Spiral Knights
Fair · RPG · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 48.5h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 64% over the last 30 days against 84% all-time.
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.
Join the ranks of the Spiral Knights. Stranded on an alien world, you must explore the ever-changing Clockworks beneath its surface.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Realm of the Mad God Exalt (free, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons & Dragons Online® (free, scores 28).
The press gave it 64; the people who bought it give it 84 percent. A 20-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Players rate it 84 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 64 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 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.
It is still busy. 132 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. Steam lists the aggressive monetization types on it: boost and cosmetic.
The drop-off
78% start to <1% 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
132 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Fun gameplay, rewarding progression, excellent fashion customization, unmatched visual and audio design.
It's comin' BACK. Whether you've played it before or are new, highly recommend giving it a shot! The gameplay loop is fun and only getting better, it's streamlined a lot more, and the art style is unique.
This game is a grindfest that just wants your money. They should just shut it down already. It was scam when it started and its still a scam today. Good Riddens!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Spiral Knights scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/99900/spiral-knightsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11.
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