Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope

Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!

Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope is a action, adventure and indie game developed and published by Yacht Club Games.
Released on December 10th 2019 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 850 reviews of which 801 were positive and 49 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 13.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope into these genres:

Action Adventure Indie Platformer Pixel Graphics 2D Retro Great Soundtrack Co-op Difficult Singleplayer

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 or later
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 ghz or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000), 512MB
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 250 MB available space

MacOS

OS: Compatible up to 10.15.17 Catalina
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 ghz or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000), 512MB
Storage: 250 MB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or newer
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 ghz or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000), 512MB
Storage: 250 MB available space

Reviews

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July 2024

A great game, but if it's intriguing to you at all or seems like the kind of thing you'd like, I recommend just going ahead and buying Treasure Trove. It includes this game in a bundle with 4 other Shovel Knight games, 1 of which isn't sold separately nor offered in the standalone bundle (Plague of Shadows). It often goes on sale for about $20. As for the game itself, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope is a platformer with simple and succinct, but also surprisingly heartfelt and humorous, writing, characters, graphics and mechanics. It's a challenging and relatively short game which can be beaten in a few hours (barring time lost from dying/setbacks), but has a lot of additional challenges which'll test your skills and offer additional content if you're interested in it. I highly recommend this game for anyone who likes somewhat challenging platformers and/or retro-inspired games with a bit of humor and sincerity.

May 2024

No need to dig any further for a great game, because this is it. Shovel Knight is an amazing experience with a fun challenge, creative roster of bosses, and decent banger of soundtracks to listen to while you play. I highly recommend this game for anyone looking for something to play.

April 2024

Very fun game casually, a bit on the challenging side imo New game + difficulty is insane and trying to get all achievements is annoying but that doesn't detract from my enjoyment

March 2024

Shovel Knight is a platformer. The objective is to defeat the evil spirit possessing your beloved Shield Knight. Gameplay-wise, controller is best. It's really difficult to do the jumping puzzles if you try with the keyboard. Pogoing. Reminds one of Hollow Knight. However, if you try to pogo spikes, you will die. Leveling. Jump Puzzles and Death Conclusion, do try Shovel Knight. While the mechanics of the games are mostly created by limiting your abilities, they do provide quirky ways to.... overcome your limitations e.g. the platform that moves and makes platforms. PRO 1. Small novel value Shovelling. With a reference to Shovelware. CONS 1. Concept Meh. Plague Knight, Tinker Knight, Polar Knight, Shovel Knight, Shield Knight, King Knight. Effort in concept is kind of lacking. 2. Jump Puzzles and Death Ah.... The bane of the game. I died so many times to pits, spikes, etc and only a few times to the bosses. 3. Short Like <10 hours and most of it was falling to your death, getting crushed or impaling oneself on spikes. Here, infrastructure is 100x more powerful than a humanoid boss.

March 2024

great game, very difficult but still fun and very satisfying to get better at

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Yacht Club Games

Publisher

Yacht Club Games

Release 10 Dec 2019

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