Reviews

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  Fbarok

  Feb 5, 2022

  This review is specially made for those who like to get all the achievements and have this game in their backlog (minor spoilers ahead). [b]Description:[/b] KNIGHTS is a puzzle game that uses chess mechanics and where you move several knights across the board from one point to another until all pieces are in the right place. [b]Achievements:[/b] [b]How many:[/b] 20 Achievements, most are obtained by finishing the game. [b]How much time:[/b] Around 10 hours. [b]Game difficulty:[/b] Normal, it will require some effort and persistence until you find the solution. There are guides for the campaign levels. [b]Achievements’ Difficulty:[/b] Easy. You only need to finish the game and play some additional daily levels. [b]Overall opinion:[/b] I recommend this game if you’re into puzzle games. The game concept is simple but the levels are challenging and require some effort and strategic thinking. [b]Join and follow my group Ribbon Hunters for more suggestions and reviews of easy indie games to get all the achievements:[/b] https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42556190-Ribbon-Hunters/
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  ✪Hmm_m

  Jul 19, 2022

  A great puzzle game for such a cheap price, not too hard but still required me to spend some times figuring out ways to solve it.
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  👾 🅼 🅰❎👾

  Dec 17, 2022

  This game learns how to use knights in chess. It also grasp strategic thinking by making player predict what move to do next. Game is applied in a slick form so it's easy to enjoy. Quite relaxing and make use of those grey cells.

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  carbonfibah

  May 31, 2016

  This is a cool puzzle game. Even if you don't play chess this game is really enjoyable. If anything I've increased my ability to spot different chess moves as I progess through the game.
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  plugz

  Jul 1, 2016

  This is the type of casual puzzle games I love. If you liked Lyne, you're going to enjoy this. Visually pleasing, the difficulty seems to be well balanced and it's cheap, so what are you waiting for ? Just get it.
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  mendel

  Jul 1, 2016

  First impression: quiet puzzle game After 20 of almost 100 levels, this game feels a lot like [i]LYNE[/i]: not only is the design similar, it is a good game to break out when you have a little time. Like LYNE, it also features new bonus levels daily. The levels work a little like a labyrinth: you won't need a moment of inspiration, but it is very easy to work yourself into a dead end if you're not careful. A mobile release is planned, but so far, this game is Steam only. Recommended. [i]This game runs well on my old Windows XP machine.[/i]
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  madth3

  Jul 9, 2016

  Simple concept: Several chess knights on a board with a few available cells and some blocked cells. Now, you have to put some of them in certain positions. A nice set of incresingly bigger levels, and 75 extra daily levels. I enjoyed the game but the daily levels feel a bit grindy than hard so I won't be playing more of them. Still, very worthwhile for the price.
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  max

  Jul 12, 2016

  [h1] One word for each aspect of this game. [/h1] Story - N/A. Gameplay - Excellent. Graphics - Minimal. Sound - Splendid. Music - Elegant. Overall - Delightful.
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  WarOfHelium

  Jul 21, 2016

  pro + Simple but pleasing design + Puzzles start very easy but ramp up in difficulty + Felt really rewarding to get that last piece in place + Lots of puzzles in the campaign + Endless puzzles in the form of daily sets + Price ++ trading cards to sell + Has a colorblind option neg - Only one track, but easy to mute and put on your own music - Daily puzzles are not ordered in difficulty Conclussion A clever way of using the knights from chess. Especially puzzles with only one empty rhombus felt really rewarding Very cheap and fun To the developer: If its not out jet, I think a port to mobile devices would be a good idea
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  Mu$tAnG

  Oct 12, 2016

  KNIGHTS is a game that has you move the knight chess piece to its colored square. You really don't need any chess know-how to play, just know that the knight moves in an "L" shape form. It's a nice game to relax with and the music certainly helps. I recommend this game for people who want a game to relax with.
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  sim[CLaSH]

  Oct 13, 2016

  Fun little game, exactly what I was looking for. Simplistic mechanics, quick and easy to pick up and play (at least on the early levels) haven't really played much, but what I did play I thoroughly enjoyed and at 39p I can't fault it for that. I recommend it even at 79p Not having much time these days for big epic blockbuster games, having something that loads in seconds, can solve a few levels and then exit out to come back a short while later is just what the doctor ordered. Highly recommended for people that, like me, don't have much time these days.
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  Sirpi

  Nov 2, 2016

  I bought this game some days ago when it was on sale and within 5 days I played through all the levels and earned all the achievements. This already means that the game is interesting, but to tell the truth I really enjoyed every minutes of it. The clear and simple visual style (which reminds me about Lyne) and chillout background music got me from the first minute. The learning curve is optimal, and for some hard levels I had to draw the graph of the board with the connections to be able to solve it. Don't miss it if you like these type of games.
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  Okita

