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Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope

94% positive of 927 Steam reviews

To finish: 2.7 h
To 100%: 10 h
Released: 2019
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam, GOG, Amazon

Made by Yacht Club Games.

About the game

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!

Tagged by players

Adventure
Action
Platformer
Retro
Co-op
Pixel Graphics
Difficult
Metroidvania

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What players say

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My friend described this game as "this game is made of c***s". I got so stressed that I said "my dick was in my mouth" instead of "my heart was in my mouth". I think that perfectly illustrates how difficult this game is.
4.5 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Genuinely of those perfect kind of games. Can be finished in about 6-8 hours and takes the best of platform pioneers / classics. The level design is quite clever and challenging without being stupid or unfair which is really hard to accomplish for a lot of indie games trying to replicate that classic challenge.
9 h played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
In a strict "game" sense, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope fares worse than its source material--namely Zelda II/DuckTales (where it borrows the main pogo-jump gimmick from) and, to a lesser extent, Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania--for being "cheaper": it's troll-ish with enemy placement (and some spawn, at times literally, out of thin air) and AI behaviour, it strolls too close leap-of-faith-ey territory with its…
6.1 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.
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