Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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 857 reviews of which 808 were positive and 49 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 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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System 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

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

classic game. I Love John Shovel. i do wish there was a harder difficulty at the start but its whateves.

Jan. 2025

I don't want to give this a thumbs down because, ultimately, it’s a good game. However, I’m not a massive fan and won’t be buying any more Shovel Knight games. If you absolutely love and miss the old-school NES days of gaming, this will be perfect for you. For me, I don’t miss those overly frustrating days, and this game leans heavily into the same annoying tropes from that era. Health feels pointless. While enemies aren’t particularly challenging, you’ll die instantly a lot, regardless of how much health you have. Fall in a pit? Death. Touch a spike? Death. Crushed by a wall? Death. And the game is filled with pits, spikes and moving platforms/walls, making health upgrades feel unnecessary. Additionally, healing chalices and health recovery items are plentiful, but they feel almost redundant since instant-death mechanics bypass them entirely. No matter how much you prepare or stock up, a single mistake often results in starting over, undermining the usefulness of these resources. The music is unpleasant. The soundtrack consists of retro chiptunes, but the compositions are high-pitched and abrasive. I ended up turning the music off in the settings. The special attack is also executed in the old-fashioned way: by pressing UP + the Attack button. This feels outdated, especially considering modern controllers and keyboards have more than enough buttons to assign special abilities to their own dedicated inputs. Instead, this cumbersome combo often leads to unintended actions, like accidentally using an item instead of performing a basic attack. It’s as if the developers overlooked the fact that this method was originally used out of necessity when controllers only had two buttons. Finally, the mechanic where you lose a portion of your gold upon death and must retrieve it from the spot you died adds a Souls-like element to the game, which works well in creating a sense of tension and consequence. However, the annoyance comes when you fall into a pit, which happens often, and the dropped gold bags are placed in unreachable locations. Even if you make it back, there are times when it’s impossible to recover all of your gold unless you have the attraction chalice, which isn’t always available. This can feel unfair and undermines the otherwise engaging risk-and-reward system. That said, the platforming and artwork are well done, and the boss battles are creative and enjoyable. I didn’t hate the game, and I can see why it’s so popular. However, it’s not for me. I won’t give it a thumbs down because I can understand why others love it, but be sure you enjoy old-school platforming before diving into this one.

Dec. 2024

This game is the level design bible. 10/10 Absolutely worth its price

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.

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Yacht Club Games

Publisher

Yacht Club Games

Release 10 Dec 2019

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