Knights and Merchants
Medieval real-time strategy focused on village economies and battles
Topware Interactive · Released Oct 14, 2013
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 85% of 4,961
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 54
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 11 years ago
- Aug 10, 2015
What is Knights and Merchants?
A medieval real-time strategy and settlement-building game with two mission-based campaigns, skirmishes, and multiplayer battles. You build an economy, arm troops, and fight to reclaim provinces for a king whose realm has splintered.
For you if...
- +you enjoy planning settlements and managing production chains
- +you like challenging, mission-based real-time strategy
Not for you if...
- −you prefer fast battles without building an economy first
- −you want simple resource management rather than production chains
What players say
85% of 4,961 reviews are positive
Players praise the settlement building, detailed economy, and battles. Some report crashes, freezing, and buggy troops; others say the HD version lacks skirmish or add-on content.
Screenshots and trailer
Knights and Merchants system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8
- Processor
- Intel or AMD Singlecore CPU
- Graphics
- 3D graphics card with DirectX 9.0c support
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Storage
- 500 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Notes
- Keyboard, Mouse
Recommended
- OS
- Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8
- Processor
- Intel or AMD Singlecore CPU
- Graphics
- 3D graphics card with DirectX 9.0c support
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM
- Storage
- 500 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Notes
- Keyboard, Mouse
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Steam features
- Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Native resolution not supported
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English, French, German, Czech. Text only: Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Russian.
Tags
- Strategy
- Colony Sim
- Medieval
- City Builder
- RTS
- Simulation
- Classic
- Singleplayer
- Historical
- Multiplayer
- Resource Management
- Old School
- Great Soundtrack
- Management
- Difficult
- 2D
Recent updates
- Aug 10, 2015 · Now available for Mac OSX !
- Feb 25, 2015 · Trading Cards released!
1 DLC available.
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