  Dec 11, 2016

  To solve the puzzle, move blue knights and red knights to tiles with respective color, blue knights to blue tile and red knight to red tile. Later on, there will be yellow knight and unusable tile to make the game more difficult. There are 5 level packs : [list] [*] Pawn : Board size 3x3 with total 9 levels [*] Rook : Board size 3x4 with total 12 levels [*] Bishop : Board size 4x4 with total 16 levels [*] Queen : Board size 4x5 with total 20 levels [*] King : Board size 5x5 with total 25 levels [/list] Total : 82 levels And also there are 3 daily level packs with 25 levels for each pack. I like the puzzle concept, simple but fun. The user interface is simple and neat. The achievements are easy, no time based achievement and such. The descriptions are also easy to understand. If you like chess and puzzle games, for $1 this game is really worth it. And you can wait for sale to get it even cheaper. I got it with 50% discount.
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  monkeymadness

  Jan 1, 2017

  I like the game, but I think overall most people will not like the game. If you don't have a love of puzzles and/or chess and even if you do, you still might not like the game. Reasoning, the game starts out pretty simple and most of the puzzles are easy. The player can plot out there moves and solve the puzzle. Later on the game becomes complicated enough that it is impossible to do this and you can find yourself randomly moving pieces until you find the correct solution. Or as it came down for me, I would work on getting one knight into his proper spot and then moving on to the next knight. Doing so makes the game lose some of the puzzle discovery lose its edge (feels more like chance). The game is kind of extremely short as far as the regular puzzles go. There are daily levels once you reach a certain point which is nice, but all in all I'm going to give this the thumbs down. Hopefully this review helps in understanding what the game is like and you can decide if you like the game or not.
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  Gingergal

  Jan 19, 2017

  For 51 cents (on sale) you get an everlasting puzzle game. Usually with cheap puzzle games they are short and once you finish them there is no replayablity factor. Here, with the addition of daily puzzles - 3 new sets of 25 boards/levels every day, it's unending and you certainly get your money's worth out of it. In main game, there are 5 sets of puzzles, each set of varying amount - 82 boards in total. The first 3 sets are very easy. If you don't random click your way through the easy beginning sets but make sure you work it out, then it will greatly help you with the King and daily levels and get you used to patterns. This puzzle game has nothing to do with chess (apart from how the knight moves) but I would say you do have to be able to think ahead at least 2-3 moves - actually backward from the solution. It's a pick it up just do one board type game which is great but I wish you could save mid way through a board. I did find most dailies to be a bit harder than the King pack. For achievement hunters, wanting the quickest/easiest route - some daily level tips - - Don't even try and do a daily pack, know you are going to play this over a few days. - Some days just seem quite a bit easier than others. - On each day in each of 3 pack I found 3-5 boards that were about King level. - Sometimes A1 etc boards are the easiest but not always. - Only play boards that have 3 spare spaces in them - ignore the two space ones, I found having space to move around easier. If you love work it out puzzles, no timer just point n click then I do recommend this really fun game. I loved it. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40751408/]Ginger’s Games Curator page[/url]
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  bigh XCX

  Jan 30, 2017

  [h1]"The very hard Knight's labrinth"[/h1] Knights has a basic concept based on the move abilities of the knights in the chess game. Now you have to move in different sized boards (3x3-5x5) upto 2 colored knights on the fitting colored fields by making only knight moves. Ofc there are obstacles like golden placeholder knights and unaccessable fields. The logic is deep if you beat all the standard packs upto king levels. After that the challenge even raises because all daily generated puzzles are also or above king level niveau. So it takes a few hours to beat the standard packs but even more hours to beat 25 daily puzzles. Fun but also challenging.
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  Dark Blue Monkey

