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Knight Swap cover art

Knight Swap

Minimol Games · 2019-10-22

SteamEpic Games Store

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 22, 2019 (Mac), Oct 22, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 17, 2020 (Nintendo Switch)

One chess piece, the mighty knight. One simple concept: exchange the knights from one colored square to another. One hundred hand-crafted levels in a beautiful minimalist set. Can you swap the knights?

88%
positive of 149 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 14,937 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.7k–8.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 149 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2020-12-07) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 5 of 11 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320192026Week of 2019-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$0.99$0.492019-10-222026-03-082019-10-22 — best price $0.592019-12-13 — best price $0.592020-01-23 — best price $0.592020-03-23 — best price $0.592020-06-25 — best price $0.592020-08-31 — best price $0.592020-10-29 — best price $0.592020-12-07 — best price $0.492021-01-25 — best price $0.592021-03-15 — best price $0.592021-05-10 — best price $0.992021-09-06 — best price $0.992021-11-01 — best price $0.992021-12-01 — best price $0.992022-01-17 — best price $0.992022-03-07 — best price $0.992022-07-07 — best price $0.592022-09-12 — best price $0.542022-11-22 — best price $0.492022-12-22 — best price $0.492023-02-27 — best price $0.542023-04-10 — best price $0.492023-06-29 — best price $0.542023-10-09 — best price $0.542023-12-04 — best price $0.592024-01-15 — best price $0.542024-03-14 — best price $0.492024-05-29 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $0.992024-08-05 — best price $0.992024-09-21 — best price $0.992024-11-01 — best price $0.992024-12-19 — best price $0.742025-01-13 — best price $0.992025-03-04 — best price $0.992025-07-31 — best price $0.992025-09-16 — best price $0.992025-10-20 — best price $0.992026-01-19 — best price $0.992026-03-08 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
67.8%
earned "A horse with no name"
17.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Player tags

ChessLogicShortCasualPuzzleSokobanAbstractColorfulStrategyTabletop

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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