Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
This game is a free expansion included in the main game, Shovel Knight, and its updated title, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove. The game will also be available as a standalone title on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and…
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment is an adventure developed by Yacht Club Games, released 3 March 2017 on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.
What Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment is
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment is an adventure game developed by Yacht Club Games and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shovel Knight is a platform game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. Development was crowdfunded and the game was released for Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and Windows in June 2014. It was ported to OS X and Linux in September 2014, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Xbox One in April 2015, Amazon Fire TV in September 2015, and Nintendo Switch in March 2017. Shovel Knight is inspired by gameplay and graphics of platformer games developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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. There are 20 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Shovel Knight series
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment is the third of 12 entries we hold in the Shovel Knight series. It arrived a year after Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows. The next entry was Blaster Master Zero: EX Character - Shovel Knight in 2017. 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: Specter of Torment 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 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
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: Specter of Torment launched on 3 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda and NieR: Automata. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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