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Blood Knights
Developer Deck 13
Blood Knights is an action role-playing game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 (through PlayStation Network), and Xbox 360 (through Xbox Live Arcade). The game was developed by German studio Deck13 Interactive and published by Kalypso Media, also from Germany. Blood Knights was released in November 2013 for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3. The game features two playable characters: Jeremy, a… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
197 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
64
Fresh
114 positive · 64 negative
95% range 57–71%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 114 | 64 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
300 of 503 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
65% recommend · 118 yes, 64 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 182 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (686 of 1,070 positive).
Players find Blood Knights a janky but fun hack-and-slash RPG with poor voice acting and a nonsensical story. [1][2][3] Some reviewers say the game is best enjoyed as a co-op experience, especially for its B-movie charm. [4][5][6] Others criticize the clunky controls, terrible camera, and short, linear gameplay. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [8]
This one was meh at best. It seemed super basic and felt rather clunky. But worst of all the voice acting makes me want to shove a pencil in my ear hole.
- [9]
Combat is okay. Dialogue is meh. Camera angles are absolutely atrocious.
- [2]
Short version: Pros: + So bad it’s good voice acting + Mostly fun gameplay + Choices Cons: - Nonsensical story - Buggy “Long” version: Blood Knights is a hack and slash RPG where you play as a vampire-hunter turned vampire and must hunt down the ones responsible for your transformation. It was developed by Deck 13 and published by Kalypso Media Digital. The story is weak – Blood Knights does nothing to differentiate …
- [5]
This game is 1/5, maybe even 0/5 if you were to play this alone. But as a funny-bad co-op game, I'd say my enjoyment was 4/5. The dialogue and plot are hilariously bad. Story stuff is set up, and literally in the next scene the payoff walks from a bush to greet you. Voice actor quality varies a lot, but is always poor and everyone keeps saying “JEREMY !!” the coolest vampire name there is. Laughing at the stupidity …
- [3]
The voice acting is terrible The story doesn't make much sense The gameplay is kinda jank 4/5
Summarised from 34 of the 200 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked Blood Knights talk about fun hack-and-slash gameplay with RPG elements; those who didn't talk about terrible voice acting. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Blood Knights received mixed to poor reviews upon release. According to video game review aggregator Metacritic, the Xbox 360 version of the game received an average score of 43 out of 100, based on 8 reviews..mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)} The UK Official Xbox Magazine remarked that "Blood Knights holds as much annoyance as satisfaction", while the US version of Official Xbox Magazine contended that "Blood Knights is too easy to ever become actively irritating, but its deficit of danger makes it too darn dull to hold even a devoted horror nut's attention for long". Critics took issue with the game's…
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Reactions
60 of 197 · most liked first☠️ The next chapter of @diablo.blizzard.com has been announced 😈 Lord of Hatred~ I’m so excited we get to see Mephisto along with Paladins coming to the game! What do you think the secret second class is? 👀 my hope is Blood Knights 🥀
neutral · AI labelView post →Nearly finished up the 2k of #VampireCounts. Just the 5 Blood Knights and the last 10 Grave Guard to go. Don't think I'll be able to get the Knights done before Tuesday's game with them but the Grave Guard are a possibility. #WarhammerCommunity #Warhammer #TheOldWorld #WarhammerFantasy #Deathrattle.
neutral · AI labelView post →Blood Knights on Steam Deck.. Blood Knights on Steam Deck. Critics didn’t care for this one, but I’m into it. Think Bloodrayne if it were reskinned as a bargain-bin Diablo—and I don’t mean that as an insult. It’s pulpy, fast, and surprisingly playable on a handheld. You’re controlling a human and a vampire bound together, which makes for a fun B-movie premise. The visuals won’t melt anyone’s face off, but the story hook keeps me button mashing. @[email protected]
positive · AI labelView post →Got some more Sunsteala Wheelas painted up. This unit is AMAZINGLY good. In my game today a reinforced unit survived 4 turns of combat against Blood Knights. #warhammer #ageofsigmar #gloomspitegitz #sunstealawheelas
neutral · AI labelView post →Pics of my army for the weekend and two games today, a win against Ironjawz and a loss on top table to some very well-played Soulblight with alllll the Blood Knights. Got very lucky many times in that game and only lost by a few points! Finished 5th with a 3-2 record #aos #troggs #squigs #nerdings
neutral · AI labelView post →This one was meh at best. It seemed super basic and felt rather clunky. But worst of all the voice acting makes me want to shove a pencil in my ear hole.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕒 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕋ℍ𝕌𝕄𝔹𝕊 𝕟𝕖𝕦𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕝... 𝕀𝕥'𝕤 𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕒𝕤 𝕒𝕟 ℝℙ𝔾, 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕒𝕤 𝕒 𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕠𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖! Blood Knights is a ridiculous videogame with great RPG elements that kept me engaged and nothing else really... It's an RPG minus the Videogame narrative element and I'll explain why. Blood Knight is firstly a top-down RPG, akin to the famous (or INFAMOUS) Dungeon Siege, but unlike Dungeon Siege, Blood Knights really failed dismally…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At some point reminded me of Diablo... simpler version. I kind of even liked the game, but the achievements for CO-OP via Remote Play..... just a no-no... use x360ce_x86 for emulating a XBox360 controller! 8/10 because of remote play
