fight by combining their abilities! Explore the ever-changing dungeon and harness the gems you have gathered to challenge the labyrinth!
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
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was September 2024. 29 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 23 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 76 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Cat God Ranch ($5.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Iris and the Giant ($3.59, scores 64).
This site sampled 466 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2021 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 136 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
97% start to 3% 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
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 13:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I have no idea what I am doing with symbols and synergies almost all of the time, but alot of the characters but as long as you follow the logic of "The cuter the character, the stronger they are" you'll be fine. This is a game that basically requires you to dungeon dive multiple times in order to progress unlocking new characters via a gatcha mechanic, whose currency you earn by playing the game. Not the F2P gatcha...
I tend to drop auto-battlers pretty quickly, but Vivid Knight managed to hold my interest. It isn't fully automatic and instead features a turn based system which makes it easier to see how your setup is doing while your protagonist provides tactical support. It also has some unusual team building mechanics that help set it apart from other titles and it is this aspect that I found to be the most fun. As with most...
Don't let my play time fool you, I have many MANY more hours in the Switch version. Great art style, smooth and appealing visuals, smooth gameplay, and deep mechanics that get introduced slowly as you unlock all the items/characters the game has to offer. Ignore the people saying it's same-y and only worth getting team bonuses - you need to think about your teams and characters' each individual skills (and upgrading...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Vivid Knight scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1569090/vivid-knightReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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