Sometimes all that is needed to make a great game is great gameplay. As demonstrated by early games like Pac-Man and Galaga, it’s often easy to forget – what with games becoming increasingly complex – how much fun pure, arcade-style gameplay can be. Enter KILL KNIGHT.
Doing away with almost anything that can be considered “superfluous” – honestly, we are surprised it has a menu or soundtrack – KILL KNIGHT drops you into a world filled with eldritch horrors and asks you to destroy everything and leave no trace of life (or unlife) in your wake. Descending through a range of arenas across five fatal layers in the otherwordly Abyss, you’ll get new weapons and abilities, come across new enemies, and even find new traps to avoid.
With KILL KNIGHT, it’s all about pure violence, to the point where your aim is just to rack up a new high score and try and climb leaderboards. When we say arcade, we mean arcade. Each arena isn’t likely to last you long, especially at first as you adjust to surprisingly challenging difficulty spikes. However, as you get better at the game, you’ll find your scores – and therefore your abilities – going up exponentially, and the chase to be the best is a hard one to beat.
Outside of just the pure violence of it all, there are also challenges to overcome, which ensures you can unlock the full potential of your Knight’s Arsenal and evolve your playstyle for the challenges ahead. There are also a host of different modes and difficulties to experiment with, such as Sever Mode, which combines all five layers of the Abyss into one, all-consuming arena challenge.
By no means a complex game, KILL KNIGHT is some of the most fun you can have right now if you’re looking for pure, unbridled violence with a beautiful old-school aesthetic and an excellent soundtrack. What’s not to love about that?
