Knightmare Tower
BANGER · Action · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.99.
- Length
- 2.5h 4.3h to 100%
- Value
- $1.60/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 748 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 601 days ago.
- 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
About the game
Break through ceilings, rescue princesses and escape boiling lava as you slash your way to the top of the Knightmare Tower!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
21 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 22 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 86 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot ($4.99, scores 49) and Big Helmet Heroes ($8.74, scores 39), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $5.42.
More about Knightmare Tower
Of the 313 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 103 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
At 2.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
60% start to 15% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 13:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Greatest flash game roguelite of all time. Now on Steam. This is technically the 666th review of this game.
2 more reviews
Very fun game. I feel like it has a lot of potential for a sequel. They gotta make this into a roguelike with upgrades and more bosses.
Developed and published by Juicy Beast, Knightmare Tower is an energetic arcade action game that proves an uncomplicated concept can become remarkably engaging when supported by polished mechanics and rewarding progression. Built around the idea of launching a fearless knight upward through a monster-filled tower, the game delivers an experience that blends fast reflexes, hack-and-slash combat, and persistent...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Knightmare Tower scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/298400/knightmare-towerReviews 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.