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short version: Pros: + So bad it’s good voice acting + Mostly fun gameplay + Choices Cons: - Nonsensical story - Buggy “Long” version: Blood Knights is a hack and slash RPG where you play as a vampire-hunter turned vampire and must hunt down the ones responsible for your transformation. It was developed by Deck 13 and published by Kalypso Media Digital. The story is weak – Blood Knights does nothing to differentiate itself from countless other generic fantasy settings. After being turned…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FREE CAMERA (in third person mode, F2) for easier jumping. CHANGE KEY BINDINGS for easier controlling. (some of them, with keys not in use by the game) In this very enjoyable action game with great graphics. Find the Bindings.ini file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blood Knights Save a copy as safety. Open with a text editor (Textpad, Notepad, etc) Add these lines anywhere. **You can change the keys on the left to any other, not in use by the game** KC_Z =…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After three months of getting my star handed to me with the Blood Knights, thought I'd get some Ogres on the table yesterday and see how they did. Well enough for a friendly game where I was learning on the fly! #TheManeaterLegion #aos #ageofsigmar
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire chicks got BOOBAS!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I picked this up in a bundle with 12 other games for less than $5, just for Blades of Time. I knew this was not going to be a big budget game going in, and I'd read that the camera is terrible, and it is really terrible. But, overall, it's not a bad game. It's not a great game, it's not a good game, but it's not bad. In the 3 decades of playing games across multiple computer platforms and consoles, I've played terrible, atrocious, horrendous games. This isn't one of them, believe me. I've…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I realised I have 1100+ games in my Steam library and I was going to die before I played them all. So thought I'd spend a bit of time on each one, a new one every night, and leave a short initial review. No way around this one, this is hot trash. I thought when i saw the graphics it was cool, looked a bit like Victor Vran which I love, and I liked the look of the female vampire... I always do... but alas. Poor controls, poor voice acting, poor enemies, no preamble, no story development, no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You know what? While I was playing Blood Knights, I realised why I often drop most modern AAA titles after few hours - they fail to entertain. They give you a job to keep you busy as long as possible. You fulfil set of tasks: clean this area from bandits, and this one, and 20 more, have thoughtful 70-hours long walking there, collect 150 useless letters, ugrade all weapons (especially those you'll never use), retrieve 50 ancient copy-past artifacts, etc, etc. In most cases you do not play…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The controls are a bit clunky, but if you can get over it, the game itself is pretty good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly did not see anything wrong with it.. Is it AAA.: Story - No.. Gameplay - No Is it Janky - Yes.. But it was fun to play..
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started Diablo 1 last week, picked Sorcerer. It was a tough but a fun ride until the very end when I discovered… that I bricked my character! Apparently you can’t be a mage and focus on magic exclusively since there are monsters in the very late-game (Blood Knights) who are fully resistant to anything you cast, and my points in non-magic talents were so low I could only equip starter weapons! Decided to re-roll a rogue (actually an amazon idk why they called her rogue). It's been a blast,…
neutral · AI labelView post →Awesome hack n' slash RPG Blood Knights 9/10 Heisen
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A short vampire hack and slash game not that good and not that bad. You better enjoy it as a coop. As for me, I didnt mind it, and I did enjoy it, but if you want to risk it, then get it on sale or so.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game could be good, but the price is expensive. The story is bad and too short. You can get trading cards.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Last night I beat Blood Knights and man, it sure was a college game dev's first game project lol The voice acting is laughably bad, but the actual gameplay IS fun arcade-y goodness. The story is fun but VERY linear. There are options that give the illusion of choice but ultimately give one ending
neutral · AI labelView post →i wasn't prepared to see a line from Star Wars here. and then they said it at least two more times. it's funny goofy vampire pulp and simple hack-and-slash with RPG elements that make no sense. very much a poor 2007 game design. not a good game, but it was very fun. at first, had no idea how just a few years later the devs ended up with The Surge, one of the best souls-like games I know, but with time you see some early signs of it. no regrets!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →B00b Knights, I mean Blood B00bs is a short, bit janky but pretty fun action rpg.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The voice acting is terrible The story doesn't make much sense The gameplay is kinda jank 4/5
