Knight’s Edge is a pretty straightforward F2P Mobile Action Game. Functionally it plays very similar to something like Brawl Stars, but its gimmick is it’s not just straight PvP, and also not straight PvE, it’s PvEvP very similar to Destiny’s much maligned Gambit game mode.

You pick a weapon, pick rune loadouts for modifiers, then find a game. It pits you and two randos in a 3v3 race through three arenas and a boss fight. First team to make it to the end and beat their boss wins. There’s a decent-ish selection of different enemy mobs, but it’s a finite set of rooms / enemy spawn patterns, probably under 20.

The gimmick is that between rooms you get an invasion portal, giving you an opportunity to send one of your players over to the opponent. You can distract them, leading them back to the previous zone, or you can generally get in their way, drawing aggro while they’re trying to focus down enemies. Or you can outright hunt them down and try to knock some of them out, which will both bring back a power buff for your team and cut your opponent’s DPS while they wait to respawn.

Pretty good variety of weaponry, there’s 4 classes of weapons (sword/bow/axe/staff), each one has 6 elemntal sub-types, and each specific weapon has a unique(ish) active move, passive, and effect. . . and they have 100 tiers of unlocks for skills you can select during a match.

It’s pretty fun! Matches are nice and quick, matches are pretty balanced, all weapons are pretty balanced. I definitely prefer void axe or void staff because spin 2 win is always good, and void staff is a decently huge line attack with piercing.

Monetization isn’t too horrible. There’s a battlepass. There’s a rotating shop. You can play it free, but eventually you’ll hit a pretty hard level cap. Base power level is controlled via xp, which is based on how many weapons and runes you’ve upgraded. Upgrading requires both gold and (eventually) an assload of weapon “cards”. So if you decide “I like Void Axe, I will only invest in Void Axe so I smartly conserve my limited resources!” well tough. There’s no guarantee you’ll get void axe cards, and if you don’t upgrade the other stuff you do have plenty of upgrade mats for, your base power level is going to be garbage.

I did what I normally do with a game like this: make it to level 25 or so of the battle pass and if I’m still playing it then buy the battle pass. The battle pass was enough to get me decently leveled, and I ended the season at level 50 or so. New season started today, and I’m not sure if I’m going to bother paying for another battle pass.

It’s a fun time waster. Not sure how much longevity it has, though. Recommended?