  Mar 26, 2017

  Oh. My. God. I just finished Knights, and my brain hurts. It really does. I don't get much time to play games, so I have to cram everything at the weekend. Thinking in "L" shaped patterns, and working out chains of moves is NOT my forte! Let's just get it out there: I suck at chess. I really do. I once put a chess computer on "zero ply" (which is AI-speak for 'don't be clever, just move random pieces to places they can go), and I still didn't manage to win. So, a game which is all about trying to put pieces in a specific location is supremely brain-busting for me. Nevertheless, I persevered through, and managed to finish the main game. The game is split into five 'levels', and each level has between 9 and 30 'boards'.. Each board is set up so that you have to move knight chess pieces around in order to put the red or blue knights back onto their red or blue squares. Sounds easy? Well, to begin with, it is :) Pretty soon, bit of the board become un-usable, and then there are yellow knights whose sole purpose is to get in the way. Once the little yellow b*****ds turn up, the game starts to turn into a really brain-bending challenge, because you often have to move a bunch of yellows out of the way, in a specific chain in order to get your coloured knight into the right spot. As the game continues, you start to 'see' patterns. There are ways to get your knight from one spot to another spot at a relative position away. There are some hard moves (moving immediately next door) and easy ones (moving two squares away, or to your diagonal neighbour ).. Once you start to see the patterns, the game starts to flow a little better, and all of a sudden you begin to 'see' the chains of moves you need to make, and before long you're planning ahead to get the knight where you want it to be. I guess it's sort of like a kingergarten level sense of 'ply' that real chess players have when they can scan the board, and plot a number of moves in advance. However, chess masters can simulate the moves in their heads, which normos like me can't so the game really helps by allowing you to 'see' the valid target jumps for a knight by clicking on it, and doing chains is easy because you can just keep clicking the place you want to move it to. moving back and forth incurs no penalties, so you can move things about all over the place. One of the most frustrating things is that the boards can be set up so that specific knights have to be in place before you tackle others. It's vitally important in the later levels that you nail those first, or you're just going to spin for ages, moving one piece all over the shop. I'd say my experience to begin with was very impressed by the way you could 'milk' a game out of one chess piece. This turned into being impressed by the way the board managed to be set up in increasing ways. This turned into being impressed by how the boards are set up beautifully, but are, indeed, solvable, when they REALLY shouldn't be. This then turned into dogged determinism to get the darned game finished. Yes, I have to admit, midway through the 'queen' level, I started to really struggle. I'd say the estimated time to complete a board started out at about 10 seconds, and midway through 'queen' ended up being a solid 10 to 15 minutes. Strangely, by the end of queen, I'd really started to get back into whatever flow you need, and the king level was relatively easy compared to queen. Once you get to (say) Queen level, you are well-enough armed to tackle the Daily puzzles. Like Lyne, Race the sun, and a few other indie puzzlers, the daily puzzles are all procedurally generated. The first one I tried was solved in two clicks. The next one had be beat. The difficulty level is all over the place, because the computer doesn't know what makes a level hard for a human. What's really impressive is that the designers have figured out how to make boards procedurally generate that are still solvable! I really enjoyed this game, and despite my frustration in 'queen', I think it's well worth a play if you like logic and puzzle problems: Especially if you like chess, or just like indie puzzlers like Lyne.
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  Mandelbrot

  Mar 29, 2017

  Nice puzzle game for its price. The puzzles are very easy at the start and quickly become harder.
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  Fera-Ferrito

  Jun 12, 2017

  [h1] KNIGHTS [/h1] A puzzle game that has little to do with chess and will hurt your brain, but satisfy your soul. You can really kill some time with 82 levels to solve, and you will feel smarter afterwards. If you can't solve the puzzles, you might kill something else in frustration. Tip: There's been developed so many powerful blenders, it's much more effective than dumping the bodies in plastic bags.. Plastic is also really bad for the environment. It's estimated that there'll be more plastic than fish in the oceans in 2050, so definetely don't dump the plastic-wrapped bodies there. You solve the puzzles by moving your different coloured knight to their designed spots; and of course, you only move 2 steps ahead + 1 sidestep - Or 1 sidestep + 2 front leaps. Sounds easy? Well some levels are easy, some will get you stuck until you close the game and your eyes; shutting your brain down while feeling utterly defeated by a 2D puzzle game; usually happens on mondays because F*ck mondays. [h1] King's approval [/h1] Good variety of puzzles There's even new daily puzzles, so the game never ends. NEVER! Cheap prize 0,99 and often on sales. With steam cards & achievements. Nice and relaxing soundtrack. [h1] Peasants' Thumbdown [/h1] This game will probably hurt your brain. Not recommended for colourblind people, will just make you move the pieces randomly around even more. [h1] Closing comments [/h1] Step 1: Buy it Step 2: Install it Profit Update - August 2017, they ask for colourblind people to help them confirm if the colours are colourblind-friendly. http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791454636057/announcements/detail/1443822371001893968
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  CubemasterXD

  Jul 28, 2017

  Absolutely perfect!!! + Easy to learn + Nice difficulty curve + Challenging later levels + Fun + Endless amount of daily levels + Not too frustrating as Brute Force can lead to progress (if you can't figure out a strategy for a piece) + Chill Soundtrack + Has Colorblind mode + Not too expensive (0,99€, come on, buy it already!!!) - A lack of negative things (wait... this is something positive isn't it?) Overall the best puzzle game I've played in quite a while actually It's 0,99€... Buy it, play it, enjoy it, if you don't you can still refund (which you won't do, because this game is awesome)