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Knights Within

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

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Quick resume

Knights Within is a hack&slash horde shooter with roguelite elements. Design custom loadouts, navigate procedurally generated levels and utilize random power-ups. Either solo or with friends, can you survive endless waves of enemies to ensure humanity's survival?

Global score

96/100

Genres

Action, Indie, Early Access, Shooter, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

buy on steam r/KnightsWithin

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  • Blazing Beaks

  • Atomic Picnic

  • LORT

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  • Windblown

  • 20XX
Outsiders

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Atomic Picnic

  • Utopia Must Fall

  • DeathWatchers
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Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

  • Escapism

    Epistory - Typing Chronicles
  • Cooperation

    Bloons TD 6
  • Competition

    How to Survive

Pros

  • Fluid and satisfying combat
  • Deep customization and progression
  • Active and responsive solo developer
  • Fun solo and co-op multiplayer
  • Frequent updates and community engagement

Cons

  • Limited content and biomes in early access
  • Some ui and control roughness
  • Small player base impacting matchmaking
  • Repetitive objectives and environments
  • Minor bugs and polish needed

Analysis

A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Leadership.

How to use the graph
Similar games map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: the game you are viewing on this page.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
  • Hover a dot for a quick preview; click to compare it in the panel on the right.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

Motivations

  • Autonomy
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Competence
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Competition

    Game with the same Competition vibe

    -3

    "Focus is mainly on solo or cooperative play with friends rather than competitive ranked modes or leaderboards."

    Capsule for How to Survive How to Survive

    "Focus is primarily on solo or cooperative play with friends; no mention of ranked modes or leaderboards, emphasizing personal and group progress over competition."

  • Continuation
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Cooperation

    Game with the same Cooperation vibe

    3

    "Supports co-op multiplayer with up to 4 players, encouraging teamwork though solo play is also popular."

    Capsule for Bloons TD 6 Bloons TD 6

    "Supports co-op multiplayer with up to 4 players; many reviews highlight fun playing with friends and community engagement."

  • Creativity
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Domination

    Game with the same Domination vibe

    -4

    "Interactions emphasize cooperative play and shared challenges rather than exerting control or superiority over others."

    Capsule for Contra: Operation Galuga Contra: Operation Galuga

    "Interactions emphasize cooperative play and shared challenges rather than exerting control or superiority over others."

  • Escapism

    Game with the same Escapism vibe

    4

    "Many players describe the game as relaxing, immersive, and a way to escape real-life stress through its story and atmosphere."

    Capsule for Epistory - Typing Chronicles Epistory - Typing Chronicles

    "Players describe the game as a fun distraction and stress relief, with immersive combat and atmosphere providing escape from real life."

  • Expectation
    -4

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  • Experimenting
    4

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  • Exploration
    2

    No nearest game available

  • Expression
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Fantasy
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Fellowship
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Growth
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Health
    -4

    No nearest game available

  • Idle
    -3

    No nearest game available

  • Intimacy
    1

    No nearest game available

  • Leadership
    -2

    No nearest game available

  • Progression
    5

    No nearest game available

  • Relaxation
    2

    No nearest game available

  • Sensation
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Status
    -3

    No nearest game available

  • Story
    -2

    No nearest game available

  • Strategy
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Thrill
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Value
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Violence
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Survival
    3

    No nearest game available

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Last update: 23/05/2026