Knights Within similar games & best alternatives

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Knights Within

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

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?

What works

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

Things to keep in mind

  • 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

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Nioh 3

  • Dungeons of Sundaria

  • Shadow Warrior 2

  • Abyssus

  • Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

  • Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)

More story-driven

Games that feels like Knights Within but with deeper narrative immersion

  • HELLDIVERS™ 2

  • Voidtrain

  • Warhammer: Vermintide 2

  • Mycopunk

  • Borderlands 2

  • Enshrouded

Less social

Games that feels like Knights Within but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • VOIN

  • Witchfire

  • Bleak Faith: Forsaken

  • Kristala

  • Ziggurat 2

  • Morbid Metal

Less intimate

Games that feels like Knights Within but with less focus on close relationships

  • Aliens vs. Ghosts

  • Evil West

  • Serious Sam 4

  • RuneScape: Dragonwilds

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Knights Within. These titles are not in What to play next.

Knights Within: 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.

Last update: 21/08/2026