Knight Crawler

Knight Crawler

Taylor Conolley · July 16, 2025 · Dungeon Crawler, Action Roguelike, Hack and Slash, Perma Death, Top-Down

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About Knight Crawler

✦ AI summary

Knight Crawler is a top-down action roguelike where you guide the knight Cyrus through an ever-changing dungeon, facing increasingly brutal enemies and adapting your strategy with each procedurally generated room. Collect coins and loot to forge powerful weapons with up to six game-changing modifiers, turning each run into a unique fight for survival against everything from rats to spell-slinging wizards.

Step into the boots of Cyrus, a medieval knight trapped in an endless dungeon. Knight Crawler is a top-down action roguelike where each run is unpredictable, unforgiving, and ruthless. Explore procedurally generated rooms (or depth) that change with every playthrough

Challenges

Each room entered poses a new challenge, whether that be a new enemy, an enhanced previous enemy, or an increased number of enemies. As you dive deeper, you face foes ranging from a little rat to an uncontrollable wizard shooting flurries of fireballs. The challenge isn't just to survive, but to adapt.

Key Features

On your journey, you will encounter health potions, weapons, shops, and blacksmiths. Collect coins to purchase and upgrade your weapons. Weapons can have up to 6 modifiers, ranging from simple damage boosts to lightning, lifesteal, and legendaries.

Credits

Music and Sound: Lev Strider

Enemy Artwork: Olivia Sofranko (IG: @oliviasofr)
Main Character Design: Cooper Green

All other aspects (programming, environment, design, etc.): Taylor Conolley

Knight Crawler — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Aug 26, 2025
feels as nice as banging your head against a brick wall
4 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 24, 2025
Review: Fun, challenging, and made with care and passion. It blows my mind that this was a first-time solo-dev by a young developer. Full disclosure: The developer is my son. But bias aside, this game is the real deal. Knight Crawler is a great find for anyone who wants a genuinely challenging dungeon crawler with great enemy variety and solid progression. The game progression is smooth, the variety in enemies and weapons keeps you thinking, and the difficulty ramps up perfectly. It shows a maturity in game design that you don't often see in debut titles. I’m encouraging everyone to post their highest dungeon level; it’s tough, but very fun to play. If you want to support a young, up-and-coming developer, give this a shot.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 28, 2026
Best game ever
1 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 23, 2026
i actually am kinda enjoying it
1 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 19, 2026
A fun and simple action game.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 16, 2025
This is more like class project for game development class than a true game. There is no progression, there is no fun, levels past one are repeat of the same. Plus: sword looks like a pool noodle (why does sword wiggle). pros: works playable Cons: there is no progression its one level repeating

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