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KnightShift cover art

KnightShift

Reality Pump · Topware Interactive · 2013-09-27

SteamGOG

RPGStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 15, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Do you like Real Time Strategy? or are Role Playing Games your preference…Why not try both genres in one? … or even both separately? …In one game: KnightShift!In a mystical world beyond fantasy and imagination, where corruption and disaster go hand in hand, not all is as it seems.

0
playing now
70%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$8.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Polanie II, also known as KnightShift and Once Upon a Knight, is a real-time strategy and role-playing video game hybrid developed by Reality Pump Studios and released by Topware Interactive for the PC Windows and OS X in 2003. The game is a follow-up to Polanie, published by USER in 1996. KnightShift was released for Windows later in 2003.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 6,206 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 57k–114k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,425 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.88-82%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.48 at eTail.Market (2023-06-29) · bundled 11×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 82 of 101 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

2102026-08-06 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 10 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 4 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 21 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 17 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$8.99$0.482015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $1.742015-05-05 — best price $5.832015-08-14 — best price $6.992016-04-11 — best price $6.992017-03-13 — best price $2.102017-12-29 — best price $2.092018-08-02 — best price $4.992019-03-09 — best price $6.992019-08-26 — best price $3.492020-01-28 — best price $6.992020-08-24 — best price $6.992021-01-04 — best price $6.992021-05-10 — best price $6.992021-10-04 — best price $6.992021-12-22 — best price $0.602022-03-21 — best price $2.092022-06-20 — best price $6.992022-09-15 — best price $4.992022-12-01 — best price $6.992023-01-30 — best price $6.992023-04-25 — best price $4.082023-07-25 — best price $4.442023-11-02 — best price $6.992024-02-13 — best price $5.132024-05-05 — best price $4.112024-07-31 — best price $4.082024-10-28 — best price $1.792025-03-15 — best price $8.992025-07-18 — best price $8.992025-10-07 — best price $1.792026-01-21 — best price $8.992026-04-05 — best price $1.742026-06-01 — best price $4.112026-07-26 — best price $4.132026-08-24 — best price $0.88
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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4 supported languages: English, French, German, Czech

Player tags

RPGRTSComedyFantasyStrategyMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

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

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