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is 1/5, maybe even 0/5 if you were to play this alone. But as a funny-bad co-op game, I'd say my enjoyment was 4/5. The dialogue and plot are hilariously bad. Story stuff is set up, and literally in the next scene the payoff walks from a bush to greet you. Voice actor quality varies a lot, but is always poor and everyone keeps saying “JEREMY !!” the coolest vampire name there is. Laughing at the stupidity is the best part by far. On top of that, there’s 2 different player…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game deserves it's mixed reviews ⏰ How long to beat Blood Knights: - Main Story - 4 Hours - Main + Extras - 4½ Hours - Completionist - 7½ Hours This has been one of the weirdest, yet not too bad games on my backlog and I've decided to give it a try since I won it in a giveaway. The story was a little weirdly written, but the game is not too bad to the point that I can say I've disliked it. I have a mixed feeling about it and it brings out some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Extremely linear hack'n slash with bland, simple and tedious gameplay, as well as dull story with dense characters.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was skeptical about this game at first. Played through the prologue and kept dying a ton. Though an instant revive from an NPC companion, it was frustrating. Got through the prologue and then the story opens up and you actually learn how to play the game. The controls are a little clunky and probably best played with a controller. You have the ability to switch between two characters fi you play solo whereas if you play co-op, you chose one of the two characters. I wasn’t able to find a match…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The ranged character's auto-aim mechanic is rubbish, you have to keep trying different angles to finally make the auto-aim hit enemies on platforms above your level.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another one boring review. Pros: -Enjoyable game -Intresting plot -Nice atmosphere Cons: Linear plot -There is no save-load option (only checkpoints) -Game is Hack&Slash .... even bosses that supposed to be hard they are not.... -Even in Hard (max difficulty) game is easy. -Not many options for skill tree. -Short game around 3:30 -4 hours if you are the type of explorer , 3 hours or less if you going for objective (in hard mode). -Achivements need 2+ runs to unlock them all -Glitched…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game 2 - Creeping Corruption against Soulblight Quite a techy game against Blood and Barrow Knights. The Recursion on this battleplan is hard for me, but I got to prevent the Blood Knights from charging for the whole game and was able to screen a good part of the battlefield effectively.
neutral · AI labelView post →Blood Knights is an action RPG that attempts to blend hack-and-slash combat with vampire mythology. You control two protagonists: Jeremy, a skilled vampire hunter, and Alysa, a powerful vampire. Forced into an unlikely alliance, they must work together to stop a powerful artifact from falling into the wrong hands. While the premise has potential, the execution leaves much to be desired. The core gameplay revolves around combat, with players switching between Jeremy and Alysa to utilize their…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IMPORTANT: Turn V-Sync off on you video card or the game may not be playable.... Bought as part of a "Fanatical" Bundle so it was very cheap... had no clue and had not read any reviews before playing it the first time - for the buck or less I paid for it I found it more than worth the cost of admission. The controls are very hard to get use to and no control of the camera are the only real challenges to the game. As others have said that "camera" stick on the right of your controller works…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Combat is okay. Dialogue is meh. Camera angles are absolutely atrocious.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great coop game brought back from the dead by Remote Play Together A good way of describing the gameplay would be to say that it's kind of like classic God of War with vampire powers... and coop. This works so well that it's easily one of my favorite games. It also looks incredible considering that it only takes up 2 GB on disc. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2851644563 (Yes the game does look this good all the time; the gameplay and cutscenes use exactly the same…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My Personal Game Score: 5 / 10 + Fun with advenure + Game design is nice - Cluncky game - Meh....combat scenes - VA is kinda bad to me - Well....the game is bad overall
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is just really really bad. Terrible/no story. Basic game mechanics broken. Dated graphics. Lots of bugs. Gameplay is has no balance is is completely broken. Playing as the female vampire is easy as heck even on hard because you can just hop around or find a safe zone to shoot the enemies. The AI is also as basic as it gets.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got what I expected from the game, and really liked it. Has some nice story, the german voice overs are good (contrary to many reviews, likely they meant the english speech), its long enough to keep you entertained... had no bugs and was satisfied at the end. Yes, the jumping parts can be a bit annoying, especially at the beginning, as you will die if you do it wrong, and you realize that you restart the area from the last save point... The only thing I dont like so much is that you need…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent game, the only crime is it is very short, like a little over 4h. I really don't understand the hate for this game. I like the store very simple and done well. Characters are good, entertaining. Sure combat is not very impressed or mindblowing, but still simple, only 3-4 skills, but for a game like this it is enough The game runs great, I had 60 fps on max all the time. For me, it is a recommendation for a short game it is good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Charming and dumb little XBLA-style downloadable title from the end of the Xbox 360 era. It is local co-op focused, with one player playing a melee DPS and one playing a ranged DPS. Plays fine without a player 2; you switch between the classes with a button. It is essentially an Action-Adventure/ARPG hybrid. It's more ARPG than not, but unlike the average ARPG, you don't move with the mouse, there's no large worldspace and no procedural generation, the loot is somewhat limited, the skill tree…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vampires vs Human catholic cruisader fanatics the game A pretty standard story in the form of "The thing we was hunting might not be so bad, while the thing i was trying to protect might be a super evil organisation that seeks to make hell on earth just to raise the quality of faith", as you do when people stop beliving in jesus our holy savior. The banter between characters is pretty decent and i enjoyed listening to it most of the time. We also have some moral choices where you can set a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Combat 2/10 Story 3/10 its got local co-op
