Knytt Underground

Knytt Underground

Fair · Narrative · 2013

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $2.09. Buy it if you want it.

Length
10h 25.8h to 100%
Value
$0.21/hr
Reviews
85% of 492 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

It is 70% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.21/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $0.70/hr
Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 111 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

The legendary Knytt series continues with Nifflas’ latest creation; Knytt Underground. In this Knytteration; humans have long since abandoned the planet after practically destroying it in a war, five hundred years ago.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

73 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today's $2.09 at 70 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Unbound: Worlds Apart ($19.99, scores 48).

More about Knytt Underground

The main story runs 10 hours. Doing everything runs 26, 2.6 times as long.

The drop-off

5% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

A wonderful exploration platformer with a huge area to discover! The scenery and music make it a joy to just explore and wander around at first and the jumping and timing puzzles often seem impossible at first but (at least for me) they are tremendously satisfying to solve and when you pull them off, you really feel accomplishment. The fixed save points and the long ways in between items and quests are on the border...
0xnRecommendedafter 13hFeb 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
Extremely relaxing, almost zen-like game, with a huge nonlinear open world (starting in chapter 3, which is really the entire game; the first two chapters are more like tutorials). Great music and atmospheric sound design that's very reminiscent of ASMR, and some beautiful backgrounds. Very cool. Has some tricky precision platformer elements as well, especially for the optional challenges and achievements. Turning...
stunlordRecommendedafter 5.0hOct 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Knytt Underground scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/248190/knytt-underground
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Reviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNifflas' Games
PublisherRipstone
GenreNarrative
Released2013
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20