Kill Knight

Kill Knight is an arcade game developed by PlaySide and released in 2024. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 47 achievements to unlock.

Kill Knight holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

The minimum specification calls for Intel i5 2.3 Ghz, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 970. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Kill Knight launched on 2 October 2024, within three weeks of Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Metaphor: ReFantazio and Neva. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Neva.

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