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A surprisingly fun Hack&Slash game, designed for two friends, even better for husband and wife.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I honestly thought it was kind of fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →wow, this is ♥♥♥♥. using the crossbow randomly targets onto nothing and makes aiming not responsive, period. first impressions go a long way, especially in the beginning of a game like this. i can usually stomach some garbage, but this... this not so much. picked it up for 79 cents on a key website and was still disappointed. truly just uninteresting and clunky. find a more interesting and responsive hack and slash action rpg.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DOES NOT WORK ON INTEGRATED CARDS - you will have maybe 10 % of the framerate (such as 5 frames per second instead of 50) because there is a big delay between the processing of each frame. It is one of those games that were made with Nvidia cards in mind. You are flipping a coin on potentially wasting money on a dysfunctional game buy buying this one. I can confirm that the game does not work well on Intel integrated cards no matter how new hardware you have. The "disable vsynch" trick does…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Original G's look at a game like this and think "hell yeah". A 3-hour Hack & Slash that really brought me back to the simpler era of 2000's action games. Everything is there from the couch co-op, to the campy voice acting, to the tasteful vampiress. There used to be so many more games like this, man. It was awesome.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dont waste your money on such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad even by retro game standards
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My expectations were low, but not low enough. I was looking for something light and simple to play in my library backlog, saw this basic hack and slash affair with some RPG elements, seemed decent enough for what I was in the mood for. Mixed reviews, but I'm quite forgiving with older and lower budget games, and I quite liked Deck13's previous title Venetica despite its flaws. Didn't need nor expect much, and really didn't get much. It's not just a basic generic hack and slash RPG, it feels…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →cautious recommendation vampire girls are hot, story is okay and giving you choices and playtime is pleasantly short (extended by checkpoint backtrackings). enjoyed the game although it has some flaws of 201x XBOX RPGS - platforming when camera goes on rail, most deaths was from falling because the camera angle changed - physical checkpoints - gamepad control scheme where right stick means aiming for one char and dodge (into a pit :) for second one
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So bad it's actually good
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tl;dr Dubious production values as well as stripped down storytelling really mar what could otherwise have been a decent vampire-centric action RPG. As you embark on a quest to recover the fabled Blood Seal this unlikely pair of protagonists never develops that required character chemistry to seal the deal in order for story to click. Not helped by the fact gameplay blatantly favors ranged combat, in a co-op game, and tacked on progression systems like equipment and skill unlocks add little…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly, the game seem not to be optimized for AMD CPU and GFX. I was able to get to the first dialogue in around 8h, while having 120~300 FPS (it's that unresponsive). I know it's 7-years old now, but in given state, as of today I can't recommend it :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You might think "This is so cheap, I'll give it a try!" during sales. But just don't. Even 25 mins of this game was enough for me to put it down.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While the story is semi-interesting, it doesn't help much as the game still has gamebreaking bugs in it - one example is that if you use the vampiress' Repel ability (gained a bit out in the game) to throw a foe off a cliff, sometimes the enemy doesn't die. If you don't terminate the game before any savegame can be performed, this will effectively block your progress until you start the game from scratch. This is a known, glaring bug and has never been fixed. Blood Knights can be worth getting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Personally, I would not play it solo but since the game is playable in co-op from start to the end, provided that you have someone to play it with, you can't really go wrong with Blood Knights. Liking vampire themed games also boosts the overall experience ;_; The game is nothing special but it's far from bad. It looks good, has a couple of mechanics and the most important thing is that it does what it does pretty good and without bugs or other flaws for the most part. The graphics are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →boo that was my worry, the QTE aspects could be fun for specific fight flows but every time it was mandatory it like completely threw off the rhythm and made it 30% more just redoing the same sequence over and over. Ironically a later title that did it but felt more rhythm game fun was Blood Knights
neutral · AI labelView post →Blood Knights was fun until I got stuck, couldn't proceed and nothing I tried would fix it. I didn't restart it, it's not good enough to waste anymore time on.
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