Shovel Knight Showdown
"Duel with up to 4 players and scramble after gems as your favorite heroic or villainous knight in Shovel Knight Showdown. All the classic Shovel Knight characters you know and love are playable, many for the…
Shovel Knight Showdown is an adventure developed by Yacht Club Games, released 10 December 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One.
What Shovel Knight Showdown is
Shovel Knight Showdown is an adventure game developed by Yacht Club Games and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Duel with up to 4 players and scramble after gems as your favorite heroic or villainous knight in Shovel Knight Showdown. All the classic Shovel Knight characters you know and love are playable, many for the first time ever! Gather your pals for endless multiplayer clashes, or take control of your favorite character and dig into Story Mode. Familiar controls, items, and mechanics return, making this a platform fighting game that anyone can jump into and try."
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 33 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Shovel Knight series
Shovel Knight Showdown is the sixth of 12 entries we hold in the Shovel Knight series. The next entry was Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon in 2021. Its critic score of 70 is 12 points below the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows at 95.
How it was received
Shovel Knight Showdown holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 ghz or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and 2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000), 512MB. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Shovel Knight Showdown launched on 10 December 2019, within three weeks of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Shovel Knight: King of Cards and Football Manager 2020. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Football Manager 2020.
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