Obscure

Knight's Retreat

93% positive of 74 Steam reviews

Released: 2020
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam, Epic, Xbox / PC Game Pass, PlayStation

Made by Minimol Games.

About the game

A chess game without any chess. Rearrange your troops to bring your best knights back to your Kingdom in an abstract medieval world.

Tagged by players

Chess
Tabletop
Minimalist
Abstract
Short
Relaxing
Puzzle
Grid-Based Movement
Medieval
Difficult
Cartoony
Stylized

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Knight's Retreat

93% positive of 74 Steam reviews

View on Steam

Released: 2020
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam, Epic, Xbox / PC Game Pass, PlayStation

Made by Minimol Games.

About the game

A chess game without any chess. Rearrange your troops to bring your best knights back to your Kingdom in an abstract medieval world.

Tagged by players

Chess
Tabletop
Minimalist
Abstract
Short
Relaxing
Puzzle
Grid-Based Movement
Medieval
Difficult
Cartoony
Stylized

What players say

Recommended
Knight's Retreat is a low-to-mid-difficulty puzzle game aimed at players who are familiar with how chess pieces move. The goal of the game is to move at least one knight from its starting position to a final square. As the player gets deeper into the game, additional mechanics are introduced: other pieces, buttons which transform the map, and conjoined knights which move synchronously. Generally, these mechanics…
2 h played when written. 48 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Great experience, I like games with chess moves, but I didn't expect to find one that was set in different scenarios; it has a fluidity of legal level that will entertain you with each new challenge. It's very cheap even though it is early access, a good opportunity to purchase a game that should grow!
1.1 h played when written. 27 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Too many bugs when using the undo button, such as some tiles becoming inaccessible, and sometimes it seems to undo a few moves at once at once (I'm not certain of this, but I sometimes notice that a few of my knights have somehow moved backwards on their own, which I assume was caused by me while undoing a different move), and when you move a piece onto a tile with a button and then undo the move, the effect of the…
8 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.
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