Now, this is interesting. It’s a promotional game for a completely different genre of game, but which may end up being a demo of a full game. I shall explain.

Knights Onrush is a castle defense game. (Not to be confused with a tower defense game, which is a completely different genre.) Your castle is on the right of the screen. Enemies approach and you have to flick them off the screen before they start damaging your castle’s door. If your door is destroyed, you lose the level. The Lite version of Knights Onrush is included in the download for you to try.


I don’t like it. The constant flicking gets tiring, quickly. It’s odd, because I’m not averse to games with repetitive mechanics, but the frantic flicking (whether with finger or, on PC, a mouse pointer) has never appealed. I, I think I can say, do not like castle defense games.


However, A Quest of Knights Onrush is a completely different game. it’s a scrolling beat-em-up, in the grand tradition of Golden Axe. Or, for the youngsters among you, Castle Crashers. It’s a pretty small thing, just one randomised scrolling level, with information/advertising messages every so often. The aim is to get as far as you can with your one life. There’s not a lot to it and the random elements mean it’s not very fair, but it’s a lot more fun than the game it spawned from. If they do bring out a paid-for version I may be tempted to dump 59p on it.