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Knights and Merchants

Topware Interactive · 2013-10-14

SteamGOG

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Oct 14, 2013 (Mac), Oct 14, 2013 (Linux), Nov 26, 2001 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

KNIGHTS and MERCHANTS recreates the era of the Middle Ages. Apart from the purely fictitious geography of our world, all game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, 1200 A.D. And we haven't used imaginary elements like fabled creatures, either. The player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the Palace Guard.

145
playing now
85%
positive of 5.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
IGDB user rating (23 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

145 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom, known as simply Knights and Merchants, is a medieval-time based real-time strategy (RTS) video game. It was developed by Joymania Entertainment and published by TopWare Interactive in 1998. The player takes the role of the captain of the palace guards and leads the soldiers and citizens to victory. An expansion pack was released in 2001, titled Knights and Merchants: The Peasants Rebellion.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 145 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 106 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity up 5% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 6,730 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 198k–396k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,956 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.99-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.53 at Savemi (2019-10-26) · bundled 13×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $3.46 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

145182026-08-06 21:00 — 83 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 32 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 85 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 79 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 50 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 97 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 99 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 48 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 111 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 101 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 26 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 85 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 77 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 30 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 112 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 75 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 30 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 89 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 96 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 24 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 62 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 105 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 33 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 105 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 104 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 18 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 64 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 105 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 42 players2026-08-30 17:00 — 145 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Russian

Player tags

RTSClassicMedievalStrategyColony SimHistoricalManagementOld SchoolSimulationMultiplayer

Census log

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

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