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Knight's Retreat cover art

Knight's Retreat

Minimol Games · 2020-08-06

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 11, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 06, 2020 (Mac), Aug 06, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 11, 2021 (Xbox One), Feb 11, 2021 (PlayStation 4)

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

91%
positive of 99 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 62% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (29 reviews).
  • · Top 47% of 14,937 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 99 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$3.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.69 at Steam (2020-04-21) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 20 of 21 observed days · $3.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
292920202026Week of 2020-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$3.99$0.692020-04-212026-09-152020-04-21 — best price $0.692020-07-20 — best price $2.092020-10-05 — best price $2.992020-11-16 — best price $1.792021-01-05 — best price $2.992021-03-01 — best price $1.792021-04-26 — best price $1.792021-07-08 — best price $2.992021-10-21 — best price $1.492021-12-01 — best price $2.992022-01-27 — best price $1.792022-04-11 — best price $2.992022-08-22 — best price $2.992022-12-12 — best price $1.642023-02-06 — best price $2.992023-05-08 — best price $1.492023-07-24 — best price $2.992023-11-21 — best price $1.642024-01-15 — best price $2.992024-04-01 — best price $1.642024-06-27 — best price $1.642024-08-05 — best price $2.992024-10-18 — best price $1.792024-12-04 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-02-24 — best price $2.992025-04-09 — best price $2.092025-08-08 — best price $2.992025-10-27 — best price $2.992026-01-09 — best price $1.342026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $1.342026-09-15 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

Player tags

ChessIndieShortCasualPuzzleAbstractCartoonyColorfulMedievalRelaxing

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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