Spiral Knights
Fair · RPG · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 24,268
- Critics
- 64 players 20 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% RPG
Holding it back: Monetization, Reviews
Time and effort
- Main story
- 48.5h
- To 100%
- 453.3h 9.3x the story
- Achievements
- 54
Players and genre
- Online
- 139 now
- Better reviewed
- 85% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
78% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Realm of the Mad God Exalt (free, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons & Dragons Online® (free, scores 28).
It is still busy. 139 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 4, 16:46 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks. Free to start. PCGamingWiki lists loot boxes in it, the aggressive kind of in-app purchase.
More about Spiral Knights
The press gave it 64; the people who bought it give it 84 percent. A 20-point gap in the buyer's favour.
It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.
Finishing takes 48.5 hours; clearing it takes 453, which is 9.3 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Spiral Knights might look like an old-school online RPG at first glance, but it's surprisingly enjoyable even today. A 70-year-old friend introduced me to it and I'll admit I initially assumed it was some ancient relic with slow and outdated gameplay-something that would've appealed more to my grandparents than to modern players. The reality turned out to be very different. The game systems are straightforward and...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Aside the free TF2 HAT This game is quite fun and relaxing, with interesting artstyle that will def tick something knights? this cyber stuff? clockwork? animals? MMO? all here for 0.00€
Every time I go back to playing Spiral Knights, I end up doing Kataclysm, and I always wind up quitting the game for three years or more.... Everyone I know ends up exhausted during the event, and right afterwards, we stop playing for quite a long time.... As if just running Vanaduke wasn't already boring enough, now you have to play for even more hours a day to do that lousy pachinko game for a much smaller...
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About the game
Join the ranks of the Spiral Knights. Stranded on an alien world, you must explore the ever-changing Clockworks beneath its surface.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 64MB Video Memory. GeForce 5 series, ATI Radeon 8500. Latest video driver., 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Spiral Knights scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/99900/spiral-knightsReviews 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 Nov 4. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.