Spiral Knights 10/09/2020

Hack and slash games are one of the most fun games to let off steam too. The feel of slaughtering hundreds, if not thousands, with a few button presses and the ever present gear drops giving you a constant feeling of progression. However, a surprisingly few amount of hack and slash games have gone the MMO route, with people focusing on the theme park MMO style instead. Spiral Knights is the rare MMO hack and slash.

To install Spiral Knights, make sure you have Steam installed then go to this link to install it.

The first thing to note is the aesthetics. It blends voxel graphics with regular graphics and it comes together in a very appealing way. It looks fine without taking up a ton of computing power from your computer. The music and atmosphere are also incredibly interesting, and it's incredibly noticeable if you mute the music.

The gameplay, however, is one of the most important parts of the game. It's, as I stated, a top down hack and slash game with loot that's constantly generated. One of the most important part of it is the algorithm used to randomly create maps. Unlike many random generation algorithms, the ones this generate actually do play significantly differently from each other, and will keep moment to moment gameplay engaging. 

All in all, Spiral Knights is a great game that you can easily spend hundreds of hours in if you fall in love with its gameplay loop. If that sounds like you, definitely give it a download.