Knights in Tight Spaces (PC) Review

I can’t believe Knights in Tight Spaces managed to slip under my radar until now. Granted its predecessor Fights in Tight Spaces also went unnoticed by me, but I will blame its 2021 release on that one—trapped and confused as we were by a global pandemic and desperately hiding inside Animal Crossing: New Horizons. But if there’s one thing that I can enjoy about this miserable game industry is that it still manages to surprise me.
Thankfully, like its predecessor, Knights in Tight Spaces takes a fundamentally solid idea and applies an interesting fantasy filter on it. It effectively takes the most interesting element of combat in Dungeons & Dragons—the environment—and builds a tight, intricately designed game around it. And it works with aplomb.

I’m going to forego tradition a little bit with my review and not get into the story of Knights in Tight Spaces because, for what little of it there is, it sort of runs parallel to the gameplay rather than enforcing it in a... Read more