Battle Knights

Battle Knights is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one is particularly badly made but does feature multiplayer, but badly implemented. There's a slew of technical defects in this, it looks a lot like it was made just following a tutorial/template for making Unity platformers. Unsurprisingly this has no value as a serious game for gamers due to the abysmally poor quality and lack of polish. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The controls and game handling are notably very floaty a…

Battle Knights is a half-decent retro side-scrolling platformer, the length of which is entirely dependent on your skill at such games. I think I'm pretty alright at platformers but it's not really my forte, so this game is probably average to slightly difficult. The optional stuff though is another story entirely, playing with a friend we tried them and I could tell I would NOT be able to do them; He, being better than me did beat 'em with some trial and error. Speaking of, the co-op I feel adds little, it is nice to have a buddy help with some parts full of enemies. But ultimately, because the screen follows Player 1 and Parsec or Steam remote play can only do so much for input lag, it's not ideal for Player 2. Pretty decent get at the asking price, if its your bag of chips, it gets a solid recommend.

Battle Knights is a compact 2D action platformer that embraces the straightforward design principles of classic console games. Developed and published by Mire Studios, it places players in control of Wonder, a blue knight tasked with traveling across colorful realms and bringing them together. Instead of relying on complicated character progression, large inventories, or sprawling environments, the game concentrates on movement, timing, combat, blocking, and surviving increasingly demanding situations. Its intentionally simple foundation makes it easy to understand, while the challenge provides the incentive to improve. The core controls revolve around a small selection of actions, including jumping, attacking, and blocking. This makes Battle Knights approachable within minutes, but understanding the controls is considerably easier than mastering them. Enemies and environmental obstacles gradually demand better timing and more disciplined movement, encouraging players to learn from unsuccessful attempts. There is an unmistakable old-school mentality behind the difficulty, with success depending primarily on execution rather than upgrades that allow players to overpower troublesome…

I really don't care how hard or fun the game itself is, the story was cool and the game somehow turned my flat screen LED monitor into a curved CRT from 20 years ago. Even if that image effect makes me feel a little sick, the game feels like it has tons of potential and I'm sure I'll return to it later.

Battle Knights is a pretty fun game. Simple controls, fairly short, and goes from hard to EXTREMELY HARD in like two seconds. So, if you are looking for a fun platformer that is cheap, 10/10 would recommend. Has some multiplayer integration but, it is only local so, you will have to use the remote play function on steam and that requires pretty good internet to play *without* input delay. But, aside from that, it is a really fun game. Like I said, the controls are very simple, left to right and a jump as well as a weapon swipe and shield. And they are very polished as well, nothing feels super clunky other then the fact that it feels like you fall a little quicker then what is comfortable but, only a little. When I say fairly short I mean like, maybe 5 hours worth of gameplay. And most of it you will spend retrying levels over and over again. I spent probably half an hour on a challenge stage that was super short but, incredibly difficult. But, 5 hours out of a 3$ game? That's pretty good. I sometimes only get 10 hours out of 60$ game so, getting so much content out of something that feels priced for a mobile game store is pretty impressive. This game is HARD. Especially if you…

Game wont start,goes to main menu and thats it.I have to crash it to make it stop.