Spiral Knights

Spiral Knights

Grey Havens · 2011 · Free to Play, Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Adventure, Action

PC
Very Positive82% · 18164Metacritic314playing now
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About Spiral Knights

✦ AI summary

Dive into a constantly shifting underground dungeon with friends, battling monsters and solving puzzles as stranded knights racing toward a mysterious Core. Build your arsenal from hundreds of unique weapons and gear while progressing through an ever-changing world that evolves in real time.

Band together and fight to the Core!
Spiral Knights is a cooperative adventure in a persistent world with a focus on instant, fast-paced action. Arm yourself and join the ranks of the Spiral Knights; stranded on an alien world, they must explore the ever-changing Clockworks beneath its surface in hopes of reaching its mysterious Core.

Key Features


Co-operative Exploration
  • The Clockworks offer challenges that are best tackled with friends.
  • Fight monsters, solve puzzles and discover treasures together!
Instant Action
  • Go from login to a multiplayer adventure in less than a minute.
Ever-changing World
  • The Clockworks cycle levels to explore in real time. Every moment of every day changes the world.
Create an Arsenal
  • There are hundreds of unique weapons and gear to discover and alchemize.
Form Powerful Guilds
  • Guild alliances allow greater influence over the world. Amass powerful minerals to transform the Clockworks!
Free to Play!
  • Spiral Knights is free to play, no subscription is required to enjoy everything the game has to offer.

Special Offer:

  • Team Fortress 2 "The Spiral Sallet" Hat
    Receive a free Spiral Knights-themed Team Fortress 2 hat by unlocking an achievement in Spiral Knights!
    To receive the free TF2 hat, players must reach the first Clockwork Terminal from any gate in the Haven Arcade and unlock the 'Mission Accomplished' achievement. (Players who've already unlocked it will also receive the hat.)

DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

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

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Players praise the game's charming visual style, fun cooperative gameplay, and engaging harder content that rewards skill, often comparing it favorably to classic Zelda games. However, common complaints center on clunky and unresponsive controls, an unintuitive crafting system, excessive grinding, repetitive level design, and some pay-to-win mechanics that undermine the experience.

Not recommended Jul 14, 2026
Clunkiest, slowest and least responsive controls in any mmo ive played, bizzare and unintuitive crafting/upgrades system, extremely repetitive maps and levels A very visually charming and appealing game ruined by bad execution on the majority of other fronts
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Recommended Jul 15, 2026
solid older title that still holds up well enough despite its age. if you enjoy basic dungeon crawlers and grinding for loot it's a solid game.
Recommended Jul 14, 2026
Maybe we meet at a bar and drive a funky ehh.
Recommended Jul 13, 2026
amazing game SOOO fun but sometimes its a little p2w, Reminds me of old Zelda games
Recommended Jul 13, 2026
Just an incredibly fun good time, nothing like blasting or hacking your way through enemies with friends. I have high hopes now that the game is under new ownership that they will restore it to greatness!
Recommended Jul 12, 2026
1111 Hours in the game o7. Grindy is quite literally the main issue of the game. Otherwise, the art style, the community and gameplay (especially harder levels) are great

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