Gnomes and Knights

Gnomes and Knights

Skip · Roguelike · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 47, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
1.1h 4.9h to 100%
Value
$4.54/hr
Reviews
80% of 426 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

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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

Holding it back
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 79% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Refunds8 of 367 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
Value$4.54/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
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

Gnome hunting reaches a new level! Become a mighty knight and plunge into the world of dark fantasy without leaving your home.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated graphics, 901 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 19 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 53 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

It is cheaper than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dungeons of Blood and Dream ($18.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats GRAVEN ($24.99, scores 0).

More about Gnomes and Knights

Of the 367 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 43 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 257 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 70 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 1.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 5, 4.5 times as much.

The drop-off

95% 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

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Will GrahamRecommendedafter 11hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
better than any AAA game ive ever played. you can fart, piss and break stuff to some killer tunes. there is literally nothing else to ask for.
OmeprazolyckaRecommendedafter 2.0hJun 2026Read on Steam
Its internet "humor" slop that probably should have stayed as a drunken rant in the DMs of the developers instead of being made into a game. Despite it not being long it really doesn't respect your time and the gnome finding is really more just kind of tedious -- thats the point --- ha. Lol even. The art is kind of interesting I guess but at the same time it isn't really fueled by a genuine passion for medieval or...
BanebladeCrewmanNot recommendedafter 1.6hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

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Gnomes and Knights scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3107880/gnomes-and-knights
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperTerletski Games
PublisherTerletski Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2024
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements19