Shovel Knight Dig
When Drill Knight and his dastardly digging crew blast apart Shovel Knight’s peaceful campsite and steal his loot, he grabs his trusty Shovel Blade and starts tunnelling after them! Meet new friends and foes…
Shovel Knight Dig is an adventure developed by Nitrome, released 23 September 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and iOS.
What Shovel Knight Dig is
Shovel Knight Dig is an adventure game developed by Nitrome and released in 2022. It was published by Yacht Club Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
When Drill Knight and his dastardly digging crew blast apart Shovel Knight’s peaceful campsite and steal his loot, he grabs his trusty Shovel Blade and starts tunnelling after them! Meet new friends and foes, visit strange lands, and outfit yourself in your quest to keep the entire land from collapsing underfoot! Jump, slash, and dig your way down an ever-changing chasm of mystery in Shovel Knight Dig, an all-new Shovel Knight adventure!
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Shovel Knight series
Shovel Knight Dig is the eighth of 12 entries we hold in the Shovel Knight series. It arrived 9 months after Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon. The next entry was Shovel Knight: Dig - Fate and Fortune in 2023. Its critic score of 83 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows at 95.
How it was received
Shovel Knight Dig holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Shovel Knight Dig launched on 23 September 2022, within three weeks of The Last of Us Part I, Scorn, Return to Monkey Island and The Case of the Golden Idol. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us Part I, Scorn, Return to Monkey Island, The Case of the Golden Idol.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shovel Knight Dig yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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